Media Extravaganza - stuff what I has seen recently

[andrewducker]

The halloween episode of Season 3 of Community was great fun - a nice mashup of different styles. Last week's was also rather good - multiple timelines splitting from the same event, tying together nicely at the end. I continue to enjoy the way that the writers constantly fuck with audience expectations and manage to both push the limits of what you can do in a TV show while remaining grounded character-wise. It works very well for me.

Lion King 3D was pretty epic. It's one of my favourite Disney movies. The 3D worked very well, the movie was as awesome as ever, and I cried at exactly the same point that I always do. Jeremy Irons does evil spectacularly well, and I had somehow forgotten that Darth Vader is Ferris Bueller's father.

Borderlands continues to be fun to play - I've started again with Julie, and we've been carving our way through skags (alien dog-things), blowing up bandits and running over anything that wanders into our path. The driving has been particularly fun, as she's been in the driving seat, while I've taken gunner, picking things off from long distance. After her nervousness about playing something violent and FPS-related she surprised me by taking "Brick", a large chap who is apparently made of muscles and speicalises in charging into hand-to-hand combat. There's something...exciting about watching your fiancee punch bad guys to death :->

I really want to get to see We Need To Talk About Kevin while it's still in the cinema. I might try and encourage Julie in that direction over the next few days. I loved the book, and although she bounced off of it really hard that was more to do with the writing style than anything else.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ah, truly, it is the dream: A girl you can play video games with.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Borderlands: PC or console?

[andrewducker]

PC. That way we get a screen each :->

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Go see Kevin. Really. it's a potential candidate for film of the year in my book. If it helps, the style is more disjointed-flashback than the written-letters style that I'm told the book's in (although I haven't read it). There's no narration in the film at all which is a trap adaptations of that style of book can usually fall in to all too easily.

[andrewducker]

Julie's up for it, and I really want to. I'll let you know how much I loved it when we get back!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

We're going to see Kevin on Sunday night after board games & dinner -- you're welcome to join us if you like.

(I found the first 50 pages or so of the book quite plodding and tough. Probably because it's all internal, no dialogue, no events.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's not until Kevin's born that it starts to move.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

For me it was the first conversation with him in prison. Which I don't remember if it came before or after his birth in the narrative.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

As movies go, We Need To Talk About Kevin is an effective contraceptive. It also doesn't have plot really, it's more mood. It is a good movie though.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend the siren, despite being a tad over sexualised. Her smg perks give you some amazing bonuses, especially on the higher levels. Faster rate of fire and faster reload turn her into a one hit kill machine - especially with fire elemental weapons.

[andrewducker]

I have her as my solo character - and the SMG was, indeed, awesome.