a week's worth of things, part 1
Jun. 30th, 2009 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthI was going to make an entire post about getting sucked into watching The Superstars and how Terrell Owens is a drama magnet, and Joanna Krupa - who I'm not sure I'd heard of before last week - is a total prima donna and deserved to get stuck with him and then kicked off. I managed to tear myself free of watching Wipeout last season, but I don't think I'm strong enough to resist all of the summer programming. And, it gets better! Someone got injured, and so T.O. and Joanna are back this week. Drama!
I'm totally going to watch this every week (am watching it as I type this). Yes, I am wallowing in my shallowness. Is that possible?
I'm going to see Star Trek in IMAX sometime this week. With a maybe-date. So I'm going to try to keep my squee to a publicly acceptable level.
I went to see Transformers 2, sort of by accident. (I went to pick something up from Best Buy, and there was a movie theater in the parking lot, and the movie started in 10 minutes.) Now, I really, really loved the first Transformers. I will fully admit that I switched my brain off to any concern about Characters Who Were Not Named in the Credits, because, seriously, it's a Michael Bay movie, and everything else must give way in the face of needing to blow things up.
The sequel was different, as you'd expect. I haven't read any interviews about the movie or reviews or whatnot, so I have no idea what their intention was, but it seemed like they were determined to write a different sort of movie (with broad and not-entirely-successful comedy), while simultaneously blowing up bigger things. I've mostly put the movie out of my mind by now, and so I don't remember precisely what bugged me so much, but I do know that the destruction of the pyramid to get to the machine, and busting through that panel to get to the matrix thing really irked me. Maybe it was growing up on Indiana Jones movies, where the adventure peacefully coexisted with the precious artifacts?
I will say, though, that I loved Jetfire. Loved, loved, loved. Favorite line? "My father was a wheel. The first wheel. You know what he transformed into?!? NOTHING!" I'm also a big fan of the Udvar-Hazy center, so it's always nice to see the planes. Apparently my dad was there when they were moving in "some big robot thing" for filming that scene.
Also, I'm conflicted, because there were a lot of words that I just didn't catch. I get the speedy, rambly, thing, I do, but considering what crap many of the lines from the bit players were, I would have liked the opportunity to hear what they put in the mouth of the main characters. Also, hi Major Lennox! You're still hot, but didn't you spend much of the last movie worried about your wife and child?
Also, loved Glenn Morshower (who was playing "General Morshower" - seriously, IMDB?) playing to type.
I'm totally going to watch this every week (am watching it as I type this). Yes, I am wallowing in my shallowness. Is that possible?
I'm going to see Star Trek in IMAX sometime this week. With a maybe-date. So I'm going to try to keep my squee to a publicly acceptable level.
I went to see Transformers 2, sort of by accident. (I went to pick something up from Best Buy, and there was a movie theater in the parking lot, and the movie started in 10 minutes.) Now, I really, really loved the first Transformers. I will fully admit that I switched my brain off to any concern about Characters Who Were Not Named in the Credits, because, seriously, it's a Michael Bay movie, and everything else must give way in the face of needing to blow things up.
The sequel was different, as you'd expect. I haven't read any interviews about the movie or reviews or whatnot, so I have no idea what their intention was, but it seemed like they were determined to write a different sort of movie (with broad and not-entirely-successful comedy), while simultaneously blowing up bigger things. I've mostly put the movie out of my mind by now, and so I don't remember precisely what bugged me so much, but I do know that the destruction of the pyramid to get to the machine, and busting through that panel to get to the matrix thing really irked me. Maybe it was growing up on Indiana Jones movies, where the adventure peacefully coexisted with the precious artifacts?
I will say, though, that I loved Jetfire. Loved, loved, loved. Favorite line? "My father was a wheel. The first wheel. You know what he transformed into?!? NOTHING!" I'm also a big fan of the Udvar-Hazy center, so it's always nice to see the planes. Apparently my dad was there when they were moving in "some big robot thing" for filming that scene.
Also, I'm conflicted, because there were a lot of words that I just didn't catch. I get the speedy, rambly, thing, I do, but considering what crap many of the lines from the bit players were, I would have liked the opportunity to hear what they put in the mouth of the main characters. Also, hi Major Lennox! You're still hot, but didn't you spend much of the last movie worried about your wife and child?
Also, loved Glenn Morshower (who was playing "General Morshower" - seriously, IMDB?) playing to type.
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Date: 2009-07-01 03:49 am (UTC)I can't believe I'm going to bother to say this about a Michael Bay movie (*puts on my Captain Obvious hat*) but he made some... really questionable characterization choices in the name of "comedy" and "romance" and possibly also "action" - though my bar for the last is so low that I'm pretty sure he stumbled over it.
And thanks for the good wishes - I can't remember the last time I went to a movie with someone who I hadn't known for, like, 10 years.