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Dec. 13th, 2007 09:38 amEspecially if they glow in the dark.
Dec. 13th, 2007
Spent this afternoon feeling increasingly shivery and dead of brain.
Have retired home to take medicine and watch Studio 60.
Question for all you smart-uns out there. Is it better to take lemsip (paracetomol+pseudoephedrine+pholcodine) in order to feel better, or does doing so prolong the length of the illness by preventing your body from dealing with it as it was going to?
Have retired home to take medicine and watch Studio 60.
Question for all you smart-uns out there. Is it better to take lemsip (paracetomol+pseudoephedrine+pholcodine) in order to feel better, or does doing so prolong the length of the illness by preventing your body from dealing with it as it was going to?
Anyone want some free Half Life?
Dec. 13th, 2007 08:40 pmI just bought The Orange Box, and as I already owned HL2 and HL2: episode 1 it's told me I can give them away to other people.
First come, first served...
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time_for_tea beat you to it. Aah, the wonders of MSN.
First come, first served...
Edit: Too Late -
time_for_tea beat you to it. Aah, the wonders of MSN.Things you can do while you're ill
Dec. 13th, 2007 09:38 pmInclude this:
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1367879895
That's be Morag, Rose, Bex and my good self. I'd have the rest of the Buffy group in there, but you can only have four people...
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1367879895
That's be Morag, Rose, Bex and my good self. I'd have the rest of the Buffy group in there, but you can only have four people...
Golden Compass Review (no spoilers)
Dec. 13th, 2007 10:22 pmThe Golden Compass suffers somewhat from Harry Potter syndrome - it's a much loved book with lots going on in it, where it's not possible to cut out much of the plot without making the film _completely_ incomprehensible.
So they solved it in much the same way the first two Potter films did - by keeping all the vital scenes in, but cutting them down to their basics and leaving out all the connecting bits that actually make you care about the characters.
So characters wander onto the stage, get their five lines and wander off again, only to turn up for the climax later, people are drawn in so thinly that you're left wondering why they exist at all - were it not necessary for them to interact with some other paper thing character.
It's not that any of it is actively _bad_ - it's just that the overall effect is of listening to a badly scratched CD, skipping from recognisable refrain to much-loved chunk of chorus, only actually becoming coherent in the final twenty minutes.
I didn't hate it. It's very pretty. I'd go and see the other two, if they got made. It's just a shame they aren't making, say, 5 films of the trilogy (two for the first, two for the second, one for the third, that being how much plot there actually is in it).
6/10
So they solved it in much the same way the first two Potter films did - by keeping all the vital scenes in, but cutting them down to their basics and leaving out all the connecting bits that actually make you care about the characters.
So characters wander onto the stage, get their five lines and wander off again, only to turn up for the climax later, people are drawn in so thinly that you're left wondering why they exist at all - were it not necessary for them to interact with some other paper thing character.
It's not that any of it is actively _bad_ - it's just that the overall effect is of listening to a badly scratched CD, skipping from recognisable refrain to much-loved chunk of chorus, only actually becoming coherent in the final twenty minutes.
I didn't hate it. It's very pretty. I'd go and see the other two, if they got made. It's just a shame they aren't making, say, 5 films of the trilogy (two for the first, two for the second, one for the third, that being how much plot there actually is in it).
6/10