That damn show
That Damn Show is on tonight. Honestly, I would have quit it weeks ago if the husband hadn't said that it was a one-season show, and would be wrapping up soon. But nothing ever happens, it's so awfull and borring and hair-pullingly stupid. I can't relate to any of the characters, things are dropped not mysteriously, but just carelessly, and mistakes!!! They got the call letters wrong on a local TV station, just by getting tow in the wrong order. They got the whale migration times wrong. It's a show about freaking marine biologists. It's frustrating, annoying and irritating. the only marginally interesting character is the bad guy; Lee, and even he's not given near enough development. instead we see that idiot lizzard run around beating like the first 20 minutes of the wookie christmas special. And that was painful to sit through, and I like star wars. I even own the damn ewok movies.
It's amlmost as bad as when i was reading either the Davinci Code or Angels and Demons, but one of them started right out stating a fact i knew to be false. How? I done it my freakin' self! I'm not that smart, but if i can figure out how to make a wrod look the same right side up as well as upside down, it can't take a supercomputer or a demonic cult. That, and the fact that the word is printed right there in the text, so obviosly mr. brown found someone else who could do it to. $5.99 paperback from the grocery store, and yet filled with impossiblities.
The davinci code may make a good movie. It sure read like a screenplay. Like jurasic park 2, I read it first and was filled with amazement at the contradictions witht he first book, which i had enjoyed. Sadly, the movie was just as terrible.
It's only january and the husband and I have seen TWO movies in the theaters! We saw King Kong, and Narnia. Both were fairly enjoyable, Kong more so than Narnia, but only because I am more attatched to Narnia. Kong I never really cared much about, so i had low expectations. Narnia I love. Loved the books (all of em!) Loved the animated movie, loved the BBC movies.
I want to make a Ginarrbrick hat! L,W,W had problems, a certain thinness of plot, and questions as the other Narnia books were written later that didn't exactly mesh nicely. It's a patchwork of a universe, not well planned. But like a favourite jumper, is always inviting and comfortable. The movie was nice to look at for the most part, but some of the compositing was terrible! And it had that ewokification factor that i think any projsect a Lucas team works on can fall prey to. Some overly cute thing in a furry costume parading around and making you just groan and roll your eyes. The battle scene only got a paragraph in the book, so it was nice to see a bit of that, even if it was not nearly as well done as LOTR. I know that it must have been a hard call. There is a battle, there has to be a battle, but it can't be too freaky or the rating won't be PG. It's a very 'hard PG' as some freinds of mine say. They also used this description for Wallace and Grommit's wererabbit movie, which I haven't yet seen.
The little boy is not seeing Narnia, not for a few years. The wolves alone would make him poop twinkies. It's the first time he has been dissapointed that I wouldn't let him see something, he's always just deffered to the "when you're older" rule i have. But he seems to have gotten over it. And he got to see the animated movie, so that's something. I have a lot of odd rules about what he can see and what he can't, it's really the only thing that ever causes friction with any in-laws or freinds or my own family. He can't see anything i haven't seen first, i don't want any surprises. And he can't see a lot of the movies his freinds have seen, mostly beacuse i think they are stupid and overly violent. Most disney films are out. And then he gets scared by different things than most kids. He hated the little Mermaid becasue she was dissobedient to her father so much! He freaked out and left the room durring Willy Wonka (the original) not because of the oompa loompas, or the crazyass tunnel, but becasue the children were so badly behaved.
"they will make mr. wonka angry!!!!" he would shriek. "they are not supposed to do that!" My little hall monitor. He loves Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars IV, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Robin Hood, 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Herbie the Love bug (haven't seen the new one yet).
He's not ready for the Incredibles, I hated Piglett's Big Movie (What the fuck was up with that anyway???? kidnapping roo? extorting kanga? 100 acre woods revisionist history?) I wasn't pleased by Madagascar but had to admit it was funny in places. Spongebob's movie SUCKED. I like some of the tv shows, but not all. Some are on the banned list. Shrek one and two are brilliant, tho.
ramble ramble ramble. For morning pages, this has really taken me all day. I can't imagine that i'll even get to do this much when i get baby X. I find five minutes, write something, then get called away. I'm sure this makes for terrible reading, but that's another thing, I'm not supposed to be reading these again. It makes me somewhat sad because i'd like to join a webring or something, kntting or witch related, but then again, it's most likely for the best. It'd be dead embarassing.
ok, that's all for today, dinner is in the oven, au gratin potatoes! yum! I'll most likely delte this in the morning. More Horatio Hornblower to watch tonight!
t
It's amlmost as bad as when i was reading either the Davinci Code or Angels and Demons, but one of them started right out stating a fact i knew to be false. How? I done it my freakin' self! I'm not that smart, but if i can figure out how to make a wrod look the same right side up as well as upside down, it can't take a supercomputer or a demonic cult. That, and the fact that the word is printed right there in the text, so obviosly mr. brown found someone else who could do it to. $5.99 paperback from the grocery store, and yet filled with impossiblities.
The davinci code may make a good movie. It sure read like a screenplay. Like jurasic park 2, I read it first and was filled with amazement at the contradictions witht he first book, which i had enjoyed. Sadly, the movie was just as terrible.
It's only january and the husband and I have seen TWO movies in the theaters! We saw King Kong, and Narnia. Both were fairly enjoyable, Kong more so than Narnia, but only because I am more attatched to Narnia. Kong I never really cared much about, so i had low expectations. Narnia I love. Loved the books (all of em!) Loved the animated movie, loved the BBC movies.
I want to make a Ginarrbrick hat! L,W,W had problems, a certain thinness of plot, and questions as the other Narnia books were written later that didn't exactly mesh nicely. It's a patchwork of a universe, not well planned. But like a favourite jumper, is always inviting and comfortable. The movie was nice to look at for the most part, but some of the compositing was terrible! And it had that ewokification factor that i think any projsect a Lucas team works on can fall prey to. Some overly cute thing in a furry costume parading around and making you just groan and roll your eyes. The battle scene only got a paragraph in the book, so it was nice to see a bit of that, even if it was not nearly as well done as LOTR. I know that it must have been a hard call. There is a battle, there has to be a battle, but it can't be too freaky or the rating won't be PG. It's a very 'hard PG' as some freinds of mine say. They also used this description for Wallace and Grommit's wererabbit movie, which I haven't yet seen.
The little boy is not seeing Narnia, not for a few years. The wolves alone would make him poop twinkies. It's the first time he has been dissapointed that I wouldn't let him see something, he's always just deffered to the "when you're older" rule i have. But he seems to have gotten over it. And he got to see the animated movie, so that's something. I have a lot of odd rules about what he can see and what he can't, it's really the only thing that ever causes friction with any in-laws or freinds or my own family. He can't see anything i haven't seen first, i don't want any surprises. And he can't see a lot of the movies his freinds have seen, mostly beacuse i think they are stupid and overly violent. Most disney films are out. And then he gets scared by different things than most kids. He hated the little Mermaid becasue she was dissobedient to her father so much! He freaked out and left the room durring Willy Wonka (the original) not because of the oompa loompas, or the crazyass tunnel, but becasue the children were so badly behaved.
"they will make mr. wonka angry!!!!" he would shriek. "they are not supposed to do that!" My little hall monitor. He loves Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars IV, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Robin Hood, 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Herbie the Love bug (haven't seen the new one yet).
He's not ready for the Incredibles, I hated Piglett's Big Movie (What the fuck was up with that anyway???? kidnapping roo? extorting kanga? 100 acre woods revisionist history?) I wasn't pleased by Madagascar but had to admit it was funny in places. Spongebob's movie SUCKED. I like some of the tv shows, but not all. Some are on the banned list. Shrek one and two are brilliant, tho.
ramble ramble ramble. For morning pages, this has really taken me all day. I can't imagine that i'll even get to do this much when i get baby X. I find five minutes, write something, then get called away. I'm sure this makes for terrible reading, but that's another thing, I'm not supposed to be reading these again. It makes me somewhat sad because i'd like to join a webring or something, kntting or witch related, but then again, it's most likely for the best. It'd be dead embarassing.
ok, that's all for today, dinner is in the oven, au gratin potatoes! yum! I'll most likely delte this in the morning. More Horatio Hornblower to watch tonight!
t
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