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getting into review mode
There was a valiant attempt to read the whole of the last-but-one Dresden Files today (Proven Guilty) just so as I can get something in on the review deadline tomorrow... and I think I need to sleep now, still with 200 pages to go. Ah, nevermind, it was worth a shot. Wonderfully easy to read, though, which is more than I can say for the Joanne Harris I'm stuck on page 50 of, Runemarks ... Killer first sentence, but it reads like very young-skewed YA at this point. And I'm just feeling old this week.
Last night was mainly spent sitting up too late trying to work out exactly what Verhoeven was trying to say with Black Book. Carice van Houten? Totally rocks on every level. The script was mostly precise and witty and genuinely unexpected - it's really not often you get any Nazis portrayed sympathetically, and this really went all out with some of the characters. Others, not so much; and some of the plot twists stretched belief a little. Lots of very good stuff (a seriously disgusting riff on that Flashdance chain/water sequence; an insulin version of the gun on the mantle; death by coffin!), but packed into an overlong and uneven whole... I liked it rather than loved it, and it exhausted the adrenaline the thriller element needed well before the end.
Not particularly impressed with Film4 showing a themed trailer for their latenight strand with a totally spoilery scene from Black Book in an ad break half an hour before the end. Shots of certain characters facing firing squads tend to be a dead giveaway, would you believe...
Last night was mainly spent sitting up too late trying to work out exactly what Verhoeven was trying to say with Black Book. Carice van Houten? Totally rocks on every level. The script was mostly precise and witty and genuinely unexpected - it's really not often you get any Nazis portrayed sympathetically, and this really went all out with some of the characters. Others, not so much; and some of the plot twists stretched belief a little. Lots of very good stuff (a seriously disgusting riff on that Flashdance chain/water sequence; an insulin version of the gun on the mantle; death by coffin!), but packed into an overlong and uneven whole... I liked it rather than loved it, and it exhausted the adrenaline the thriller element needed well before the end.
Not particularly impressed with Film4 showing a themed trailer for their latenight strand with a totally spoilery scene from Black Book in an ad break half an hour before the end. Shots of certain characters facing firing squads tend to be a dead giveaway, would you believe...