film and tv

[burntcopper]

Have watched first ep of True Blood. Huh. Interesting. decent hook to get me watching more, at least. It's not insta-love like, say, Middleman, Firefly, Black Books, BSG or Kings, but I'm intrigued and want to see more of how the characters and world develops. And wow that's a lot of sex for first ep.

In other news, Spielberg's just confirmed that they've started casting for a re-make of Harvey. WHY? Okay, I know it's based on a play, and some play/book-based stuff can have several or endless film remakes and do quite well out of it (see Shakespeare and Austen/Dickens et al.), with new interpretations for each generation - but I think Harvey is a no-no. The name is synonymous with James Stewart's performance. In a way that Hamlet is *not* synonymous with Mel Gibson and Polanski. (excuse me, have to spit to get foul taste out of mouth)

You watched Twelfth Night last night. It was happy comfort viewing of the gayest Shakespeare play *evah*. You and mum were cooing over how cute they were and giggling over all the performances and singing along with Ben Kingsley, and trying to figure out if Toby Stephens bears much resmblance to his mum. Go to your happy place. Banish all mentions of Polanski and Mel Gibson.

Comments

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

Just saw the Middlecast at CC and was reminded that I needed to ask if you'd seen it and force it on you if you hadn't, so I'm glad to hear you have. :D

True Blood gets pretty amazing as it goes on. Mostly because it continues to get even more over the top and ridiculous. I actually haven't seen the first episode; my computer wouldn't play my copy and the second one did as fine a job of introducing me to everyone, so I didn't feel the need to when I heard the first kind of sucks.

Wait for the graveyard sex scene. It's pretty much the funniest thing I have ever seen.

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

Hello, HBO programming :-). Nakedness and sex.