weekend report: Blade III and relative health/lack thereof`

[anotheranon]

To 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.

Comments

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh you evil things!!!! Now how am I supposed to SLEEP thinking of undead, vampiric, ghoulish Santas squeezing down my chimney???????

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

....Santas squeezing down my chimney???????

Oooh, he is awfully fat, isn't he?

Maybe he's....vampirically sucking the fat out of overeating Christmas merrymakers? Look for the one member of the family who ISN'T gaining weight over the holidays - makes you wonder, doesn't it [Dr. Evil pinky-to-mouth]

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Hah! I can just SEE you doing the Dr. Evil move too!!!!!!!!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's where Christmas cake came from ... it's a ghoulist/vampiric invention intended to fatten up "dinner" :p

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Are you telling me that the centuries-old tradition of the Feast of Christ's Mass has been a vampiric conspiracy across history to fatten us up for an ancient clan of lipid-sucking Nosferatu????

No WONDER places like McDonalds etc. do so well!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

That's right. All fast food is part of the fatten-up-the-livestock conspiracy!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Oh, she calls us evil NOW. But give her another half-hour and she'll be throwing suggestions into the pot that are even more twisted than ours! ***grin***

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Is that a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, perchance?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Maybe, maybe, but she isn't the one who came up with the blindingly bizarre "toe-person-dominatrix" thing back in the early days of KBN. Damn, that thing STILL can't be touched!!!

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Gee... I thought everyone had forgotten THAT!!! Can't be touched? That is probably a very good thing. Somethings are better left alone!!! (it WAS fun, though)


Gigi (giggling, "toes!!! toes!!!")

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!! Y'know, the scary thing is that one episode of Blakes 7 DID have Servalan fending off a creepy little fetishist ... so I know EXACTLY the expression she would have had on her face and NOW I'M SEEING IT IN MY HEAD AGAIN, YOU EVIL WOMAN!!!!!!

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Heh heh - and I wrote that without ever having seen a single episode of Blake's 7.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

I know you did. I was VERY VERY impressed by your grasp of a character you'd never seen. When I finally sit you down in front of some B7, you're gonna have a serious case of déja vu, m'dear. :-)))

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Nope, this is a case of the pot informing the kettle that she's really just a pot in kettle's clothing. :p

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Arrrrr. Late night humor. Ugh.

Takes one to know one! Plpphhhttttbbtthhht!

Gigi :-))))

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

This pot has always openly worn her pottishness with pride!

***Plpphhhttttbbtthhhts back at hadesgirl***

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Hey - silly question. How do you get the person's username to show up like that in posts? I type the name in but it only comes in as text, not as a link with the little bitty head by it. What am I missing??????

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Not silly. It's similar to the technique for fiddling with the fonts.

Like this: lj user="username" (with the phrase surrounded by pointy brackets)

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Ah. I should have known. Sorry - should have done a little bit of research before letting you do my work for me. Many thanks!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. And don't be "sorry" ... help screens are for people who don't know anybody they can ask. :-))))))