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Went to IMAX for the first time last week to see "300". As the thread on RPG.net suggestsit really isn't good at all (my summary is probably on the last page). Also recently saw The Notorious Bettie Page. Visually cute, it included some excellent thematic considerations and then utterly failed to elaborate on them.

Unitarian service last Sunday was poetry, readings and folk music. As is my norm, I selected Unitarian poets and authors, specifically, Horatio Alger, Ambrose Bierce, ee cummings, and Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.

Easter Sunday was spent, as per last year, playing GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. The Fellowship of Talor journeys in the eleventh scene for HeroQuest. Have managed to convince [livejournal.com profile] imajica_lj to run Call of Cthulhu in the near future.

Went a bit nuts on the weekend buying music: Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Hawkwind, Gang of Four, Devo, China Crisis, Eels, Elysium. No one can claim I don't have a variety of tastes. Have made a start on the small moutain of books sent to me by Ticonderoga; a seven-part space opera by Kevin J. Anderson. Also should mention that my review of Blackbeard: The real pirate of the Caribbean is available in the latest issue.

Cocktail party for Friday night is shaping up very nicely indeed.

Date: 2007-04-10 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anivair.livejournal.com
The goal of the story wasn't accuracy. The goat headed man should have tipped you off. It was an epic tale told in the mythological style. I loved that about it. It was unapologetically wrong, but so gloriously excited about it's wrongness that all you could do was appreciate the revelry.

Date: 2007-04-10 10:18 pm (UTC)
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I don't mind "enhanced reality" in historical fantasy; in fact I thoroughly approve of it when it is contextually appropriate because, as you say, that adds to the mythology.

The Ancient Hellenes believed in winged horses; so if a film about the Ancient Hellenes has one, that's fine. If one appears in a film about the indigenous Australian dreamtime I'll be screaming "anachronism".

Thus the goat-headed man was just fine. I have no problems with that whatsoever.

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