And now for something... not really any different at all

[deelaundry]

Saw Sherlock Holmes tonight. My completely unoriginal review:

I love a good House-Wilson AU.

We had intended to see Up in the Air but it sold out as we were standing in (the very long) line. Mr. L was mad but agreed to see Holmes instead.

He told me his reason for being mad at dinner afterward -- because he has "a guy crush on George Clooney."

LOLOLOL

There was a trailer for a Nicolas Cage movie that made me a little bit ragey, but I don't feel like talking about it. To keep my blood pressure low, I'm just going to stay away entirely.

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Nicolas Cage movies tend to have that sort of reaction, yeah.

I saw The Lives of Others and I'm floored by how good it was - maybe the best movie I've seen since No Country For Old Men. No, make that The Hurt Locker.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember, now, what stuff Nicolas Cage has done, and ... I'm largely coming up blank. I know he was in the National Treasure movies, right? Which ... I ended up seeing large chunks of the first one by happenstance, on TV, but I wouldn't watch it again.

I know I didn't care to see Gone in 60 Seconds. I think ... I don't know what rage-inducing qualities his movies have, really, because they seem to fall under my mental Just Not Interested category, and I'm mostly oblivious.

I did see Matchstick Men and thought his acting in it was outstanding, but what a bizarre and skeevy little movie; I think I liked it, but to this day I'm not sure, and I think maybe that was the point.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

The best movie Nicolas Cage was ever in was Moonstruck.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, yes. I'm culturally deprived, and the next time I have an opportunity, I'll watch Moonstruck.

I had always mentally classified it as Romantic Chick Flick, which is a genre that tends to make me break out in hives, so I'd never had much interest.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It was a joke. He's been in some very good stuff, like Adaptation. - but his body of work has some very low lows.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hee, this. Although I have to admit I do enjoy some of his cheesy stuff, like Con Air and The Rock.

;-)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Pauline Kael had the good note that it's hard for someone to recommend The Rock because it's so bad, and yet it has two wonderful actors doing good work with each other.

[m-supercomputer.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy cheesy stuff, I highly recommend Cage in the remake of The Wicker Man. It's terrible, misogynistic, and entirely ridiculous, but it can't be beat as unintentional comedy.

Though if you don't want to watch the whole thing, this YouTube clip collection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo) sums up most of the highs of WTF-ery. *g*

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

UGH!!! That film! And what was with all the bees everywhere? Bees, bees, bees, bees.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen The Wicker Man but those clips are certainly very WTF. O_O

:D

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Now that I look at his list of movies on IMDB, I'm not sure I've loved anything he's in. Heh. But this particular movie looks like crap due to the storyline, not him in particular.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I've liked other Nicolas Cage movies but this one is about a powerful witch who's been captured and unless Cage and his two male companions can deliver her to an all-male religious tribunal to be killed, she'll destroy all of mankind. I'm not against women being the villain, but this cuts way too close to the actual witch trials where actual women were punished on the supsicion of having power.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that one. All the trailers for Holmes - did you see the bounty hunter one? - were terrible in new and completely different ways.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

The bounty hunter one! Bleah, that was terrible.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It's kind of amazing what will sell these days.

[genagirl.livejournal.com]

I know! I sat there watching it and thinking I was watching House and Wilson bicker on their couch. Guy Richie must be a House fan. Someone suggested Hugh Laurie as Moriarty in the sequel. I'm all for that.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

"Get that out of my face."
"It's not in your face; it's in my hand."
"Get the thing in your hand out of my face."

Would LOVE Hugh Laurie as Moriarty. Now we'll need to find a side role for RSL. Irene Adler's American ex-husband?

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Hi Dee hi hi!

I want to see both those movies, and chances are I will see neither until they're out on DVD.

In other news, it's been a good, soul-reclaiming kind of a day for me. Drawing and fic and walking and taking pictures, and now a bit of light chore-doing so I don't get overwhelmed tomorrow.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Hi hi hi! That sounds like a great day! So glad you had it!

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

DID YOU SEE THE TRAILER FOR KICK ASS WITH NICK CAGE? CAUSE THAT'S LIKE THE BEST THING EEEVVAAAAAA



I love a good House-Wilson AU.

I LOVE YOU DEE. SO MUCH.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It was a thing with a witch that looked horrible. Very awful.

The "House-Wilson AU" idea is not original to me but it's oh so very true.

Also, saw the Iron Man 2 trailer! Which was called "Iron 2 Man" :D It looks fun.

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONY NEED IT TO BE MAY NOW.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I wanted to see 'Up In The Air' but naturally it didn't play here. Heck, I still haven't seen Avatar. As far as I can tell the big thing about it is the special effects, about which I just don't care.
Not a Nicholas Cage fan, at all.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I'm not really very interested in Avatar -- as you say, the special effects aren't what reel me in, typically. What do you have playing there?

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Umm... (checks listings) The Lovely Bones (liked the book and considered seeing the film, but all the reviews I've read say it's awful), Sherlock Holmes (you know, everything I've heard about it makes it sound like it was based more on House than on Sherlock Holmes!), It's Complicated (not my thing), Daybreakers (enough with the vampires already!), Alvin & The Chipmunks (only if someone were pointing a gun at my head and even then I'd have to think about it), and Avatar (meh).
Did you see the trailer for Legion? It looks hilariously bad.

[chippers87.livejournal.com]

Up in the Air was so very good. That was actually the movie we saw on Christmas Day when Sherlock Holmes was sold out, lol.

I really kept expecting Holmes to call Watson "Wilson." It was a little jarring when he didn't.

[remydoodle.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stop comparing it to H/W when I was watching it!

[hawkeyefreak72.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

I love a good House-Wilson AU.

That is absolutely what got me through the movie.

And my husband and I had the exact same thing happen last weekend. Up In The Air sold out... only I was the one who grudgingly agreed to see Holmes instead.

(saw that same preview and absolutely agree!)

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

I love a good House-Wilson AU. --That sums it up!

Possessive, scruffy Holmes saying to Watson, "Admit it! Admit it! Admit it!" That had to be Richie's shout-out to House.

[fry-addict.livejournal.com]

*lol* I saw that movie (Holmes) last week and enjoyed it, but the idea of a House/Wilson AU so far hadn't crossed my mind. It's true, though (hey, it even has a cane in it! - although the wrong guy is carrying it).

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

I HOPE to see it next Sunday with my bff if the snow is gone! Can't wait. Yay! Everybody keeps telling me it's great and VERY MUCH H/W.

Ooooooooooh, make Mr. L jealous of me: my new boss looks EXACTLY like a young George Clooney. I mean: dead ringer. The first time I saw him I just walked out of his office again to compose myself. It's uncanny.

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

LOL at House-Wilson AU and also at Mr L :D

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

"House-Wilson AU"- Haha it so was. The bickering, the eye-rolling and general husband/wifey-ness were freakishly similar. :D

I can only ever equate Nicolas Cage with bad wigs and Face/Off thus...I can't stand him. Although, Con Air was a good hoot, but probably because I was staring at John Cusack most of the time.

Up In The Air isn't out here yet but I do want to see it, very much so. It's not even my kind of film but I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

I very much enjoyed Sherlock House Holmes. Although gosh the liberties taken with London geography! From sewers underneath the Houses of Parliament to the top of Tower Bridge??? LOL!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I didn't love the movie, but I am glad it made you happy. :) It seemed very much more House/Wilson than Holmes/Watson to me too -- but then, even watching the Jeremy Brett Holmes episodes after having seen House made the two canons overlap.

Anyway. Hee on the Clooney thing. I remember what a nice time my ex and I had after he admitted having a crush of sorts on James Marsters, back when we were both into Buffy.