< wacky high-jinks voice>"MAAAR-ma-DUUUUKE!"< /wacky high-jinks voice>
I saw "Marmaduke" tonight. This actually happened.
I went with a co-worker. She's a friend of mine, and we used to hang out all the time, but we haven't done anything together in ages and when I saw the previews for "Marmaduke" I knew she'd want to see it. (She really loves dogs. I mean, I know all us dog owners really love dogs -- but she really really really REALLY loves dogs. Also cats.) (I do not care for cats. I have tried and tried and TRIED to like cats, but as a general rule I am not a cat person. If the Doctor's okay with not being a cat person, then I'm okay with not being a cat person. I have made my peace with this.)
So, anyway, "Marmaduke." I suggested we see it almost as a kind of peace offering -- I knew she'd want to see it, and I could at least go along with the dogs being cute and with Owen Wilson doing a voice (I like Wilson) and with me pretending I was Adrian Monk for the night (for surely, Monk would be first in line for this one, right?).
The movie was only about an hour and a half long, maybe an hour forty-five -- and I only wanted to kill myself on about three separate occasions, so we can see that it wasn't actually too bad. Sam Elliott had a voice cameo in it; that was fun. Also William H. Macy was in it as Marmaduke's owner's boss, and I <3 him, so that was fine. Weird, but fine.
Kiefer Sutherland was the voice of the Bad Guy Dog. (I noticed his name on the poster while we were waiting to buy our tickets; I kept shrieking, "Kiefer Sutherland? KIEFER SUTHERLAND?? JACK BAUER is in 'MARMADUKE'?!?") This almost resulted in me having to leave the theater once I recognized his voice -- Jack Bauer IS: The Really Bad Dog -- but I managed to restrain myself from laughing like a deranged hyena and disturbing the other movie-goers. ("What d'ya think YOU'RE doing, MarmaPUKE??" *dies a little inside*) Definitely overloaded my sense of proportion for the evening, however, so by the time Maisy the Dog is falling into the Epic Sinkhole caused by a broken water main I could almost buy it.
My friend kept worrying before the movie started: "What if one of the animals die? I HATE when the animals die!" And I kept going, "Dude -- animals only die in movies if they don't talk. TALKING dogs always turn out okay in the end." This is a solid hypothesis. Review your childhood flicks; you will see that I am right.
... so, y'know. There was that tonight. Fun previews before the movie, at least: "Toy Story 3" looks like it may be shaping up to be the ending that the story has always deserved, and "Ramona and Beezus" may actually not be fricked up YAY BECAUSE YOU BETTER TREAT MY RAMONA _RIGHT_. The books are like 40 years old, so I am expecting some updates to them -- but _treat the characters RIGHT_. (I have hope, though. Mr. Quimby announces, "Let's draw the longest picture in the world!" and I started to cry a bit, right there in the theater.)
Also Donna Noble is in Jack Black's "Gulliver's Travelers" and when I saw her I did this big "HUUUUUUUUH!" sound and had to clap my hands over my mouth to keep from yelling, "LOOK IT'S DONNA IN A JACK BLACK MOVIE OHMIGAWD" in the middle of the theater. I do like Jack Black.
Anyway, I need to go see "Iron Man 2" post haste to get all the "Marmaduke" outta my system, so we'll see about that maybe happening this weekend. Or at least maybe next. (And DEFINITELY more thoughts to follow on "Iron Man." Also "Sherlock Holmes." Also "Psych.")
(... also Dean Koontz, although not in a good way.)
TWENTY WORDS (and one emoticon symbol) ON DISNEY'S "THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG": Pretty good, solid characters, liked the one song, I <3 Jim Cummings -- but they still haven't gotten back the Disney magic.
... so what's everybody looking forward to seeing at the theaters this summer?
I went with a co-worker. She's a friend of mine, and we used to hang out all the time, but we haven't done anything together in ages and when I saw the previews for "Marmaduke" I knew she'd want to see it. (She really loves dogs. I mean, I know all us dog owners really love dogs -- but she really really really REALLY loves dogs. Also cats.) (I do not care for cats. I have tried and tried and TRIED to like cats, but as a general rule I am not a cat person. If the Doctor's okay with not being a cat person, then I'm okay with not being a cat person. I have made my peace with this.)
So, anyway, "Marmaduke." I suggested we see it almost as a kind of peace offering -- I knew she'd want to see it, and I could at least go along with the dogs being cute and with Owen Wilson doing a voice (I like Wilson) and with me pretending I was Adrian Monk for the night (for surely, Monk would be first in line for this one, right?).
The movie was only about an hour and a half long, maybe an hour forty-five -- and I only wanted to kill myself on about three separate occasions, so we can see that it wasn't actually too bad. Sam Elliott had a voice cameo in it; that was fun. Also William H. Macy was in it as Marmaduke's owner's boss, and I <3 him, so that was fine. Weird, but fine.
Kiefer Sutherland was the voice of the Bad Guy Dog. (I noticed his name on the poster while we were waiting to buy our tickets; I kept shrieking, "Kiefer Sutherland? KIEFER SUTHERLAND?? JACK BAUER is in 'MARMADUKE'?!?") This almost resulted in me having to leave the theater once I recognized his voice -- Jack Bauer IS: The Really Bad Dog -- but I managed to restrain myself from laughing like a deranged hyena and disturbing the other movie-goers. ("What d'ya think YOU'RE doing, MarmaPUKE??" *dies a little inside*) Definitely overloaded my sense of proportion for the evening, however, so by the time Maisy the Dog is falling into the Epic Sinkhole caused by a broken water main I could almost buy it.
My friend kept worrying before the movie started: "What if one of the animals die? I HATE when the animals die!" And I kept going, "Dude -- animals only die in movies if they don't talk. TALKING dogs always turn out okay in the end." This is a solid hypothesis. Review your childhood flicks; you will see that I am right.
... so, y'know. There was that tonight. Fun previews before the movie, at least: "Toy Story 3" looks like it may be shaping up to be the ending that the story has always deserved, and "Ramona and Beezus" may actually not be fricked up YAY BECAUSE YOU BETTER TREAT MY RAMONA _RIGHT_. The books are like 40 years old, so I am expecting some updates to them -- but _treat the characters RIGHT_. (I have hope, though. Mr. Quimby announces, "Let's draw the longest picture in the world!" and I started to cry a bit, right there in the theater.)
Also Donna Noble is in Jack Black's "Gulliver's Travelers" and when I saw her I did this big "HUUUUUUUUH!" sound and had to clap my hands over my mouth to keep from yelling, "LOOK IT'S DONNA IN A JACK BLACK MOVIE OHMIGAWD" in the middle of the theater. I do like Jack Black.
Anyway, I need to go see "Iron Man 2" post haste to get all the "Marmaduke" outta my system, so we'll see about that maybe happening this weekend. Or at least maybe next. (And DEFINITELY more thoughts to follow on "Iron Man." Also "Sherlock Holmes." Also "Psych.")
(... also Dean Koontz, although not in a good way.)
TWENTY WORDS (and one emoticon symbol) ON DISNEY'S "THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG": Pretty good, solid characters, liked the one song, I <3 Jim Cummings -- but they still haven't gotten back the Disney magic.
... so what's everybody looking forward to seeing at the theaters this summer?