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yuletide, movies, and last post of '09
I know this is extremely belated, but life has been crazy this break! Crazier than school generally is, and that's saying something.
First and most importantly, I got an amazing yuletide fic! It's for Robin McKinley's Sunshine, and it's wonderful and gorgeous and true to the book and I love it to the power of a million. <3. A Precious Seeing, still by Anonymous in my timezone!
Secondly, SHERLOCK HOLMES. I know there's a lot of fandom controversy on this one, but good lord I loved it. I thought it true to the essence and spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while still managing to be its own thing, which is hard to do and always awesome when done right. See Star Trek 2009 for more proof. :) Robert Downey Jr. was brilliant--about ten minutes into the movie I wanted nothing more than to take him home, wrap him in a blanket and feed him soup while I tell him that I love him over and over again, right before checking him into rehab. His Sherlock was flashier than the traditional version--but he was awkward and fumbling and an asshole and a cocaine addict and pathetically, achingly in love, and oh my god, I loved him. RDJ has a talent for portraying "painfully in love but clueless about what to do about it"--Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man prove that--and his Holmes is no exception. Good lord, I loved him.
Beyond that, Jude Law rocked that moustache like there was no tomorrow. It shouldn't have been attractive, and yet it really, really was. I loved that his Watson wasn't an idiot, either--but someone genuinely sharp and intuitive in his own right, even if he isn't a Sherlock. The two women characters were brilliant as well, I thought--I was expecting to dislike Adler as an Elizabeth-Swann-inexplicably-and-randomly-badass-for-the-sake-of-titillation-type, but she totally won me over. And Mary won my heart pretty early on. See it, and you'll see why.
Posts to follow on the two other movies I saw this break: Avatar: a shocking thumbs down, and The Princess and the Frog, an even more startling thumbs up. :)
Happy new year, everyone. May 2010 be better than 2009!
First and most importantly, I got an amazing yuletide fic! It's for Robin McKinley's Sunshine, and it's wonderful and gorgeous and true to the book and I love it to the power of a million. <3. A Precious Seeing, still by Anonymous in my timezone!
Secondly, SHERLOCK HOLMES. I know there's a lot of fandom controversy on this one, but good lord I loved it. I thought it true to the essence and spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while still managing to be its own thing, which is hard to do and always awesome when done right. See Star Trek 2009 for more proof. :) Robert Downey Jr. was brilliant--about ten minutes into the movie I wanted nothing more than to take him home, wrap him in a blanket and feed him soup while I tell him that I love him over and over again, right before checking him into rehab. His Sherlock was flashier than the traditional version--but he was awkward and fumbling and an asshole and a cocaine addict and pathetically, achingly in love, and oh my god, I loved him. RDJ has a talent for portraying "painfully in love but clueless about what to do about it"--Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man prove that--and his Holmes is no exception. Good lord, I loved him.
Beyond that, Jude Law rocked that moustache like there was no tomorrow. It shouldn't have been attractive, and yet it really, really was. I loved that his Watson wasn't an idiot, either--but someone genuinely sharp and intuitive in his own right, even if he isn't a Sherlock. The two women characters were brilliant as well, I thought--I was expecting to dislike Adler as an Elizabeth-Swann-inexplicably-and-randomly-badass-for-the-sake-of-titillation-type, but she totally won me over. And Mary won my heart pretty early on. See it, and you'll see why.
Posts to follow on the two other movies I saw this break: Avatar: a shocking thumbs down, and The Princess and the Frog, an even more startling thumbs up. :)
Happy new year, everyone. May 2010 be better than 2009!