Author: odilettante
I like dramas.
Thinking about reviving my super dormant FB because I’ve been so busy the past few years that I’ve fallen out of touch w/ IRL peeps.
I did it! And already have a half dozen distant family members all “I’ve been wondering how you are” and have set up a dinner date with a friend I used to be super close with (his wife once described me as the female version of him) and who somehow now has TWO kids when the last time I saw them they only had one.
Thinking about reviving my super dormant FB because I’ve been so busy the past few years that I’ve fallen out of touch w/ IRL peeps.
“Dear Lord, what did you do with all of my prayers from the past 20 years? I begged that she’d forget me and meet a nice man and live a happy life. I begged so much. How could you make me such a big sinner? What am I supposed to do about this big sin? You knew, didn’t you? It’s so that I’d repent much more, isn’t it? Now, I don’t resent or hate anyone or anything anymore. All I have left are things to be thankful for. Lord, thank you so much for giving me an angelic daughter. I killed a man and I didn’t even know my daughter was born. Thank you so much for sending me an angelic… an angelic daughter who calls me Dad. Thank you so much. There’s nothing more that I could possibly want. Please let me see my daughter often. If you’d let me, I can live in jail for the rest of my life. I don’t care. Please, Lord.”
I love this. Man I would love to see Brenden Fraiser make a comeback.
Late 90′s/early ‘00s Brendan Fraser was something special.
But then the mid-2000′s hit and it was like “where did Brendan’s career go?”
Early 90′s Brendan is fun too, but not peak Fraser.
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How much do you love The Mummy and why?
As much as Ardeth Bey enjoys flying on Winston’s plane.
But why? Hmmmm, let me think…
…I don’t really know? I actually didn’t watch it until after I saw The Mummy Returns, because I’m a squeamish sort who doesn’t do well with anything in the realm of “horror,” and the previews made my adolescent self think it would be too scary for me.
But some of my friends were going to see The Mummy Returns so I went along, because I have no spine. And had a great time.
They said I had to see the first movie, but I kept putting it off until a friend got a DVD player for her birthday soon after, and one of her DVDs was the first Mummy movie. So we watched it.
And I fell in love. Why? I dunno. Being in the right place at the right time, a love of old-fashioned adventures, the mix of wit and snark and swashbuckling. And my bizarre sudden crush on Jonathan (and as a result, John Hannah).
This friend also introduced me to the world of online fanfiction when she showed me that she wrote Mummy fanfiction, and my brain went “zomg I can read more things about my favorite characters?!?!?!”
It also became an “in joke” with my friends, a shared source of fun references (remember, this was before tumblr). Like greeting each other from far away by shouting about horses and rivers. It was a teeny zeitgeist of this circle of friends.
So there went a summer of my life, watching this movie repeatedly, crafting my own Mummy fanfiction (my first true foray), and I actually tape-recorded the movie onto an audio cassette so I could listen to it while I was driving or in my room (because I did not have a tv in my room). Yes, I put a tape recorder next to the TV while the VHS tape was playing just so I could have more Mummy in my life.
I still remember where I had to flip the tape. “He’s still… juicy.”
So I’ve adored this movie since high school. It has all the elements I want in a film – adventure, romance, humor, sweeping visuals, an awesome heroine who I still secretly want to be – all wrapped up in a satisfying package.
It’s been nearly twenty years (well, less than that, since my introduction was in 2001), but I adore this film, it will forever have a spot on my “top 10″ list, and naysayers can fight me.
tldr: got dragged into it by friends, but stayed willingly.
What is you go-to rec for an older drama that you’d rewatch?
Dalja’s Spring. It’s ten years old, but still relatable and holds up well (or at least it did, the last time I saw it). Plus it has a lot of the classic cracktastic drama elements, like noona romance, contract relationships, fake dating, and forced cohabitation. Not to mention I adore Dalja and the friendship she makes with her coworkers – such a great story of female friendships stemming from the unlikeliest places.
Most importantly, it has a bby Kim Jae Wook.
Who would win in a fight (intelligence or physical) Poirot or Sherlock?
Sherlock would definitely win a physical fight, because he knows how to fight (martial arts, boxing, fencing) and seems to keep reasonably fit (opium addiction notwithstanding).
Intellectually, they might be reasonably matched, although I’d like to think Poirot’s little grey cells (and glorious mustache) would eventually outwit Sherlock.
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