The Rose's Grove

My talking meme calendar has some gaps in it, but I got a bunch of lovely new questions today, and since one of them had to be shuffled a bit due to two people selecting the same days, I moved one to today!

mekare asked: "What other sci-fi films and/or shows have you enjoyed apart from Babylon 5 and Star Trek? Can you rec any?"

And indeed I can! Your mileage may vary, of course, with recommendations, but I'll try to at least give some sense of what it is that I liked about each property, and whether or not I would recommend watching it.

( Recommendations and nattering under the cut... )

Okay... Just when I thought I was going to be totally safe in ignoring the stupid Ridley Scott "Robin Hood"... they announce Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea (totally awesome folk/rock band from Newfoundland) as one of the minor characters. As a minstrel, no less! ♥ Go Alan!

This doesn't mean the movie won't still be painful, but it means I will probably have to see the damned thing to support his first movie gig. Or, at the very least buy the soundtrack, because they wouldn't bother to hire an actual singer as a minstrel unless they were going to let him sing!

...Now I just have to hope his part doesn't end up on the cutting room floor, the poor dear. ♥

So, whoever told me there was nudity in Casanova? Really needs to get out more. Very cute and funny movie, full of lots of familiar actors and David Tennant acting exactly like he does as the Doctor, which is especially surreal when you consider that a) a good number of the major actors in it have guest starred in DW over the past few years and b) it's Russel Davies' writing, so the dialogue is pretty much exactly like the Doctor, too.

...But I've seen more naked flesh on the university Quad in April. Which is a pity, since what we did see (chest and truly astonishing expanses of pale, skinny, adorable Tennant-leg) was quite nice.

Aaaaanyway, it was still a good movie. Funny, good acting, great cast, etc. Pleasantly silly up to the depressing bit in the latter half, which I suppose was necessary. Entirely worth laughing at while drinking a bottle of wine and, in my case, soaking one's hair in home-made lightening stuff. Which does not appear to have had an appreciable effect on my hair, but whatever. I really ought to get used to the fact that nothing that isn't bleach is going to really make much of a difference, and I have objections to bleaching my hair. Alas. I'll continue dousing it with chamomile, lemon and such, though, because drat it, I don't get as much sun as I used to, and I don't want to lose the lighter bits in my hair.

Oh, fridayfive:
1. At the end of today, do you think you'll feel spent or refreshed?
Probably spent, though I hope to go out to the pub tonight, so maybe that'll put a little bit more on the "refreshed" end of things.

2. Do you like back rubs?
Yes dear god please where can I sign up? My back has not been happy with me lately.

3. When did you last mislead someone?
Hmmm... Not actually sure.

4. What color are your eyes?
Blue with a bit of grey-green.

5. Friday fill-in:
What is this, a freebie? Okay... I'm beginning to seriously hate being single. No... scratch that... not just beginning. Just plain hate.