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[beccaelizabeth]

Dog Soldiers: Very very good. Example of why it's scarier when the good guys do everything right. Total boys time adventure, cheap shot about the time of the month and bitch thing, but the last bad guy standing, the focus bad guy, he weren't about that at all, so that's... better than it might have been. Also, lots and lots of messy violence. Guts and gore and decapitation.
*happy grin*
... my sense of humour needs some work...
Although, calling that character "Spoon" really paid off. I honestly didn't see the funny coming, incredibly obvious though it were after. But that was bloody hilarious.
As was the football thing.


Then I watched Merlin.
... yeah, no. Why do I do that? It's just... no.



I want to write Dog Soldiers. Only better. Plus my thing isn't isolated confined spaces miles away from anyone, it's being isolated and confined *inches* away from everyone, but things going horribly wrong anyway. It's just much more depressing.

So while I was watching I saw in my head a scene from a vampire thing I keep meaning to write, which starts with vampires = domestic violence, bad boyfriend, that stuff. Standing in the window smiling and waving while you know exactly what's going to happen, because you know if the others find out it'll be worse. Scary.
In my head the main character now looks like Laura Fraser, who was in Neverwhere and Casanova and a bunch of other things. And now scenes are just kind of stacking up wanting me to write them. Which is awkward because I don't have a beginning or an end for it, just this intense dark stuff in the middle.
Hopefully it'll file until it's an actual story.

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[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Wait. So was the Merlin episode awful, or the series in general?

[beccaelizabeth]

The Merlin episode is already fading into background static. There was evil magic and a girl. Again. And I just can't find anything in the series interesting enough to keep watching.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I haven't found the boy/girl ratio of villains to be all that bad. The oneshot villains have been 2:2, and the remaing three episodes have either recurring female villain or a magical beast. I balance out Nimueh's two appearances with Uther's blindness almost sabotaging his own kingdom multiple times throughout the series.

[beccaelizabeth]

Uther as recurring bad guy is obvious now you've pointed it out yet somehow I wasn't including him in the maths. *facepalm*

[mcamason.livejournal.com]

SO glad you enjoyed Dog Soldiers; I was one of the ones to rec that one. I like a good bit of post-modernism in my black comedy. And whatsishead (was it Spoon?) bellowing about "It's the Kobyashi Maru! They don't expect us to win!" was wonderful. As was the setup/knockdown with Witherspoon's name.

I've been fond of Kevin McKidd since he was in an American sci-fi series called "Journeyman" (understated but nice: very good character piece: check it out if you have the chance) and Sean Pertwee is always good.

Another film that DS borrowed heavily from for dialogue that would make the audience giggle was Aliens, though DS had a much more competent command structure. The callbacks weren't jarring: they were just the exact things you would say in those exact same circumstances.

FASCINATING point about them still being kinda screwed even though they do everything right: it was an element of the movie I'd felt before but didn't actually THINK about: I just knew there was no one there I wanted to slap other than the SS-wannabee SAS captain. And since he was a plain asshole, well, allright then.

I did shriek in fear and laugh myself silly at the "unexpected cow" moment.

Good movie, good good movie.

Your thoughts on the isolation aspect of it makes me wonder if Liz on the S'cubie board has seen this flick, and if she'd be interested in it.

[mcamason.livejournal.com]

Also: the superglue scene in Dog Soldiers gets a passing mention in the latest Dresden Files book: Ms. Gard references the movie; not directly by name, but recognizably by characteristics.

[beccaelizabeth]

yep, intertextuality win. and extra geek points.
Haven't seen Journeyman, have read a Torchwood xover that made me want to.

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

Dog Soldiers is quite an accurate portrayal of the British Army or so I am told. As is 28 days later.

I love British Film some times.

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[beccaelizabeth]

Dog Soldiers had a sort of ring of truth.
Well, it had a lot of swearing and some guns, so, *shrugs* ;)

I love British Film in ways I usually don't consciously notice when I'm watching US films. It's like I can relax and get more out of a British film. I know there's levels of meaning I'm not getting in a US film. Like which are the expensive brands of things or what the different accents connote to locals. I know those things about Brit films. Plus the attitudes more often fit.

[beccaelizabeth]

have now watched 28 Days Later.
... accurate? Unflattering.

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

Apparently quite accurate to some regiments.

Worrying but true.

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