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captainsolo
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What are you reading?
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Date created
3-Apr-2012, 9:43 PM

CP3S said:

Captiansolo's blog. Wow, good stuff.

I've always enjoyed his posts, and have admired his passion for film. He is the sort of film geek I have always aspired to be but fail miserably at. A few days ago I found myself thinking, I really wish this guy had a blog filled with movie reviews and glancing down at his sig I discovered that he does.

Wow, thanks! I always want to write more reviews/articles but each one takes me a few hours to get through simply because I've got so much to say. Then I edit like crazy trying to make things a bit more coherent. At least it gets some of all this out of my head for a bit. ;) (Just checked, and my list of reviews to write is at about 30 or so offhand. Ugh.)

Have you ever tried writing/discussing film? If you enjoy it it's not that difficult. I led my own film society in high school/college so I met many people who didn't know what they were getting into-but the key is to always enjoy the film at hand. I can't stand it when critics/reviewers/professors/classes forget that they are supposed to be educating about the topic and get high and mighty in their theorems.

Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. A month or so ago, I started my yearly re-read through of the Bond novels-but with a twist. I've been going through all the original Fleming books a section at a time very slowly, so that I can fully draw out all the little details of the text and really immerse myself in the book. It's interesting to do this with books you've read beyond countless times. This one only gets better each time, and you can clearly see the differences Richard Maibaum made when adapting for the film.

Can I just say that I love Fleming's women? People ogle over all the film Bond girls, but they're absolutely nothing compared to the women Fleming wrote. In the books, the characters are actual people with real defined motivations instead of being regulated to eye candy most of the time.