Kew, Inglourious Basterds and Mechs

[lathany]

I've been off work for a couple of days and so we headed over to Kew Gardens. Unusually, we saw four or five peacocks and one or two peahens (normally we come across one during the day). We also drank coffee, ate cake and walked all over the place.

There's not been an awful lot new in my life since my last post, but LoveFilms brought us a film to watch and there was some roleplaying.

Inglourious Basterds - I enjoyed this, although it isn't one of the best films I've seen this year (better films include Chronicle, The Raid and Attack the Block). It seems to want to be Pulp Fiction at various moments in the dialogue, but wasn't quite there. I think I would summarise as: not as good as the hype, but still worth watching. Some of the sequences in this were excellent, but others had me looking at my watch hoping they would finish soon. Also, I wasn't taken with the central theme - that in an alternative universe some Americans and a Jew took down Hitler (although, at least it was self-aware about rewriting history, too many films are not). I was rather sorry at some of the deaths - very few of the characters survive. However, I thought Christoph Waltz' Oscar, Bafta (etc.) were well deserved.

Following the end of the Meteor campaign, a Mech game launched.

Mechs - chrestomancy has been planning a Mech game for a very long time and finally, last Saturday, he ran the first session of character generation, preludes and our first mission. It was great. An mystery that threatens to be one Big Conspiracy, some dodgy families running things and, best of all, MECHS!

I have also been reading The Wise Man's Fear and playing The Blackwell Deception, but I'll blog about those when I've finished them.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Dodgy families? I don't know what you're talking about. Though I guess some of those other ones might be a bit dodgy... :)

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

I didn't like Inglourious Basterds. I thought the beginning was a bit dull, the middle was excellent and had a lot of promise, and the end was a real let-down.


**Spoilers**
When it was all said and done, the main characters of the film didn't really influence the outcome. Which felt a bit pointless. Better if the film had centered on the girl and her accomplice.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Yes - I also felt that the main characters were beside the point. And rather duller than the girl.