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]

Y'know, the world NEEDS a really good vampire Christmas movie. Something along the lines of Santa Fangs, rather than Santa Claws ... :p

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! The closest anything ever came might have been Nightmare Before Christmas, but it was still too...cuddly(?) and Jack Pumpkinhead wasn't a vampire.

Any thoughts on plot for this dastardly Xmas movie? ;)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not vampire, but I can HIGHLY recommend the Canuck-made Black Christmas. Less blood'n'guts and more suspense than the more popular "slasher" films that followed it and it's one of the rare ones that actually scared me in my teens (usually I was sitting there figuring out how the special effects were done when I watched stuff like this ***grin***).

But if you want to compose something fresh, ever considered how OLD Santa Claus must be? Surely that means he's one of the undead, perhaps trading toys for bits of innocent little souls or something? ;-) (I'm working on home cataloguing, so I may strike other inspirations as I rove in search of subject headings)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

But if you want to compose something fresh, ever considered how OLD Santa Claus must be? Surely that means he's one of the undead, perhaps trading toys for bits of innocent little souls or something? ;-)

My doG, you're RIGHT! I mean, how else has he been alive so long? And notice, he makes his rounds at NIGHT - NEVER during the day!

Hmmm......A very messy Christmas indeed! ;)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

(good timing, sending this response right when I interrupted my knitting to check the mail ***grin***)

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! :-)))

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

I have it! Santa's a ghoul. Every year at christmas he travels from house to house, looking for the perfect replacement body. There's only one in a thousand who will suit. Once he find the unlucky child, his spirit slips into the new body and away the child goes. Being a fair monster, he leaves valuable gifts in the child's place.

Of course, ghouls age preternaturally fast, so every year it's a old guy with a white beard that's spotted going house to house. Hm, it does explain the "dead guy in a santa suit found in the chimney" urban legend...

I always liked the idea of a ghoulish tooth fairy, sneaking from house to house, smothering young children in their beds and stealing their teeth as a memento...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Ladies, I think we've got the next Hollywood slasher film, if we can just patent the idea! :D

[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]

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

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

[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***

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

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

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[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!

[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]

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. ;-)

[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]

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!!!!!!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

This pot has always openly worn her pottishness with pride!

***Plpphhhttttbbtthhhts back at hadesgirl***

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

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

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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]

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. :-))))))

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