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[apocalypsos]

I have spent all day working on the Books of Boggs. That whimpering sound you've been hearing all afternoon? Yup, that was me. Writing's haaaaaaaaard. If I never see another index card, it'll be too soon.

In any event, Entertainment Weekly has an article ranking the 15 all-time best butt-kicking chicks of cinema. And while I appreciate the sentiment and all -- especially since my favorite character ever not surprisingly made the list at #6, and if I have to tell you which character, that would be sad -- the fact that Keira Knightley in Domino is coming out in the theaters this weekend and is #15 pisses me off. If you're going to shill, for Christ's sake, EW, shill with subtlety. (I wonder who I have to beat up to replace her with Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight.)

EDIT: According to IMDb news, Benjamin Bratt and his wife had a baby boy this week and named him Mateo Bravery Bratt, which I only mention because while I'm a little put-off by famous people who give their kids weird names, I adore famous people who give their kids cool middle names in such a way so that later on in life, they can pick up chicks or guys by saying, "Hey, my middle name is Danger/Bravery/Crimefighter!" and then whip out their driver's licenses for a laugh. :)

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[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Shit like that is just lame. And leaving out Geena Davis is double-lame.

If Keira gets on for anything, it should be Guinevere.

Also, putting the new Charlie's Angels in there... what the fuck kind of list is this supposed to be? Why not just slam Lara Croft in at number one... no, wait, she actually kicks arse on her own account. Lara Croft should have been in there years before the Angels.

Honor Blackman? Okay, she wasn't the worst Bond Girl, but she certianly didn't kick butt. They should have left Crouching Tiger to Ziyi Zhang and given Michelle Yeoh the Bond Girl slot.

... Uh, I'm going to go to bed before my dialogue degenerates into nothing but swear words.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you want to hear swear words, you should have heard my reaction when I said, "So if Sarah Connor is #6, then which five others kick more ass than she does?" and clicked over to Trinity. Which ... okay, yes, she kicks ass, but at least neither of Sarah's movies sucked monkey balls like the last two Matrix movies.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

And leaving out Geena Davis is double-lame.

Mm, The Long Kiss Goodnight. Maybe it's the fact she's playing the first female President on TV right now, though you'd think that would gain her some sort of bonus points. (Mysteriously, while watching that show for the first and I think only time, I observed her acting technique seems to involve a lot of talking with her jaw clenched.


They should have left Crouching Tiger to Ziyi Zhang and given Michelle Yeoh the Bond Girl slot.

I'm pleased she got on there at all, really. I remember catching The Heroic Trio years before her Bond role or Crouching Tiger and going, "...dude," for two hours straight.

But yeah, overall, while I'm pleased with a few things--I was thinking, "Who's going to be #1?" and then clicked it and went, "Yesssss."--this list could have been many times better.


(And then I comment with my ass-kicking female wombat icon.)

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Well, they do say that the list is in honor of Domino coming out. But yeah-kinda silly.

Although I approve of pretty much everyone above 6, and the fact that Faster Pussycat! Kill, Kill! made the list at all makes me smile.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but usually they start their lists like that with, "This weekend, Keira Knightley will be playing a butt-kicking chick in Domino, which inspired us to rank the 15 best butt-kicking chicks of cinema, etc." This is a tad more blatant than their usual ass-kissing.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

My middle name could be Danger, but it's John.

*needs an Eddie Izzard icon like woah*

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

There really was a guy who graduated high school with my best friend whose name was Eric Danger Ladenson. (Or something like that.)

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go against the flow and ask about your plotting out process - how do the index cards come in? Do you loosely outline scenes, or events, or what?

*is curious*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, mostly I tend to write a lot of just general story notes before I ever get to the index cards, writing down the plot or plots but not a whole lot of details. Then I get out the index cards and just kind of write down scenes as they come to me. Then when they're all written down (I usually set aside fifty cards for every novel), I put them in order, type up the list, then elaborate on that basic list and that becomes a sort of synopsis I can work by. :)