OH HAI.

Jul. 22nd, 2010 12:24 am
agilebrit: (Not the worst thing)
Firefox has a new thing. Or maybe it's an old thing that I've just now discovered.

Personas. You can now have Robert gracing your browser. They also have Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man. Or any other thing you want, really. They have Buffy too. Pick a fandom, any fandom. This one's for you, [livejournal.com profile] pensive1.

Shiniest. Thing. EVER. The more I use Firefox, the more Win it is made of.

OH HAI.

Jul. 22nd, 2010 12:24 am
agilebrit: (Not the worst thing)
Firefox has a new thing. Or maybe it's an old thing that I've just now discovered.

Personas. You can now have Robert gracing your browser. They also have Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man. Or any other thing you want, really. They have Buffy too. Pick a fandom, any fandom. This one's for you, [livejournal.com profile] pensive1.

Shiniest. Thing. EVER. The more I use Firefox, the more Win it is made of.

*sigh*

Jul. 19th, 2010 10:51 pm
agilebrit: (Default)
Still with the writing woes. Upload booze. I've got a better handle on my protag (he's very cute, in his "Joss Whedon Is My Master Now" t-shirt), but what he's going to do about the situation he's in is still being...problematic. Gah.

I also come bearing a fic rec: "Puppy Dog Eyes" by [livejournal.com profile] unsettledfic. Shameless fluff, in which Sherlock Holmes bonds with Gladstone the bullpup. I died of cute.

And a video from JustSomeRandomGuy: "I'm Twilight, and I'm True Blood."



Direct link.

*sigh*

Jul. 19th, 2010 10:51 pm
agilebrit: (Default)
Still with the writing woes. Upload booze. I've got a better handle on my protag (he's very cute, in his "Joss Whedon Is My Master Now" t-shirt), but what he's going to do about the situation he's in is still being...problematic. Gah.

I also come bearing a fic rec: "Puppy Dog Eyes" by [livejournal.com profile] unsettledfic. Shameless fluff, in which Sherlock Holmes bonds with Gladstone the bullpup. I died of cute.

And a video from JustSomeRandomGuy: "I'm Twilight, and I'm True Blood."



Direct link.
agilebrit: (Urge to bitchslap)
No, not the one with Robert and Jude. The Asylum knockoff.

Anyone bitching about Ritchie's movie needs to run, don't walk, to Walmart, find the $3 wall, and grab this so you can share my pain. Also, copious amounts of alcohol, because you're going to need it. The pacing is terrible, the plot is incomprehensible, the chemistry between Holmes and Watson is nonexistent, and the bare nod to the Canon is wholly inadequate.

Seriously, I should not be bored by a scene of Watson hanging off a cliff--in a scene that had nothing at all to do with the plot, when all is said and done. So, yeah, they go to the ocean to have a look at this ship that's been sunk by a giant octopus (RELEASE THE KRAKEN! oh, sorry, wrong movie), send Watson halfway down the cliff, he sees what turns out to be a dead guy in the water, starts coming back up, the rope breaks, I'm drinking (awful) beer in a desperate attempt to alleviate the utter suck...

And Watson never even sees the ship. Dead guy? Meh, who cares--he doesn't even tell them he saw a dead guy. It's like they wrote the scene, started to film it, and then said "OHSHIT! We ran out of budget for CGI, so we can't show the ship under the water! LET'S DO THIS INSTEAD. Hey, you, go in the ocean and pretend to be dead, there's a good fellow, we'll pay you an extra quid."

I mean, I'm all for a steampunk Holmes. Dinosaurs, yes, please, give me more of that. W00t, for mechanical flying dragons and hot-air balloons with...rotor blades? Whatever, I'm there. And Cybermen robots, yay! And I'm all for satire, as well, you know I loved "The Men Who Stare at Goats." But this wasn't satire. This was... I don't even know what this was. A desperate attempt to cash in on the coattails of an actual good movie, I guess.

I could have totally gone with it had it looked like they were halfway trying with the script (not to mention the acting). But they weren't. I was fully prepared to give this a chance and say that it wasn't as bad as it was being made out to be. Alas. I wanted to like it...

The icing on the cake? They gave Holmes a new first name. "Robert"! of all things. I wanted to throw something at my television, but refrained, because lord knows it wasn't the poor television's fault. It was probably traumatized too.

EVEN THE BLOOPER REEL IS INADEQUATE.

The fact that someone got paid to write this horrendous THING offends me on a deep and personal level.
agilebrit: (Urge to bitchslap)
No, not the one with Robert and Jude. The Asylum knockoff.

Anyone bitching about Ritchie's movie needs to run, don't walk, to Walmart, find the $3 wall, and grab this so you can share my pain. Also, copious amounts of alcohol, because you're going to need it. The pacing is terrible, the plot is incomprehensible, the chemistry between Holmes and Watson is nonexistent, and the bare nod to the Canon is wholly inadequate.

Seriously, I should not be bored by a scene of Watson hanging off a cliff--in a scene that had nothing at all to do with the plot, when all is said and done. So, yeah, they go to the ocean to have a look at this ship that's been sunk by a giant octopus (RELEASE THE KRAKEN! oh, sorry, wrong movie), send Watson halfway down the cliff, he sees what turns out to be a dead guy in the water, starts coming back up, the rope breaks, I'm drinking (awful) beer in a desperate attempt to alleviate the utter suck...

And Watson never even sees the ship. Dead guy? Meh, who cares--he doesn't even tell them he saw a dead guy. It's like they wrote the scene, started to film it, and then said "OHSHIT! We ran out of budget for CGI, so we can't show the ship under the water! LET'S DO THIS INSTEAD. Hey, you, go in the ocean and pretend to be dead, there's a good fellow, we'll pay you an extra quid."

I mean, I'm all for a steampunk Holmes. Dinosaurs, yes, please, give me more of that. W00t, for mechanical flying dragons and hot-air balloons with...rotor blades? Whatever, I'm there. And Cybermen robots, yay! And I'm all for satire, as well, you know I loved "The Men Who Stare at Goats." But this wasn't satire. This was... I don't even know what this was. A desperate attempt to cash in on the coattails of an actual good movie, I guess.

I could have totally gone with it had it looked like they were halfway trying with the script (not to mention the acting). But they weren't. I was fully prepared to give this a chance and say that it wasn't as bad as it was being made out to be. Alas. I wanted to like it...

The icing on the cake? They gave Holmes a new first name. "Robert"! of all things. I wanted to throw something at my television, but refrained, because lord knows it wasn't the poor television's fault. It was probably traumatized too.

EVEN THE BLOOPER REEL IS INADEQUATE.

The fact that someone got paid to write this horrendous THING offends me on a deep and personal level.
agilebrit: (Giggle)
This is one of the best things I've ever seen:



Link, in case the embed doesn't work.

Oh! Also! Wallpaper, because there's an Oscar ad for the soundtrack:



Expand1024x600 image under the cut )
agilebrit: (Giggle)
This is one of the best things I've ever seen:



Link, in case the embed doesn't work.

Oh! Also! Wallpaper, because there's an Oscar ad for the soundtrack:



Expand1024x600 image under the cut )
agilebrit: (Tired & Long-suffering)
So, yeah. I had a dream where [livejournal.com profile] paulgenesse, Bruce Campbell, and I were talking about "Sherlock Holmes." I remember absolutely nothing concrete about the conversation, just that it took place.

I am a sad, strange little girl.
agilebrit: (Tired & Long-suffering)
So, yeah. I had a dream where [livejournal.com profile] paulgenesse, Bruce Campbell, and I were talking about "Sherlock Holmes." I remember absolutely nothing concrete about the conversation, just that it took place.

I am a sad, strange little girl.
agilebrit: (Elementary)
As you know, Bob, I'm a huge Robert Downey Jr fan. I will go see him in a movie where he sits on a stool and reads the phone book for two hours. This is not a secret.

That being said: No matter how much of a drooling fangirl I am, not every movie he's in works for me. I loved Iron Man beyond all reason and have probably seen it twenty times. And then he did "Tropic Thunder."

And he was amazing in it. Robbed of the Oscar, IMO. But I didn't actually like the movie itself that much. Yes, it was alternately hilarious and horrifying, sometimes at the exact same moment, but the horrifying moments and the near-constant f-bombs overshadowed my enjoyment. I only saw it once, and it's not in my DVD collection (yet).

Then he did "The Soloist." Which he and Jamie are both amazing in. But it's a Big Serious Movie about Big Serious Issues, and it's not, for lack of a better word, "entertaining." Nor is it meant to be. It wrestles with a tough issue, and I'm good with that, more power to them for going there and not ending it with sunshine and roses and easy answers. But, again, I've only seen it once. There's only so much Sad I can take.

And then Sherlock Holmes crossed my radar. Well. It crossed my radar before they even began filming, because of the aforementioned "drooling fangirliness." I have been looking forward to this movie for over a year. I was terrified that it would disappoint me, that it would rape a beloved character sideways, that it would fail to Tell Me A Story. I had to wait a week after it was released to see it, for various reasons, and I was on pins and needles.

And then I finally got to see it. And it thrilled me. The characters, the story, the cinemetography, the acting, OMG the music--it was a delight from beginning to end. THIS RIGHT HERE is what a movie should be. THIS RIGHT HERE is what I want in a RDJ movie. THIS RIGHT HERE is what I want in a Sherlock Holmes movie.

The relationship between Watson and Holmes. Holmes being a badass. Holmes being too clever for his own good. Holmes having a woman fall in love with him with no idea what to do with that. Watson being long-suffering. Mary being awesome. A villain with a dastardly plan that only Holmes can thwart.

And underlying it all, a sense of out and out FUN. I've now seen this movie three times, and it never gets old. It's brought back the same feelings I had watching Iron Man. And that's why I love it.
agilebrit: (Elementary)
As you know, Bob, I'm a huge Robert Downey Jr fan. I will go see him in a movie where he sits on a stool and reads the phone book for two hours. This is not a secret.

That being said: No matter how much of a drooling fangirl I am, not every movie he's in works for me. I loved Iron Man beyond all reason and have probably seen it twenty times. And then he did "Tropic Thunder."

And he was amazing in it. Robbed of the Oscar, IMO. But I didn't actually like the movie itself that much. Yes, it was alternately hilarious and horrifying, sometimes at the exact same moment, but the horrifying moments and the near-constant f-bombs overshadowed my enjoyment. I only saw it once, and it's not in my DVD collection (yet).

Then he did "The Soloist." Which he and Jamie are both amazing in. But it's a Big Serious Movie about Big Serious Issues, and it's not, for lack of a better word, "entertaining." Nor is it meant to be. It wrestles with a tough issue, and I'm good with that, more power to them for going there and not ending it with sunshine and roses and easy answers. But, again, I've only seen it once. There's only so much Sad I can take.

And then Sherlock Holmes crossed my radar. Well. It crossed my radar before they even began filming, because of the aforementioned "drooling fangirliness." I have been looking forward to this movie for over a year. I was terrified that it would disappoint me, that it would rape a beloved character sideways, that it would fail to Tell Me A Story. I had to wait a week after it was released to see it, for various reasons, and I was on pins and needles.

And then I finally got to see it. And it thrilled me. The characters, the story, the cinemetography, the acting, OMG the music--it was a delight from beginning to end. THIS RIGHT HERE is what a movie should be. THIS RIGHT HERE is what I want in a RDJ movie. THIS RIGHT HERE is what I want in a Sherlock Holmes movie.

The relationship between Watson and Holmes. Holmes being a badass. Holmes being too clever for his own good. Holmes having a woman fall in love with him with no idea what to do with that. Watson being long-suffering. Mary being awesome. A villain with a dastardly plan that only Holmes can thwart.

And underlying it all, a sense of out and out FUN. I've now seen this movie three times, and it never gets old. It's brought back the same feelings I had watching Iron Man. And that's why I love it.
agilebrit: (Elementary)
I made wallpaper and didn't share. Shame on me. (Like anyone takes these anyway.)

Teasers:






Expand1024x600 images under the cut. Enjoy. )
agilebrit: (Elementary)
I made wallpaper and didn't share. Shame on me. (Like anyone takes these anyway.)

Teasers:






Expand1024x600 images under the cut. Enjoy. )
agilebrit: (Don't make me beat you in the name of gr)
OMG, y'all, FIC REC.

Anyone who's seen "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (the movie with RDJ, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan, not the Torchwood ep) needs to go read this, right now.

And if you haven't seen KKBB, then you need to go get the DVD, watch it, and then read this.

Or you can read this, get intrigued by the narrator, and then get KKBB. Either way.
agilebrit: (Don't make me beat you in the name of gr)
OMG, y'all, FIC REC.

Anyone who's seen "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (the movie with RDJ, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan, not the Torchwood ep) needs to go read this, right now.

And if you haven't seen KKBB, then you need to go get the DVD, watch it, and then read this.

Or you can read this, get intrigued by the narrator, and then get KKBB. Either way.
agilebrit: (Elementary)
Yes, I'm sure you're all waiting with bated breath to see what I thought about the movie since I've been, you know, talking about it for a year. Well, the lovely and effulgent [livejournal.com profile] bigsciencybrain and I went to see it this afternoon.

I loved it. Every single second. THIS RIGHT HERE is what an action thriller should be. Don't get me wrong, I love big dumb action flicks as much as the next person (Live Free or Die Hard is in my DVD collection), but this was a big smart action movie and such a thrill ride.

I expected to like it. I expected to like it a lot. I was terrified of being disappointed, honestly. This movie did not disappoint me at all. From the script to the characters to the music to the action, this had it all and then some.

I mean, I literally forgot I was watching Robert Downey Jr on the screen. ME, the person who has an LJ tag just for him, whose default LJ icon is a photoshopped version of him playing the main character in my novel, the person who would watch a movie where he just sat on a stool and read the phone book. I forgot it was him. He became Holmes.

May we have many, many sequels where the screenwriting is as stellar as it was here.

And yes, I liked it way better than Avatar.

Probably be spoilers in the comments.
agilebrit: (Elementary)
Yes, I'm sure you're all waiting with bated breath to see what I thought about the movie since I've been, you know, talking about it for a year. Well, the lovely and effulgent [livejournal.com profile] bigsciencybrain and I went to see it this afternoon.

I loved it. Every single second. THIS RIGHT HERE is what an action thriller should be. Don't get me wrong, I love big dumb action flicks as much as the next person (Live Free or Die Hard is in my DVD collection), but this was a big smart action movie and such a thrill ride.

I expected to like it. I expected to like it a lot. I was terrified of being disappointed, honestly. This movie did not disappoint me at all. From the script to the characters to the music to the action, this had it all and then some.

I mean, I literally forgot I was watching Robert Downey Jr on the screen. ME, the person who has an LJ tag just for him, whose default LJ icon is a photoshopped version of him playing the main character in my novel, the person who would watch a movie where he just sat on a stool and read the phone book. I forgot it was him. He became Holmes.

May we have many, many sequels where the screenwriting is as stellar as it was here.

And yes, I liked it way better than Avatar.

Probably be spoilers in the comments.

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