The Davros kink...

A great line today from Warren Ellis: "It would seem there's a small amount of money to be made in Davros fetishism."

Well. If anyone could do it, Ellis could.

Torchwood: A few thoughts...

I have been continuing to scrutinize photos of the Hub, particularly of Jack's office and Jack's desk. I am thrilled to see that the airplane model that reminds Jack of Captain Jack Harkness is still there. I'm so glad that Gwen didn't throw away anything important - but I'd like to think that if she'd tried to discard that plane, Toshiko would have stopped her. Tosh knows its significance to Jack.

One of the things I love about Jack is his warm feelings about past relationships.

Thoughts on two movies...

I saw a good part of Beowulf with maaboroshi today. Don't know what I think. It's a movie in which real actors were used... sort of... but done over in animation, so that it's a realistic kind of animation, but animation nonetheless.

Reminded me of Final Fantasy, but in Final Fantasy I knew I loved the art. Here... it was so close to real actors that it made me uncomfortable: instead of thinking of them as pictures I was thinking of them as photos, but they felt 'wrong', plastic, not quite real.... It wasn't good enough if it were real actors, but it didn't look enough like drawings to be visual art. A strange dichotomy. Sometimes the swooping of the camera angles - as in video-games - made me vaguely nauseous.

The pseudo-sets were lovely. There's one scene where we see a wall-hanging behind Beowulf, that looks in the classic Anglo-Saxon style.

On the other hand, I never pictured Heorot as being built of stone. Isn't that anachronistic?

Pretty armour, though. And somehow my discomfort with the art didn't extend to Beowulf's physical beauty.

Angelina Jolie's lips didn't seem to move enough when she talked. I mentioned this, and maaseru said that had nothing to do with the animation, and more to do with botox.

The blood-and-gore bits were two much for me.

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Before Beowulf on the DVD there was a trailer for the upcoming movie Iron Man. Hoo boy, that looks good. It looks - I hope I'm not being misled here - as if they have exactly the right touch on the character of Tony Stark, both the sleaze and the heroism. I can hardly wait. Since I've been mostly unexcited by the movies coming out lately, how nice to see one advertised that I'm getting excited over!

I might add that in that trailer, Robert Downey, Jr., reminded me of Edward James Olmos. That's a good omen.