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Mar. 24th, 2006 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onemuseleftSaw V for Vendetta with Barbara today. Very, very impressed. That was fantastic. I spent the entire movie staring at the screen, waiting to see what happened next, and I'd already read the comic. I'm going to see it again with James and Amanda next week.
Also, who knew Natalie Portman could act? Holy crap, she's good! Damn that George Lucas for deceiving us all!
Of course, the fact that they showed the Silent Hill trailer beforehand made the $5.50 tickets worth it. The trailer looks fantastic. I've picked out bits and pieces of what looks like the first and third game (also - Pyramid Head! Holy fuck!) and while they changed things, I think that's a good thing. It's like an AU! And we all know Kelly looooooves AUs.
We were joking around at the bookstore today about how most of the new releases coming out this year are utter crap and/or totally insignificant. I pointed out that the publishing houses were probably just all in fear of the Da Vinci Code which is coming out in paperback this month (thank GOD because I've spent more than three years telling people "yes, I know it's out in paperback in England, but does this look like England to you?" and slowly coming to curse the name of Random House) and so were saving their good stuff for next year. Which, from a marketting standpoint, isn't the best idea, but anyway. Lucy pointed out that even the romance novels were largely crap (I bit my tongue) and surely the romance novels weren't competing with the Da Vinci Code? Barbara pointed out that there are all those knock-offs, like The Last Templar and The Last Supper, but Lucy shot back that Vatican conspiracies weren't really the thing of romance novels, and that no knocl-offs had really appeared in the romance section.
So I had to open my big mouth.
"You could totally do that, though," I pointed out as I waited for my Panera-fresh bagel to finish browning in the toaster oven (we were all in the break room). "I mean, it wouldn't even be hard. A young novice about to take her vows stumbles upon a secret meeting, discovers a disconcerting truth and finds herself fleeing from the Church she had been prepared to swear her life to. Her only ally is Christopher - a half-vampire seminary student who joined the priesthood to try and erase the taint of his father's blood. Together they uncover the dark secret the Vatican has been hiding for two thousand years, blahblahblah, monkey sex."
Barbie and Barbara start cracking up and Ollie's shaking her head, but Lucy just asks: "What's the dark secret?"
Me: "Jesus was a vampire." *butters bagel*
Lucy: "A vampire?"
Me: "Half-vampire, half-werewolf. Wine is blood, body is bread right? Totally a vampire/werewolf halfblood."
So now they've challenged me to write it and submit it somewhere. I can't imagine any publisher in the world that'd print that pile of crap. Also, I may have officially doomed myself to hell.
Also, who knew Natalie Portman could act? Holy crap, she's good! Damn that George Lucas for deceiving us all!
Of course, the fact that they showed the Silent Hill trailer beforehand made the $5.50 tickets worth it. The trailer looks fantastic. I've picked out bits and pieces of what looks like the first and third game (also - Pyramid Head! Holy fuck!) and while they changed things, I think that's a good thing. It's like an AU! And we all know Kelly looooooves AUs.
We were joking around at the bookstore today about how most of the new releases coming out this year are utter crap and/or totally insignificant. I pointed out that the publishing houses were probably just all in fear of the Da Vinci Code which is coming out in paperback this month (thank GOD because I've spent more than three years telling people "yes, I know it's out in paperback in England, but does this look like England to you?" and slowly coming to curse the name of Random House) and so were saving their good stuff for next year. Which, from a marketting standpoint, isn't the best idea, but anyway. Lucy pointed out that even the romance novels were largely crap (I bit my tongue) and surely the romance novels weren't competing with the Da Vinci Code? Barbara pointed out that there are all those knock-offs, like The Last Templar and The Last Supper, but Lucy shot back that Vatican conspiracies weren't really the thing of romance novels, and that no knocl-offs had really appeared in the romance section.
So I had to open my big mouth.
"You could totally do that, though," I pointed out as I waited for my Panera-fresh bagel to finish browning in the toaster oven (we were all in the break room). "I mean, it wouldn't even be hard. A young novice about to take her vows stumbles upon a secret meeting, discovers a disconcerting truth and finds herself fleeing from the Church she had been prepared to swear her life to. Her only ally is Christopher - a half-vampire seminary student who joined the priesthood to try and erase the taint of his father's blood. Together they uncover the dark secret the Vatican has been hiding for two thousand years, blahblahblah, monkey sex."
Barbie and Barbara start cracking up and Ollie's shaking her head, but Lucy just asks: "What's the dark secret?"
Me: "Jesus was a vampire." *butters bagel*
Lucy: "A vampire?"
Me: "Half-vampire, half-werewolf. Wine is blood, body is bread right? Totally a vampire/werewolf halfblood."
So now they've challenged me to write it and submit it somewhere. I can't imagine any publisher in the world that'd print that pile of crap. Also, I may have officially doomed myself to hell.
