xXx

[coalescent]

Sue me. I was in the mood for something loud and brainless. And hey, xXx certainly delivers on that front.

Actually, it struck me as a weird film. I've never seen anything try quite so hard to be cool, yet give itself so little to work with. It was filmed like a series of music videos with the occasional segment of dialogue, but set in eastern europe - which, whilst admittedly pretty, is not the first place you think of to epitomise cool. The premise is similarly awkward; Xander Cage is a bad-ass extreme sports rebel dude (best line: "You hire someone to save the world, you better make sure they like it the way it is now"), but he ends up as the embodiment of patriotic duty. It's cool to serve your country, kids!

The 'splosions were pretty, though (if improbable). Plus, there was a trailer for The Two Towers, which by itself made up for any failings the main feature may have had.

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[pikelet.livejournal.com]

xXx

Three kisses! We're all special!

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

I believe I've said this before, but:

You're special, alright.

Babes.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

let me see: you went to xXx and you're actually surprised that it sucked?
you cannot be niall harrison, he's not usually so dizzy of mind.

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it sucked. I was in the mood for 'splosion silliness, and I didn't get bored. It just struck me that what the film was trying to be and what it actually was didn't quite match up.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

that's even more upsetting in a way when a film can't even be successful pure fluff.
for reference see: Matrix, The

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

You are citing The Matrix as a good example of such fluff, right?

Just checking.

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

Jeeeeeeeeeesus H Smith.

You know there's still compressed messages when you decompress the first lot.

Mad as bastards, the lot of you.

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[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, god. I can't believe I wrote that many posts. *checks threads* Yep, yep, I did.

[truckerr.livejournal.com]

what. the. fuck?

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

It was an experiment. Of sorts. :-)

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

In the way Chernobyl was.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

cookie, anyone?

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

A nice cookie?

[truckerr.livejournal.com]

mmmmm...

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

But what is SF?

...

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

siamese fish

or a useless term that some folks deem suitable to use for literature.

*runs away really fast*

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

Spurious Flatulence?

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[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

I dunno what to say here, but hmmm, poor siamese fish, trapped in a university by the nefarious oxford university siamese fish society! and then they claim that the term siamese fish has nothing to do with fish, but siamese cats, and we obviously haven't seen enough siamese fish in our time to know that? What do they take us for? Eh? I know they've imprisoned fish! *sob* Poor things.

weezer!

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

http://www.weezur.com/weezintoronto.jpg2

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[brassyn.livejournal.com]

uh, not sure why that doesn't work.
i can't post the picture cause weezur.com doesn't allow outside linking, but why the actual url is dodgy. i don't know.

/me tries again

rea!

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

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[snowking.livejournal.com]

I saw Angel before Niall

Hahahahahahahaa

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[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I could see it before niall!

But I choose sleep instead. look, niall. I choose not to watch. ha!

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[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

I bet there are a whole load of people now who've seen Angel before Niall. Hee! Okay, so I'm not one of them, but that's not the point.