[film, TV] Banderas x 2, and TV
Monday, January 16th, 2012 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthThis weekend has been heavy on the visual culture, by which I mean film and TV.
Saturday we watched DVD of Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, which has a very Eighties aesthetic and a rather dodgy plot, unless you regard everything after the run-in with the drug dealers as a coma-dream.
Sunday afternoon we saw Puss in Boots, 3D version, at Cineworld. Excellent family entertainment (plenty of jokes for the adults in the audience, as well as visual humour for younger kids), and funny enough that I enjoyed it despite all the families in attendance :) Some especially swashbuckling scenes reminded me of taking Ramses to the vet ...
Sunday evening was Sherlock time.
1. The sequence where Moriarty got to the Crown Jewels, whilst simultaneously breaking into the Bank of Engand and Pentonville Prison -- all done via iPhone app, beautifully choreographed to Rossini's Thieving Magpie overture, and finishing with Moriarty in iconically regal pose ('who's queen?') -- wins my award for Best Soundtrack Ever. Almost makes me want to watch more TV. Almost.
2. Though Nina Simone's version of 'Sinnerman' was perfect for the next scenes.
3. Martin Freeman was excellent in this episode, especially right at the end. I liked the way this version brought out Holmes' cruelty to Watson, faking a death and letting his friend suffer.
4. Very different in tone and denouement to Guy Ritchie's A Game of Shadows, even though they are both riffing off the same original. This is what I mean when I say 'transformative work' and rave about the joys of fanfiction.
5. I wonder how many fanfics entitled 'A Handshake in Hell' (or some variation thereon) are being written right now?
edit to add6.If I'd been on that jury Moriarty would've had to think of something else (possibly playing me classical music and dressing up in someone else's jewellery): I always turn the personalised TV off as soon as I get into a hotel room.
Saturday we watched DVD of Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, which has a very Eighties aesthetic and a rather dodgy plot, unless you regard everything after the run-in with the drug dealers as a coma-dream.
Sunday afternoon we saw Puss in Boots, 3D version, at Cineworld. Excellent family entertainment (plenty of jokes for the adults in the audience, as well as visual humour for younger kids), and funny enough that I enjoyed it despite all the families in attendance :) Some especially swashbuckling scenes reminded me of taking Ramses to the vet ...
Sunday evening was Sherlock time.
1. The sequence where Moriarty got to the Crown Jewels, whilst simultaneously breaking into the Bank of Engand and Pentonville Prison -- all done via iPhone app, beautifully choreographed to Rossini's Thieving Magpie overture, and finishing with Moriarty in iconically regal pose ('who's queen?') -- wins my award for Best Soundtrack Ever. Almost makes me want to watch more TV. Almost.
2. Though Nina Simone's version of 'Sinnerman' was perfect for the next scenes.
3. Martin Freeman was excellent in this episode, especially right at the end. I liked the way this version brought out Holmes' cruelty to Watson, faking a death and letting his friend suffer.
4. Very different in tone and denouement to Guy Ritchie's A Game of Shadows, even though they are both riffing off the same original. This is what I mean when I say 'transformative work' and rave about the joys of fanfiction.
5. I wonder how many fanfics entitled 'A Handshake in Hell' (or some variation thereon) are being written right now?
edit to add6.If I'd been on that jury Moriarty would've had to think of something else (possibly playing me classical music and dressing up in someone else's jewellery): I always turn the personalised TV off as soon as I get into a hotel room.
