So having just arrived home from the movies I turned on the tv and am now absorbed in two different Ultimate Fighting matches. WTF? When did this happen. I blame Celeste. I don't especially enjoy violence in life, but I do enjoy tv/movie/video game violence. It's weird, no? It's kind of cathartic, but what I also really like about the fighting is how respectful 95% of the guys seem to be with each other before and after the fight. There is a lot of macho posturing and such, which is to be expected, but in almost all of the fights I've seen the fighters respect each other and don't seem to take it out of the ring. And with one notable exception every winner I've seen talks about what a great opponent their opponent was. It's like really contained, controlled, and measured violence. It's a weird dichotomy. It's also remarkable to me that people want to beat the shit out of someone else while getting the snot beating out of themselves. It's kind of like a test of personal will and endurance in adversity. You have to wonder about their motivation. Cynically I suppose it's just money and glory, but I would think that it's just about being the best that you can be in something you like too. I just wouldn't want to do it myself.
Anyway enough about fighting it's not really what I wanted to talk about in the first place...
I saw 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' tonight. <3 It's such a danger going to see the movie of a book that you love. I've come to the point where I have accepted that movies are never quite the book that you read. The actors are almost never how you imagined and they virtually always screw something up. And I'm cool with that. Sometimes though, they get it right.
ok. i turned one fight off for 30 seconds because it was just starting and i was watching round 4 of the other fight. I switch back and the fight is over and it's an upset. Crazy! WTF? where is the replay?
Sorry, back to the inane rambling. Did they ever get it right with that movie. It was endearing, it was cute, it was touching and funny. It was true to the book as far as I can remember (which, lets face it isn't that far). The actors were perfect. Ahh. With 'Twilight' due out in about a month, i'm more skeptical. I'm unsure of the actors and I still need time to process that Edward is also Cedric Diggory. Kind of like when Hugo Weaving was Agent Smith and Elrond. Or for Priscilla fans Tick. I think the key to going into a movie based on a book you've read is to have low expectations and remember they're not really the same thing. It was a disaster of a movie, so was um, well I can't remember. It was a travesty anyway. In a day or two it will come to me when I've stopped thinking about it. Anyway go see Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist.
That's all, I promise to not write anymore rediculous rambling posts in the near future.
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