Agatha Christie movies may have some good points, sometimes...

[rivendellrose]

Last night, Kendra had a Poirot DVD she'd ordered from the library, and despite my general distaste for Agatha Christie (a combination of not generally liking mystery novels and having residual spiteful feelings leftover from the production of A Murder is Announced that I was in many years ago), we decided to watch it, mostly with the idea of laughing at the young Christopher Eccleston we knew played some part in it. I made my usual "I'll be in and out, I'm supposed to be writing" statement, and settled in fully expecting to wait for Eccleston to show up, watch for a few more minutes, and then disappear into my room to work.


1 minute in: God, this intro sucks. Ohhhh, I wish we'd gotten one of his better movies first...
2 minutes in: Oh, look - half a minute of a production of Much Ado About Nothing. Still bored.
7 minutes in: Kendra and I figure out the "main surprise" of the whole movie and have a good grasp already of the entire mystery's solution.
About 5-10 minutes in, direct quotes from my brain: Yay, it's Eccleston. Oh. He's, um... young. And also hot. Why did no one tell me he was actually really hot when he was young? As in hotter than he is at 40-some, which is impressive since I already sort of thought he was insanely so... How did I not know this? "How old is he in this, anyway?"
Kendra: "Young enough for us to seriously perv over, without feeling the slightest bit creepy."
Me: "Also, he's all sullen and angry which totally delights me is impressive from an acting standpoint only, of course."
20 minutes in: I recognize him, I swear to god, from about 20 feet away from the camera, wearing a different outfit than before, with a hat covering his face. On my 12 inch TV screen, from across the room. Because I'm insane like that. And then he does this fantastic "oh, the heat, I must stop to wipe my brow and incidentally stretch my neck just so and give a very semi-post-coital expression."
Kendra and I: Pretty much faint, then rewind and rewatch said shot about twelve times before continuing.
Eccleston: Yells.
Kendra and I: Squee.
Eccleston: Is ineffective, sullen, and adorably twenty-eight.
Kendra and I: Squee even more.
Movie ends.
We rewatch the garden scene with the heat another fifteen or so times, and then go rampaging on the internet to find screencaps. Because this man? Seriously entirely too hot.


In conclusion... Eccleston? Is the only actor I've ever really found attractive who was better looking at something vaguely approaching my age than he is in his forties. There's something wrong with this, and yet? I'm very, very pleased.

I reiterate: So. Very. Pretty.

Also, if anybody else is looking for almost!naked Eccleston? It's in here. (Not entirely worksafe, though he's wearing briefs and everything is technically covered. Technically. XD) No, I haven't found the actually!naked yet. If I find it, you'll be the first to know.

Comments

[niwatorimegami.livejournal.com]

Pfft, you guys are hilarious, though I must say he's looking mighty fine in those screencaps!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Silliness, yes, and I do exaggerate (umm... very very slightly, I'm embarrassed to admit....), but yes! He's excessively pretty. ♥

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

*points and laughs at you both*

*looks at the prettyness in the screencaps*

... *still finds you both hilarious*

:D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hey, he's pretty, alright? And the screencaps aren't even getting the full extent of it!

...*Sulks*

.... ...*Remembers the briefs-only shot to comfort herself, damn it*

If you're allowed to perv over Jack, I'm allowed to have a moment over a character who looks like nothing less than a 28 year old version of the Ninth Doctor! XD

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

He is pretty! Its just entertaining to me to make fun you. :D

You are allowed to perv, but don't expect me to pass up on the opportunity to mock. Especially when you detail and chronicle your perving.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Bows* I live to entertain.

...Well, that and to share pervy links. XD

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! ... Do a daaaaaaaaance~ *pokepoke*

Good reasons to live. Well done. ^_^

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Does a pirate dance, since she is dressed as a pirate for work today*

I think so. Of course, I would be more worthwhile if I could find more perviness to share. It's part of my Great Life Goals: Naked Eccleston. It's high on the list.

I'm so selfless, you see... XD

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Yay! *claps* Lucky, getting to dress up like a pirate today. I need to get home so I can wear my hat.

It's the simple things in life, isn't it?

Oh. So very, very selfless. Hunting down nekkid pictures of pretty men. Arduous, that is.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's fun! Though not that many people did it, so I'm still getting funny looks around the halls and such, especially from the folks at the gym. :P

It is! XD

Yup, that's me. The untold suffering I go through for my friends... *Clucks tongue*

...Speaking of which, if you can think of any really bizarre kinks, I'm collecting them for the Jack Does the Universe fic. Just, if anything pops into your head. ♥

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Pirates = win. This are fact.

Wooooow. What a kind and loving friend you are.

... Um. I don't know if I could think of any that you already haven't. I mean, there's the body fluid stuff, of which blood is the only one that comes even close to okay, but still kind of oogy. And vore. Can't go anywhere without vore. Incest, but I don't think Jack would be into that. BDSM, gender role swapping, various role play kinks, tentacles, exhibitionism, voyerism... and that's all I got for now.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Got the vore (or at least know what I'm doing with it... haven't actually written it yet), got the tentacles... hadn't hit exhibitionism or any of the other "usual" kinks, so that's a good concept.

I need a good reference book on comparative reproductive biology, is what I need. That's always the best way to come up with alien stuff.... hmm. Must see if such things exist. XD

[arcane.livejournal.com]

I was in a production of A Murder is Announced. And I too have a general dislike for Agatha Christy, but I enjoy Poirot.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's something about that play, I swear! I barely remember it anymore (aside from being obscurely pleased that I got to die on stage), but it seems to've ruined Agatha Christie for me forever.

Poirot was amusing, but the "mystery" was obvious enough that I doubt I'll be watching much more of it. Interesting, but not nearly twisty enough. I don't read much of the genre, so I figure if I can figure it out right away, it's too simple. ;)

[arcane.livejournal.com]

It's an entirely forgettable play. I was afraid you were going to ask me who I played, because I can't even remember the character's name. I think it was Edmund or Edmunton or something like that. What I remember if it, it was a bad play.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. I think there's only the one guy, isn't there? Little... yeah, Edmund sounds right.

And yes... it was bad. I was trying to remember the plot, the other night, after watching Poirot, and I'm finding it almost impossible. Bleh. Didn't help that I was doing two shows at the same time, that fall... but either way I think it'd be one of my least well-remembered.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was young I was always getting cast in murder mysteries. Between the ages of 17 and 20 I had done six of them. Three of them were Agatha Christie (two Miss Marples) and one a musical spoof of an Agatha Christie murder mystery. I don't know if it was a theatre trend it the late 90s, or if I just had that murder mystery look (kind of like how I seem to be doing almost all Shakespeare now). What I leared was that it was hard to find a good murder mystery. It seems like all the hack writers are attracted to them.

[arcane.livejournal.com]

That was me!

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And it turns out my library has that Poirot and I've requested it. Somehow they left his name off the keywords list for it!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! It's not the biggest part in the world, but he's insanely cute. And the rest of it isn't actually terrible, either - it just, y'know... lacks the unbelievable cuteness that is Eccleston. ♥