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daps

Movies, Games and Music. Pretty much my life. :)

Sep 18, 2003 23:33

Day off work = movie watching. Watched 5 today. :) The first four of them at the cinema. The first one of those I actually went and saw with a friend, instead of on my own. *g*

Blackball - Good British comedy. The concept in and of itself was hilarious: the sport of lawn bowls being turned into a big media success thanks to 'the bad boy of ( Read more... )

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faithx5 September 18 2003, 17:09:57 UTC

I think The Sin Eater is called The Order in the US. It was panned here, too. I like your title better, though.

I'm doing really well on my movie recs, huh?! Shakespeare in Love is quite possibly the most joyful, most exuberant, and most satisfying movie I've seen. Despite being sad at the end. It's right.

Wait. Your brother, who plays RPGs all the time, found KOTOR hard? Huh. I took to it immediately, despite being a total non-RPGer. Perhaps it's an RPG aimed at non-RPGers?

daps September 18 2003, 17:39:23 UTC

It was called The Order in the US, yeah. I like our title better too. *g* Did you see it?

Only thing that could have made me enjoy Shakespeare In Love was to have more of a knowledge of Shakespeare's plays. I've never read nor seen Romeo and Juliet, and the movie made me really wish I had!

Very possibly, regarding Knights. He said something about the dice-roll system being weird, and it not being like his usual RPGS. All this went over my head though, as his RPG talk usually does. *g* Hopefully I'll manage to pick it up as quickly as you did! :)

django24 September 19 2003, 01:16:44 UTC

I just saw Shakespeare In Love recently too and quite enjoyed it. I could tell there was loads of injokes and references to his life and work but I'm not an expert either. Still, I think enough of them were funny enough to appeal to more than just academics or well read viewers. It had lots of comedy, romance, angst and a decent swordfight too! Great!

daps September 19 2003, 05:00:34 UTC

Totally agree! I was listening to the director's commentary (was only able to watch the first half of the commentarydue to time, unfortunately) and John Webster, the little kid on the street with the obsession for violence is apparantly based on a real life person who went on to be the Tarantino of Elizabethan theatre - writing extremely vengeful and violent plays. I had no idea about any of this, but he was still hilarious!

There were tonnes of other in-jokes the director was mentioning, which were not at all essential for the scenes to work, but made the scenes richer for those who knew their Shakespeare. That suggests it's probably a movie I could watch time and again and get more out of every time!