Random Torri love-fest

[marguerite_krux]

This was supposed to be about the fact that I finally watched ‘When the Bullet Hits the Bone’. 

I somehow ended up rambling about a few different movies on the way, but then, who am I if not tangential?

Torri was awesome as usual [though does anyone seriously believe I have an unbiased opinion on her performance? No? Didn’t think so…], it was just the movie and the drivel it calls a plot that I had a problem with.

Disclaimer:You may wonder why I bothered to discuss this movie at all, since I'm tearing it apart. Well...I don't know, I have an analytical mind, and I can't ever come to a conclusion about something without debating every possible angle. It's fun. It cements my certainty in my position. So let me babble. XP

1. They killed her. OMFG, the dranicks. WHY did I not do my research? See, this is what happens when I’m not all OCD and check out the facts before I buy [diagrams, lists and all]. People told me she dies in another movie, but no one said she dies in this one. Of course, I didn’t *ask*, but still, someone might have volunteered that info. *glares accusingly* Yeah, I know, no one to blame but myself, shut up already. [No one rules more at kicking their own butt than me, lol]

2. In the list of Torri movies I’ve seen, this ranks in the middle:

Airborne- love, adore, and will watch again. 

Dude, she’s in practically every scene. She’s a special ops agent. She carries a gun. 



She wears a leather jacket and sunglasses, omg, hard-core. XP 

And I love the bath-tub scene. It could have come off cheesy and cringeworthy but she does such a great job of putting a hint of vulnerability into her character and it makes you forget that this really is very very corny. How much does she rock?!



She’s easily the best actor in the whole movie [which, sadly, says more about how crap everyone else is, rather than how brilliant she is, but it still counts] and the main dude is awful, but she makes everyone look good. No, really. XP

Jungleground- taken hostage, tied up, and still kicks ass.

Only in a few major scenes but it’s so worth watching those over and over again. 



Aside: I hate that stupid blonde girl for stealing away all the screen-time she didn’t deserve. *sniffs* What use was she to the plot? [Just being snide, don’t mind me…]

**When the Bullet Hits the Bone**

Family of Cops III- awful.  I usually don’t like watching movies with established relationships [as per Jungleground up there] because I like to see the characters meet, bond and then get together, but a believable long-term relationship is infinitely preferable to a pointless meet-and-sleep-with-despite-being-acquainted-a-few-short-hours type ‘relationship’. 

[If you do that in real life, I’m not judging you and we can still be friends, but I have expectations of the characters I watch and sleeping with strangers the day they meet them is far short of my lofty standards. Some people think I judge them by the characters I adore, which is crap, because for eg. I idolize Weir, and I want to be like her, whereas you- random you in general- I might like you and socialize with you but I don’t want to be you, I don’t see you as my role model, so I don’t care what you do and I would support you nonetheless, ’k? Be as messed up as you want. It makes me feel like I’m doing a better job with my own life, lol]

The English Patient- terrible movie. And Torri’s in it for a minute or two. Meh. So lost interest once she was gone.

…what number was I up to…?

Whatever, screw organized thoughts. I didn’t actually bother watching most of this movie, which is why I have no idea why the main dude is so obsessed with some woman named Lisa that he thinks about her all the time despite shacking up with Alison [Torri’s character].

I mean, he tried to save her when this dude was accosting her in an alley…
[*cringes* Terrible, terrible acting.
Woman (screeches): ‘Let me go!’
Mean dude: No!
Woman: LET ME GO.
Mean dude: NO!

Seriously. The kids in my high school production could act better than this. I was in my school production and I believe that *I* could do WAAAAAY better than this. At least when we had a play about a mad squirrel on the rampage in Nutsville- true story, btw, I’m not kidding- and the girl-playing-the-squirrel was required to bash me over the head with a fake loaf of bread, she actually hit me with enough force in the many, many rehearsals of this scene that I was feeling quite concussed by the end of it. And my drama teacher praised me for both my endurance and my ability to create a character by imbuing her with recognizable, identifiable traits such as an annoying laugh]

…but he didn’t know her, so why spend the rest of the movie trying to save her? Beats me.

So, he’s hospitalized during the heroic white knight attempt, meets our caring and compassionate and beautiful nurse, begs Alison to help him escape, she risks her life to break him out and takes him home to care for him, then one day on the streets- buying groceries, no less- she gets shot when the bad guys speed past and their notoriously plot-convenient bad aim dictates that the innocent bystander dies instead. 

And that’s when I stopped caring about the movie. Ugh.

He treated her like crap. Lives with her, sleeps with her, doesn’t tell her anything about his past or his history, *then* when she’s dying, he tells her he loves her because he really couldn’t be bothered prior to this tragic occasion. SCREW YOU, JERK. He loves her but ends up driving off into the sunset with the other chick. Bet she didn’t have to wait months before he admitted his [fickle and fleeting] feelings for her. He so did not deserve that happy ending.

I just have issues with the whole logic to this movie. I know Airborne was a series of plot holes patched together by Torri’s awesomeness and I didn’t care because she RULES, but when she’s not around to blind me to how dumb the script is, that’s when I start getting really nitpicky.

Like, if you’re going to kill a guy, why shoot him once in the chest? Why not a round to the head to finish him off? Why not stick around a few minutes and check his pulse to make sure he’s not going to recover and be a headache for you and the audience?

And have these people heard of security cameras? Waltzing into a hospital brandishing guns [without masks, FCOL]…that’s why we have metal detectors taking over the world, you know. And good god, but no one ever thinks to call the police in these situations.

Oh, bad guys, shooting an empty bed? Nice going, Einstein. Didn’t want to check the dude was occupying it while you were wasting all that ammo? And why didn’t the guy in the alley think to expend even a fraction of those bullets on the guy then and there so that you wouldn’t have to come to the hospital during your free time to dispatch the hero?

And why shoot the car? Doesn’t anyone ever think to shoot out the tyres?

And seriously, if they’re that hard core, they could have looked through the records, identified the nurse that absconded with their would-be murder victim and found her home address and taken out the guy instead of conveniently finding the twosome on the streets one day and deciding to stage a drive-by shooting that ends with her DEAD, FREAKS.

And why, Alison, why waste your time with a non-committal, bottled-up, repressed sack of dren like this so-called hero whose name I cannot recall because he means nothing to me? [You said it, ‘I sure know how to pick ‘em…’] Why not call the police and hand him over to them? Why oh why…

Btw,  smoking? What is it with nurses and smoking these days? Tsk, tsk.  


And I can say that without offending anyone as half my family smokes and I love them anyway. ;)

Comments

[speckleberry.livejournal.com]

Lol, i actually agree with most - some - of that. Though the smoking thing might actually be Torri, not the character, lol.

And what's with the undies nearly up around her throat! Girl, seriously...i know it's the costume department, but can't you tell when you're getting a wedge?

*uses Torri!Cool icon to counter effects*

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Yuck. Smoking. I so wish she'd give up.

[speckleberry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. It's something i don't like anyone doing, but the fact that i adore her and she smokes, actually kinda speaks to her awesomeness. Considering i hate some of my family members for less.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

It truly is a disgusting habit. I wonder if she knows Sedge could get cancer from passive smoking.. that's what happened to my mum's dog, and that was just from being in the backyard where the neighbours smoked.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Wow, I did not realize that- it's so random how people either get sick or not. My grandparents have been smoking since they were 20, and my grandfather died last month from cancer. Then there are heaps of young people who smoke a year, or passively smoke, and they die straight away. So the neighbors were fine, but the poor dog died? That's just weird- is there some sort of predisposition to being affected by smoke or what? Because Ma still smokes, my cousins have picked up their smoking habit again, my aunt and uncle smoke...it's like, 'do I ostracize them or do I risk it?' Ugh.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

She hasn't died yet, but the vet only gives her a couple of months.

You should be very, very careful around poeple who smoke. None of my friends smoke. Not one. Actually, one does, but I don't see her very often. Maybe once every couple of years.

Animals get lung and throat cancer because all the ash and crap settles on their fur, and they wash themselves, and get a mouthful of the crap. That an passive smoking. It's disgusting. The people who smoke should be getting the effect of it, not some innocent animal who has no choice but to be around its owner.

Cookie has sweet little pink lungs and nostrils, and that's the way he's going to stay!

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

This isn't a justification, but out of all the vices she could have, smoking is probably the most easy to forgive/ignore.

The effects aren't immediately apparent [unlike, say, getting drunk and being a fool], harm is usually-though-not-always confined to oneself [unlike, hmm, drink-driving and smashing into someone else's car] and it's legal. It'd be harder to adore her, though I probably still would, if she were on drugs and pulling all kinds of crazy stunts.

And on the hating family members for less? Word.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Ha, is it so surprising that you would agree with me on some matters? XP

Yeah, I tried to ignore the uncoolness of her wardrobe in that scene. By focussing on nurse!Torri, who was just so adorable, I love her hair!



Considering my own hair's habit of going all wild and frizzy, I envy that sleekness. [Yes, I could shell out a few hundred bucks a month for hair products, but...no. Even with product, I could never make my hair do that. *pouts*]

You think Torri put in the smoking herself? Could be, since the movie's from a while back and they didn't really care about smoking onscreen...though I don't know how old this movie is, so maybe I'm making up stuff, but anyway, these days, people are really hesitant to show smoking that isn't 'relevant' in some way. ['Thank You For Smoking', incidentally, is hilarious]

Hee, and that is very cool Torri icon. *admires*

[justhere1971.livejournal.com]

I have not watched anyone of her movies yet. I guess it's time to rent a couple. She is to TINY! I wish she'd quit smoking though. Gillian Anderson has the same terrible habit. What's with me liking female actresses that smoke?

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Airborne is quite enjoyable, if you don't mind popcorn entertainment, ie, eat your junk and don't mind the plot holes too much.

Hey, Gillian smokes? Now I'm wondering who else on my list of favorites does the same. Kate Mulgrew? Jeri Ryan? Kyra Sedgwick? I'm so disillusioned. XP

This makes me revisit my whole 'tv does not influence impressionable young minds' argument. I love Torri like crazy and yet I'd never take up smoking just because I think she's cool and *she* does it. Stupid censors, give me credit for having a brain.