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pinkelephantiOk, so I finally went to see My Bloody Valentine last Saturday, and am only now getting around to posting some of my thoughts about it. Hopefully this has given them some time to ferment in my brain! I will put all the spoilers under the cut even though I think most of you have seen it by now :D
I don't usually watch horror movies and I think I can honestly say that until now I have never seen one at the cinema, that is the power Jensen Ackles has over me, hee! Having said that, I wasn't particularly scared by the film, I think it was pretty obvious who was and wasn't going to die. This didn't particularly bother me as I wasn't really looking to be scared, I was looking to ogle Jensen for a feature-length period of time and that was very much accomplished. I like Jensen in hoodies I must say, and wifebeater's.... *is shallow*
The one thing I didn't really like was the gorey 'all the things I can do with a pickaxe' scenes, though I guess that was to be expected, I'm not squeamish, but I don't really want those images in my mind, so I didn't watch all those bits. Hee, I went with two friends and after we were like 'did you see what happened to the guy on the porch?' and we all had to say that no actually none of us watched that bit, guess we're kind of wusses lol. The rest of it was fun in a 'DON'T DO THAT!' horror movie kind of way and I really enjoyed the fact that I didn't expect the twist at the end, I truely thought Tom was going to be the hero. On a fangirl note I think Jensen did so well in that reveal scene, loved it! :)
In other matters, my friend and I found something really interesting yesterday so I thought I'd share it. We had dinner with her parents at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, where they were staying and on the walls in the corridors there were displayed old letters that were sent to guests and not collected or sent to staff etc. There were a whole lot of letters that were written by two people to each other, they both seemed to travel loads and so sent their letters to the hotel. At first the letters seemed like they were just friends, but after a couple we definitely thought they sounded more like lovers, they also sent each other pressed flowers and sketches and newspaper clippings, it was so sweet. However she was definitely married to someone else and they spoke of having secret meetings, the labels the hotel put up said that the letters had started in the 1920's and continued on and off for 80 years. They were discovered in a trunk a couple of years ago when the Midland was refurbished, the letters had all been read at the hotel but not been removed, I guess in case they were found by the wrong person. It just seems amazing that they could have an affair for so long and communicating mainly through a hotel. They seemed like they were both really nice people and it was interesting seeing this little snapshot into their lives, I so wanted to see the rest to find out the whole story, apparently there were hundreds! Anyway bits of real history like this make me squeee. It should so totally be made into a film I think, with some kind of happy ending :D
I don't usually watch horror movies and I think I can honestly say that until now I have never seen one at the cinema, that is the power Jensen Ackles has over me, hee! Having said that, I wasn't particularly scared by the film, I think it was pretty obvious who was and wasn't going to die. This didn't particularly bother me as I wasn't really looking to be scared, I was looking to ogle Jensen for a feature-length period of time and that was very much accomplished. I like Jensen in hoodies I must say, and wifebeater's.... *is shallow*
The one thing I didn't really like was the gorey 'all the things I can do with a pickaxe' scenes, though I guess that was to be expected, I'm not squeamish, but I don't really want those images in my mind, so I didn't watch all those bits. Hee, I went with two friends and after we were like 'did you see what happened to the guy on the porch?' and we all had to say that no actually none of us watched that bit, guess we're kind of wusses lol. The rest of it was fun in a 'DON'T DO THAT!' horror movie kind of way and I really enjoyed the fact that I didn't expect the twist at the end, I truely thought Tom was going to be the hero. On a fangirl note I think Jensen did so well in that reveal scene, loved it! :)
In other matters, my friend and I found something really interesting yesterday so I thought I'd share it. We had dinner with her parents at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, where they were staying and on the walls in the corridors there were displayed old letters that were sent to guests and not collected or sent to staff etc. There were a whole lot of letters that were written by two people to each other, they both seemed to travel loads and so sent their letters to the hotel. At first the letters seemed like they were just friends, but after a couple we definitely thought they sounded more like lovers, they also sent each other pressed flowers and sketches and newspaper clippings, it was so sweet. However she was definitely married to someone else and they spoke of having secret meetings, the labels the hotel put up said that the letters had started in the 1920's and continued on and off for 80 years. They were discovered in a trunk a couple of years ago when the Midland was refurbished, the letters had all been read at the hotel but not been removed, I guess in case they were found by the wrong person. It just seems amazing that they could have an affair for so long and communicating mainly through a hotel. They seemed like they were both really nice people and it was interesting seeing this little snapshot into their lives, I so wanted to see the rest to find out the whole story, apparently there were hundreds! Anyway bits of real history like this make me squeee. It should so totally be made into a film I think, with some kind of happy ending :D
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on 2009-02-19 08:22 am (UTC)Jensen was SOOOO pretty and totally worth it gah!
aww what a cute story!!! <3
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on 2009-02-19 01:38 pm (UTC)Yeah we thought so too, it would make a great plot for a fic actually :D
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on 2009-02-19 07:51 pm (UTC):)
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on 2009-02-20 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-02-20 03:53 am (UTC)oh awesome that sounds interesting!
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on 2009-02-20 04:02 am (UTC)Once you've watched QAF you should definitely read it, its one of those that I've read more than once :)