![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticWatched the second disc of Community and we both continue to love it. I'm sure we're missing a bunch of dialogue because we're not rewatching (at least not right away, I may pick up the DVDs at some point) and stuff goes by fast, but we're both really enjoying the show. It's a well-built thing, too - the characters have more to do, the relationships are beefed up and not just lightly sketched in. There seems to be a generalized internetty dislike of Britta, but I like her just fine, and think that without her some of the balance of the show would really disappear.
I think I've mentioned a bajilion times that they filmed big parts of Salt at my old place of work, because I'm envious that, y'know, I moved out and Angelina Jolie moved in. I had so much fun helping with the filming of National Treasure and The West Wing that I am bitter I missed out on the fun of this longer shoot. At any rate, the movie itself is full of plot holes, both of the smaller "whups" variety and the bigger, "back the truck on through" type, and has a few instances of bad pacing, including some infodumping that's not very well-integrated into the film, but on the whole it's a fun, tension-filled, bad-ass take on the action movie and I enjoyed it a whole bunch.
The bits that were filmed at my old museum are all meant to be the White House, and they must have loved the fact that the hallways of the place are littered with portraits of past President-Generals and random ancestors and patriotic looking plaques and quilts and decorative molding. They used the small staircases behind the library that I used to love running up and down, because you're sort of between floors, and the stairs are little and windy and marble and just really cool - it's funny that their location scout must have felt the same way about them that I did. And frankly, most of the paintings are pretty crappy stuff (we save the good stuff for the actual museum, not the hallways of the larger organization, although there are few gems here and there) but they look just fine blurred out in the background as Angelina Jolie kicks somebody in the face. And the fact that the gory climax of the last big fight comes right outside the children's museum and above a chapel space amused me terribly. It's worth a rental if you like action movies, and I do like the fact that it was written for Tom Cruise but not altered much to fit Angelina.
I think I've mentioned a bajilion times that they filmed big parts of Salt at my old place of work, because I'm envious that, y'know, I moved out and Angelina Jolie moved in. I had so much fun helping with the filming of National Treasure and The West Wing that I am bitter I missed out on the fun of this longer shoot. At any rate, the movie itself is full of plot holes, both of the smaller "whups" variety and the bigger, "back the truck on through" type, and has a few instances of bad pacing, including some infodumping that's not very well-integrated into the film, but on the whole it's a fun, tension-filled, bad-ass take on the action movie and I enjoyed it a whole bunch.
The bits that were filmed at my old museum are all meant to be the White House, and they must have loved the fact that the hallways of the place are littered with portraits of past President-Generals and random ancestors and patriotic looking plaques and quilts and decorative molding. They used the small staircases behind the library that I used to love running up and down, because you're sort of between floors, and the stairs are little and windy and marble and just really cool - it's funny that their location scout must have felt the same way about them that I did. And frankly, most of the paintings are pretty crappy stuff (we save the good stuff for the actual museum, not the hallways of the larger organization, although there are few gems here and there) but they look just fine blurred out in the background as Angelina Jolie kicks somebody in the face. And the fact that the gory climax of the last big fight comes right outside the children's museum and above a chapel space amused me terribly. It's worth a rental if you like action movies, and I do like the fact that it was written for Tom Cruise but not altered much to fit Angelina.
