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[froodle]

I cannot believe they're making another Sharpe movie. Don't get me wrong, I harbour a deep and abiding affection for Sean Bean's ass in those tight breeches the original series, but come on! Am I the only one who saw Troy? Sean Bean's like seventy years old. They're going to have him pushing a frickin' Zimmerframe across India, "dramatic tension" arising when his arthritic hands can't fire the bloody rifle in the heat of battle and the only way he's goin to rip anybody's bodice is if Emily from the Corpse Bride happens to be available. It's going to be that episode of Kim Possible where Drakken creates an army of old people all over again, only not good.

On the other hand, the opposing side is going to be fucking terrified when they realise that Britain can apparently raise the dead and force them to fight for us. Bet Napolean wishes he'd thought of that.

In other news, a shiny meme:

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.

1. Escaflowne
2. Angel
3. Buffy - Xander - Snithy
4. Firefly - Jayne - Snithy
5. Wolf's Rain - Hige aka Fluffy - Hex and, by a process of elimination, _doompixie_
6. Watership Down - Thlayli/Bigwig - Hex
7. Master and Commander (movie) - Jack - Snithy
8. Eerie, Indiana - Dash X - ajmckay
9. Big Wolf on Campus - Vince - ajmckay
10. Hornblower - Ickle Midshipman Archie - Snithy and enednoviel
11. LOTR (movies) - Merry - Snithy
12. Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
13. Invader Zim - Gaz - _doompixie_
14. Good Omens - Zira - Hex
15. Saiyuki
16. Rurouni Kenshin
17. Orphen - Hartia - Hex
18. Moomins - Snufkin - _doompixie_
19. Smallville - Lex - ajmckay
20. Nip/Tuck - Christian - ajmckay

Comments

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

Ouch... aren't you a little harsh in your judgement?
I have to admit that I was sceptical too. But the first pictures are very promising, he really looks good back in uniform!

[froodle]

Admittedly, the last thing I saw him in was Troy, and he may have recovered from what I can only assume was a horrible wasting disease that made him look like the Yorkshire version of Yoda, but I hold out little hope. Even airbrushing has limits. Maybe they could like, cut out a picture of him ten years ago and superimpose it over him all the way through the movie, like when Ben Affleck was in South Park and they pasted his head onto a cartoon body.

Ultimatly it doesn't really matter, since I'll end up watching it anyway, even if I am glued to the TV from sheer horrified fascination as pensioner!Sharpe storms the impenatrable fortress, ravishes Buxom McWenchly and subsequently has to have a hip operation due to overexertion in the line of duty.

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

We'll see, won't we?

[dissident-dream.livejournal.com]

I think its quite hot

[froodle]

Jesus! Can't you at least be consistent in your perversions? First it's innocent underaged boys, now it's senior citizens. Madame, you sicken me.

[dissident-dream.livejournal.com]

I'm just not fussy! well not at the moment anyway

[liar-xx.livejournal.com]

And without the added attraction of lemon squares.

[froodle]

Oh man, that would be about the only thing that could save it from a mire of suckiness - the last line in the film is the Indian warlord dude being like, "Patrick Harper, you think your lemon squares are all that! But they're not! They're not!" and then climbing into an ice-cream truck and driving away.

[liar-xx.livejournal.com]

That'd be a great ending for just about any movie.

[ajmckay.livejournal.com]

Big Wolf on Campus

Guess: Vince

Eerie, Indiana

Guess: Dash X

Nip/Tuck

Guess: Christian

Smallville

Guess: Lex

Angel

Guess: Wesley

The rest of the fandoms I don't remember enough characters or am not familiar with the fandom to make a guess. ^_^

[froodle]

Right on everything except Wesley, who, while briefly cool in season 2, degenerated into total annoyingness when Fred came into the picture.

[ajmckay.livejournal.com]

I've only seen a couple of episodes of Angel and I was going to guess Spike, but I remembered he was only in the last season. Is it Angel?

[dissident-dream.livejournal.com]

1. Never heard of it
2. Spike or Gunn
3. hmm Zander
4. Jayne
5. eh?
6. rabbit
7. Jack
10. Archie
11. Aragorn

[froodle]

1. Because you're gay.
2. Wrong!
3. Yay Xander!
4. Well, that was a bit of a no-brainer.
5. Again, you're gay.
6. ...gay.
7. Yay Jack!
10. Yay Archie!
11. Ewww no, he's a horrible hobo!

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

#7 Dr. Stephen Maturin
#10: Archie
#11: Boromir

[froodle]

Yay for Archie, but not for the other two.

[dissident-dream.livejournal.com]

ooh its the green thing isn't it?

[froodle]

What?!

mm...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_doompixie_/]

Moomins is Snufkin!! Maybe... ? And for wolf's rain I vote... umm... was his name Tsume? the obnoxious antisocial one in the leather jacket. But I've only seen a few episodes. I just remember he has silver hair... and a jacket.

Re: mm...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_doompixie_/]

I'll take a guess at Gaz for Invader Zim too. Just because she rules. *is Gaz*

Re: mm...

[froodle]

Yay Snufkin! And the leather-jacketed dude on Wolf's Rain is called Tsume, or as I like to call him, Bondage Wolf, but he's not my favourite.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

In a fit of it's-two-in-the-morning-and-I've-been-into-the-Guinness boredom, I started hitting "friends of" links in communities I belong to, where I found this post. Hail and well-met!

I am extremely skeptical of this new Sharpe film. The plot appears to be one of the India prequels, but rather than suck it up and find a new, younger Sharpe to portray his adventures as an enlisted man (a move which I, for one, would heartily endorse), they're postdating it and shoehorning Sean Bean back into his old uniform again.

Then again, I'm not nearly so attached to Sean in the role as most people are, despite the approximate seventy-three television appearances he has made as Sharpe. I started reading the books long before I got the first three films on Netflix, and somehow his being blonde and having a horrid mullet turned me off immediately. I've since decided that the books and the movies are two completely separate things which just happen to have the same characters' names. For one thing, Sharpe and Harper are straight in the books, but completely homosexual on film. For another, I just... don't think Sean's hot. My mind's eye has a much more battle-scarred, but much sexier Sharpe. If only I could draw.

Still, even with my mental books vs. movies dichotomy, I'm not at all certain I can support this particular endeavor.

[froodle]

God bless friends-of-friends, you find the most random stuff there.

That was my first thought when I saw it was set in India; I was just like, "Hey, wasn't he about 16 back then? What are you thinking, TV making people?!" Closely followed by "I'm not watching this if Harper's not in it... oh there he is... wait huhwhathowdoesthatwork?"

My Dad has love for Sharpe in all his incarnations, but I suspect he secretly fancies Sean Bean (when I got the DVDs last Christmas, my friend was like "You can't fancy Sharpe! My Dad fancies Sharpe!", to which my reaction was "Hey, really? Mine too!") so I was familiar with his daring blonde Yorkshire endevours long before I picked up a Bernard Cornwell novel.

I think they're going to try to compensate for Sean Bean's olditude by retroactively aging everyone else even more so he looks younger by comparison. So basically all the other characters will be played by rotting corpses to make Bean look a mere sprightly sixty-five.

I thought they were pretty gay in the books, too. I remember being quite annoyed that the film version of Sharpe's Sword wasn't anything like as slashy as the book was (and also that weird mini-nun thing looks like ickle Perkins in drag. I'm sorry, but it's true.)

I'll end up watching it anyway, out of misplaced fangirlish loyalty or horrified fascination, depending on how awful it is.

[clay-mans-maker.livejournal.com]

1. Escaflowne. dilandau.
2. Angel. Freve.
5. Wolf's Rain. Bondage wolf, fluffy. (he's Pink!)
6. Watership Down. the gay one with the lion hair (Squee! Gaybunneh!)
7. Master and Commander (movie) - stephen
14. Good Omens. zira
15. Saiyuki. Pfft. Not a Real Show.
16. Rurouni Kenshin. the mong version of kenshin. duh.

[froodle]

1: Nope. While I adore Dilandau, he is not my favourite.
2: You whore.
5: Ewwww Bondagewolf! But YAY Fluffy.
6: You have no proof that Bigwig is gay. None!
7: Unlike you, I don't fancy Hemulens.
14: YAY!
15: Pfft, your head is not a real show. Despite how horribly large it is.
16: You disgust me. Monglover.