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May. 14th, 2009 01:47 pmOMG SHOW IS ON TONIGHT OMG
*takes deep breaths*
Ahem, I thought I'd post now because I'm watching Show at FGC and I may not get a chance to do so afterwards. Though I may take over one of their computers and do so regardless. After all, how am I supposed to decompress without fandom to help me? ;-)
FYI The Last King of Scotland is not as good as everyone said it was. Yes, Forest Whittaker's performance was spectacular, he made you understand how people could believe in and follow Idi Amin, but the structure of the movie bothered me. The POV character is played by James McAvoy, who I love, but the character left me cold. It was like the filmakers felt that they had to use a white character to tell the story or else audiences wouldn't take it seriously so they created this generic wastrel-type who I guess we were supposed to root for? There were any number of other stories I would have loved to have seen rather than that jackass's. The movie did hang a hat on the conceit a couple times in an effory to show how ridiculous it was to have a man from Scotland telling us about Uganda but it was still deeply troubling.
I don't know. I just had a meh reaction all around. Though it is always nice to see Gillian Anderson and David Oyelowo being awesome. Because they are.
And, finally, a thought about SPN and taking sides. ( Spoilers through 4x21 )
All right, here we go. *braces self for finale*
*takes deep breaths*
Ahem, I thought I'd post now because I'm watching Show at FGC and I may not get a chance to do so afterwards. Though I may take over one of their computers and do so regardless. After all, how am I supposed to decompress without fandom to help me? ;-)
FYI The Last King of Scotland is not as good as everyone said it was. Yes, Forest Whittaker's performance was spectacular, he made you understand how people could believe in and follow Idi Amin, but the structure of the movie bothered me. The POV character is played by James McAvoy, who I love, but the character left me cold. It was like the filmakers felt that they had to use a white character to tell the story or else audiences wouldn't take it seriously so they created this generic wastrel-type who I guess we were supposed to root for? There were any number of other stories I would have loved to have seen rather than that jackass's. The movie did hang a hat on the conceit a couple times in an effory to show how ridiculous it was to have a man from Scotland telling us about Uganda but it was still deeply troubling.
I don't know. I just had a meh reaction all around. Though it is always nice to see Gillian Anderson and David Oyelowo being awesome. Because they are.
And, finally, a thought about SPN and taking sides. ( Spoilers through 4x21 )
All right, here we go. *braces self for finale*
