Abigail Brady

Not something you see every day:



(apparently for the premiere of The Other Guys which is this evening at the Vue)

Went to see Twilight this evening. Notes

*Nothing in it actually made me storm out in disgust
*Very hard to take anything in it seriously, I kept giggling at the slightest provocation
*Easy to follow despite my lack of familiarity with the source material
*The romantic dialog was better than that in Attack of the Clones
*No really, he's a [SPOILER]???
*Kirsten Stewart will make a good Jessica Jones in about five or ten years
*The High School was actually a happy place for all the characters!
*Either they were making a deliberate stylistic choice, or this is a good example of a film which suffers for being only 24fps (they'd turned the motion blur right down in certain scenes, leaving it looking very very odd)

Saw How To Lose Friends And Alienate People last night with doseybat. I liked it, despite it being a bit too cringeworthy at times.

Seem to have stopped reading comics and have got back into reading books. Nation, The Dispossessed, Matter, Flowers for Agernon, Recursion, The Star Fraction and The Left Hand of Darkness in last couple of months. Now started World War Z.

Watchmen trailer! Looks shiny.

Hancock's World premiere this evening in Leicester Square. Colleague of mine took this shot of one of the cinemas earlier:



you'd think they'd have done it from the other end. big and noisy. biggest premiere I've seen in Leicester Square, I reckon.

Saw Persepolis Thursday evening with doseybat and ruthi. Good film.

It's been a long week. Except it hasn't. Very tired now (probably exacerbated by going out drinking last night). Tried making flapjacks this afternoon - think I didn't leave them in long enough because they are not solid enough. Still, yummy.

Vantage Point is a film that isn't especially interesting apart from its novel narrative structure. ( Vantage Point review: very vague spoilers )

I suppose the kindest thing I can say is that I am very glad that films like this are made, and I will probably be buying the DVD (if only so that I can check if they cheated). I'd advise anyone wanting to see this to wait for the DVD release, too. I wonder if they will have an edit of it in chronological order, like the Memento DVD has.

shimgray posted a link to an alternate ending for I am Legend.

I find this interesting because, apart from being sufficient a change to make it actually an adaption of the book (as it stands it has more in common with 28 Days Later than the book than it supposedly adapts), it clearly was the ending intended when certain scenes were filmed, and contains the pay-off for various curious aspects we had noted in post-movie discussion. ( spoiler ).

It isn't quite so saccharine, but is happy enough that it ought to have been possible to release the movie like that without worrying the studio too much. Oughtn't it?

No Country For Old Men, which we saw Friday, didn't really do much for me. There were several elements I found odd - for a film about Tommy Lee Jones's character, he didn't seem to have much screentime, and some bits in the Moss/Chigurgh plot I found confusing and frankly the police seemed curiously passive about the entire thing - especially given the identity of the victim of the first on-screen killing. Glad I saw it, though. 6/10. Others in office rated it from 5/10 to 9/10.

busy weekend. I have decided to do more random things, and consequently went with shermarama to see Wigan play Quins RL at Twickenham on Saturday. The game was a little dull at first, but got more interesting in the second half as Wigan improved. Naturally, all this action was at the other end of the stadium from us, but eh. First League match I've ever been to see, first sporting event in maybe 5 years. aquarionical's party followed in the evening. Guitar Hero III was present, which I failed at.

on Sunday, having decided that my flat doesn't burn down nearly enough, i bought an immersion fryer and some potatoes and a potato peeler. resulting chips were not very good. need to play with timings and heat level and potato type to determine optimum chip-making conditions.

saw Northern LightsThe Golden Compass this evening with doseybat. i was a bit concerned that the film came off more a collection of incidents than a coherent story, but doseybat (who has not read the book) managed to follow it ok apparently.

( spoilers )

this book could withstand this treatment. but i do not want to see a version of The Subtle Knife made like this.