Two days to go
December 11th 2002 -
Two days to go
Two more working days until I have two weeks of holidays! But first, there’s the work xmas dinner tonight, picking up the CDs and sending a bundle off to Dave tomorrow (hopefully), and the cricket on Friday – Anna might be able to come along. Then off to Brisbane on Saturday, Claire’s party on Sunday, all day with Ev on Monday, visiting relatives on Tuesday, off to Townsville on Wednesday, then hopefully just christmas shopping and talking and eating and going to the beach and sitting around watching DVDs until The Two Towers on boxing day. Then, back to Sydney, and we’re straight into doing a read-through with Jon & Kate of their latest novella, and finally back to work the next day.
Should be fun!
Heist
David Mamet does heist movie in sleep. Many plot twists make no sense at all in retrospect, much like The Spanish Prisoner. Kind of unpleasant, but still moderately tense and at least it’s better than “The Score”, with which it shares far too many plot-points and characters.
Blade 2
Wow. Even duller than Blade 1. OK, an obvious question pops up at this point, but I’d actually forgotten most of Blade 1 and sorta remembered it as being OK. Watching this made me remember what it had really been like. I don’t think I’ve ever fallen asleep while watching a movie before, but this one almost did it. Amazingly tedious plot, absurdly repetitious gunplay/swordplay/fisticuffs/fu. I watched it as a guilty pleasure, but was unguiltily bored senseless.
Movies in which the female lead shows cool fightin’ skills early, then becomes unaccountably feeble thereafter:
Blade 2
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
And now, I open up the comments for y’all to add to this list. Please?
CB Says:
December 12th, 2002 at 10:29 am
also Mission Impossible 2, full of unaccountably hopelessly feebleness