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]

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. :-)))