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]

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. :-))))))