They don’t make 'em like that anymore…
By which I mean: Four hours long.
I’m off to see Gone With The Wind at the cinema! (and I’m not sure whether my last cup of tea was sufficiently long ago…)
Wish me luck!
Later…
I’m watching this hip new anime that only started a little while ago called One Piece. Not sure if it will stick around, but the first 30 episodes are pretty okay… I might want to slow down a bit, make sure I don’t run out of episodes too quickly.
Joking aside (22 seasons! Over 1,000 episodes!), the first season is pretty rough so far. A lot of that shonen “Let’s have the same fight last nine episodes!” which is why I quit Bleach, and a lot of people bleeding but nobody ever dies, like, ever.
“Super Incredibly Deadly Poisonous Gas Bomb MH-5” failed to kill a single person, even the one person who didn’t have a mask and was directly hit by it and breathed it in for the entire time before it disappated. “Slightly Unpleasant Makes Your Skin Mildly Grey MH-5” more like it.
Several of my coworkers swear it gets better after the first season, but I’m not sure I can stick with it. I hate one of the crew already (Usopp), and Zoro and Luffy are both very one-note. Nami seems potentially interesting, but this is an old Japanese show so I suspect she’s there for short skirts and tight tops (and, I suspect, an “beach” episode is imminent… or an onsen, but given the setting, beach seems more likely).
Ah well. I’m sick, so it’s been reasonably enjoyable viewing. Last time I stopped around Episode 4 or 5 (the 3-sword technique is just so unbelievably stupid), we’ll see how much further I get this time.
I’ve also started watching One Piece, with the first 200 or so episodes now available on BBC iPlayer. I think last time I made it to about episode 40, and that was probably 15 years ago. Usually I’d watch in Japanese, but only the dub seems to be available. It seems fine so far and I had no idea that Luffy’s voice actor also provides the voice of Lilith in the Borderlands video game series.
I’m up to episode 13 this time. Definitely entertaining but not (yet?) amazing is my verdict.
I think I watched over 100 episodes of Bleach, then switched to reading it instead. My recollection is that the first arc (up to about episode 60 of the anime) was the best bit and it was never that good again… but that was also about 15 years ago, so my recollection is hazy, and it looks like I only made it to chapter 423 (out of 686) of the manga.
Not watching, but listening to Woodbine. Well acted urban fantasy with good sound design. From the same folks who did Parkdale Haunt.
Yay new season of Lincoln Lawyer. I’m a real sucker for legal dramas. It was what made me want to be a lawyer as a kid.
My partner likes that show. I don’t know anything much about it, but my first reaction had been that “Linkin’ Lawyers” sounded like a version of the “Barrel of Monkeys” toy, so that’s what springs to mind whenever anyone mentions it.
Just watched the Transporter. What a ridiculous film but The Stath is so much fun
Is that the one where he fights inside a bus?
I remember really enjoying and appreciating all of the “unusual close-quarters” scenarios they’d come up with for the fight scenes in that film (or whichever J.S. film I’m thinking of). There was some super-creative stuff which was not only executed superbly, but actually plausible enough for suspension of disbelief.
(Edit: Just looked up and watched the bus scene. Less plausible than I suggested 
. But fun, and I stand by the “creative” part.)
“How can we get Jason having a fight covered in oil? What, no, no reason.”
Oh just because I think tactically its something he would do. And we can have some amusing hijinks with people slipping off him. Oh and he must have his shirt off. For reasons.
For extra slippery surface, of course.
We watched “Kaos” the greek myth modernized 1 season only Jeff Goldblum in pyjamas as neurotic Zeus show subtitled “I played too much Hades and want to make a TV Show now”
Worst of all, the end is rather without closure and the show has already been canceled.
On a sidenote this inspired me to think about method acting.
Questions that I now have:
The only story I know that fits the criteria (women, nice character) is English actress Ella Purnell, who said that when she was 15/16 and had to do an American accent she decided to stay in accent all the time off-camera as well, and only dropped it after 3 weeks of filming when she was tired, and her American co-star literally didn’t believe she was English.
But yes, generally method actors are assholes. (My partner is an actor and has opinions on this)
Huh I thought she was putting on the accent for that new show sweetpea. Wild.
Found it (she’s the lead in the Fallout tv series) :
Meryl Streep gave up method acting after playing the Editor in Devils Wears Prada cos she said it was such a horrible experience.
“During her sit-down with Hathaway, which was uploaded to YouTube, Blunt revealed that Streep swore off “method acting”—a technique utilized by performers to inhabit the psyche of a character, often by remaining “in character” throughout production even in between filming—after playing Miranda because “it made her so miserable” to see the rest of the cast bonding and enjoying themselves on set.”
Found a reference. Anne Hathaway And Emily Blunt Reveal Why Meryl Streep Stopped Method Acting After The Devil Wears Prada | Cinemablend
Fascinating really and kind of what I suspected all along.
I remember reading about it in Empire magazine years ago
