Hooked on Deadwood

[ellen_datlow]

Last night I watched Season 1 disk 4 and I admit that I'm finally hooked. I love the ever changing relationships between the characters and I am certainly hearing the poetry in the language of McShane's character. It still jars when some of the other characters throw out a "cocksucker" though.

I also watch Lara Croft, Tomb Raider--and loved it! Yeah, a very guilty pleasure but I enjoy watching Jolie and I thought it was a lot of fun. And Daniel Craig was in it too! Whoopie! I just added the second one to my queue for later (much later) light entertainment.

Comments

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

I only remember 4 scenes from the movie - the fight with the robot, the fight in the garage, the Tomb Raider scene, and the conversation between Lara and her father (which I probably would've forgotten if they hadn't cast Jolie's own father) - and I'm only mostly sure they happened in that sequence.

From Tomb Raider 2, I remember Angelina in spandex, Angelina in bikini, the flying suits, and Angelina using the rifle to parry a sword or something similar.

That's barely enough enjoyable moments to make an enticing trailer or music video, much less two movies with essentially the same plot - IMHO, of course.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I love cotton candy (or what is called fairy floss in the UK --I don't know what it's called in Australia) and eat it once a year. It does what it's supposed to--I enjoy it but don't expect either nourishment nor memory of its taste a month after I eat it. That's how I experienced Tomb Raider. When I want another hit of something weightless and fun, I'll either watch # 2 or something equally entertaining and mindless.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

And, to be honest, I found the scenes with her father creepy (even more so because indeed Voight IS her dad and they've been estranged on and off for years)

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

I don't remember finding the scene creepy, but it didn't seem to fit the tone of the rest of the film.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I thought they acted a little TOO close for parent and child (I'm not sure if it was in the scene or their references to each other throughout).

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Here it's called fairy floss, and I can't remember the last time I ate the stuff, though I loved it as a kid. I have movies I enjoy the same way, but most of them are musicals, where suspending disbelief is less of a problem.

Admittedly, I can remember a friend coming over to borrow a movie from my collection, and complaining that the most lightweight comedy I owned was The Madness of King George, which I thought was a little unfair (I also owned Clue, Caveman, Tank Girl and Young Frankenstein... and Naked Killer, though I suspect she wanted something she could watch with her kid.)