Just another day

[vanillafluffy]

Didn't do the "lunch with Kat" thing because she was stuck at SSI all day. We're going to try again tomorrow.

However, I did manage a smidgen of Known and Unknown. My output over the last couple of months is so meagre that even a few hundred words looks good. (It helped that jdsgirlbev wanted to know about Nancy McGill in yesterday's writing meme.) Despite not having worked on it much of late, I've thought a great deal about it. Once I've gotten it to a certain point, it'll roll right along, it's a matter of getting to that point.

Also glanced through Nature vs Nurture...didn't really DO anything with it, but it, too, is getting the benefit of a lot of brainpower.

Spent the evening fixing hamburgers---the whole house smells of them because my range hood hasn't worked since 1996---and watching the AFI's countdown of the top 100 films of all time and feeling smug when I could name the film before the title caption flashed on-screen. And vindicated: The Shawshank Redemption scored better than Forrest Gump; I've been incensed for years that Shawshank didn't get the Oscar for the best-adapted screenplay, which Frank Darabont richly deserved.

Life is good!

Comments

[jdsgirlbev.livejournal.com]

lol....I thought, at the time, that Forrest Gump was brilliant...then about 2 years later, I saw Shawshank...and realized...I was Gumped! Shawshank is MILES ahead of Gump.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Shawshank is my favorite Stephen King fic of all time---which is saying a lot, when you consider he also wrote Christine and I'm a compleat car slut. After I saw Shawshank, I went back and reread the novella and was completely wowed again, because the novella outlines the story, but Darabont brought it to life.

Gump the movie was imaginative, and an improvement on the book, but NOT in the same league as Shawshank at all. Zemekis, though...a real money-maker, and Hollywood politics rears its ugly head again.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I thought the film of Forrest Gump ruined one of my favourite books from High School. It sucked arse. In a big way.

Shawshank however took an enjoyable and well crafted story and made a fricken MASTERPIECE out of it. (which could be said about all the films made from Four Seasons actually)

The Oscars are a perennial mystery.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I didn't care for the Gump book. I agree about The Body/Stand By Me (although I smirked like a geek that The Writer just turned his computer off at the end without saving). Umm, Kiefer Sutherland when he was practically jailbait! I never have seen Apt Pupil, although I've no doubt that Sir Ian did a splended job---he always does a splendid job.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I can see how the book wouldn't appeal to everyone. I did love it though. And oh god, yes. Keifer as jail-bait is yummy. I think his Lost Boys edges ahead, but only just.

Apt Pupil is disturbing, much as you would expect given the source material, but it is very well played by all the cast. And it seems to 'get' something that doesn't come across in the story. I can't put my finger on what, but it's similar to Stand by Me and Shawshank in that way.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Gawd, yes, Lost Boys was IT. Although I also loved Flashback, and thought Crazy Moon was rather sweet.

I'll get around to Apt Pupil eventually, probably if I run across it as an afternoon movie or something....