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jackLucky Number Slevin
Yay! It was as I expected, very good. There was more violence than I would have liked, but had exactly the right note of fatalistic smartalecness from Slevin. With bonus rationalisation!
Mirrormask
Very cool. Definitely in the tradition of labyrinth. However, it felt unfinished somehow. There were lots of good visuals (though some scenes just looked odd). I loved almost all of the characters. I liked the concept very much; both new and yet immediately clear.
Though I felt unsatisfied that it just ended. And I was occasionally startled or slightly creeped out by something, but never excited by any twists the way I was when the girl in Labyrinth was betrayed :) And I felt things could have been more resolved at the end.
It had many good lines and some good laughs, though I got the feeling everyone else engaged there more than I did.
Student Seduction
God! When I watched enough Buffy last night I put the TV on in the background while I did some cleaning. I hate lambasting things (except insofar as it's funny) but how can someone write something so insipid? Are my stories so devoid of any redeeming feature? You know what's going to happen, and you're not interested in seeing it unfold, so what's the point?
I should like stories where someone is bullied and fights off false accusations. My heartstrings even managed to be pulled the 20th time Anne McCaffrey did it. But here, it was just annoying. It should ideally sound like the policeman has some reason for not liking or believing her, rather than just instantly ignoring her for no defined reason; I can't sympathise with her when it feels like they know they're acting in a play.
How do such things get produced? Did someone have a good idea that got spoilt as time went on? Did someone try to produce a common denominator film and divided by zero?
Buffy
Ooh. It comes in a very shiny woodlike box, with seven CD-box-sized inner boxes, with Buffy's photo across the spines.
I remember when I first saw it, I thought it was great. That was back before I was into much pop culture or fantasy, and a bit younger, I guess... Now I see it all in terms of later series, and knowing to expect monsters of the week, and it's just retro. But still very enjoyable.
Kitty and the Werewolf Hour
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446616419/002-7036357-9857620?v=glance&n=283155
I like Anita Blake. I like cross-canon assumptions that help place you. I suffer from accidental-plagarism-itis. But ye gods! As fun as this looks, who chooses to just rip off Anita Blake verbatim? The lingo, the premise, the character, the cover art, the title, all sound like they came straight from Anita Blake. Maybe Laurell K. Hamilton got fed up of people not liking her latest books and decided to start over. Actually, in that case, I think they'd be pretty good :)
Yay! It was as I expected, very good. There was more violence than I would have liked, but had exactly the right note of fatalistic smartalecness from Slevin. With bonus rationalisation!
Mirrormask
Very cool. Definitely in the tradition of labyrinth. However, it felt unfinished somehow. There were lots of good visuals (though some scenes just looked odd). I loved almost all of the characters. I liked the concept very much; both new and yet immediately clear.
Though I felt unsatisfied that it just ended. And I was occasionally startled or slightly creeped out by something, but never excited by any twists the way I was when the girl in Labyrinth was betrayed :) And I felt things could have been more resolved at the end.
It had many good lines and some good laughs, though I got the feeling everyone else engaged there more than I did.
Student Seduction
God! When I watched enough Buffy last night I put the TV on in the background while I did some cleaning. I hate lambasting things (except insofar as it's funny) but how can someone write something so insipid? Are my stories so devoid of any redeeming feature? You know what's going to happen, and you're not interested in seeing it unfold, so what's the point?
I should like stories where someone is bullied and fights off false accusations. My heartstrings even managed to be pulled the 20th time Anne McCaffrey did it. But here, it was just annoying. It should ideally sound like the policeman has some reason for not liking or believing her, rather than just instantly ignoring her for no defined reason; I can't sympathise with her when it feels like they know they're acting in a play.
How do such things get produced? Did someone have a good idea that got spoilt as time went on? Did someone try to produce a common denominator film and divided by zero?
Buffy
Ooh. It comes in a very shiny woodlike box, with seven CD-box-sized inner boxes, with Buffy's photo across the spines.
I remember when I first saw it, I thought it was great. That was back before I was into much pop culture or fantasy, and a bit younger, I guess... Now I see it all in terms of later series, and knowing to expect monsters of the week, and it's just retro. But still very enjoyable.
Kitty and the Werewolf Hour
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446616419/002-7036357-9857620?v=glance&n=283155
I like Anita Blake. I like cross-canon assumptions that help place you. I suffer from accidental-plagarism-itis. But ye gods! As fun as this looks, who chooses to just rip off Anita Blake verbatim? The lingo, the premise, the character, the cover art, the title, all sound like they came straight from Anita Blake. Maybe Laurell K. Hamilton got fed up of people not liking her latest books and decided to start over. Actually, in that case, I think they'd be pretty good :)