Yeah, isn't it great? We have our own little sports forum on IMDB, instead of those homophobic beer-guzzling morons on the "real" sports forum!
I LOVE Oda and Takahashi, very impressive. The new "and improved" Johnny Weir has left me cold for the first time ever, sadly. I've been watching him since 01, and I haven't been so disappointed in him in a long time. Course this isn't really him, and maybe that's another thing that bothers me. He should do what the song says and do things "his way." It worked! This new stuff may get the USFSA calmed down but it draws me away. I haven't seen the grace and elegance that I saw in Otonal in 05 and the Swan in 06.
I'm still on an edge about Lambiel. His spins are magnificent, just wish his programs were interesting enough for me. It just looks like he's skating to music, nothing more. But hopefully his new programs will bring me to liking him. I was never a Hans Zimmer fan despite my love for Gladiator, so when I saw him do King Arthur I cringed. Course most score collectors cringe when they see Zimmer's name on anything these days!!!! (LOL!) Anyway, with the King Arthur program, I suppose it was because I hadn't seen the movie (due in part to my distaste for Zimmer, but I have seen it now, just have not seen the program since) it left me kind of on a low note. But hey, with spins like that I am apt to give him credit for trying.
Evan, Evan, Evan... what can I say, the kid is growing on me, very very gradually. I like him as a person, I respect his attitude, but his skating... has its ups and downs for me. I suppose I wish he could be a bit more creative in his artistry. Like Tim, he's so great with his exhibitions, why can't he bring that out to the competition?
I'm actually watching the ladies, for once. I'm very impressed with Miki in particular. Since I saw her in 04 Worlds I saw potential in her and now she's starting to fulfill it. I think she'll do well in the future. Yu Na and Mao I'm also impressed with. Mao's new style reminds me of Kwan's at that age.
I saw Katy Taylor's new Legends of the Fall short program today at the Marshall's "competition." Let me start out by saying I love this kid, anyone who can pull off Silvestri's Forrest Gump the way she did has a medal from me. But this? Oh, come on! Horner can't possibly be THAT hard to skate to, can he? Sure we've seen skaters tackle Goldsmith (and only 2 have done him a smidgeon of justice, Todd Eldredge & Shen & Zhao) and we've seen plenty of skaters use Williams, and Zimmer and his associates, and for the most part they've done at least decent jobs. I don't know if it is the choreography with this music but this particular theme does not seem to fit the movements... at least where the footwork is concerned. It's one thing to portray a character in turmoil and do that kind of footwork to such a static motif, but I couldn't decipher any character in her program... course that might be because I haven't seen the movie in a long time, though I do remember the gist of the lead woman's part in the story. Eh, the choreography, for me, just doesn't seem to match the music/character. Like I said I could see if she were portraying someone suffering, or someone frustrated, but the story just doesn't seem fit for that... unless that part relates to the part where the girl is grieving Samuel and considering her love for Tristen... Come to think of it I can sort of see that. If she would convey that a little more I would understand more.
I'm also watching ice dance for the first time since A&P retired LOL. So far I'm anxious to see how Denkova/Stavisky's 7 Deadly Sins works out throughout the season. Gregory/Petukhov's Adam & Eve is also intriguing. But that's about it...
Pairs... Sadly I haven't seen anything special yet. But that's because I haven't seen any Chinese yet that I can recall.
With regards to Plushenko, I would like to see him back ONLY if he goes back to the same artistry that was in Tosca, Adagio, Petersburg 300, Story of An Artist, and Nijinsky. The Beethoven's 5th is also amazing. But Godfather was too unsettling and uncomfortable for me... probably because I'm one of the few who have yet to SEE the movie LOL! Yes, I know, how does a score collector with 100 scores miss this one?! But yes, the theatrical bits in that program were really unsettling. Course I'm not used to seeing him portray a villain LOL; he's usually the missunderstood/tragic figure in his programs. You know, he would be the perfect skater to skate to Elmer Bernstein's The Ten Commandments, which is my favorite film score of all time. He has the right moves, and the right pace. But if i were to talk to him about it, I think we might disagree slightly on who he would portray. I choreographed the program with the character of Rameses in mind, and knowing Zhenya he might want to portray Moses like Alyosha Urmanov did in the Prince of Egypt program in 2000. What also might be very good for him is music by X-Ray Dog (if you've seen the trailers for The Chronicles of Narnia, Eragon, Van Helsing, Troy, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest, The Da Vinci Code (I believe) Flicka, and Munich, you know their music.)
Just a side note, Ennio Morriconi is a film score genius, yes, his works are amazing, yes, but if I have to hear one more skater use The Mission I'LL SCREAM!!!!!
OK I just saw S&Z's Meditation. I have just 4 words to say...
THEY STILL GOT IT!
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I_Like_The_Japanese
17 years ago
Someone likes to type, eh?
Speaking of figure-skating, the off-ice drama this season has definately been intriguing. Nikolai Morozov and Shae-Lynn Bourne split, now he has Elena Grushina pregnant. Ruslan and Elena have been seperated romantically since according to some, the Olympics. Nikolai and Elena have only went public recently. Now whether or not she is expecting is disputable. I don't know why Shae-Lynn bothered to marry him in the first place after he had left his pregnant wife to be with her. Now he leaves his wife and impregnates another woman. If I were a blonde female ice-dancer I'd be wary of Morozov.
It's a shame concerning Elena and Ruslan, I've heard he hasn't been handling the situation to well. They were married for over ten years and she leaves him for a weasel. She must be an idiot, either that or she was blinded by love, lust or a delusion of what is love but only an ill fabrication and a charade. If I were to bet on it at the time I could have made alot of money betting on Shae and Nik not making it over a year. For me personally, Shae doesn't seem like the type to settle into marriage. She's quite independant natured. She's a sweet girl, too bad that Nik double crossed her.
It's a vicious cycle. Nikolai though seemingly charming, sadly has a problem infidelity. Not only that, but I've heard he is an alchoholic and that Shae has had to kick him out a few times because of it. I would have never guessed Grushina and Morozov. That was a shocker right there. Looks like Ruslan is dating Julia Golovina, who was rumored to have dated Morozov last year. Nikolai and his blonde female dancers.
I'm afraid Nora Hoffmann or Tanith Belbin might be his next victims, err conquests. The man has a problem with commitment and a straying eye, hands and well you know... One FSU poster who went to Skate Canada made note that Nikolai has a way of looking at you that he's imagining you without your shirt on. What a pig. I heard he was leering at a poster from FSU who's name escapes me. Here I was thinking James Bond was a womanizer, Nikolai Morozov is a womanizing bastard.
Cheers.
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