Film Night: Death Race
Sep. 27th, 2008 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesFirst off - Charity Auction: Handwritten story by Emma Collingwood (author of the lovely "Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood, deceased") which is to benefit the Morpeth Lions Club Flood Fund - a club once patronised by Captain Collingwood himself and a good cause.
There is also an original picture by the illustrator of "Samuel Blackwood" - Amandine De Villeneuve
Click on the links to take you to the Ebay (UK) auctions.
As for Cinema night: Well, it was DEATH RACE starring the delectable Jason Statham. I'm old enough to have seen the original, but I'm afraid I never did. Was that the one where the drivers got points for each person they hit? I could go and look it up but I'm too lazy, but there were a lot of jokes about "ten points for the old lady" when I was driving with boys as a teenager. Perhaps it'll be on the TV one day.
Anyway, this one was really bloody enjoyable, and it was a bit of a surprise. We booked it because it had Jason Statham in it, and both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canarieschick and I really like him and love his hotness. I never thought I'd be impressed by a film that had little to draw me in other than hot cars, hot men and hot chicks (which frankly were a bit superfluous) but I was - the storyline was not convoluted; one knew pretty much what would happen to the bad people, but all the same it handled it in a way that was entirely satisfying. There's even a very hot black gay guy. "Everyone has a woman navigator, apart from Joe. That's because he's gay." "No, it's because he gets through them too fast and the network got squeamish." "yeah - he gets through them - through the arse." I think there must be a law now that any film CC and I go to see has to have major gay elements.
There's not a lot to the film. Cars. Explosions. Revs. Rivalry. A Wronged Hero doing what he has to. But it works in all the right places for the right reasons. And the most interesting fact about it - and the reason I wanted to see it (other than Mr S getting his vest off, AGAIN) was that they deliberately didn't use any CGI in the film at all. When you know that - the story suddenly gets a lot more interesting, and you sit there, like a child, thinking "fuck! how did they DO that!" which is how it should be, imo. Loved it. Who knew I was such a petrol head, eh?
There is also an original picture by the illustrator of "Samuel Blackwood" - Amandine De Villeneuve
Click on the links to take you to the Ebay (UK) auctions.
As for Cinema night: Well, it was DEATH RACE starring the delectable Jason Statham. I'm old enough to have seen the original, but I'm afraid I never did. Was that the one where the drivers got points for each person they hit? I could go and look it up but I'm too lazy, but there were a lot of jokes about "ten points for the old lady" when I was driving with boys as a teenager. Perhaps it'll be on the TV one day.
Anyway, this one was really bloody enjoyable, and it was a bit of a surprise. We booked it because it had Jason Statham in it, and both
canarieschick and I really like him and love his hotness. I never thought I'd be impressed by a film that had little to draw me in other than hot cars, hot men and hot chicks (which frankly were a bit superfluous) but I was - the storyline was not convoluted; one knew pretty much what would happen to the bad people, but all the same it handled it in a way that was entirely satisfying. There's even a very hot black gay guy. "Everyone has a woman navigator, apart from Joe. That's because he's gay." "No, it's because he gets through them too fast and the network got squeamish." "yeah - he gets through them - through the arse." I think there must be a law now that any film CC and I go to see has to have major gay elements.There's not a lot to the film. Cars. Explosions. Revs. Rivalry. A Wronged Hero doing what he has to. But it works in all the right places for the right reasons. And the most interesting fact about it - and the reason I wanted to see it (other than Mr S getting his vest off, AGAIN) was that they deliberately didn't use any CGI in the film at all. When you know that - the story suddenly gets a lot more interesting, and you sit there, like a child, thinking "fuck! how did they DO that!" which is how it should be, imo. Loved it. Who knew I was such a petrol head, eh?
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Date: 2008-09-28 08:54 pm (UTC)I agree Jason Statham is hot. I read somewhere that he used to be some kind of elite swimmer.
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