Technology fails me

[gwyn]

Not that anyone is actually trying to get hold of me or cares, but I just wanted to let people know in case they might have sent me an e-mail, that I haven't been able to access my mail at all for the last 24 hours. I honestly don't know at this point when it'll be fixed -- my nice little ISP also has the annoying policy of not having support on weekends and after work hours, and I have already tried to get them to fix it to no avail.

Went to see The Core today and hoped it might be fixed when I got home; no such luck. So I'm really not rude, just stuck.

The Core is fun -- lots of wonderful, wonderful people in the cast, and totally implausible science mixed with plausible science, and enough holes to drive a truck through, but just a lot of fun anyway. I think Aaron Eckhardt might finally overcome his mean guy reputation from all those Neil LaBute movies, and he made a great hero -- and for once, we got a teacher who likes to teach and only really wants to be a teacher. Stanley Tucci just makes me SO happy anytime, but he was a hoot here with his sly take on Carl Sagan and being a scientist star. Delroy Lindo was a great nutball superscientist, and Tcheky Karyo, one of the main reasons I went (I adore Tcheky!), was really just fabulous. Bruce Greenwood, too -- it's a great cast, rounded out by Hillary Swank, who was probably the most one-dimensional, but still had some depth and you could care about her, and my fave of faves, Alfre Woodard.

I realize it's a total fantasy to have such a mixed race cast of scientists and top drawer people of both sexes and many races, but in a way, I like when movies do this, because I keep hoping that if it becomes mundane enough in films, maybe real life will mirror that some day. All around, a fun, silly disaster action movie that thinks (the thinking woman's fun action movie?), and puts scientists in the hero position. A great way to spend a couple hours.

Maybe it's the earth's magnetic core that's affecting my e-mail...

Comments

[caille.livejournal.com]

Well, dear, I haven't tried to e-mail you, but that doesn't mean I don't care.

I care! I care a lot!

So...a film that rehabilitates Aaron Eckhardt's on-screen persona? Cool.

[(Anonymous)]

"Possession" and "Erin Brockovich" both helped me get over my absolute loathing of Aaron Eckhart (yes, due to Neil LaBute's misogynystic crap). If you haven't seen "Possession", it's worth a look -- also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, and Jennifer Ehle.

Jill

[caille.livejournal.com]

Jill, I didn't think "The Company of Men" was misogynistic. It was very difficult viewing, devastating, really. But I felt like the fundamental point of it...

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't seen it...


The fundamental point was that for men like Eckhardt's character, women were, and always would be, "collateral damage". His primary intent was to establish his dominance over his male friend, by manipulating him. It was mirrored in his treatment of the black employee he tormented.

I didn't feel like the film reveled in that at all. It was more like a way of stripping the mask off of this young exec, and revealing some horrible yet banal evil.

(I haven't seen LaBute's other films, so I can't say....)

OT: Valorous Vampire

[klytaimnestra.livejournal.com]

I just read "The Valorous Vampire" - it was great. Thanks for posting it! I find particularly intriguing your point that there must be something unusual about Buffy herself. K

Re: OT: Valorous Vampire

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I've always figured there's got to be something specific about Buffy if she's getting that much action from SBNDBs! ;-)