girlofprey

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

Hahaha. Lots. Many. Easily over a hundred, and most of them DVDs. I lived on my own last year, and didn't have a video player, and I didn't do the going out thing, and I had lots of money, and I'm not ashamed!!! ::glares at anyone who thinks I should be ashamed, and challenges them to a duel?::

2. The last film I bought:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, on Friday. Single-disc edition. I agonised for quite a while over that or the 2-disc, before coming to the conclusion that all I was interested in on the 2-disc was the Costume Design feature, because they might talk about the Hook-Handed Man's coat. This I felt was not worth 5 good english pounds. Anyone who also buys it should so completely listen to the Director/'Lemony Snicket' commentary as the first thing they do - it is amazing. I laughed so hard. Daniel Handler has a strange, London-based Gothic-novel type voice, but I <3 him! He plays the accordian to drown out the leeches scene! And sings! And berates the director for making his child-actors clean the Olaf set! And Brad Silberling plays along! Genius!

3. The last film I watched:

Hmm. The last film I watched all the way through (except for the pre-credits bit, dammit!), was Sin City, which is a fabulous little film (Kevin!), if incredibly extreme and disturbing. But pretty people! Black and white-ness! John Coffey from The Green Mile as a torturing mob boss! Josh Hartnett as a suave assassin! Huzzah!

On Friday I rewatched bits of Lemony Snicket (bits with a certain someone in them....). Count Olaf's wardrobe actually quite swish. May be forced to fancy him too. Oh no. But my beloved Hooks still has his scruffy, menacing charm! I was afraid that I'd been all wrong because of ugly pictures of him in various promotional books, but he is lovely still, and I love him. Also, based on a certain deleted scene, I am thinking Violet/White-faced Woman(/Women) might have its appeal too? Hmm..

And then yesterday I caught the beginning/end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - hee! So much fun! So much crap! Alan Rickman in a loose shirt and leggings! Ninja-Marian! Will Scarlet! ::sexes:: When will someone write me Robin/Will slash? When?

4. Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:

Okay, I talked a lot in 3 and am getting tired now, so we'll do this quickly.

1. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Sam Rockwell! As a secret agent/gameshow host! Crawling on tables! Calling George Clooney a 'fag' and George not denying it! Teh woof!

2. Kill Bill: Volume 1 - Uma Thurman! Kicking arse! Swords! All sorts of marvellousness! Crying about her lost baby and making me want to cry despite all the violence and pretty colours. The House of Blue Leaves, which actually, literally makes me speechless. Thoughtless. Breathless. All-things-less. Left me jazzed for a good week ::hearts it lots::

3. Flight of Dragons - Little-known childhood favourite this, but dragons! Wizards! A wolf who is a hero ::dances::. The mad-making rats! Shields of Neptune and Flutes of Peace! And Ommadon's fabulous speech - 'can you not already feel the world turning in my direction?!'. And Brayac(?), evil silent dragon! First of the characters I was not supposed to like, and gets extra points for being a dragon yes. Well done, film.

4. Ooh. Getting hard now. Oh, The Hitcher! Fabulous little film! And practically, almost-canonically slash. Horror movie based on the Door's song Rider on the Storm - Rutger Hauer as a handsome psycopath on a Texas highway who randomly and horribly kills anyone who picks him up. Except pretty young Jim Halsey, who manages to fight him off - he just follows him around, frames him for a bunch of murders and does lots of wrong touching. I love it more than it scares me. I lick it yes.

5. Hmm. Perhaps A Clockwork Orange. Simply for having Little Alex, played by Malcolm McDowell. Who likes to do robberies and fights and raping. But is pretty, and honest at least in a world full of hypocrites and liars and social workers who just want to feel him up. And is mistreated by the state! And has to be carried, wearing a suit and tie, because people are so mean to him he collapses. I love people I shouldn't. I don't care :D

5. Five people to pass it on to.

::gives this question a sarcastic look:: Anyone who wants to. Whatever. I don't care.

Other random things that happened over the weekend I wish I had the internet in my room omg!!:

@ Not a lot now I come to think of. Not that I haven't already discussed in memes. Hmm.
@ Ooh, gay/bi-ness in Doctor Who! I came into the episode halfway through, and hadn't seen the first one, but I understood this part! I am waiting to see how this Jack fellow interacts with Mickey before getting too excited though ::is prudent::
@ Checked out Sin City comics. Comic!Kevin not nearly as pretty as ElijahWood!Kevin, and scarier for it. I could have done with some more of the Marv/Kevin sex fight scene though. 'He's wriggling around like a snake' - indeed...
@ Peter Serafinowicz on Have I Got News for You! Looking foxy, with his black half-open shirt and black hair! He is so a dark Sith-lord. And we all know Tim has the Force. Therefore everything that is sad about the slashiness of The Phantom Menace equally applies here yes.
@ South Park! I love it so! 'We killed our teacher and they found our seamen in her stomach'! 'Be not jealous Jew, for I am the creator of all things, yea'! The Catholic Boat! ::loves it::
@ Lots of things I will remember in an hour's time, but oh well ::loves you all!::