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[stonebender]

I've tried to write this a few times now. In less than four days I get to see, hold, and "play with" the beautiful serenejournal! :-) I am beside myself with joy. At the very same time my partner Carol is stressed to the max because her other partner is in the hospital with a serious infection. Her OSO has been operated on twice and is finally doing better. I feel disloyal for being so happy and a little angry that Carol's other partner had to get sick now. (I know, it's selfish of me). It has been a magnificent and trying two months.

On the lighter side, I saw Daredevil yesterday with Carol. I think she was able to relax a little. Which made me happy. I really didn't like Ben Affleck as Daredevil. He pretty much phoned in his performance. Jennifer Garner was great! I forget the actors name, but the fellows who played Kingpin and Bull's-eye were a lot of fun. I just loved the titles! I had a minor quibble with how some of the fighting sequences were filmed. It felt like they were framed to close to the action. I had a hard time seeing what was going on, but maybe I'm just getting old. The director certainly read Frank Miller's Daredevil comics. Many of the visuals reminded me strongly of Frank Miller's style. Which is a good thing. Fair Warning: it is much more graphically violent than I expected. I should have known better, Frank Miller is not exactly shy when it comes to the blood. I guess I expected it to be toned down for film. It wasn't. There are a couple murders perpetrated by Bull's-eye that are pretty rough IMHO.

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[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

In less than four days I get to see, hold, and "play with" the beautiful serenejournal!

Yeah, I'm bringing Trivial Pursuit. Wow, you're really excited about playing, huh? :-)

(I understand the mixed feelings, love. *kiss*)

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I hope y'all have a great time this weekend, and that things continue to improve for Carol's other partner -- that sounds really frightening.

I didn't see Daredevil because I was too annoyed with them for changing the story too much, not that he was ever one of my favorites anyway. And yeah, it sounded overly violent as well.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

It was pretty scary. She does seem to be doing a lot better. It will be weeks (if not months) before she's all healed, but she is finally on the road to recovery.

I'm not a purist, at least when it comes to Daredevil. I don't think it was the best Daredevil movie it could've been. However, I'm not annoyed at whatever changes were made. I do have many friends, who I respect, who share your opinion.