guess what I picked up at one buck wednesday this afternoon? can't guess? it involves swedenborgs, girls, and tattoos. need any more clues?
either way, watching it friday night at the neighbourhood wifefest. yeee haw!
quel excitement! Seriously tho, the fillum gets an 8/10 from me. The book gets a 9. You'll love both, but it'll be inneresting to get your impression watching the fillum first. If it differs to the book readers impressions and all.
ps. One thing I'm concerned about is the high level of graphic violence (in a couple of scenes) in the fillum for your girls night. I've got my aunty's fussing hat on, I know, but you've never reviewed really violent fillums, so i'm just saying. Having read the book, I could tell where the ugly stuff was coming up and I left the room.
ta bettles. worrying about my sensibilities and those of the hausfraus - but I think we'll be alright. we plow through plenty of blud in our viewings. it's pretty much neither here nor there in a reactionary sense. if it's elemental to the story it doesn't really register. only registers as incongruous if it's .... well, incongruous :D
speaking of subtitles, I bought a PG sci fi flick home for #1 the other day, complete with same. told him he needs to learn the graceful art of reading and watching simultaneously if he's to enjoy the wealth of filmage originating outside that small town in california. ie, the rest of the world. he'd been loathe to take up the challenge, but noted "when you put it like that ...". it was the carrot of all that untapped sci fi, you see. he's a glorious geek, my son :D
so anyway, we'll see how that goes over the holidays. I mean to say, we were force-fed subtitled flicks in our youth, so they can be too :p. hated it at the time, naturally. worse than reading chaucer at 14, when your mates were reading books about cute surfers and pashing.
you'd better get cracking on the book, then.
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ReplyDeleteSeriously tho, the fillum gets an 8/10 from me.
The book gets a 9.
You'll love both, but it'll be inneresting to get your impression watching the fillum first. If it differs to the book readers impressions and all.
ps. One thing I'm concerned about is the high level of graphic violence (in a couple of scenes) in the fillum for your girls night.
ReplyDeleteI've got my aunty's fussing hat on, I know, but you've never reviewed really violent fillums, so i'm just saying.
Having read the book, I could tell where the ugly stuff was coming up and I left the room.
ta bettles. worrying about my sensibilities and those of the hausfraus - but I think we'll be alright. we plow through plenty of blud in our viewings. it's pretty much neither here nor there in a reactionary sense. if it's elemental to the story it doesn't really register. only registers as incongruous if it's .... well, incongruous :D
ReplyDeletewell, it's not mindless, and it is part of the essence of it all, but I still watched with closed eyes.
ReplyDeletespeaking of subtitles, I bought a PG sci fi flick home for #1 the other day, complete with same. told him he needs to learn the graceful art of reading and watching simultaneously if he's to enjoy the wealth of filmage originating outside that small town in california. ie, the rest of the world. he'd been loathe to take up the challenge, but noted "when you put it like that ...". it was the carrot of all that untapped sci fi, you see. he's a glorious geek, my son :D
ReplyDeleteso anyway, we'll see how that goes over the holidays. I mean to say, we were force-fed subtitled flicks in our youth, so they can be too :p. hated it at the time, naturally. worse than reading chaucer at 14, when your mates were reading books about cute surfers and pashing.