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I should teach myself that whenever I have a thought at 10PM, I should just ignore it. 10PM is the magical hour when I seem to get involved in the ideas that will keep me up past one or two in the morning. That's the hour where I'll usually be laying on the couch and this neat idea of "Hey! I feel like reading Distant Shores again!" pops into my head. That results in me laying in bed at 2AM, 400 pages into the zine, going "But I have to finish it, I just have to." It doesn't matter this is the fifth time I've read it, no no. I have to finish it all in one sitting. Last night, it wasn't the zine. No, it was a movie. There was nothing on television, so I decided to watch one of the new David Soul movies I got. After having re-watched Magnum Force earlier, I was in the mood to watch David play a bad guy again and since I was in the mood, I wanted to watch one of my WWII dramas. He's so good at being bad;) Key to Rebecca would be the only "new" movie I have where he plays a bad guy, so I pop it in. It's proceeding nicely, very good. I grab the tape cover to read the back while the action switches over to another battlefield. Summary sounds good, pictures look good, and then I saw the running time. I should REALLY read these things before getting involved in a movie at 10PM. Key to Rebecca was a mini-series shown in 1985. A FOUR HOUR MINISERIES. With the commercials cut out, it was down to 190 minutes, but that's still three hours. Once I got over my initial shock of "I'm gonna be here a while" I started getting involved in it again. It's adapted from the Ken Follet novel and Cliff Robertson was the main "good guy" as a British major. His goal was to catch a German spy during WWII. Who was this German spy? Why David Soul of course;) Except he's not really. He's just...he'll play any side that he wants because his main goal is to get ahead. He wanted to prove himself to Rommel (played by Robert Culp), so he became a spy. He's half-German (that was his mother I think) and half-Arab. Yeah, blond hair and blue eyes and allied to Egypt. (I had my doubts, but he can pull it off...he can pull it off well) "Sometimes he comes as a European, sometimes he comes as an Arab." White suit or white turban, they both work. He had no qualms about killing anybody that got in his way. Prostituting his girlfriend to get ahead, killing his former allies because he couldn't trust them anymore, and using one of his many accents/disguises. If you're gonna be an elusive killer, be a good one. And the sexual games rivaled the espionage games for drama. You now it's a good movie when you're cheering for the bad guy. "Turn around, don't let him catch you!" It was really good. I highly recommend it. However, don't start it at 10PM and don't start it if you want to do anything for the next four hours because once the movie starts, you don't want to stop it. Love, honor, and death. A perfect combination. |
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lazy.