Posts made by idomeneo

About Murder on the Orient Express, I think Johnny Depp was meant to be extremely unlikeable.  I've read the book but this was the first time I've seen any adaptation and I was surprised at how much the sheer tragedy of the situation was highlighted. I mean, consider that the book begins with the inciting crime (the murder of the child and subsequent death and suicide), it seemed almost clinical in contrast to the movie.

Also while I liked the jaded, world-weary spin on the character of Poirot, I didn't like the insertion of the long-lost love, whose portrait Hercule carries with him.  I just thought it was unnecessary.

But this actually wasn't the last movie I've watched. A couple of days after watching Murder on the Orient Express I went to see a Slovak film called The Teacher, which I truly enjoyed. It's the story of a teacher, natch :D, who basically extorts favours from the children she teaches and their parents using their grades. I didn't know that it was actually based on a true story, not that that made much of a difference to my enjoyment. I've also always loved the poetry of Samo Chalupka (that's a lie I didn't learn to speak Slovak until I was in my late teens) and the recitation of Branko at the end was pretty fantastic. I'd rate it a solid 4 out of 5.

I work at a theme park "restaurant", one day this family walks in and the kids go and find a seat and the mum and dad walk up and order.  As they're just ordering food that's pre-made and bottled  drinks it doesn't take long to plate it all up and by the time the woman has paid the order is sitting on the counter on a couple of trays ready to go.  The woman abruptly turns on her heels and walks away leaving the man to carry the trays one at a time to said table. When he walks off with the first tray I turn to one of my workmates and mutter "Damn that woman was so rude she could have carried one of trays!"

At this point my colleague gives me a disgusted look and says

! "She has no arms"

I have pretty eclectic tastes when it comes to music. My first love is classical, but I also like country, bluegrass, pop, rock, hip-hop, reggae, jazz, folk music… You name it if it's music I'll probably like it.

I recently watched Into the Woods on the recommendation of a friend, and I certainly enjoyed that. I'll look into the films you named, I've seen Rocky Horror when I was 13 it was unforgettable experience.

I recently saw Matilda the musical, and I really loved it. I'm hoping that they make a movie of the musical when they can (I know that the producers agreed not to make a movie for at least another three years in order to have it performed on Broadway).

I just wanted to ask for recommendations for other Musicals that people have enjoyed. Movie musicals are probably going to be more practical in terms of me actually be able to watch them.  I live in Brisbane and there are only three or four big musicals produced here a year.  Although they've released tickets for a production of Aladdin next year. :cheers:

@royalcrown89:

It'll probably change before the year is out, but definitely Get Out. It is a masterpiece and I honestly cannot wait for the award nominations it will receive fingers crossed to be announced. It isn't one of the most critically-acclaimed films of this year for nothing! It still has a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes AND it was a relatively major box office success given its budget. Beyond that stuff though, it's a great film and struck a near-perfect balance of comedy and horror.

I agree. This film had so much going for it and I say this even though I watched it already knowing what was going to happen (because I was listening to a CRACKED podcast and didn't pay attention when they said to skip the next few minutes if you didn't want it spoiled.

Also The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a New Zealand film that was actually released late last year, but is so damned funny that I have to say it is hands down the best comedy film I've seen in the last twelve months.

I enjoyed it.  It made me think.  It made me uncomfortable.  I have random thoughts about it weeks after having seen the film.

On the other hand I never thought it was going to be any kind of horror/thriller and I certainly wasn't expecting any action.  I understood walking in to the cinema that it was a Daren Aronofsky film and I kind of had an idea of what that meant.

@bob85:

Oh, and another one is watching porn as a teenager. I mean… who waits until they are 18 to watch porn for the first time? Teens get curious and they're horny as f***!

This.

And using torrents to download copyrighted content.

Nah, I tend towards quiet sighs and whispered/muttered endearments.

TPBM has had sex of some sort on public transport.

No.  If someone came up with a guaranteed cure like a pill that had no side effects, or a surgery that was comparable to a vasectomy in terms of pain and recovery time, I'd still say no.

I do have to say that, even now (without such a simple, easy cure) I have no objections if other adults decide to subject themselves to whatever quackery is needed for them to tell themselves they're now straight.  I do have objections when it's forced on children and adolescents by their supposedly well meaning parents and elders though.

My biggest fear for the future actually is someone coming up with an in utero test and cure so that no more babies are ever born gay.  Even with the gains in acceptance we've made in the last couple of decades.  My gut feeling is that, if such a breakthrough were to happen, the people who are having the babies (straight people) would implement it without a second thought.  Our protests, though justified, would be useless.

I loved "Last Summer" and "Full Circle" by Michael Thomas Ford. I have them on Audiobook as well and the narrator is the same for both books and he's amazing.

I'll have to reread His Dark Materials.

The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling is a fairly standard LGBT fantasy recommendation. The two main male characters are in a relationship.

Public sex and exhibitionism. Love watching it in porn but I'd never do it myself, I need to keep a clean record and any arrest for public indecency would kill my career.

Straight guys who have to be watching straight porn to keep it up while being blown (or fucking). I've ranted about this before.

F. Other - Forearms and Hands

And of course A. Penis.

I hate it when someone's getting a blowjob and they're looking at straight porn off screen. How straight and insecure do you have to be that you can't get off from the sheer pleasure of having another human beings mouth on your dick

I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from watching Kevin Sorbo as Hercules. He had an amazing body and was my first crush on a man. Every time he opens his mouth now I hate myself a little.

Went to see Inside Out last week and it was fantastic. So funny. Anger and Disgust were so funny though of course the star of the show was Joy. And poor Bing Bong, I'm not crying I have something in my eye!

I borrowed my niece and nephew to have an excuse to go and see it. Will be doing the same to see Minions.

I hadn't heard any of his symphonies but I had heard/played one of his miniatures. Also while I like finding obscure and neglected works I have to say I love to listen to the famous masterworks as well. My phone has Mahler 3 and 5 on it at the moment as well as Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 2 and Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6. Also some Beethoven Piano sonatas and the Missa Solemnis. That's it music-wise most of the other stuff on my phone is spoken word. Also I haven't been on GayHeaven in ages but they had a pretty good classical music sticky in one of the forums there if you wanted to sign up to check it out.

Thanks cannonmc, I've still got a long way to go till I reach my goals.

I love that youtube has become the site it has with incredible performances by the greats as well as some amazing "amateurs" as well as a place to find rarities like the one you posted. Have you come across the channel called Unsungmasterworks which is also about rarely played or unknown works by composers who are not famous today.

I too love classical music. I sing in a large symphonic choir and it's the most amazing feeling in the world being part of something so huge. But I also love the intimacy of chamber music. I am learning to play the clarinet and my ambition is to one day be able to play stuff like the Mozart or Brahms quintets or the Saint-Saens sonata.