reeling from the junk ~

[lookingland]

oh my heavens, i just overdosed watching the entire North and South miniseries.

it was every bit as bad as i thought it would be ~ and more ~ !

the first episode i was encouraged, thought it had some nice detail-work and interesting characters, but it just plunged after that into the depths of idiotic depravity (to say nothing of the amazingly absurd hairdos!) ~

i had never seen this before and had purposesly avoided it for years.

but as i am duty-bound to know the genre, i felt i had to get my boots dirty ~ and boy was i up to my shins in it tonight.

i'm not sure i can forge ahead with "book 2" ~ another six hours???

ugh ~ i think i'm gonna be ill.

and this after watching Episode III ~ ?

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swayze and read at the Point
(which provided the only interest
in this overblown soap opera)

Comments

[psalm23.livejournal.com]

Hey, have you ever watched that really old movie, "The Santa Fe Trail", with Ronald Regan? About the Civil War? I watched it a few weeks ago, and I dunno...I didn't really like it...it was kinda funky to me...*^^*;; So I was wondering, if you don't have it, if I could send it to you. XD I mean, you're really really into the Civil War times, soo...I was just thinking. *^^*

~ Laura.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

wow ~ what a nice offer ~ thank you! that's so kind of you!

but i have to honest: Santa Fe Trail and it's twin abomination They Died with Their Boots On have to be the worst movies ever about their respective historical time periods. Neither of them bother to pay attention to the slightest historical reality and while i love olivia de havilland, even she can't save those hollywood farces from themselves.

i laughed especially hard at Santa Fe Trail: throwing that group of men together (custer??? he was practically still in diapers!) who in actuality never had that relationship and sending them to battle in kansas (where, by the way is Santa Fe?) oh my ~ the absurdity is just overwhelming.

yeah ~ i''m not a fan of baloney when it comes to this area. in fact, i may be one of the pickiest people ever. very very few movies about the Civil War (or pre-Civil War) make any sort of grade with me ~ most of them are just hollywoodized to death.

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[psalm23.livejournal.com]

Yer welcome! XD And it's okay. *pokes* X3

I always wanted to know what the heck Santa Fe had to do with anything...*^^*;; And the old guy, um, he scared me. *hides behind you*

~ Laura.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ you should be skeered!

: D

[sparowe]

Thanks for the warning... I've had N&S nudged towards me several times, and I keep dodging. Sounds like maybe a good choice!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh my word ~ i just finished book two ~ not only should you spare yourself the 12 hours of sheer misery of these two series, but keep them in mind if you ever need something to make you bust out laughing.

i was laughing so hard at the big "dramatic ending" that i almost fell off my chair ~ i haven't laughed that hard in years.

if it had got any stupider, i wouldn't have made it to the final credits, but thankfully i can say i lived to see the end.

wow.

i just never imagined anything could be that lame!

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[scarlite.livejournal.com]

Maybe I shouldn't mention that I love N&S... Oh well. I grew up watching it, and reading the books in middle school... so you know. I do have to say Book III is completely worthless. Completely laughable. The only reason I made it through 2 episodes is because of James Read. I still haven't finished watching book III.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ !

i can see the appeal ~ it's just definitely not my cup of tea. i don't like soaps and while i don't mind mild tampering with istory, full-scale overhaul just makes me roll my eyes (to say nothing of the afore-mentioned really bad hairdos). if a movie is historically inaccurate, but detail-accurate, i'm very forgiving (Glory comes to mind ~ it was meticulously done and captured the "spirit", if not the reality in every way).

North & South just rings false on both levels and that's a killer for me. i did enjoy the battle stuff and Parker Stevenson in the second one as a sharpshooter in Berdan's regiment (gotta love the green coats!) ~ but the story itself is just silly, silly, silly (and silly).

i may be too much of a literalist in some ways ~ hahahaha.

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[scarlite.livejournal.com]

See, I'm more of a romantic spirit so I can accept things for what they are as long as I don't think on it too deeply. It's greatly flawed, but come on, shirtless Swayze and Read make it worthwhile for me. :) I often lean on romanticized versions of movies or books or views of history as my escape. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to movies from books, unless they are badly done (Message in a Bottle comes to mind). I don't know I can understand why some people might not like it and I'm ok with that. I like it purely as an escape. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~

~ for pure cheese, definitely, i love a good sappy story myself. i guess i just expected (or hoped for) more. and i like read (not a huge fan of swayze ~ i was still more inclined toward stevenson). like i said, i enjoyed the battle stuff. it was ashton and bent and all that blah blah blah that just bored me to tears. in the last three hours or so, i was just fast-forwarding through their parts.

i'm more into the action and the family drama rather than the romance, i guess. i like a little romance, but if i'm going to watch a movie that takes place during the civil war and is ostensibly about two best friends on the opposite sides of that war, i really want that and not 12 hours of madeline weeping and moaning for orry under absurd pretexts.

i'm all for escape. i mean, i watched the bloody thing after all, didn't i?

hahahahaha ~

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