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Buffy/Giles walls, banners & icons...
Mar. 12th, 2007 01:43 pmIn honor of the weekend, I guess... two sets of Buffy/Giles stuff based around the episode "Helpless" (one more loosely than the other)
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Mar. 12th, 2007
300, and other numbered things
Mar. 12th, 2007 02:17 pmOH hell yes. That was exactly what I wanted in a movie. Without spoiling it (not that there's a whole ton to spoil - if you've seen the trailers you should have a pretty good idea what the heck it's about) I have to say it met every expectation. Beautiful, sexy, bloody, yummy.
Apparently there have been some reviews complaining about the historical accuracy, and all I can say to those people is: it's not a historical period piece people - it's a fantasy movie. Of course, apparently that same reviewer was comparing 300 to Gladiator (unfavorably, I might add). They're crazy. Gladiator was one of those big hollywood movies too. It's not like it was historically accurate or anything. Why can't people leave well enough alone and just have fun?
Well, anyway, I had an absolutely delightful time - the boy bought us food, we actually got to see Joel and catch up a little while standing in line, the crowd was fabulous and hissed in all the right moments, and generally it was a damn fine movie experience. Visually I'm half in love with everyone - women, men, heck, demi-gods. I love the semi-glossed almost cartoon style, too. It's better when they make the whole movie just a little bit CGI and then add in CGI'd bits -less jarring than having 100% normal film switch to the CGI action/monster.
And I really really really want to talk about the movie, but...just go see it. Go, pay your $9 or whatever, and have a fabulous time. Sure, the violence is ... violent. But they're fighting a losing battle against all the armies of the world! There have got to be some causalities! And sure, it's not the most intricate dialog... but ... it's beautiful! And fun.
( And then, there's me, on spring break... and the gigantic to do list...that you don't want to read promise )
Apparently there have been some reviews complaining about the historical accuracy, and all I can say to those people is: it's not a historical period piece people - it's a fantasy movie. Of course, apparently that same reviewer was comparing 300 to Gladiator (unfavorably, I might add). They're crazy. Gladiator was one of those big hollywood movies too. It's not like it was historically accurate or anything. Why can't people leave well enough alone and just have fun?
Well, anyway, I had an absolutely delightful time - the boy bought us food, we actually got to see Joel and catch up a little while standing in line, the crowd was fabulous and hissed in all the right moments, and generally it was a damn fine movie experience. Visually I'm half in love with everyone - women, men, heck, demi-gods. I love the semi-glossed almost cartoon style, too. It's better when they make the whole movie just a little bit CGI and then add in CGI'd bits -less jarring than having 100% normal film switch to the CGI action/monster.
And I really really really want to talk about the movie, but...just go see it. Go, pay your $9 or whatever, and have a fabulous time. Sure, the violence is ... violent. But they're fighting a losing battle against all the armies of the world! There have got to be some causalities! And sure, it's not the most intricate dialog... but ... it's beautiful! And fun.
( And then, there's me, on spring break... and the gigantic to do list...that you don't want to read promise )
Sunday was spent trying to get proper fixtures for our bathtub (an adventure that sounds quite easy but in the end turned out to be incredibly difficult) and trying to cut tile.
See, the fixtures we bought were brushed steel. So we needed brushed steel connectors (called es-somethings... Neil knows, I keep forgetting) to connect them to the pipes. And you'd think that it would be a simple matter of finding brushed steel versions of our old fixtures. Well, after Neil hit 7 hardware and plumbing stores, we finally figured out we needed to have new pipe connectors in order to be able to use the hardware that we'd bought. Then, after he brought them home, Neil spent about ... oh, 6 hours trying to get them on the tub! There was trouble with the screws, with the balance of the handles, with the spacers. Finally and at last, we were done!
Then we were introduced to the joys of tile cutting. Well, we managed to cut two tiles, and then our tile cutter broke. And, once we put it back together, it broke again. And again. And again. Until we finally gave up and ran out to Home Depot to get a tile saw. Then everything went just a little bit faster. Everything's better when you have a saw!
( So, in case you're curious, here are the newest pictures.... )
See, the fixtures we bought were brushed steel. So we needed brushed steel connectors (called es-somethings... Neil knows, I keep forgetting) to connect them to the pipes. And you'd think that it would be a simple matter of finding brushed steel versions of our old fixtures. Well, after Neil hit 7 hardware and plumbing stores, we finally figured out we needed to have new pipe connectors in order to be able to use the hardware that we'd bought. Then, after he brought them home, Neil spent about ... oh, 6 hours trying to get them on the tub! There was trouble with the screws, with the balance of the handles, with the spacers. Finally and at last, we were done!
Then we were introduced to the joys of tile cutting. Well, we managed to cut two tiles, and then our tile cutter broke. And, once we put it back together, it broke again. And again. And again. Until we finally gave up and ran out to Home Depot to get a tile saw. Then everything went just a little bit faster. Everything's better when you have a saw!
( So, in case you're curious, here are the newest pictures.... )