92 posts tagged “movies”

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/

I'm gonna be hearing about this from now 'til December ;)
I've already been told it's my new favoriet movie.
I guarantee that any marketing stuff they come out with for it (dolls err sorry action figures, probably posters, whatever) will be in my house.

So I figured I'd share in case you've not all run out and checked out the trailer yet too!

Today I: 
- Cut out some stuff to sew, didn't actually get to the sewing beyond a zipper. 
- Picked up my anti-seizure meds, $200something worth of fun there.
- Got coffee.
- Decided to save grocery shopping for tomorrow as am not feeling well and had already over done it having had been awake since 9 am and having gone out twice by the time we finished up with getting meds and coffee.
- Bought and watched Synecdoche New York.  It's a Charlie Kaufman movie, aka the guy who brought us Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind , etc.  This one was even weirder and deeper.  Brian decided it was too deep for him.  I think his head hurts.  It was good though long, weird, and not as good as his other movies. 
- Now I'm considering sleep as it's been a long day and I still am not feeling 100%

Tomorrow is grocery shopping and work on sewing this bag, because you know I might as well jump right into a real project.

RIP John Hughes.  Thanks for The Breakfast Club.  When it came out on VHS, way way back when, everyone in my house liked it.  So we watched it, and watched it, and watched it.  Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink were fun too.    Ohh we must have watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off about a billion times  too.  So yeah...  RIP to John Hughes, the man who made the comedies that we couldn't get enough of in the 80s.  

So I finally watched Watchmen, it was the director's cut version so Brian was telling me what wasn't in the theater version as we watched, heh.   First the bad: I do believe that was the worst Nixon ever.  Perhaps the worst portrayal of a real person I've seen.   Also I feel like there was a sense of hopelessness that the comic had which the movie didn't quite get. Like erm, I don't know -- I mean in the comic you felt like the average schmuck on the street probably had nothing and just knew the bombs would hit at any time and the world would end or something but they wanted to hold on to some hope even if they really had none and nothing going for them and no reason to hope.   The movie didn't seem to have any places to show the truly dark / hopeless mood on the streets.   The part of the comic which I had found the least interesting was the pirate comic so of course I was pretty happy with the movie since there was no real place for that, then again that was also the newsstand parts which probably is what allowed us to see the general mood on the street in the comic so hmm.  Otherwise, good movie.  However, I must stand by my claims that as far as  Alan Moore's stories go, Watchmen which seems to be rated as thee best comic of all time may be overrated.  It's good yes, but I think V for Vendetta is better.

I've decided that Hollywood hates me having lattes. 

First we'll all remember when I went to Universal Studios after the fire to see the damage and to go on the then new Simpsons ride.  I was worn out and wanted a latte for the ride home so we head for Starbucks and BAM, door is blocked off so no latte for me.  I blamed Stan Lee and Ed Norton as it was the Hulk premiere stopping me from getting my lovely iced latte then.  We still joke that those two us coffee.

Now tonight, we go to see Harry Potter.   I've not eaten nor had anything to drink yet other than to take my meds.  So we go get our usual weekend coffee first.  I've taken maybe 2 sips of it as the movie starts.  We sat near the back in the seats off to the side where no one seemed to want to sit, yay.  I wanted to sit out of the way where people don't walk all over you, where it's easy to get out if I don't feel good, etc.  So this guy asks if he can squeeze by despite the row in front of us being empty.  So I turn all of the way to the side -- he got the whole aisle to get through.  Somehow he STILL knocks MY coffee totally out of the cup holder onto the floor.  Yeah.  Not just a little bump into it but out of the cup holder onto the floor.  I'd not be surprised it got onto his shoes.  Brian went and got me a water and after the movie I got a McDonalds iced coffee since they were still open and we needed f00d anyway.

Clearly when it comes to me seeing anything Hollywood related, I need to remember they hate lattes so if I can manage to get one, they'll just find a way to take it away.  Book stores, they like lattes!  Other shopping, lattes fine!  My coffee issues only seem to happen around Hollywood.

As for HP, it was good.  Even Brian thought so and he only goes because I make him take me.  He thought it was the best one so far, the most human one he said.  So I asked him better than Transformers then, since I skipped it and he's a Transformers geek.  He said definitely.  If he were going to see one of them again it'd be HP.   I haven't seen many movies this year and those I did annoyed me besides this one, so I asked Brian umm were there any other good movies this year besides HP?  He said Star Trek, I reminded him I didn't see that one.  So now besides Bruno when it hits PPV, I don't think there's any movies I wanna see this year except Avatar, which Brian claims is my new favoriet movie *ahem*

RIP Ed EcMahon.

If you get sick, you want to be Steve Jobs rich.  DUH.

I saw the Lt. Gov.  of SC on Rachel Maddow's show.  Man, I gotta say, he kind of sounded pissed off, heh.  I would too if I had his job or were a citizen of SC or say the wife and family of the SC governor.  Seriously, WTF?  I'm pretty sure governors aren't supposed to disappear for a week without even telling their staff and family where they're going  -- during Father's day weekend.  Then, oh hey, he was just hiking during hike naked day?  Umm.  Yeah, sure. Didn't turn over power to the Lt. Gov.  Just took off. For at least 5 days, we'll see how long it actually turns out to be.   Good governor. 

Iran is claiming Neda's murder was staged.  Yeah, ok.  Somewhere else said they're implying that protesters shot her otherwise they couldn't have gotten the video and gotten it out to the world so quickly.  That's so believable.  Do citizens even have weapons?  I've been following citizen news from there and it seems like none of them have real ways to defend themselves let alone ways to shoot a girl on the street.

Between the reviews and the trailers I think I've decided to pass on the latest Transformers movie.  Brian was going to go see it and if he wanted to see it again, he figured that would mean it's good enough that I'd want to see it, but so far he's thinking it sounds like such a dud he's not sure even he wants to see it and he loves Transformers.  At least I have HP soon, the one movie I expect to be brilliant this year (besides Brian's movie, of course). I still think I want to see Brüno too, but not because I expect it to be brilliant, I don't -- I expect it to be okay but good cheesy fun.

Had been so exhausted for two weeks that moving took real effort.  I'm finally getting energy slowly back and it's being replaced by pain.  My friend said exhaustion sounds better.  I tend to agree at least when the exhaustion isn't totally gone yet.  This must be that active disease they talked about.  Argh.

We went to see Up in 3D for Brian's birthday (which was last weekend, but I felt crappy then, still do but felt today was as good as it gets without making him wait too long so went to the midnight showing).  In case you've not noticed by now my average movie rating is "It's okay"  with the occasional "it's crap" or "brilliant". Well I don't want to spoil Up for anyone so I'll just break down the general aspects of the movie, I think trailers give that much away probably -- Love story = Brilliant, Relationship with the kid = brilliant, balloons and the house = brilliant, Dogs = crap to okay.  Leave out the dogs or most of them and it's a brilliant movie.  With them in it or in it as much as they were?  It's okay.  Brian thinks they realized they had too short of a movie and/or wrote themselves into a corner so dogs it was.

He also asked me what Terminator Salvation had been on my three word movie scoring system.  "Okay" then a few minutes later "Oh, I have to adjust my rating, Okay except for that last scene or two, pure crap"  He agrees with my rating on both movies it seems.  We also both expect our next movie (Transformers) to probably be okay or crap.  But I expect my big summer movie (Harry Potter) to be Brilliant.  And of course, Brian's big movie is out later this year, I'm required to love it since he's spent four birthdays working on that one and as burnt out as he gets and as ready as he gets to leave it, he'd probably work on it forever if he had to.  Though he's also ready to go to his new job that he's never really started, heh.

In the last few days I've read Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3), The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle,  The Vampire Diaries: The Fury and Dark Reunion, and am now reading The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall.  I figured I'd read The Vampire Diaries since it's taking Smallville's spot on CW this fall.  Good so far except this last book is a bit, erm, not as good as the others.  Why do so many authors get x number of books into a series and just totally seem to go a little wacky?

My phone rang tonight and my sister's pic appeared on the caller ID, I thought I knew what she was calling about since we have had a few back and forth emails the last day or two.  Imagine my surprise when I answer the phone and hear Keegan say, first thing,  "You SUCK"  I asked him "what?"  and he repeated himself.  It seems that I'm a slacker.  I don't really use MySpace much except for apps and to talk to him and Karina.  So I never bother to use categories much.  I set them up once and forgot about them -- unless *I* add someone since they don't pop up when someone asks to be your friend, only when you add someone yourself does it ask do you want to add them to a category.  Well Keegan didn't have his MySpace yet when I set up my Family category and he added me, so ooopsie I never did go in and add him.  His mom and him were looking at my MySpace tonight and she teased him "Looks like Aunt Ramie doesn't think of you as Family" next thing she knew he'd taken her phone and called me.  I assure you that when a 8 year old tells you off, you fix your goof quickly. 

Power was out in our part of LA tonight.  Our lights only flickered for a second but didn't go out.  Our Starbucks wasn't out so we got coffee - YaY.  In the same shopping center the California Pizza Kitchen, theirs was out, so we decided we'll get them tomorrow night when they have power.

Watched Body of Lies .  Good thing I like Leo and Brian worked on that movie (we were watching to see if his shots were in it -- they were and to see if he was credited -- he was not but neither was his boss or his company or judging by the visual effects credits probably many others were not so that's just how it goes).  Not a horrible movie but eh, not great either.  Slow in spots, good in others, and in the end rather anti-climatic.

Then I watched How to Be, which is much more my kind of movie than anything else I've seen in ages.  I think they could have done something more with it, but the concept and movie in general was totally my kind of movie.  And given the stuff I've seen lately, well yeah... this wins compared to anything else I have seen in awhile.  Probably because it's more quirky, not typical Hollywood stuff.  Not that typical Hollywood movies are all bad, but if I feel like I've seen it before or it's all blow stuff up, or eh, whatever, 95% of movies I just don't care about.  I think I probably have less than a dozen DVDs I care about.  Well maybe more but they're sets. I'm a snob.  I do plan to see Transformers next and have low expectations.  The next good movie I plan to see is Harry Potter -- DUH!

Gave Brian his birthday presents -- Star Trek: Countdown TPB which he asked for.  And so he'd have a present he didn't know about / ask for I also gave him Star Trek Ultimate Edition (Star Trek Manga), which he oddly enough seemed more happy with.  Guess there had been a preview in his last Battle Angel Manga or something.  So, win!  YaY!  It's not like I know how to pick a Star Trek birthday present, but somehow I did!