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anotheranonTo enjoy some vampirey good cheer, I took myself and D. to see Blade III Trinity yesterday.
I know a lot of the reviews sucked (pun intended) but I enjoyed it - blood, swords, things go boom. It's not high art, you know :P
Acting: Wesley Snipes perfect as ever as Blade (no, I've not read the comic, but I like his characterization). Parker Posey makes a wonderfully sarcastic and cruel vampire. I've only seen Drake/Dracula in the series John Doe playing an outrageously nice guy, and given that he wasn't an outrageously nice baddie, I guess you could say he did all right. Enjoyed the new female sidekick, but then, I like it when girls kick ass :) And Comic Relief Boy very much needed and amusing.
Costumes and other pretty things: Many fun weapons and clothes in this one. Blade finally gets to wear a color (red) and has a very, very pretty silver knife for optimum vampire slayage. Parker Posey gets some nice suits but should lynch whatever stylist decided that Aquanetted Ducktail is a good hairstyle for anyone, living or undead!
Action: There's swordplay and most excellently choreographed martial arts. I'd love to know which, if any, of the main characters did their own stunts. I suspect Snipes because he has a quadruple black belt or similar, but IMDB.com is mute on the subject.
Final note: look for vampirism in unexpected places. You'll know it when you see it :P
Relative health: didn't have much to drink yesterday except coffee and hot chocolate, so I'm furiously rehydrating - 6th tall glass of water today. My skin has self-destructed once again, probably because of all the caffiene.
Exercise: did 100 lunges with my left hand forward to try and "even out" as my lopsidedness is getting to be painful. I never realized how heavy the damn foil is until my left shoulder started getting sore!
Reading: finished Blinded by the Right and am starting Crown of Shadows and A Pretext For War 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. Still working on Shadowlands.
I know a lot of the reviews sucked (pun intended) but I enjoyed it - blood, swords, things go boom. It's not high art, you know :P
Acting: Wesley Snipes perfect as ever as Blade (no, I've not read the comic, but I like his characterization). Parker Posey makes a wonderfully sarcastic and cruel vampire. I've only seen Drake/Dracula in the series John Doe playing an outrageously nice guy, and given that he wasn't an outrageously nice baddie, I guess you could say he did all right. Enjoyed the new female sidekick, but then, I like it when girls kick ass :) And Comic Relief Boy very much needed and amusing.
Costumes and other pretty things: Many fun weapons and clothes in this one. Blade finally gets to wear a color (red) and has a very, very pretty silver knife for optimum vampire slayage. Parker Posey gets some nice suits but should lynch whatever stylist decided that Aquanetted Ducktail is a good hairstyle for anyone, living or undead!
Action: There's swordplay and most excellently choreographed martial arts. I'd love to know which, if any, of the main characters did their own stunts. I suspect Snipes because he has a quadruple black belt or similar, but IMDB.com is mute on the subject.
Final note: look for vampirism in unexpected places. You'll know it when you see it :P
Relative health: didn't have much to drink yesterday except coffee and hot chocolate, so I'm furiously rehydrating - 6th tall glass of water today. My skin has self-destructed once again, probably because of all the caffiene.
Exercise: did 100 lunges with my left hand forward to try and "even out" as my lopsidedness is getting to be painful. I never realized how heavy the damn foil is until my left shoulder started getting sore!
Reading: finished Blinded by the Right and am starting Crown of Shadows and A Pretext For War 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. Still working on Shadowlands.
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:23 am (UTC)Only at night ... very good point! And, consider how tired and cranky kids get on Christmas ... usually chalked up to overexcitement, lack of sleep, and too much candy, but it could just as easily be blood depletion?! (and that red suit hides any spillage)
Plus, if you consider the old tradition that a vampire cannot enter a dwelling without an invitation ... well, having a kid in every household WANTING, with every fibre in their little bodies, for Santa to come ... well, hell, talk about the ultimate endless buffet!
y'know, having friends with imaginations as warped as one's own has gotta be one of the greatest gifts ever! :-)))