Rave on Macbeth....

[fajrdrako]

I watched Rave Macbeth tonight, for which I am extremely grateful to sugarrush2003.

Oh that beautiful Rosenbaum.

The movie drags (so to speak) but we see plenty of Michael Rosenbaum's lovely lean body, strong arms, expressive lips, beautiful eyes.... I kept making besotted comments and my friends kept agreeing. They are good friends.

Some of it reminded me of "Doctor Who". Some of it reminded me of Smallville episodes like "Zero" (murders by gunfire in a dance club) and "Hourglass" (when blood is raining down on Michael Rosenbaum - no sunflowers though.) None of it reminded me of Shakespeare. But Michael Rosenbaum's performance was far above anything else on the screen, and there was plenty of sex one way or another, to keep me entertained.

Michael Rosenbaum. His body is exactly my favourite type, and the way he moves, and that sulty Rosenbaum voice. Every once in a while - like when he said, "I promise," he sounded just like Lex. We hoped he would say "trust me," but he didn't.

One other thing we noticed: since this isn't an American movie, it didn't reflect American cultural values or conservative morality, which we tend to think is 'normal' in entertainment and then we mutter that movies are out of touch with reality. M/M sex is fairly casually depicted, for example. We all thought this was what Club Zero should have been like, but wasn't. It's also what Lex should have been like when he was at Club Zero.

A good evening.

So what happened to the thunderstorms everyone said would be happening?

Comments

[justblue0162.livejournal.com]

Amen to everything you just said. This especially:

It's also what Lex should have been like when he was at Club Zero.

Yesss. I actually liked this movie, but I suspect that's because I don't remember ever reading MacBeth. I really liked the evil girlfriend not telling Marcus to meet.. um.. the other guy (lol...if it's not MR, I just don't seem to care). But again, the movie owes its plot to Shakespeare, so I'm probably liking those elements more than any of the ones that are unique to the movie.

Wow, that made almost no sense whatsoever. I'm still a little slack-jawed over your description of MR's voice and body. Guh!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

MR's voice and body. Yeah. Wearing clingy black in a light material that keeps being partially removed from his body, as if the whole movie had an ongoing strip-tease theme.

Yes, I liked it, too. In case you hadn't noticed.

[justblue0162.livejournal.com]

*drool*

The scene where he strips off his shirt to clean the floor... even his *back* is sexy.

He's too much. I'd be fine if he wasn't left-handed, or if he didn't *sound* so ... lickable.

...I'll be in my bunk.

[sugarrush2003.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, cool! I'm glad you got it, and liked it!!

And yeah, isn't Mikey absolutely hot and gorgeous and just plain *guh!* in this movie??? He was definitely the best thing about it, IMHO.

Happy repeat viewing! ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It arrived today, and thank you so much. Truthfully, I loved it. Oh that gorgeous man.

[isagel.livejournal.com]

I so have to get hold of this movie. I'm getting to the point where I don't care anymore that everyone says it's bad, because everyone also says 'Ooooooooooh, sexy Mikey!' And clearly, that's the more important mark of quality. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

First of all, I don't think anyone would argue that it that the best thing about the movie is anything other than Michael Rosenbaum. Even the most unbiased, uninsightful, straight male critic would see that his acting is superb, as is his interpretation of the role. I wish they'd let him cut loose a little more as Lex.

Second, it's an interesting movie on its own. It plays a lot of stylistic tricks, and some of them work, and some of them don't, but I quite liked it. Despite my joke about it *not* reminding me of Shakespeare, it's an interesting transposition of the situation of Macbeth into one night of drugged frenzy in the life of well-meaning but manipulated Marcus.

Keep in mind I'm a Shakespeare junkie: I've certainly seen far worse interpretations of Macbeth than this. (Some of which I shudder to remember.)

And I'll get to see "Much Ado About Nothing" tomorrow evening in the park near my house - I can hardly wait!

(Note to self: buy bug repellant today.)