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thehefnerI really, really should know better by now than to respond to some article or something by commenting in the message boards. Especially when the site in question is CHUD.com, of all places.
Fucking head reviewer called Harvey Dent "a bland character" and Two-Face "a generic villain" (The character, not Eckhart's portrayal, which he says elevated it above the source material). Fucker.
And now, of course, I've quickly found myself embroiled in a back and forth between myself and... well, the kinds of people who would regularly post on the CHUD.com message boards. I really should just let it go, not go back there, ignore them and let the matter die.
... GAHHHH!!! HOLD ME BACK, BOYS! *flails violently*
On the plus side, I just got an e-mail from Mike Daisey, whose show MONOPOLY! was a huge inspiration for me, and one of the very best solo shows I have ever seen. He's planning on coming to see THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES: HOW HEFNERIAN, which is fucking awesome, but also more than a little intimidating.
I'd kinda prefer he see the show after I've had, like, a year to develop and hone it rather than its rough premiere run. But then, if he has any insight, that could help give said development a shot in the arm.
This is the good kind of terrified.
Fucking head reviewer called Harvey Dent "a bland character" and Two-Face "a generic villain" (The character, not Eckhart's portrayal, which he says elevated it above the source material). Fucker.
And now, of course, I've quickly found myself embroiled in a back and forth between myself and... well, the kinds of people who would regularly post on the CHUD.com message boards. I really should just let it go, not go back there, ignore them and let the matter die.
... GAHHHH!!! HOLD ME BACK, BOYS! *flails violently*
On the plus side, I just got an e-mail from Mike Daisey, whose show MONOPOLY! was a huge inspiration for me, and one of the very best solo shows I have ever seen. He's planning on coming to see THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES: HOW HEFNERIAN, which is fucking awesome, but also more than a little intimidating.
I'd kinda prefer he see the show after I've had, like, a year to develop and hone it rather than its rough premiere run. But then, if he has any insight, that could help give said development a shot in the arm.
This is the good kind of terrified.
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:32 pm (UTC)Really, I just need to stop reading reviews for THE DARK KNIGHT altogether, that's what I need to do. They're going to color my experience with either hype or criticism, especially since none of them are going there to see the same movie I am.
One critic pretty much said, "It's a great film, but the weakest link is how much they focus on the Harvey Dent subplot." To which I'm like, yeah, uh, for me, Harvey Dent will be the main character and EVERYTHING ELSE is subplot. None of these critics speak for me.
Furthermore, I have to fight to not listen to the leaked soundtrack on YouTube and elsewhere, especially not the third track, entitled "Harvey Two-Face," which--by all accounts--is utterly brilliant and perfectly captures the character. GAH. Eleven more days to go.
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:39 pm (UTC)Shiiiit, my speakers are in disconnected pieces on the study floor. How quickly can I persuage my father to put them back together...?
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:47 pm (UTC)http://au.youtube.com/user/JWDaly08
I, on the other hand, will be avoiding it like the plague. Not because I want to (I mean, I do, but I don't), but because I have three ladyfriends ready to wallop me with love if I even consider listening to it. They're right; I don't want to be sitting in the theater and hearing that music and saying to myself, "Oh yeah, I remember this from my computer!"
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:58 pm (UTC)Listening to "Harvey Two Face" through headphones right now. It is very lovely indeed.
And I've said "fuck it, spoil me" because there is no way I am going to be able to see it in the cinema in the first week if my current state of ill health continues. I'm not going to be that constantly cough-cough-coughing person who ruins it for everyone else.
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Date: 2008-07-07 10:23 pm (UTC)Oh noes! Is it so bad that you're going to still be sick for the next eleven days? Is that how bronchitis works? Lameness and horribleness abounds!