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Saw Hostage tonight (or "Os-TAHJ," as Bruce Willis pronounced it on Conan last week). It wasn't incredibly well thought out, but the psycho guy was v.v. scary, and the little boy was smart and plucky and adorable (and I am a sucker for resourceful kids). But probably I most enjoyed the previews.
Because first we saw one for Mindhunters, which is I think an updated version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," only it's "Six Little FBI Trainees." And I am way looking forward to the eye-candy in this one -- LL Cool J, Val Kilmer (slightly past his prime, perhaps, but reliably brilliant onscreen), Jonny Lee Miller (mmmmm...), and Will Kemp (trained as ballet dancer -- I think he had a major role in a homoerotic production of Swan Lake -- he was forgettable as the werewolf brother in Van Helsing, but memorable in a Gap ad for loose-fit khakis. The ad is just him, dancing. The way he's dancing, totally unselfconscious and attuned to his body and the music, is smolderingly hot).
And then we saw one for the movie whose name I forget, that stars Jet Li as a guy who was raised as a dog. I really like Jet Li, and it'll be interesting to see how he does in a movie that's as much about emotions and characterization as it is about the flying kicks. Because his costar? Is **Morgan Freeman**.
And *then* there was the preview for Sin City -- which opens the weekend of Connexions!! I'm hoping there will be a mob of people at the con who want to see this movie, so we can have a group excursion, because I am SO pumped for this!
Other observations:
** CGU came home from Borders with a pile of D&D books he felt compelled to purchase, and one of them -- the "Book of Vile Darkness" -- comes with a warning label. WTF?
** If Elizabeth Moon is heroin, then David Weber is methadone. The Honor Harrington novels take the edge off my cravings, but they can't give me the same high.
** I made banana bread today, using bananas I'd been keeping in the freezer, and discovered, to my disgust, that frozen bananas look startlingly like large yellow turds.
Because first we saw one for Mindhunters, which is I think an updated version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," only it's "Six Little FBI Trainees." And I am way looking forward to the eye-candy in this one -- LL Cool J, Val Kilmer (slightly past his prime, perhaps, but reliably brilliant onscreen), Jonny Lee Miller (mmmmm...), and Will Kemp (trained as ballet dancer -- I think he had a major role in a homoerotic production of Swan Lake -- he was forgettable as the werewolf brother in Van Helsing, but memorable in a Gap ad for loose-fit khakis. The ad is just him, dancing. The way he's dancing, totally unselfconscious and attuned to his body and the music, is smolderingly hot).
And then we saw one for the movie whose name I forget, that stars Jet Li as a guy who was raised as a dog. I really like Jet Li, and it'll be interesting to see how he does in a movie that's as much about emotions and characterization as it is about the flying kicks. Because his costar? Is **Morgan Freeman**.
And *then* there was the preview for Sin City -- which opens the weekend of Connexions!! I'm hoping there will be a mob of people at the con who want to see this movie, so we can have a group excursion, because I am SO pumped for this!
Other observations:
** CGU came home from Borders with a pile of D&D books he felt compelled to purchase, and one of them -- the "Book of Vile Darkness" -- comes with a warning label. WTF?
** If Elizabeth Moon is heroin, then David Weber is methadone. The Honor Harrington novels take the edge off my cravings, but they can't give me the same high.
** I made banana bread today, using bananas I'd been keeping in the freezer, and discovered, to my disgust, that frozen bananas look startlingly like large yellow turds.