Going Live, Mamma Mia and other stuff

[bookzombie]

Right at this very moment I'm feeling a little cross. We've got a 'go live' at work this weekend and I'm supposed to be doing some system configuration Any Moment Now. It was scheduled for 9pm originally, we were told it would likely to be much earlier than that (but 5pm at the earliest). 1 hour and 55 minutes ago I got a call to tell me it would be in 1 to 1 and a half hours. Still waiting. How much do you want to bet that the phone will go just as start eating tea?

I've also got to go in the office tomorrow for a couple of hours, which is not to bad for a go-live weekend. Mind you, have I mentioned how much I resent going into the office on the weekend...?

Onto other things. We say Mamma Mia on Thursday. In the main I enjoyed it and left the cinema with a big grin on my face and love for all humankind in my heart. There were a few issues though, behind cut for spoilerness.

I was pleasantly surprised by Meryl Streep - she has a competent 'good amateur' voice. Which is more than can be said for Pierce Brosnan who really shouldn't be paid for singing like that. Never mind, he seemed as if he was enjoying himself. But I do think that there are some issues with the older cast. As wonderful as it is to have a film which is about the loves of middle-aged people (especially middle-aged women - almost unheard of these days!), some of the cast are little too old. Streep may be pretty well-preserved, but she can't pass for someone in their early to mid-forties, which Donna really needs to be, given her 'wild child' past and 20 year old daughter. In fact the only one of the cast who is about the right age is Colin Firth.
Also it may be just me but I would have cast Firth and Brosnan around the other way. We are supposed to believe that Sam (the Brosnan character) fell in love with Donna, went home to break his engagement, came back, saw Donna with another man and so turned tail and walked away? You can believe that Firth could carry off that diffidence, but Brosnon? Nope.

Some of the songs from the stage version are cut and several others are moved about - most of which I can understand (though I mourn the loss of 'Under Attack' and it's surreal dream sequence). But why move 'Take a Chance on Me' to after the wedding? It made much more sense where it was.

Anyway, mainly I really enjoyed myself so carping a bit here!

Also Dr Horrible's Sing-along-blog. Mainly enjoyed - particularly impressed with Neil Patrick Harris: a pleasant voice, good comic timing and treads that border between likeable and pathetic well. But I'm afraid (whisper who dares)

there appears to be a woman in the refrigerator

Twenty minutes later - no telephone call...

Comments

[owlfish]

My favorite Dr. Horrible analysis.

C. was just called in to work this evening - they're going live in a week or so. If we're lucky, he'll be home not long after midnight.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

If I'm honest I really cannot complain - I've had a fairly easy run of implementations in the last couple of years! It's a long time since I last had to be in the office for 30-35 hours at a stretch.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Next up will be the sequel, Dr. Adorable's Sing-along-blog. You can star. ;-)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mamma Mia did not have quite enough of the Divine Mister Firth (of course, to meet my needs it would be All Colin All The Time), and he sings respectably for a actor.