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I woke up at seven and there was no snow. Then it started and by the time I took the girls to the bus stop we were shuffling through white fluffly stuff. And it's getting deep.
So I shall throw a snowball, the virtual, warm, soft, non-melty kind at three lovely people having birthdays and wish them well. That would be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akam1, othercat and shaddyr. Hope you all have a wonderful day ::many hugs::
Ithreatened promised to give my thoughts on 'Rip it Off', such as they are, so before I forget it..
I shouldn't really be doing this because from a certain point in the film I watched on fast forward.
Yeah. That bit. The bit where they kill Alexis. Gah. Stop doing that. I mean it. Stop.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. There's a plot to this movie; it's not All About the Blow Job, but to be honest I never quite grasped the details. Possibly because I couldn't understand most of what people were saying and it was filmed in some very dark bars with singing strippers on skateboards. Or something.
There's a casino that's closing and an employee who's got his gruntles dissed and thinks that he's entitled to nick two million as a severance package. To do this he needs two Russians and two cops. And a partridge in a pear tree might come in handy too...
The two bent cops get killed (totally clueless who did this or why; sorry; just didn't register) so they need some more. They get the husband of one of the girlfriend's of one of the Russian's girlfriends. Uh. I don't know her name.
There are three girls; one is Misha (I think) and is going out with Yuri (AD). One is Alyson Hannigan who is stuck with Sergei of the straggly beard and incomprehensible Russian accent. AD's accent is just silly but you can generally get what he's saying and the bits where it cracks into his normal voice are amusing. The third is a friend of Misha who is in an unsatisfactory marriage to a cop who's a bit of a wimp but otherwise not that bad until she drives him to it.
Let me say here and now that there was no reason, other than perhaps a homage to Mr Balowski of The Young Ones, to make the Sergei and Yuri characters Crazy!Wacky!Russians. They're both deeply unsympathetic, nasty to their girlfriends and though there's plenty of subtext the thought of that disloyal, treacherous git of a Sergei getting any action from Yuri is too horrendous to contemplate.
The girls are no better. Zero sympathy for them because they are whiners. Spongeing whiners.
By the end most people are dead. This is a Good Thing.
And I'm still ticked that we never found out who the girl with the dog was, or why Yuri allowed his dangly bits to dangle with the dog right there.
Alexis was yummy to look at though and I don't regret buying it at all such is the depth of my obsession, heh, - the bit where he died was quite tense and fraught. But I can see why AD and AH bonded over how bad the film was...
So I shall throw a snowball, the virtual, warm, soft, non-melty kind at three lovely people having birthdays and wish them well. That would be
akam1, othercat and shaddyr. Hope you all have a wonderful day ::many hugs::I
I shouldn't really be doing this because from a certain point in the film I watched on fast forward.
Yeah. That bit. The bit where they kill Alexis. Gah. Stop doing that. I mean it. Stop.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. There's a plot to this movie; it's not All About the Blow Job, but to be honest I never quite grasped the details. Possibly because I couldn't understand most of what people were saying and it was filmed in some very dark bars with singing strippers on skateboards. Or something.
There's a casino that's closing and an employee who's got his gruntles dissed and thinks that he's entitled to nick two million as a severance package. To do this he needs two Russians and two cops. And a partridge in a pear tree might come in handy too...
The two bent cops get killed (totally clueless who did this or why; sorry; just didn't register) so they need some more. They get the husband of one of the girlfriend's of one of the Russian's girlfriends. Uh. I don't know her name.
There are three girls; one is Misha (I think) and is going out with Yuri (AD). One is Alyson Hannigan who is stuck with Sergei of the straggly beard and incomprehensible Russian accent. AD's accent is just silly but you can generally get what he's saying and the bits where it cracks into his normal voice are amusing. The third is a friend of Misha who is in an unsatisfactory marriage to a cop who's a bit of a wimp but otherwise not that bad until she drives him to it.
Let me say here and now that there was no reason, other than perhaps a homage to Mr Balowski of The Young Ones, to make the Sergei and Yuri characters Crazy!Wacky!Russians. They're both deeply unsympathetic, nasty to their girlfriends and though there's plenty of subtext the thought of that disloyal, treacherous git of a Sergei getting any action from Yuri is too horrendous to contemplate.
The girls are no better. Zero sympathy for them because they are whiners. Spongeing whiners.
By the end most people are dead. This is a Good Thing.
And I'm still ticked that we never found out who the girl with the dog was, or why Yuri allowed his dangly bits to dangle with the dog right there.
Alexis was yummy to look at though and I don't regret buying it at all such is the depth of my obsession, heh, - the bit where he died was quite tense and fraught. But I can see why AD and AH bonded over how bad the film was...