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Oct. 11th, 2009 03:40 pmI'm lagging a bit in my LJ. I'm taking a vacation next week, and as anyone in the working world knows, if you do that, then a massive conspiracy arises to pile work on you that must be done before you leave. I stayed nearly two hours late on Friday, and I still didn't get it all done.
I also sprained my ankle, or foot, or something, on Wednesday night. I stepped into a (deep) hole in the mud that was slightly smaller than my foot. But I have crutches - one of my faculty members loaned them to me.
Continuing on my Jeremy Irons kick, I watched two movies last night and this morning. The first was The Color of Magic. That was great fun, and, I believe, true to the spirit of the book, even if a lot of stuff was left out. Irons was great, and Tim Curry and Sean Astin were even better. (I saw lots of LotR references with Sean, so the show must have been made after LotR.) I thought David Jason was too old to be Rincewind - I seem to remember Rincewind as being fairly youngish, but then, it's been a long time since I read the book - but he was good with the character.
The second movie was The Mission, which I hated. I'm not saying it wasn't a good movie. It was. In fact, it was excellent. But I'll never want to see it again, because I'm really not the kind of person who enjoys movies whose theme is, "Life sucks. Goodness, moral virtue, kindness, common sense, truth, and hard work don't stand a chance against political greed and armies." Jeremy Irons' character has a lovely quote - "If might is right, then love has no place in the world." That about sums up the movie's message. Totally sucketh, IMO. I'm not into downers. I already know that life is unfair. I don't need to spend two hours with the fact being rubbed in my face, and pay for the privilege besides.
I also sprained my ankle, or foot, or something, on Wednesday night. I stepped into a (deep) hole in the mud that was slightly smaller than my foot. But I have crutches - one of my faculty members loaned them to me.
Continuing on my Jeremy Irons kick, I watched two movies last night and this morning. The first was The Color of Magic. That was great fun, and, I believe, true to the spirit of the book, even if a lot of stuff was left out. Irons was great, and Tim Curry and Sean Astin were even better. (I saw lots of LotR references with Sean, so the show must have been made after LotR.) I thought David Jason was too old to be Rincewind - I seem to remember Rincewind as being fairly youngish, but then, it's been a long time since I read the book - but he was good with the character.
The second movie was The Mission, which I hated. I'm not saying it wasn't a good movie. It was. In fact, it was excellent. But I'll never want to see it again, because I'm really not the kind of person who enjoys movies whose theme is, "Life sucks. Goodness, moral virtue, kindness, common sense, truth, and hard work don't stand a chance against political greed and armies." Jeremy Irons' character has a lovely quote - "If might is right, then love has no place in the world." That about sums up the movie's message. Totally sucketh, IMO. I'm not into downers. I already know that life is unfair. I don't need to spend two hours with the fact being rubbed in my face, and pay for the privilege besides.