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*Beaming All Over The Place*
Mar. 15th, 2009 08:22 pmToday = best antidote for mopiness and dissatisfaction, ever. Saw Easy Virtue, which turned out to be AWESOME. Roll-over hilarious. Have decided Colin Firth is awesomely funny, after all. Also, Ben Barnes took his clothes off. AND, for a chick-flicky sort of thing, it had a truly excellent ending: none of this kiss-and-make-up business, it ended kinda messily and... well, I liked it.
Some elements of the plot were forced - in a way it could've done without the "scandal from the past" element, which felt like the plot device it was, rather than part of the characters. Plus, Ben Barnes is really good at acting happy, not so good at acting believable angst, anger or hurt. It was really worth it for all the Happy Ben Barnes in the movie, though. Happy Ben Barnes makes me happy. As does Naked Ben Barnes.
ALSO, I bought the Cambridge Companion to Early English Theatre, much <3. I can't set foot out of my door in this town without buying books, honestly. Furthermore, I went to the movies with Lucy, and then we ambled around Canberra for nearly three hours, and got quite cold toward the end of it. Have I mentioned to you, O Flist of mine, how awesome Lucy is? I mean, I knew I was going to like her, LJ's a fairly good gauge of people's personalities. But I hadn't been expecting her to be so easy to be around: I'd actually been expecting to find her a bit of a handful, one of those people who are great but kind of exhausting. This is not so! For reasons unknown, Lucy manages to put me entirely at ease, and I usually go away bouncier than I came, and with a tendency to grin broadly at nothing at all. So there you have it: Lucy is awesome.
My hands are still all stiff from the cold, though. Next time, we're hanging around inside.
Some elements of the plot were forced - in a way it could've done without the "scandal from the past" element, which felt like the plot device it was, rather than part of the characters. Plus, Ben Barnes is really good at acting happy, not so good at acting believable angst, anger or hurt. It was really worth it for all the Happy Ben Barnes in the movie, though. Happy Ben Barnes makes me happy. As does Naked Ben Barnes.
ALSO, I bought the Cambridge Companion to Early English Theatre, much <3. I can't set foot out of my door in this town without buying books, honestly. Furthermore, I went to the movies with Lucy, and then we ambled around Canberra for nearly three hours, and got quite cold toward the end of it. Have I mentioned to you, O Flist of mine, how awesome Lucy is? I mean, I knew I was going to like her, LJ's a fairly good gauge of people's personalities. But I hadn't been expecting her to be so easy to be around: I'd actually been expecting to find her a bit of a handful, one of those people who are great but kind of exhausting. This is not so! For reasons unknown, Lucy manages to put me entirely at ease, and I usually go away bouncier than I came, and with a tendency to grin broadly at nothing at all. So there you have it: Lucy is awesome.
My hands are still all stiff from the cold, though. Next time, we're hanging around inside.