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Books Read June

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 03:29pm on 30/06/2013 under ,
Posted a bit early, I might squeeze another DVD onto my retinas before the month is out.

Books read (24-33)
A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge (2012)
Cerebus, the first 12 phone book collections, issues 1-231, which I am arbitrarily counting as 9 books. Re-reads except the last two. Four more to go to finish the story.

Films watched (51-64) 8 at the cinema, 6 DVD
Peak
Talk To Her (rewatch)
Much Ado About Nothing
Apocalypse Now
Piercing Brightness
Man of Steel
Primer (rewatch from several years ago)
Alien (rewatch)
Predator (rewatch) (The Prince Charles cinema, for your 80s nostalgia needs)
Primer (rewatch from a few days ago)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (rewatch)
Airplane! (rewatch)
Pushing Tin
Despicable Me 2

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (13-13)
Alien (amateur, Leicester Square theatre)
Still no gigs!

Books incoming 2 (1 loan, 1 purchase, read 14/19)

Good: Apocalypse Now, Much Ado About Nothing
Interesting: Piercing Brightness
Disappointing: Man of Steel
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posted by [identity profile] stevegreen.livejournal.com at 02:18am on 01/07/2013
I rather enjoyed Man of Steel. What did you find lacking, B.?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:23pm on 01/07/2013
I was never a big Superman fan, and don't need to see yet another origin story... Really it was the big battle, after half the city has been destroyed (and he's saved the other half) they proceed to destroy loads more as-yet-untouched massive glass buildings, as if he's never heard of collateral damage. Yay, Superman, thanks for saving us! Mind where you throw the villain next time, eh? Even taking the battle out into space didn't keep items safe.

Hmm, you suppose he's a bit more of a morally ambivalent Superman than the Boy Scouts we're used to? The dads tried to pass things along to him but they both had morally questionable positions.
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posted by [identity profile] stevegreen.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 01/07/2013
[chuckle]

Yes, it was a little like saving a house from fire by blowing up the neighbouring dam. I was also a little puzzled by the scene where Kal kisses Lois: was that some massive car park in the centre of Metropolis? If so, where were the cars?
Edited Date: 2013-07-01 10:10 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] stevegreen.livejournal.com at 10:16pm on 01/07/2013
In retrospect, this Jor-El is closer to the Smallville reboot than the 1970s version, assuming his son will eventually rise to a kind of benevolent dictatorship (cf. Miracle Man).
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