Current mood:

satisfied

Yay! My taste is validated!
So Shade and I were sitting around bored, mulling over what to watch since the next disc of NCIS has not arrived from Netflix, and I suggested The Librarian (which I own), since it's like National Treasure on a budget and I thought he might like it.

I was staggered. He LOVED it, and the minute it was over immediately wanted to rent the two sequels (the second I've seen, the third I haven't). The second one isn't as bad as I remember it being, although it still doesn't live up to the original. Not that The Librarian is an immortal beacon of cinematic virtue, but it's certainly above-average entertainment; the sequel has its moments, but is overall kinda middling. It doesn't help that Gabrielle Anwar is so painfully skinny that even I thought she could stand a few hearty meals--I, who think that Keira Knightley looks perfectly fine. My threshold for skinny chicks is high, but Anwar just looks unhealthy.


ETA: Just finished the third movie (threequel?).

OMG. OMG.

IT IS AWESOME. In a cheesy, winkingly self-referential way.

VAMPIRES! SWORDFIGHTS! EXPLOSIONS! PIRATE SHIPS! RUSSIAN SPIES! TWEED! The only thing it was missing was dragons and steampunk; otherwise it would have been a perfect nucleus of Shiny.

And the new girl/requisite love interest was damn smokin' fine and kicked ass like whoa; I instantly girlcrushed on her SO HARD. Such an improvement over McPrissypants.