Valentines, it seems, is the perfect time to say "hey, we hate this movie romance!"
10 Most Mismatched Movie Couples
I am willing to handwave Christensen and Portman because that was some truly atrocious dialogue they were forced to spout in Episode II, at which point there was still the aftermath of that slightly-uncomfortable feeling from those scenes in Episode I. Episode III was much better for them.
Beyond that: I have seen and not cared for 2 others, and the rest either didn't interest me...or I didn't know about and I wish that hadn't changed(Norbit is very recent...perhaps I managed to scrub my brain of it.) But really, why aren't A Knight's Tale and Pearl Harbor up there? Shannyn Sossamon and Ben Affleck respectively ruined those movies for me, especially Affleck.
Feb. 12th, 2008
Valentines, it seems, is the perfect time to say "hey, we hate this movie romance!"
10 Most Mismatched Movie Couples
I am willing to handwave Christensen and Portman because that was some truly atrocious dialogue they were forced to spout in Episode II, at which point there was still the aftermath of that slightly-uncomfortable feeling from those scenes in Episode I. Episode III was much better for them.
Beyond that: I have seen and not cared for 2 others, and the rest either didn't interest me...or I didn't know about and I wish that hadn't changed(Norbit is very recent...perhaps I managed to scrub my brain of it.) But really, why aren't A Knight's Tale and Pearl Harbor up there? Shannyn Sossamon and Ben Affleck respectively ruined those movies for me, especially Affleck.
"It feels strange, to speak to you, when I am used to listening. This is how it is in the stories I knew before you-a beautiful girl sits at the feet of a boy and treasures his every word. But it does not seem right."
"This is still my story. My last story. It is not yours simply because it sits in your mouth awhile."
The second and concluding volume of The Orphan's Tales takes up where the second left off, with The Boy in the garden, listening to the stories written in The Girl's eyelids. The prose is rich and lyrical, and the stories within stories within stories are almost perfectly intertwined. Though the setting of the framing story is distinctly arabic, there are also elements there that aren't, and the stories The Girl tells take elements from what seems to be every mythology ever. Even moreso than in the first volume, the common tropes of fairy tales are turned on their heads. The bright and cheery is made dark and ominous, the morality tale is reversed, the villains made sympathetic, and the most epic tale of the lot is not a tale of revenge or romantic love, but pure, unquestioning, unlimited friendship.
Instead of delving into the worldbuilding and plot, I will simply say to read my hurried review of the first book here, or to read
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oyceter's much better review(which links to several others) here.The duology is an amazing sendup to the art of oral storytelling, and of worldbuilding, and it is also a book that places allthe power firmly in the female's hand. Not by rebuilding the world to have a female-centric government, or by making the male weak, but by giving The Girl the power of words and the control of the imagination.
I'm trying to completely avoid spoilers, as these books should be read without the slightest idea of spoilers, and I know how tempting cuts tags can be, no matter how strong you are, but there is one thing I want to cover, in as unspoilery a way aas possible.
"It feels strange, to speak to you, when I am used to listening. This is how it is in the stories I knew before you-a beautiful girl sits at the feet of a boy and treasures his every word. But it does not seem right."
"This is still my story. My last story. It is not yours simply because it sits in your mouth awhile."
The second and concluding volume of The Orphan's Tales takes up where the second left off, with The Boy in the garden, listening to the stories written in The Girl's eyelids. The prose is rich and lyrical, and the stories within stories within stories are almost perfectly intertwined. Though the setting of the framing story is distinctly arabic, there are also elements there that aren't, and the stories The Girl tells take elements from what seems to be every mythology ever. Even moreso than in the first volume, the common tropes of fairy tales are turned on their heads. The bright and cheery is made dark and ominous, the morality tale is reversed, the villains made sympathetic, and the most epic tale of the lot is not a tale of revenge or romantic love, but pure, unquestioning, unlimited friendship.
Instead of delving into the worldbuilding and plot, I will simply say to read my hurried review of the first book here, or to read
oyceter's much better review(which links to several others) here.The duology is an amazing sendup to the art of oral storytelling, and of worldbuilding, and it is also a book that places allthe power firmly in the female's hand. Not by rebuilding the world to have a female-centric government, or by making the male weak, but by giving The Girl the power of words and the control of the imagination.
I'm trying to completely avoid spoilers, as these books should be read without the slightest idea of spoilers, and I know how tempting cuts tags can be, no matter how strong you are, but there is one thing I want to cover, in as unspoilery a way aas possible.