Various ponderings

[misscam]

Just saw Pirates of the Caribbean. It opened in Norway this weekend, and I went (yes, I find Orlando Bloom attractive. Stop sniggering) with mum and bro. Rather enjoyed it. Mum liked it as well, and saw a trailer for The League of Extraordinary Gentlement (with Sean Connery. Purrrr) and at once suggested we go see when it opened. Me thinks mum likes Sean. I applaud her taste (and shut up ye 'ew, he's OLD!' complainers. He's not old, he's vintage). RotK posters were up at the cinema as well. Not very long now... Happy days.

On a not so happy note... Also just watched with mum this French acclaimed documentary about a trial in Florida on telly. Yiaks. We were just sitting there, shaking our heads. If that is the stadard of police and prosection skills in the US... Smegging hell. (It concerned a 15 year old boy who was charged with killing a tourist. The defence showed a lot of flaws and quite frankly, very questionable behaviour on the part of the police. The boy is found not guilty - then, some months later the real killer is arrested.) I mean, I have read and heard about problems with law enforcement and the judicial process in the US before (and I strongly oppose the death penalty, but that's another matter) but this was such an up-close look and it was not flattering. Obviously, this is not true for all cases, probably not for the majority either, but that it is there... This in a country where people can be executed. It makes me very troubled indeed.

Also makes me realise how sheltered I have lived and just how much good faith I've been raised to have in humanity and the state and law enforcement and so forth. Yes, I know there are bad versions of these things in the world, but I also think it's actually fixable and that in general, it's good.

It's quite odd to realise I'm actually hopelessly naive - and I bloody well know it. I know bad things are out in the world and that there are so many problems we may never fix them - yet I believe. Not in God or some higher force to fix it, really. Just in life. And the endurance of it. And with endurance I suppose I believe wisdom and change will come.

I'm either a hopeless optimistic bleeding heart or a self-delusional idiot dreamer.

I think I shall - in true Norwegian fashion - believe it to be the latter, thus unable to be disappointed if so is the case, and happily surprised if I'm actually the former option. Or so I will tell myself. (Norwegians have a tendency to claim to be pessimists, yet are really eternal optimists with patience)

Sometimes I think I'm a very, very odd person. But then, Norway is an odd little country in an odd little world.

Comments

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Yes. Orlando Bloom is attractive. But as far as PotC goes, I like Norrington. Yes. The one in the white wig. HE'S SO HOT! In a repressed, military, jilted way.
Sean Connery has not lost the sex in him. He is still extremely hot, and yes! vintage! I still need to see LXG. It's been out for a while here.

[fiendery.livejournal.com]

He's not old, he's vintage
Amen. Vintage is the perfect word there.


Who didn't go to see Pirates of the Caribbean for Orlando Bloom (those of you who didn't, not a word)? But when you came out of the theater, were you more for Mr. Depp or Mr. Bloom?

About the Florida thing. Really? This just shows how avoiding the news prevents you from knowing odd and morbid things like such. And Norwegians may claim to be pessimists and end up to be eternal optimists with patience, but sometimes, it's the nicer option. Right now, hearing that, I'd rather be a Norwegian than an Americanized Korean. ^^; Odd world is right.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Actually, I didn't go see PotC at all. I heard Orlando Bloom was going to be in it, and that was enough for me. I had no intention of being incarcerated in a dark place with closed doors for two hours-plus with a horde of screaming fangirls. Brrr.

[fiendery.livejournal.com]

XD;; Yes, well, screaming fangirls are VERY scary. Which is why I'm just a fangirl. Not a screaming one. But actually, when I went, there was not a squeal or scream of "ORLI, MARRY ME!!1!one"

All right, fine. There was. But only from my friend. The second showing didn't have any disruptions like such.

[visp.livejournal.com]

Old, vintage, whatever you want to call it, I'd still glomp him! The voice! *swoons*

[megpie71.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on seeing PoTC when it opens here in .au (11 September... yes, we get movies late. Of course, I'm planning to see it for Johnny Depp - Depp fangirl from waaay back, having first seen him in 21 Jump Street and turned into a mushy pile of disintegrating hormonal goo. My ex-ish-SO says that LXG is well worth the watching, so I'm planning on seeing that one when it eventually hits our shores, and of course ROTK is pencilled in for January some time (after the crowds have dropped to a manageable level in the cthinemas).

Thank all the gods the DVD releases aren't delayed like the film releases. Otherwise, Amazon.co.uk would be getting an even more generous serve of my hard-earned dosh than it already is.

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

I like Orlando, but he was so unformed in PotC. I mean, it was hardly his fault, but Jonny Depp was just so much cooler...that entrance!

[arabel.livejournal.com]

And that eyeliner...!

[missjean.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd post after reading your vintage comment. Struck me as very funny and well put. I think I shall have to use it sometime when people whine about me and only slightly *cough* older men...

And I've said that Florida courts need to be shaken up for a long time now. Can't vouch for all of the courts in the US or the world, but I can vouch for my own county's as I've seen it up close too often and what I've heard about in this fair state in the past. Bleh. I generally dislike judges and police and all that sort, although I understand the need to have them. I just feel proud and happy and optimistic about the system's future when I look at my grandfather, who is a police officer and manages to be fair and honest about his work while still being merciful and caring. He's good at what he does, and I wish they were all like that... Gives me hope, anyway...

(That doesn't count as political debating, does it? If not, then I haven't gone back on my word. ;)

And being odd isn't so very bad. It gives us character.

[irian.livejournal.com]

I have to agree about the vintage Sean Connery. ^_^ Although his character in the movie was the one I found most annoying since he was the farthest removed from his comic counterpart.

I'm watching Pirates for Johnny Depp myself. never was much of an Orlando Bloom fangirl, although I *admit* that he is good-looking.

If you think the US judicial system is screwed, then you'd better not see what passes for law and order over here in the Philippines.

[arabel.livejournal.com]

Ello.

Just friended you, and thought I would alert you to this fact (so that you can either peer curiously or run screaming). ^_^ I've seen you all about on various badfic lists, and noticed we had a few friends in common. Plus your fic makes me die from joy, laugher, and coke.

Er, anyway...don't feel you must reciprocate - but I think this was mainly an excuse to say:

Sean Connery...damn straight he's vintage. :D