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Jul. 12th, 2008 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiReally loved Doctor Who last night--if the Library episodes weren't as creepy as I'd been hoping, "Midnight" more than made up for it. Holy cats.
Also saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army today, which was gorgeous and funny and a really, really good time. Though I have two quibbles.
1. Hellboy rips open the car door, sees the baby. Um, dude, that baby is in a removable infant seat. Not only would taking the entire thing with the kid still in it be safer for the baby, unhooking the seat is actually faster than unstrapping the kid.
(Had that been my child, he'd have been laughing the entire time.)
2. Okay, seriously, why didn't the Princess just challenge her brother's right to lead the army? They are twins, both have blood rights to the throne. It's not like he could have fought her and won, since that would kill him, too. Stalemate! Easy!
Barring that, why didn't she kill herself earlier, maybe as soon as he put the crown together? I can buy that she had hope until then, but come on.
Yes, I realize the movie is called Hellboy and not Freaky Elven Princess. That's still a big old plot hole.
I laughed my way through the preview of Death Race. Um. The hard-core prisoners have machine guns, rocket launchers, and napalm, not to mention working vehicles, and what are they doing? Building race cars. As opposed to, oh, I dunno, USING THE STUFF TO STAGE A BREAKOUT?!?! What are the guards carrying that's dissuading them, nuclear weapons? Are they in space?
Next up is Batman. And then I think I'm through my list.
Also saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army today, which was gorgeous and funny and a really, really good time. Though I have two quibbles.
1. Hellboy rips open the car door, sees the baby. Um, dude, that baby is in a removable infant seat. Not only would taking the entire thing with the kid still in it be safer for the baby, unhooking the seat is actually faster than unstrapping the kid.
(Had that been my child, he'd have been laughing the entire time.)
2. Okay, seriously, why didn't the Princess just challenge her brother's right to lead the army? They are twins, both have blood rights to the throne. It's not like he could have fought her and won, since that would kill him, too. Stalemate! Easy!
Barring that, why didn't she kill herself earlier, maybe as soon as he put the crown together? I can buy that she had hope until then, but come on.
Yes, I realize the movie is called Hellboy and not Freaky Elven Princess. That's still a big old plot hole.
I laughed my way through the preview of Death Race. Um. The hard-core prisoners have machine guns, rocket launchers, and napalm, not to mention working vehicles, and what are they doing? Building race cars. As opposed to, oh, I dunno, USING THE STUFF TO STAGE A BREAKOUT?!?! What are the guards carrying that's dissuading them, nuclear weapons? Are they in space?
Next up is Batman. And then I think I'm through my list.
