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May. 13th, 2011 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csi_sanders1129So, just went and saw Priest because Paul Bettany is pretty.
It... wasn't that bad, I guess. It wasn't awesome or anything either. I've noticed Paul Bettany seems to like action-y but religious-y movies. I mean, well, with Legion and then this... Only, while the other characters were spouting 'To go against the church is to go against God' stuff, which only served to remind me that I should have been back in my room studying for my two Renaissance and Reformation finals, in both this and Legion, he's defying religious stuff (in Legion, he's defying Gabriel and all of the other angels because he thinks they're wrong and that God can't want them to do what he says he wants them to do) so yeah. I like him a little bit more for that. He also seems to favor slow-motion action scenes. Also, the 'twist' is entirely predictable, you see it coming like ten miles away. Bones (whose character is named Black Hat?) was cool and badass though. And the vampires are weird and apparently there are different vampire things that are never really explained. Familiars, humans turned, I get, but then there's the blob like thing that's just kind of there and then there's the human vampire and a Queen and oh, it's not like the set it up for a sequel or anything. Really. And, unsurprisingly, I kind of want Priest/Hicks fic, just because. Even if I kind of want to hate Hicks for also being James. I don't know. My brain likes slashing Paul Bettany. Usually with guys who are significantly younger than him (Farid in Inkheart, Jeep in Legion...) so yeah.
Also, through the entire movie, I got to hear two different couples hooking up somewhere behind me. That has never happened to me before. WTF. Made for some seriously awkward quiet moments all across teh theater.
It... wasn't that bad, I guess. It wasn't awesome or anything either. I've noticed Paul Bettany seems to like action-y but religious-y movies. I mean, well, with Legion and then this... Only, while the other characters were spouting 'To go against the church is to go against God' stuff, which only served to remind me that I should have been back in my room studying for my two Renaissance and Reformation finals, in both this and Legion, he's defying religious stuff (in Legion, he's defying Gabriel and all of the other angels because he thinks they're wrong and that God can't want them to do what he says he wants them to do) so yeah. I like him a little bit more for that. He also seems to favor slow-motion action scenes. Also, the 'twist' is entirely predictable, you see it coming like ten miles away. Bones (whose character is named Black Hat?) was cool and badass though. And the vampires are weird and apparently there are different vampire things that are never really explained. Familiars, humans turned, I get, but then there's the blob like thing that's just kind of there and then there's the human vampire and a Queen and oh, it's not like the set it up for a sequel or anything. Really. And, unsurprisingly, I kind of want Priest/Hicks fic, just because. Even if I kind of want to hate Hicks for also being James. I don't know. My brain likes slashing Paul Bettany. Usually with guys who are significantly younger than him (Farid in Inkheart, Jeep in Legion...) so yeah.
Also, through the entire movie, I got to hear two different couples hooking up somewhere behind me. That has never happened to me before. WTF. Made for some seriously awkward quiet moments all across teh theater.
