94 posts tagged “movies”

Finished reading Beautiful Creatures.  4/5 stars. Even though it's not about vampires nor wizards, the best way that I can describe it is if you liked Twilight and Harry Potter, then it's the book for you.  And even if you didn't, it's a good book.  Basically a boy in a small town starts having nightmares that he's trying to save a girl, but she always slips away.  Then a new girl shows up in town.  He realizes she's the girl of these nightmares and is also having the same dreams.  Oh, and of course she isn't just a normal girl.  And his boring little town isn't just a normal town for that matter.  In fact they'll believe that before his dream girl's sixteenth birthday  they need to figure out all of the mysteries of the town and themselves or neither of them will have future -- together or alone for that matter.

Now onto Nightlife (Cal Leandros, Book 1), since I have the four books in the series waiting for me. 

Watched Bruno.   Gotta say, nowhere near as good as Borat was.  The cage fighting scene and the guys trying to convert gays was hilarious though. 

Had a chicken sandwich and fruit.  Talked to mom for a few.  Still feel like hell.  Will probably sleep much of Friday away.  We don't do Black Friday.  Don't have many gifts to buy this year.  All online.  And making a few, when I start feeling less crappy / lazy.

Books:
I finished Fire (Graceling).  It's billed as the prequel to Graceling.  Um, can we say a book is a spinoff the way a tv show is?  If so then yes this a prequel time wise.  But Graceling would be a spinoff.  Without giving spoilers, Gracelings have almost nothing to do with this book, they make an appearance.   This book is more about monsters.  Graceling  was a woman basically being thee strongest person alive and struggling with it.  Fire -- a good book, but our heroine, while strong, her struggle is that she's a beautiful monster.   And she hates being what she is.  Still a good book.  Just a bit more whiny than the first book.  The characters in Graceling were more likable/developed than in Fire.  Graceling was 5/5 but Fire is 4/5.

Now onto Tempest Rising (Jane True), I think. 

NaNoWriMo:
Rushing this weekend, tons of filler story crap.  I know.  Bad me.  I just wanna finish SOMETHING.  To restart it.  Properly.  My new ideas for this are much better and require total re-write start to finish.  Sooo write crappy fluff, but still writing actual words = get it done.  The start over.  I won't cheat, but I will write TOTAL rushed crap that will never see the light of day.  I think I will finish tonight.  And then restart.  Bit by bit.  Around reading and making presents.  Slowly.  Properly. When the mood hits only.  But I will have completed it! HA! 

Music:
Wtf is up with Adam Lambert?  Okay so he put on a "hot" performance at the AMAs.  But musically, I saw him do better on American Idol.  That song kinda sucked.

Movies:
Watched Star Trek.  Brian asked what I thought, since I don't know jack about Star Trek, don't care much about sci-fi, space stuff, except maybe Red Dwarf.  He mostly asked if it was better than Terminator Salvation , the last Brian movie we watched.  Yes it was better than that.  Because Star Trek had character development.  It was fun in that respect.  Terminator Salvation didn't seem to care about the characters at all.

Got our invite to see Avatar.

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.