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05 February 2012 @ 10:02 pm
"i don't wanna explode!"  
The Scotiabank theatre is showing a bunch of older movies in digital format for $6 apiece. I've been here long enough that this seems like a remarkably good deal; a month or so ago, a 4 PM showing of Tinker Tailor was $13 per ticket. Last night was Serenity, which we watched in the company of several folk from gaming. Good times, good company. Been awhile since I'd been out to dinner with a larger-than-small group.

The movie... doesn't hold up as well as it might. Bits of it feel blatantly manipulative, Inara and Kaylee are ciphers, and they didn't give Zoe nearly enough to do. (So it's pretty much The Mal And River Show, with Simon along for plot and Jayne and Wash for different kinds of comic relief.) The plot's perfectly fine at least, though I wonder how lost you'd be if you didn't know the series.

Today has been a wash. Plans included: finishing this story, plot noodling for another, and writing ALL the email. Instead I wrote some (though not all) of the emails, poked at the story, lazed around on the internet and the Device. Meh. And realised that I'd forgotten I'd signed up to write a story this month. Exciting. Maybe it'll make up for this one being stalled out at what looks like ten feet from the finish line. bleh. Leaving it alone for awhile.

I disapprove of my lack of energy and motivation. I don't know what to do about it, either. And now it's the end of the weekend and back to work tomorrow.

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Queen of the Skies[info]queenoftheskies on February 6th, 2012 01:43 pm (UTC)
$6 each is a good deal for movies, even if they're older. There used to be several older theaters down in LA and Santa Monica that did that, but I haven't checked them out in ages.

Weekends go too fast, don't they?

Good luck with the writing!
Tucker[info]jazzfish on February 7th, 2012 06:51 am (UTC)
I still have memories of 75c nights at the local second-run in B'burg... nearly a decade ago now. Somehow the price of real movies has fixed in my head at $7.50, which won't get you in much of anywhere any more.

Thanks. Here's hoping.
chalk revelations[info]zaph on February 7th, 2012 01:58 am (UTC)
I saw the movie first and thought it was pretty good. But I think the problem is that taking a complex, character-driven ensemble TV series and turning it into a plot-driven action movie requires some significant and unfortunate sacrifices.

And oddly, the movie made less sense to me once I'd seen the series, mostly because the River backstory completely contradicted pretty much everything from the show, though I obviously didn't realise that the first time I saw it.

also:

[talk about Serenity]
Today has been a wash.

really? REALLY? :)
Tucker[info]jazzfish on February 7th, 2012 06:54 am (UTC)
Hm, okay, that's three votes for "saw it first and it was fine," so, cool! I sometimes wonder if the problem was that the ensemble cast was too large: Leverage has five characters, and you get to know them well enough to be interesting and then there's a bunch of awesome stuff happening that the neat character bits make more awesome. Eh. Too late now, in any case.

Contradicted? I guess... it's been long enough since I've seen the show that it felt more like 'fleshed out.'

And, I didn't even notice I'd said that until this morning. Then I figured I'd leave it in, see if anyone else did. :)
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