October 27, 2004

Laputa

Heh heh. Cussing in Spanish.

Watched the rest of Firefly. It got a LOT better, especially once I got into the characters. By the end I was sad to see it go - one movie won't be enough to adequately wrap up all the loose ends. Favourite character: Jayne. I never really liked Adam Baldwin before (he's not one of the Brothers, is he?) but he was great here.

Next up is Hayao Miyazaki's early film Laputa: Castle In The Sky. Then I plan to O.D. on Cassavetes.

Been reading The Thin Man by Dashiel Hammett. Great stuff. There's a whole string of Thin Man movies, which I am super-keen to see if they're even half as witty as this book, which is now over seventy years old. Next up is another crime yarn, probably by James Ellroy or Sara Paretsky depending how I feel.

"Someone gimme a straight cigarette." - Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels

Posted by pearce at October 27, 2004 4:19 PM
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Jayne is my favourite character as well. Adam Baldwin had never registered with me before, except now I realise he was also in Full Metal Jacket. It was good to see him in a lead role where he was actually able to show off a bit.

Posted by: davidr at October 27, 2004 4:15 PM

For the record, I liked Firefly, but I didn't loooove Firefly, until the end, like you - because it is just a bunch of very standard scifi tv stories, in the end. The good - and it is so so *very* good - is in the characters.

Posted by: morgue at October 27, 2004 8:38 PM

I found it interesting how the last episode (Objects In Space) turned from being somewhat tense to sheer horror just with five words of dialogue, when Early is talking to Kaylee. Truly chilling.

Posted by: Pearce at October 28, 2004 8:16 AM