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

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

OOOooooooo!!!!!! I LIKE!!!!!! I LIKE!!!!!!!

Now what can we come up with on the Easter bunny ... ?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Alas, it's been done: Bunnicula (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689806590/103-7704219-6796620). I LOVED this book as a child!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bunnicula is wonderful! But now we need something that'll keep the grown-up Bunnicula fans awake all night with the covers over their heads. ;-)

Hmm...

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

What about an alien brain-sucking life form that coincidentally looks like a rabbit? It sneaks around, laying eggs under bushes and in tree stumps. The origin of the easter egg hunt was a village posse out to destroy as many of the larval things as they could.

Re: Hmm...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

That works. What looks like ears are really the prehensile brain-sucking appendages ... easily able to squirm into any handy orifice (ears, nostrils, mouth) in order to get at that gooey gray goodness! YUM!!! :d

Re: Hmm...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant! It's even worse than the Monty Python bunny "with the teeth...". Looks innocent, easily deadly :)

Re: Hmm...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

One only has to glance at the collection of Rabbits With Big Pointy Teeth at the stuffed toy link that semmie17 posted recently to know that all innocent-looking critters should be shot on sight as health hazards. :p