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In my perpetually fucked sleep schedule I've been watching quite a few things. I'm almost done with Queer as Folk (boy, is that EVER dated and kinda-preachy now), Julia Child is a fallback.
I just watched Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Now I've seen a TON of variations on Much Ado (seriously, I've seen a lot of this play...there are parts I could probably recite by memory), but I was all excited for this. Because: Joss Whedon doing movies in his house with friends.
It was decent. The parts that lag are always the parts that lag (Dear Shakespeare, no one cares about your comic relief guardsmen). I can never quite buy Alexis Denisof as a lead; as much as I like him he'll always be a bumbling sort of Wesley (Buffy). Nathan Fillion has gotten sort of puffy-looking since Firefly. Sean Maher, it must be said, is a MUCH better Don John than Keanu Reeves was in Kenneth Branagh's version of Much Ado. Not that that's hard to do.
Don John is a weird character anyway. He's an agent of chaos, but truly he has about zero motivation to be a dick. And yet. The whole story is dependent on his dickishness, ergo he is a dick. It's a frustrating thing: Why is Don John such a dick to everyone? REASONS!
I just watched Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Now I've seen a TON of variations on Much Ado (seriously, I've seen a lot of this play...there are parts I could probably recite by memory), but I was all excited for this. Because: Joss Whedon doing movies in his house with friends.
It was decent. The parts that lag are always the parts that lag (Dear Shakespeare, no one cares about your comic relief guardsmen). I can never quite buy Alexis Denisof as a lead; as much as I like him he'll always be a bumbling sort of Wesley (Buffy). Nathan Fillion has gotten sort of puffy-looking since Firefly. Sean Maher, it must be said, is a MUCH better Don John than Keanu Reeves was in Kenneth Branagh's version of Much Ado. Not that that's hard to do.
Don John is a weird character anyway. He's an agent of chaos, but truly he has about zero motivation to be a dick. And yet. The whole story is dependent on his dickishness, ergo he is a dick. It's a frustrating thing: Why is Don John such a dick to everyone? REASONS!
