i am REALLY groggy.

[cimorene]

was less threesomey and more foursomey.  also, it was adorable and very cartoon-comic-ish.  i was kind of pissed about angelina's sort of--throwaway appearance at first.  she didn't get a lot of screen time.  but dex (giovanni) and joe (jude) were both unbearably cute.  there was lots of good dialogue, too.  and i halfway hated gwyneth's polly.  she reminded me of the old style lois lane, who was also maddeningly dumb.  but her costume was nice, and her acting was good.  everything in sepias and soft-focus--it was so arty and stylized, aesthetically driven, like roy lichtenstein made into a movie.  also, i kept hearing echoes of that film with rufus sewell and kiefer sutherland, dark city. 

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[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Angelina got partially spoiled for me because I couldn't get the image of Honor Harrington out of my head. I kept expecting Nimitz to show up :) (And I've only ever read one of those books, although god knows I've seen the cover for "Honor Among Enemies" enough times at Borders.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i think i read several, but it was such a long time ago. anyway, who knows if it'd've bothered me. maybe not. the cover image that's strongest in my mind has a quite different person, trying to look vulnerable or something--not nearly as badass, certainly not with that eyepatch and updo thing.