Thursday, September 17, 2009
Oh for Keat's sake. Seriously.
I just found the trailer for "Bright Star," which opens tomorrow. Blech! It looks insufferably gooey. Call me cold-blooded, but the only moment that really sent my heart racing was the second-long glimpse of Keats lining up the scraps of "Ode to a Nightingale." Eeeeeee!
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Not just gooey, but *flat*; it's like they tried to make pancakes, but left out the eggs AND the baking powder! The delivery just sounds dead, it has no conviction --- and I thought trailers were supposed to distill the most thrilling clips from a film! What's up with that!?
Yeah, "flat" is the other word I was looking for. The dialogue is very script-y and blah.
Actually, now that I've read the (mostly positive) reviews, I would like to see it!
There's a cliche Alexander Pope quote that goes here.
Do let us know how it goes?
Mereditha! Ecquando sententiam tuam de hac pelicula nobis tandem ostendes? Iamne eam spectasti? Equidem hodie vesperi sic feci. Sat placebat. Est, opinor, pelicula perpulchra. Quidnam autem censes tu?
Spero te optime habere atque oppido tibi placere versari Lexintoniae atque apud Instituto. Oro salutes Terentium Milenamque, necnon Luciannam, meis verbis, et cura uti in Christo magnopere valeas. M
Oops, that's what I get for changing a construction at the last second: it should read apud InstitutUM, not -o. Pax et bonum!
Salvus sis, Marcelle - I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet! First I was sick, and then I was grading midterms etc.... I'm going to see the movie this weekend, and I'll write to you then!
Thank you so much for the review. Eat your heart out, Roger Ebert! (I mean that!) See my crazy Latin comments up at that entry for more of my response.
I hear you on the grading: I have a whole crop of midterms to grade for my Gk Civ. class by tomorrow! But it really is wonderful to teach: it's something I've very much missed these last few years after Kentucky.
BTW, while I'm writing this, do you have any plans for coming to the conventiculum this year? I am trying to spread the word as best I can around here.
Well, off to read Herodotus. Ciao for now. M
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