hardparade | baby go crazy, break the rules (Reply)

THIS IS GOING TO BE A POST OF NARNIA-RANDOMNESS.

First of all, I saw Dorian Gray last night with the bff. I had kind of low expectations after reading

thisissirius and

th_esaurus's posts about it, haha, but...it was really pretty good. The sex scenes were pretty cheesy and there were a lot of bits where we laughed when we probably weren't supposed to, but all in all, I enjoyed it. I was really impressed with Ben, too! I think he struggles with crying and with looking scared sometimes, but wow, he's a better actor than Prince Caspian suggests (not that he was TERRIBLE in that, obvs).

It was weird, it wasn't like a horror movie and it didn't really SCARE me, but for a few hours afterwards I just had this really creeped-out feeling and felt like my skin was crawling. The painting just--*shudders* AUGH.

And lol, Sissi described the movie as 'basically softcore porn'...which, yeah, it definitely veered into that category pretty regularly. But you know what? I'm...more than okay with that. I thought I would be pretty indifferent to seeing Ben have sex, but...idk. It was nicer than I expected. I actually think the movie has made me appreciate Ben more in general. There were a lot more "WOW" moments than "I don't really get it" moments last night compared to usually, anyway.

ALSO I REALLY ENJOY SEEING HIM KISS MEN. I think he should do that more often. How is it that I had no idea he was going to kiss a man in this movie? Like, for real? Sally and I were like "THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE OUT AT SOME POINT" about five seconds after Basil was introduced, but we were KIDDING, I didn't actually expect to be right.

(EDIT: I don't know how I didn't mention this right away because it was what I kept thinking throughout the movie, but OMG YOU GUYS WHAT DO YOU THINK THE REST OF THE NARNIA CAST THOUGHT? I'm SURE they've all seen it by now and I just...lol I can't even.

sillyfax said that Georgie would totally sneak into the theatre and then tease Ben for weeks, and that is SO TRUE. And Will and Anna would probably try and be all serious and compliment him on his performance and try their hardest not to even mention the sex. Whereas that's probably ALL Skandar would mention, despite the fact that he probably covered his eyes in the cinema and disturbed everyone with his hysterical laughter.)

And also, it made me want to write more Ben fic. I'm still not into Will/Ben but I think I'm of the opinion that there needs to be more Ben/Skandar in the world. And I'm definitely re-reading

hedonisticated's Ben/Colin Firth fic ASAP. (I actually remembered it halfway through the movie and got very excited at the prospect of rereading it. Because I'm lame.)

ALSO, last night while I was getting ready to go out, AN ADVERT FOR SCHOOL OF COMEDY CAME ON E4. Will P. on my TV screen?? HOORAY. I hunted down clips of that show on Youtube shortly after finding out who Will was, but then I totally forgot about it. So I'm excited about this. And feel oddly proud of him.

Aaaand, new Anna pictures! GORGEOUS AS ALWAYS. ♥

Also, I went to see 500 Days of Summer last weekend. I really, really loved it. I sort of knew I would, because I'm madly in love with Zooey and JGL and have been waiting for it for ages, but it totally lived up to my expectations. I definitely DID NOT EXPECT for Summer to be QUITE so much of a heartless bitch, so that was painful, and Sally was complaining about how it doesn't have a happy ending, but honestly, I quite liked that. It's unusual and it fit with the movie--it would have seemed boring and kind of hypocritical if it had ended happily. I kind of want to go see it again just because I could watch those two making out on the big screen forever, pretty much. ♥

Finally, I once again apologise for being distant lately and for the lack of fic. Actually, in the past week I've really had the urge to write again, but unfortunately my schoolwork has arrived now and I also seem to have a social life at the moment. Which is weird. I'm going to see Simon Amstell doing stand-up tonight!!! But yes, so I'm going to try harder to get things in order. I really miss all of you guys. *hugs entire flist*