Unspoilerly comments on recently viewed movies:

Shutter island: Amazing breakdown of reality. Observe, modern day slasher movies, this is how slow, gruelling horror is done.

Apocalypse Now: I was utterly sure this was going to be one of those long, hard slog movies, but was pleasantly suprised by its beauty, quirkiness, visceral gut-wrenching and general all-around daring.

Blade Runner: This one, you just watch for the mind-blowing scenery. Harrison Ford ain't too hard on the eyes either.

Moon: Sam Rockwell, to me, has always been one of those amazing, low-key actors, like RDJ and Johnny Depp were before their respective rocket-ships blew them into superstardom. This only served to reinforce these assumptions and added Baby Bowie to my list of mancrushes. Clever, cerebral boys are clever, cerebral and very pretty.

Quills: Ooooh, the Marquis de Sade playing games with Joaquin Phoenix and Kate Winslet, what's not to like? Amazing. Geoffrey Rush gets to have a damn good time being the ultimate creep of history and making us love him while he's at it.

Zombieland: My love for Tallahassee cannot be textually rendered.

Eastern Promises: Holy fucking shit. I came out of this shipping Vincent Cassel and Viggo Mortensen so damn hard. Monica Bellucci can join in for threesome funtimes too. There is also a sequel in production. This makes me happy in my pants.


- And now, memery:

[stolen from egregiouslypink] these are my (fandom) ~confessions.

❀ everyone has dirty fandom secrets or guilty pleasures or unpopular opinions.
❀ list five of yours.
❀ get cries of OMG YOU TOO or WTF ARE YOU SMOKING
❀ profit.



- This may be obvious or not all that secret, but I find that what I consider to be the top echelon of fanfic far, far exceeds any kind of modern fiction in terms of astounding creativity, emotional resonance, technical skill and general pushing the bleeding edge of what can be done with the written word into amazing, mind-blowing territory that published fiction rarely, if ever, achieves.

Basically, to me, fandom is like the absinthe-serving Parisian café of this century, and I think it's one of the best, most dog-eat-dog environments for any aspiring writer to grow up in.

- I find it very hard to watch a show or movie with characters whom I find physically unattractive. NGL, I JUST NEED BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ON MY SCREEN.

- I like Firefly just as it is. Short season and movie and that's all folks. It's a little slice of gun-slinging, sci-fi perfection in an imperfect world. Yes, there are cracks and flaws around the edges, but it is my happy place and its shortness doesn't really make me keen or long for a time-machine and a Dogma-esque Loki to take back to the board of directors to change their minds.

- I dislike the whole concept of celebrity twitters played straight. I mean, anyone and everyone has the right to use twitter, but to have a twitter specifically to communicate straight to fans just fails to comprehend the usefulness and integral power of the mystique of celebrity. It's why Misha Collins' twitter works so well. It's practically performance art; another work to add to his formidable Renaissance Man resume.

- I really fucking loved the Xion dance rave scene in the Matrix Reloaded. o.O



In other news, I haven't yet seen the last two episodes of Supernatural, as I am secretly a horrible, terrible wimp, and also, I am using them as incentive to get through exams.

Also, my self-destructive macbook finally took the leap and committed suicide by way of killing dead its own motherboard. RIP, baby. I may have openly loathed hurled abuse at you periodically, but I really did love you. Which, on the bright side, means shiny new laptop soon! *throws Apple-addict flavoured confetti*