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Yay to having Thanksgiving all to myself. I worked - spent the day processing copies of the PotC DVD for rental, which was cool, 'cos it's a two-disc set and one of the discs has Captain Jack on it - then took myself home with a copy of the DVD and spent the afternoon checking out the features.
I won't spoil anything for the DVD contents, but I will say this: Watch out for the line "I dated a eunuch once." I think you'll be surprised at the source.
In other news, here's your shock for the day: Like Mike is actually fairly good. It's not, you know, a cinematic masterpiece or anything, and the logic-free ending completely blows its potential, but it was fun and cute. Crispin's interpretation of his character is great - Stan Bittleman, the guy who runs the group home, was obviously scripted to be a male Miss Hannigan (ie, a sadistic bully), but Crispin plays him as kind of an impotent, awkward loser who seems nice enough on the surface, which makes it more unnerving when he turns nasty (of course, it also renders the ending even more nonsensical; oh, well). (Wow. I'm pretty sure that sentence was complex-compound, not run-on.) It was worth watching twice just for his performance, but the parts without him were pretty decent, too. The only bad thing was the grating, painful, CATCHY tie-in song. Words cannot describe. Uuuuuuuugh.
That's about it, really. It's amazing how little can happen in five days.
I won't spoil anything for the DVD contents, but I will say this: Watch out for the line "I dated a eunuch once." I think you'll be surprised at the source.
In other news, here's your shock for the day: Like Mike is actually fairly good. It's not, you know, a cinematic masterpiece or anything, and the logic-free ending completely blows its potential, but it was fun and cute. Crispin's interpretation of his character is great - Stan Bittleman, the guy who runs the group home, was obviously scripted to be a male Miss Hannigan (ie, a sadistic bully), but Crispin plays him as kind of an impotent, awkward loser who seems nice enough on the surface, which makes it more unnerving when he turns nasty (of course, it also renders the ending even more nonsensical; oh, well). (Wow. I'm pretty sure that sentence was complex-compound, not run-on.) It was worth watching twice just for his performance, but the parts without him were pretty decent, too. The only bad thing was the grating, painful, CATCHY tie-in song. Words cannot describe. Uuuuuuuugh.
That's about it, really. It's amazing how little can happen in five days.
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In other news, I can no longer keep up with TWoP recaps and fora because the internet filters at work classify it as porn. (No idea why.) It's kind of a sad end-of-an-era for me, but it does seem to be improving my job performance. Also I just borrowed OotP from my sister, so hopefully I shall finally begin reading that soon. That's not all, but I won't bore you with the irrelevant stuff until I get my own LJ. Who knows when that will happen though.
°The long-lost Hoedogg
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Life's kept me away pretty much from TWoP, too; I swing by and catch up when I can, but I hardly ever post anymore and can't remember the last recap I managed to read. I'm glad to hear from you, though, 'cos I was kind of wondering where you were. Enjoy OotP, and feel free to bore me with the irrelevent stuff, so long's it means you're keeping in touch. =)