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Oct. 21st, 2007 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroFinally saw The Prestige today. Loved it, even though I figured out the bit with the twins (that one was supposed to be obvious, right?). Completely failed to catch on that Tesla was played by David Bowie until the closing credits. Bad fangirl!
I forgot to mention that a few weeks ago I finally got my hands on Pan's Labyrinth, which was every bit as wonderful and beautiful as I'd expected. I'd read so much about how violent and gory it was, that I'd been afraid I might not be able to watch it, but there was nothing that was troublesome. I might even get my own copy at some point.
About the same time as that, I saw Volver, another film I had desperately wanted to see in the cinema but hadn't got to. I'm now kind of glad I didn't, because it was something of a disappointment.
Best thing I've seen on DVD lately wasn't a film, but a BBC mini-series - Messiah 1 with Ken Stott as a detective trying to solve a particularly gruesome series of murders. I caught Messiah 3 and 4 when they were on TV, and both of them were very good, but not a patch on the first one. It was edge-of-your-seat stuff from the beginning to the end.
Speaking of TV, what happened to the new series of Rebus? It was interrupted for the Rugby on Friday and isn't listed for the coming Friday either, but there's supposed to be two episodes left.
While I'm on the subject, has anybody else noticed that the theme to Desperate Housewives sounds an awful lot like the theme to The Simpsons?
I forgot to mention that a few weeks ago I finally got my hands on Pan's Labyrinth, which was every bit as wonderful and beautiful as I'd expected. I'd read so much about how violent and gory it was, that I'd been afraid I might not be able to watch it, but there was nothing that was troublesome. I might even get my own copy at some point.
About the same time as that, I saw Volver, another film I had desperately wanted to see in the cinema but hadn't got to. I'm now kind of glad I didn't, because it was something of a disappointment.
Best thing I've seen on DVD lately wasn't a film, but a BBC mini-series - Messiah 1 with Ken Stott as a detective trying to solve a particularly gruesome series of murders. I caught Messiah 3 and 4 when they were on TV, and both of them were very good, but not a patch on the first one. It was edge-of-your-seat stuff from the beginning to the end.
Speaking of TV, what happened to the new series of Rebus? It was interrupted for the Rugby on Friday and isn't listed for the coming Friday either, but there's supposed to be two episodes left.
While I'm on the subject, has anybody else noticed that the theme to Desperate Housewives sounds an awful lot like the theme to The Simpsons?
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Date: 2007-10-22 07:24 am (UTC)I loved Pan's Labyrinth, but cried like mad at the eding. It's odd; I find the ending of Betty Blue uplifting because she's finally free, whereas felt the ending of PL was a tragedy fo a poor mentally ill child, whereas Pete hates Betty Blue's ending because Betty is dead and Zorg's alone and thought the ending of Pan's Labyrinth has hope because the child may now be a princess.