Netflix!

[alixtii]

My brother and I have been, since Christmas, sharng a Netflix account.

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Battlestar Galactica (The Miniseries, and Season 1 Disc 1)

Very slow-paced, and alternating between bits which are extremely will-to-powery (Roslin!) and those which aren't. Mostly, I've spent most of the time lusting after Specialist Cally. I mean, seriously.



Will definitely keep watching, if only for Specialist Cally. ETA: And BSG is totally Harry Potter in space.

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Big Love (Season 1 Disc 1)

It's like a freaky Veronica Mars AU. Not really my thing, although of course Tina Majorino is teh awesome, but there's enough to keep me interested.

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Arrested Developement (Season 1 Discs 1+2)

A wonderful tale about a boy in love with his cousin. Wait, what do you mean there are other plotlines?

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The DaVinci Code

Better movie than for which it seemed to be given credit. Audrey Tatou's and Ian McKellan's performances were of course excellent. Taking anything out of a Dan Brown novel seriously is a little silly, but I respect the intent. The foolishness from Holy Blood, Holy Grail--which in the novel never struck me as anything more than a convenient McGuffin--was certainly taken far too seriously. And the vibes of anti-Catholicism I never got from the book did suddenly seem to be present. Still, I mostly liked it.

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Over the Hedge

William Shatner and Avril Lavigne make the most adorablest father/daughter pair ever. Maybe even more than Keith/Veronica.

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

About DaVinci Code: I'm not even a *Catholic* and the book bugged the hell out of me not only for its amazing ineptitude but for its crude anti-Catholicism. I thought my Firefly version was pretty cool though.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

And you see, I never got that from the book. I got an anti-conservative Catholicism vibe from it, but I could get on board there--perhaps because in the previous book the Pope had been established to be a good guy? But in the movie the distinction, while not completely lost, was far too subtle, and ended up IMHO painting the RCC as if everyone from Benedict XVI to Leonardo Boff were indicted in the same conspiracy.

Not to mention there were other aspects of the book-to-movie transition which bugged me, but I can't remember offhand what they were. The book simply seemed to be going "What if Holy Blood, Holy Grail were true?" and using that as a basis for a rather by-the-book murder/thriller (then again, we're talking about Dan Brown here, so formulae are pretty much the order of the day) at a fifth grade reading level. Only with the movie did I get the feeling that we were expected to treat the "history" as true--and I blame Howard, not Brown, for that one.

Which isn't to say I don't blame Brown for the book's many other sins--which mostly consist of not being as good as some truly great novels of a similar type out there.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I like a trashy page-turner as much as the next person, but I just thought The DaVinci Code displayed astonishing ineptitude in every possible way.

There might be an interesting crossover between Holy Blood Holy Grail and French Women Don't Get Fat, though...the Mediterranean Consecrated Wine Diet?