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Sabriel + Mission Impossible
Jun. 16th, 2015 10:15 pmI just finished reading Sabriel, the first novel in the Abhorsen trilogy. I liked it well enough. It's an interesting universe, great world building, the way the magic works is interesting. But it left me emotionally uninvested. I mean, I'll read the next two novels, but it's curious to me the way that this first book didn't move me at all. I can't tell you how many times I laughed out loud while reading Fionavar or how many times I put my hand on my chest and gasped when I was reading Ancillary Sword or how many times I cried while reading both. But nary a tear or a giggle or an OMG for Sabriel. I hope that changes in the next books.
Josh and I rewatched the first Mission Impossible movie last night. It came out in 1996. I watched it in the theater but remember almost nothing about it. I remember really liking it twenty years ago but not so much on this watch. I think it's just dated in a way that's not appealing to me now which possibly makes me shallow. LOL A movie like that now would be shot in shades of blue and grey and everything would be black and shiny and slick and fast paced. All the characters would be impossibly beautiful, and there would be a decent amount of humor and quippage, definitely a focus on snappy dialogue. Instead, everything moved really slowly, there wasn't a great deal of dialogue that seemed to matter, and I didn't feel super emotionally invested.
Even so, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Redgraves were awesome. Tom Cruise is always good; he's a phenomenal actor. I also liked the reveal of the villain(s).
What are y'all up to?
Josh and I rewatched the first Mission Impossible movie last night. It came out in 1996. I watched it in the theater but remember almost nothing about it. I remember really liking it twenty years ago but not so much on this watch. I think it's just dated in a way that's not appealing to me now which possibly makes me shallow. LOL A movie like that now would be shot in shades of blue and grey and everything would be black and shiny and slick and fast paced. All the characters would be impossibly beautiful, and there would be a decent amount of humor and quippage, definitely a focus on snappy dialogue. Instead, everything moved really slowly, there wasn't a great deal of dialogue that seemed to matter, and I didn't feel super emotionally invested.
Even so, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Redgraves were awesome. Tom Cruise is always good; he's a phenomenal actor. I also liked the reveal of the villain(s).
What are y'all up to?
