Frogs and Superman

[louiselux]

The baby frogs have started coming in the house at night if we leave the back door open. Yesterday we found six, and one of them had got as far as the coat room, which is near my desk. Gah! They are still all stuck at the bottom of the steps. To help them get back up to the garden we made them ladder. Actually it's a bamboo pole that runs up the edge of the steps, but they use it. I think. It's hard to tell, there are so many of them. I saw three of them travelling up it yesterday evening though.

daegaer is coming to stay tomorrow! I might put her on frog duties.

Frogs aside, I saw the new Superman film . Superman is very pretty. Lois Lane is very pretty indeed. Kevin Spacey was clearly born to play Lex Luthor. And is not quite so pretty, but you can't have everything.

It all looked good, and it was entertaining enough, but but! I don't know. It was unmemorable. Apart from the scene where Superman lands on Luthor's kryptonite island and is robbed of his strength. The violence and humiliation in that scene was brutal and made me cringe away. I am pretty sure it was meant to look like it did - like a rape scene. The intensity of it sat oddly with the rest of the film.

Superman stalks Lois Lane a little, which is nice. His chasing of her comes across as more than a little selfish. She's married, with a child! You can't waltz back into her life and take her for midnight rides up into the sky pressed up close to your tight, tight costume and rippling muscles. No wonder she looked so tortured all the time.

Comments

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Eee, baby frogs! I love the frog-updates. Poor things. That's so adorable that they use the ladder, though. I wish you could snap a picture of them on it!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I have pictures! I just need to put them on my pc. I'll leave a link for you for when you get back. :D

[kalldoro.livejournal.com]

Isn't Superman just gorgeous and lickable! Wow...I was in heaven the whole film just watching him. I'm very open minded when it comes to movies and I loved this one...mostly because I'm the worst sucker for superhero movies. I thought the scene where they beat him was amazing...like you said, so brutal it left me all heartbroken.

I don't know...I just loved him so much.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

He is completely lickable, I have to agree, although I am really starting to think he's a bit of a meanie for tormenting Lois.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

well, aside from several of us wanting the cinematographer to breed to ensure such talent is not lost, we were all going 'Supes is such a bastard' - since, hello, deliberately flying past her house? Also, we approve of the small one. For he has eyes in his head. Not to mention yay scriptwriters for making sure that not only is Richard a nice, heroic, bloke, but Lois chooses to stay with *him*. :nods appreciatively: It's always good when they choose the Paris type rather than the Romeo.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

hello, deliberately flying past her house?

Exactly! I thought that was actually quite devious of him. I'm glad she stayed with her husband- superman look-alike and all round nice guy who can actually give her a life that she wants. I think Superman is already married-- to his tights and cape. The film did look very pretty and I got a big thrill from then using the original John Williams theme again.

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Hee, frogs. I like frogs. Disturbed two adult ones with orange and black markings the other day when I was clearing out the pond, and then some other tiny ones elsewhere. They've stopped going in the lawn; it's all crispy burnt-off by the summer. They don't come in - just toads in the sheds. *happy*. I like your frog posts also.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks :) Having toads in the sheds sounds nice.