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Book/Movie/DVD Meanderings as of 5/11/08
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 04:16 pmSurprisingly enough, I have actually gotten a little bit of reading done even as my program winds up, plus lots of movie nonsense. Granted, this is a list that's been compiled over about a month, so... Anyway, I think the following list illustrates the strange dichotomies in reading/viewing tastes that I have.
Movies:
( Iron Man, with Iron Spoilers )
And then for something completely different, and pretty much on the opposite end of the entire cinematic spectrum, ( The Painted Veil. )
And then, way previously to either of these, which, ironically enough, I had forgotten: ( Forgetting Sarah Marshall. )
Books:
Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend: Utter, complete, and total fluff. And it's like a bag of cheetos: I can't stop myself! I love the characters, I love the setting, I love the mystic psychic stuff... and oh, I think I ate/read too much. Victoria Laurie, please write another one, so I can gobble it down.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: This unique children's book is a fusion of graphic novel and traditional children's book narrative storytelling. I read it all in one sitting. The story flows nicely and is interspersed with beautiful pencil drawings of the characters and the setting of the story (Paris, 1920s.) I cannot wait to find a smart child to give this to... and then watch the movies that are pivotal to the story's conclusion with them. Lovely, wonderful book.
Free Comic Book Day HAUL!:
Besides "Tiny Titans" and "Owly" which I picked up to send to some younger friends in Japan, Dark Horse was the best bet, with a 20-year art retrospective (with a very cool Adam Hughes 'Hellboy' pic) and the free 'Hellboy' comic short story, "The Mole", which was definitely on the more surreal end of things, as Hellboy stories go. The X-Men short from Marvel about Pixie (a character I'd never heard of) actually turned out be quite good as well. The colors were simply luminous, the Bad Guys appropriately menacing, and the magic effects quite beautiful. By the time the X-men themselves showed up, I had almost forgotten the comic was about them.
DVDs:
Robin Hood: The new BBC one. Despite all the historical anachronisms (especially language and costuming) I love this series, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yebisu9 does, too. The whole series is just plain old fun, even when the writers overload with clunky comparisons to today's political situations. It also helps a little that the actor playing Robin Hood looks a lot like my sister's boyfriend, but with more facial hair. So I keep thinking that Mark has shown up in our TV set, suddenly, as an ace archer and all-around awesome guy. (Which he is in real life, of course--awesome, although not ace archer. It's just weird to have that moment of deja vu.)
Movies:
( Iron Man, with Iron Spoilers )
And then for something completely different, and pretty much on the opposite end of the entire cinematic spectrum, ( The Painted Veil. )
And then, way previously to either of these, which, ironically enough, I had forgotten: ( Forgetting Sarah Marshall. )
Books:
Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend: Utter, complete, and total fluff. And it's like a bag of cheetos: I can't stop myself! I love the characters, I love the setting, I love the mystic psychic stuff... and oh, I think I ate/read too much. Victoria Laurie, please write another one, so I can gobble it down.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: This unique children's book is a fusion of graphic novel and traditional children's book narrative storytelling. I read it all in one sitting. The story flows nicely and is interspersed with beautiful pencil drawings of the characters and the setting of the story (Paris, 1920s.) I cannot wait to find a smart child to give this to... and then watch the movies that are pivotal to the story's conclusion with them. Lovely, wonderful book.
Free Comic Book Day HAUL!:
Besides "Tiny Titans" and "Owly" which I picked up to send to some younger friends in Japan, Dark Horse was the best bet, with a 20-year art retrospective (with a very cool Adam Hughes 'Hellboy' pic) and the free 'Hellboy' comic short story, "The Mole", which was definitely on the more surreal end of things, as Hellboy stories go. The X-Men short from Marvel about Pixie (a character I'd never heard of) actually turned out be quite good as well. The colors were simply luminous, the Bad Guys appropriately menacing, and the magic effects quite beautiful. By the time the X-men themselves showed up, I had almost forgotten the comic was about them.
DVDs:
Robin Hood: The new BBC one. Despite all the historical anachronisms (especially language and costuming) I love this series, and
yebisu9 does, too. The whole series is just plain old fun, even when the writers overload with clunky comparisons to today's political situations. It also helps a little that the actor playing Robin Hood looks a lot like my sister's boyfriend, but with more facial hair. So I keep thinking that Mark has shown up in our TV set, suddenly, as an ace archer and all-around awesome guy. (Which he is in real life, of course--awesome, although not ace archer. It's just weird to have that moment of deja vu.)
