Into The Valley of the Weed...

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Okay! Got my first group of edits back from CZP, and I'm checking them/adding to them as we speak. I'm about five pages into Chapter Three. Happy to say I'm quickly closing in on having already cut out 2,000 words.;)

Otherwise, last night I watched my Criterion copy of The Seventh Seal for the first time, and yes, by God--Season of the Witch really is basically based on that subplot with the poor, deluded, tortured girl Antonius Block stops to talk to while she's on her way to be burned alive. Amazing. Obvious somebody saw that and thought: Man, what this needs is 100% more actual Satan! Also, CGI wolves. And Hellboy head-butting a demon while catching on fire.

At any rate, I don't have lots of time to talk about it, but it really is an amazing film. And far funnier than I remember it being, in that pitch-black Swedish sort of way--total Viking humour. It's mainly Jons the squire who's responsible for that; man, what a total soft-hearted atheist bad-ass. (I also love how every time Block says something that annoys him, he makes this weird sort of "biting the air" face at him, like he's a cat in flamen.)

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Man, what this needs is 100% more actual Satan!

LOL-ing forever. Did you end up seeing Season of the Witch? Is it terrible? I suggested it to the friend I see horror movies with on Friday and she was like "NO."

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It depends on your mileage, I suspect. Certainly, it is cheesy beyond belief, but that didn't annoy me so much-I knew the history was shite going in, considering that they put the Crusades right next to the Black Death (200 years of separation, bridged in a single pitch-line). I just decided that it takes place in a fantasy alternate universe version of Europe, which--let's face it--it really does, in that it assumes witches can do witchcraft.

That said, I enjoyed the characters, and Steve liked the fact that while the Church was roundly criticized, they weren't the actual final villains of the piece (that'd be the Devil!). So I account it a fun time, but remember: I liked Centurion.;)