I hope the coming days are an improvement for you, but I'm pleased that you've got a working computer.
Thank you! So am I. There are things I can deal with a lot better if I have all my stories where I left them and my music accessible.
Add Something Wicked to the Ever-Expanding- To-Watch-List; can't believe I've never seen it, given how much I love the novel.
It's a very, very mixed film; it suffers from needing to be a Disney movie—it felt sometimes like something that had been assembled from the parts of a more comprehensive, it not necessarily more faithful, much darker adaptation—and from being made in the early years of modern special effects, which frustrates me especially since Clayton himself had proved twenty years ago that the greatest effects of the uncanny are achieved by having as little wrong as possible. There is a scene in The Innocents which is chilling simply because of the way the light lingers in a character's eyes. Something Wicked This Way Comes has animated green smoke and a lot of bluescreen. Jonathan Pryce, however, makes a wonderful Mr. Dark. Watch for him and the scene in the library with Mr. Holloway and hum with your fingers in your ears the rest of the time if necessary.
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Thank you! So am I. There are things I can deal with a lot better if I have all my stories where I left them and my music accessible.
Add Something Wicked to the Ever-Expanding- To-Watch-List; can't believe I've never seen it, given how much I love the novel.
It's a very, very mixed film; it suffers from needing to be a Disney movie—it felt sometimes like something that had been assembled from the parts of a more comprehensive, it not necessarily more faithful, much darker adaptation—and from being made in the early years of modern special effects, which frustrates me especially since Clayton himself had proved twenty years ago that the greatest effects of the uncanny are achieved by having as little wrong as possible. There is a scene in The Innocents which is chilling simply because of the way the light lingers in a character's eyes. Something Wicked This Way Comes has animated green smoke and a lot of bluescreen. Jonathan Pryce, however, makes a wonderful Mr. Dark. Watch for him and the scene in the library with Mr. Holloway and hum with your fingers in your ears the rest of the time if necessary.
May Kalliope be kind to you.
I like this blessing.