{ you'll be calling but I won't be at the phone. }

[delga]

I have co-opted my Sunday for myself; let's see how long that lasts. Yesterday I sorted out a lot of paperwork that needed doing, then spent a few hours in the evening at Baby Cousin's whilst her parents went out. We played Musical Statues which consisted of me occasionally hitting mute on the TV and her laughing as I caught her moving. lolsome times.

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Here, have some links:

01. Promo picture for X-Men Origins: Wolverine
This actually makes me laugh a lot (I'm pretty certain that Logan's claws aren't half the length of his arm), but I'm also pretty psyched for it. SHUT UP OKAY. Plus: trailer's officially out now. I am basically waiting for this film to smack me around, but I doubt anything can be as terrible as X3. OR CAN IT? (Lols. I don't know what it is: I never got into the comic adaptations - I hate Spiderman and I've yet to see Batman - but I've always had a soft spot for X-Men in all its permutations. Plus: am ridic excited for Watchmen and everything I know about that I learned from raeyashi. lols.)

02. Site/trailer for 500 Days of Summer
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. With thanks to sendero_oculto for reminding me about this film. I feel like this film - much like Rachel Getting Married - is something I'll never get the chance to see, despite being terribly excited for it.

03. Lykke Li performs I'm Good, I'm Gone for The Black Cab Sessions
I have recently taken a great liking to Lykke Li's album. I first heard her on one of the podcasts I'm subscribed to, and though I starred that song (Little Bit), I found that I wasn't all that interested in the rest of her stuff. Until I heard her perform Dance, Dance, Dance with Bon Iver and I heard her do a live set of her tracks for another podcast. Suddenly I couldn't get Dance, Dance, Dance out of my head, so I bought the album. The album has a high production value which really works for it, but the way the live sessions are pared down is amazing. I love that Black Cab Session; lots of hand claps. Hearts.

04. Coraline (trailer)
Based on the book by Neil Gaiman; I heard about this book when I was in secondary school but I never read it. My perception of the plot has been completely altered by this trailer. I don't know if that's because the tone of the trailer is very "wheee kids' film!" or if the plot really isn't all that sinister, but either way: not what I thought it was about. (Also: Co-ra-line not Co-ra-leen? Really?)

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I watched Battlestar Galactica yesterday, and I do not have too much to say about it other than I felt an immeasurable amount of relief watching it again, which is possibly a very strange reaction to have, but for a while there I was of the mind they'd never air the second half of the season. I liked the episode. That's all I want to say until we get the next episode.

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Thus endeth this terribly informative post.

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edit: So a couple of nights ago I changed my tags because I was bored. I was going to change them back yesterday but I haven't gotten around to it just yet, and anyway, my inner adolescent still finds them incredibly amusing. True story: I have lost a tag, specifically, 'movies.' Goshdarn.

edit2: Oh, wait: found it. Phew!

Comments

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

I'm ridiculously excited about Wolverine, despite my lack of love for the X-Men franchise in general. I still have a vague, unfounded suspicion of Taylor Kitsch (Gambit), though. Can't wait to see Liev Schrieber playing Sabertooth, though.

The only thing I am more ridiculously excited about, of course, is Watchmen.

(I opened up my issue of SFX the other day, and it had a calendar of major releases. I kind of went: Watchmen comes out THAT SOON? Oh my gosh!).

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Having seen Taylor Kitsch in Friday Night Lights, I don't doubt he's got the skillz to pull this off, but I also worry that the script is all that great, so. Idk whether the character (oh gosh Remy) will be a downfall because of the plot, the person or both, or neither and actually be really great. Either way: WHOOOOOOOP! <-- excited.

Haha, you're the complete opposite of me. The X-Men franchise is the one that I vaguely follow, whilst the rest of it sort of passes me by in whirl. (Weirdness: my school had every kind of geek and yet no-one I knew ever read a comic. Wtf? I feel poorly educated, yo.)

Watchmen looks so insanely good. I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of it before the film comes out, but it's proving a little different difficult*. I'm going to have to go and see it by myself but I DON'T CARE; PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR.

*) sometimes I think there is an entity inside me trying to send me messages through the words that I actually type (as opposed to the ones that I meant to type). True story.

[hibernate.livejournal.com]

Well, the plot in Coraline really isn't all that sinister. I though it was scary, but that's because I'm a wimp. I actually think the trailer looks nice. Unlike trailers for Wolverine, which mostly just look stupid. After X3, they're going to have to do A LOT to win my love back.

Lykke Li = <3

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Taylor Kitsch in anything, so I am naturally one of the many dubious fans making unfounded judgements about him. But yeah. I was talking to somebody yesterday about how difficult it is to adapt cartoon/anime characters to screen, and I imagine it's the same with comic books - it's really, really difficult to find somebody who looks the part, and with cartoons/anime, it's also difficult to find somebody who looks the part and sounds the part. (Why yes, I was expressing my upset over the live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop!).

I don't really follow any of the franchises - I've never read the comic books for any of these big DC and Marvel movies (well, I've read some Batman), because the sheer size of the back catalogue is unnerving.

Watchmen is going to be the movie of the year, for me. I'm probably going to have to go and see it by myself, as well. I STILL DON'T CARE. WATCHMEN.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of talk about this going on right now, I think for Avatar? I think adaptations must be pricklier for visual-word based texts than it is for novels because to an extent there's an actual image to which the casting has to live up to. I remember that my first response to the Kitsch casting was: he's not tall enough. This is a stupid reaction to have because the height is not exactly an important feature of the character. I do worry a bit about his age. But. Whatever. I've decided that so long as the film delivers as an action caper (so, if it doesn't deal with the 'canon' very well), I can live with it. That's why X3 failed: because it didn't make sense inside its own, self-contained narrative. Stabby.

There's a lot of history right there. The only graphic novel I've ever read, though, is Art Spiegelman's Maus, and that's wildly outside the genre. So sometimes I feel a little fraudulent commenting on this stuff.

Seriously: I have put money aside for the ticket and the bus fare. I AM GOING TO SEE THIS FILM.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I think my perception of the plot is skewered massively by the fact that I was 14 when I heard about it? And someone younger than me was talking about it. The trailer looks delightful and I'm hoping for an excuse to go and see it (hopefully a younger cousin will stay at mine for the holidays; that's how I managed to see City of Ember).

I love the trailer for Wolverine, lols. As I said in one of the comments above, I will be happy with the film as long as it delivers as an action caper (so if the actual plot is rubbish, I probably won't care). My biggest issue with X3 was that the story didn't make any sense in its own narrative, ffs, and the action stuff was all bs too. <-- insert rage here.

Lykke Li is triff. Hearts!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Wolverine's muscles scare me. Or actually, the veins. *shudder*

I don't like the Coraline trailer. I've read the book in high school, and I didn't picture it like that at all. Too much colour and too weheeeee-adventure. Also, I er, kind of hate the animation style? Yak. (Coraleen? Really? Why?)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Add those to those super-long claws, I'm laughing/crying. Idk. This film is going to kill braincells, this I am aware.

I thought it was about a girl who was trying to escape abusive parents but this is something else entirely? Idk. I like stop-animation, so this appeals. It just threw me a little because, lols, I had no idea what it was about. (lols, I have no idea. It should be line, I guess, because it's a play on Caroline, but as Cora inverts the vowel signs... I don't know. Apparently I just switched the last vowel sound, too.)

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Stop-animation, I think, somehow manages to overload my senses or something, which is mostly why I dislike it. *shrug*

Abusive? No. Coraline was actually all about "your parents aren't as bad as they seem even though they don't do fun stuff all the time, you little fools". Kind of sappy, to be honest.

[asemic.livejournal.com]

Plus: am ridic excited for Watchmen and everything I know about that I learned from raeyashi

:pumps fist: It is really and truly a fantastic graphic novel. It's a lovely deconstruction of the entire superhero genre and I have a feeling that Zach Snyder is going to be entirely faithful to the source material. I do hope that you'll be able to get your hands on the graphic novel sometime before the film comes out.

The Wolverine film has me so excited. I love Deadpool, love him with all my heart and I know that Ryan Reynolds is going to be so good in the role.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I realised from the trailer, lols. Which is why I was sort of scratching my head because my version of events was so totally inverse to that!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Seriously: before you started talking about it, I didn't even know what it was. And now I would rather like to get my hands on it RIGHT NOW PLS. Am talking to a friend of a friend about it, so, fingers crossed!

Three (somewhat embarrassing) reasons why I am looking forward to Wolverine:
1) I kind of LOVE the X-Men franchise? Like. A ridiculous amount. (& yet it still manages to throw me by sprouting new characters who I've never heard of);
2) Deadpool! Gambit! SABRETOOTH. !
3) I have an inexplicable fascination with Liev Schreiber, ffs.

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

I'm psyched for the Wolverine movie too. It has Liev Schreiber AND Deadpool. How can you go wrong? ♥

Shaddup, I'm loving my delusion. God, I hope it's not as bad as X-3.

[natushka.livejournal.com]

BSG. OMFG. *FLAIL*

this is all.

[asemic.livejournal.com]

My god. I never thought people actually pay attention to my pimping posts! So, I'm glad you are getting so pumped over this.

And I don't mind the X-Men franchise. They gave me the second film which was one hell of a movie. Also, I agree with the Liev Schreiber thing, mostly because he is a young Orson Welles. And I love everything Orson, so there you go.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY.

re: font=small, DITTO.

Your icon makes me irrationally happy.