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castironNov 4: Have you ever seen a film that you thought was better than the book? Generally, when I've read the book first I think the book is better, or at most that the film is as good as the book (1995 Persuasion; several versions of A Christmas Carol) or a really good thing that's not the same thing as the book (I love the Phryne Fisher TV series, but it's an alternate universe to the books, which I also love). Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels might be the exception, but I can't remember anymore whether I read the books first or saw David Suchet's Poirot first.
When I've seen the film first, it varies. I like the movie of The Princess Bride much better than the book, in large part because while the book's structure is interesting the narrator bores me. I thoroughly enjoy Maury Chavich and Tim Hutton's Nero Wolfe and Archie Godwin; I like the Rex Stout novels I've read, but not to the glomming point.
Nov 5: How do you keep up to date with the news? I don't try. I'm on a mailing list for the local public radio station to get local news; beyond that, glancing at NPR and BBC headlines and hearing what people are talking about in my various social media feeds; that's usually enough.
Nov 6: If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience would you do so? Why? If not, why not? No. What would be the point? I'd be spending the rest of my life with a missing year and nothing to show for it. (Though it'd be worse to spend the year of perfect happiness and remember it. Then I'd spend the rest of my life knowing nothing would ever be as good.)
Nov 7: Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose? There's no sport that interests me enough to put in the effort to get that good at it, but if I were getting magic ability, then I'd go with individual, aikido. I took a few months of it many years ago and enjoyed it, but dropped it due to pregnancy and never had time to get back to it, and now I think I'm too old and overweight to learn it safely.
Nov 8: Who are the three people you spend the most time with each week? How do these people affect you? My spouse and my two children who still live at home. How they affect me is by constantly being a factor to consider in everything I do.
Nov 9: Would you accept $1,000,000 (or equivalent of your currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again? No, because that's not enough money to start over from scratch somewhere else. Add three zeroes and we'll talk about it.
Nov 10: What was the last really bad movie you watched, and what was bad about it? Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Now, the special effects were excellent; as a visual spectacle, it was totally worth seeing in the theater. But the only human character who wasn't cardboard or inconsistent was Dr. Serizawa. And the character whose death I was rooting for survived the movie, which just annoyed me. On the measure of plot and characters, this movie completely sucked. On the measure of special effects and visual setpieces, as I said, it was amazing, but come on; Marvel's proven it's possible to do epic battles and amazing visuals combined with a somewhat coherent plot and extremely coherent characters; why can't the Godzillaverse have that?
(Tangentially: No, Mothra is not the only female kaiju. I don't care that the moviemakers hold the "male is default" attitude. There is no evidence either way for Godzilla or other kaijus' sex [or gender, to the extent that gender has meaning for kaiju]. Therefore, my headcanon is that Godzilla is female.)
When I've seen the film first, it varies. I like the movie of The Princess Bride much better than the book, in large part because while the book's structure is interesting the narrator bores me. I thoroughly enjoy Maury Chavich and Tim Hutton's Nero Wolfe and Archie Godwin; I like the Rex Stout novels I've read, but not to the glomming point.
Nov 5: How do you keep up to date with the news? I don't try. I'm on a mailing list for the local public radio station to get local news; beyond that, glancing at NPR and BBC headlines and hearing what people are talking about in my various social media feeds; that's usually enough.
Nov 6: If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience would you do so? Why? If not, why not? No. What would be the point? I'd be spending the rest of my life with a missing year and nothing to show for it. (Though it'd be worse to spend the year of perfect happiness and remember it. Then I'd spend the rest of my life knowing nothing would ever be as good.)
Nov 7: Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose? There's no sport that interests me enough to put in the effort to get that good at it, but if I were getting magic ability, then I'd go with individual, aikido. I took a few months of it many years ago and enjoyed it, but dropped it due to pregnancy and never had time to get back to it, and now I think I'm too old and overweight to learn it safely.
Nov 8: Who are the three people you spend the most time with each week? How do these people affect you? My spouse and my two children who still live at home. How they affect me is by constantly being a factor to consider in everything I do.
Nov 9: Would you accept $1,000,000 (or equivalent of your currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again? No, because that's not enough money to start over from scratch somewhere else. Add three zeroes and we'll talk about it.
Nov 10: What was the last really bad movie you watched, and what was bad about it? Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Now, the special effects were excellent; as a visual spectacle, it was totally worth seeing in the theater. But the only human character who wasn't cardboard or inconsistent was Dr. Serizawa. And the character whose death I was rooting for survived the movie, which just annoyed me. On the measure of plot and characters, this movie completely sucked. On the measure of special effects and visual setpieces, as I said, it was amazing, but come on; Marvel's proven it's possible to do epic battles and amazing visuals combined with a somewhat coherent plot and extremely coherent characters; why can't the Godzillaverse have that?
(Tangentially: No, Mothra is not the only female kaiju. I don't care that the moviemakers hold the "male is default" attitude. There is no evidence either way for Godzilla or other kaijus' sex [or gender, to the extent that gender has meaning for kaiju]. Therefore, my headcanon is that Godzilla is female.)
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Date: 2020-11-15 04:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-11-15 06:40 am (UTC)Yes. Some really good things, some not so good. I used to read those books when I was a kid, at the lunch table with a pbj sandwich and chicken noodle soup. The first time I found them, my brother complained they were too old for me. "Let her try," Mom said. "She'll stop if they're too hard."
I kind of stole his Dune books later, too. I turned out to be a very untrustworthy sister.