we're friends, your earthiness
Last night, I ended up at Dresner's with L, K, and KK and we ordered a pitcher of sangria, and the bartender says there was brandy in it but it had an aftertaste of cheap scotch or possibly Southern Comfort. I don't know, but two glasses, plus an earlier Absolut and tonic, and I was definitely lit, though I didn't feel like I was until I got home. We had nachos and burgers and chicken fingers and it was all good, but seriously, Dresner's is, like, classic Yorkville. Which, in looking it up, it's been there since 1918 (and has apparently only changed owners three times?), so that makes sense. It wasn't particularly crowded last night, probably because a lot of people left the city for the weekend, but I'm told that it's usually packed on lobster night (Friday) and prime rib night (Saturday?), with exactly the crowd you'd think would pack a Yorkville restaurant for the prime rib special.
Anyway, I slept until around 9, got up, didn't feel right, took some advil, and went back to bed for another three hours.
Then this afternoon, I met up with L, KK, and M to see Spider-man again. I cried through it. Again. L mocked me (I might have told her, in an inappropriately loud voice, that if she didn't like Peter Parker, she had no soul) but they all enjoyed the movie. M felt that Peter's search for Uncle Ben's killer was a dropped plot point, but I thought it was clear that after dinner with the Stacys, Peter realized that he had to be more than a vengeance-fueled vigilante to help people. (It's okay, Peter! Some masked vigilantes apparently never realize this! *cough*Batman*cough*)
This time around, I was less happy about Captain Stacy's death, but still glad that Gwen survived, even though I feel like I'm an endgame Peter/MJ OTP shipper (though I would also not mind Peter/MJ/Gwen or Peter/MJ/Flash; I also like Peter/Johnny Storm and Peter/Bobby Drake, and clearly these days I want Peter/Steve Rogers being accidental hipsters together).
I also feel like there could have been just a little more general animosity towards Spider-man before the public turnaround on him. I mean, I love that the people realize he's just helping out and saving people, even while the cops and the press are making him into public enemy number one, but I feel like the movie needed maybe a couple of headlines about Spider-man: Threat or Menace? or something, but not the full on J. Jonah, before the awesome cranes scene.
I'm more and more convinced that was Norman Osborn in the mid-credits scene, which doesn't even really count since it was in the trailers, but which means he's probably the villain in the next one.
Interestingly enough, these two articles talk about the stuff that was cut from the final version of the movie, most especially the change in Spidey's origin, making it less random mutant spider bite and more Peter's dad genetically engineered Peter and the bite just activated him. I do think the fact that Richard Parker created the spiders that bit Peter, and the webbing he uses, is an interesting wrinkle, and I liked the fact that it's not just a freak occurrence but happens when Peter's snooping around at Oscorp, but I don't like the idea that it was some kind of destined thing that Peter's dad did to him. It kind of misses the whole point of Peter's story. I'm really glad they decided not to use that.
Ugh. I have some writing to do, but I might just go to bed early instead.
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Anyway, I slept until around 9, got up, didn't feel right, took some advil, and went back to bed for another three hours.
Then this afternoon, I met up with L, KK, and M to see Spider-man again. I cried through it. Again. L mocked me (I might have told her, in an inappropriately loud voice, that if she didn't like Peter Parker, she had no soul) but they all enjoyed the movie. M felt that Peter's search for Uncle Ben's killer was a dropped plot point, but I thought it was clear that after dinner with the Stacys, Peter realized that he had to be more than a vengeance-fueled vigilante to help people. (It's okay, Peter! Some masked vigilantes apparently never realize this! *cough*Batman*cough*)
This time around, I was less happy about Captain Stacy's death, but still glad that Gwen survived, even though I feel like I'm an endgame Peter/MJ OTP shipper (though I would also not mind Peter/MJ/Gwen or Peter/MJ/Flash; I also like Peter/Johnny Storm and Peter/Bobby Drake, and clearly these days I want Peter/Steve Rogers being accidental hipsters together).
I also feel like there could have been just a little more general animosity towards Spider-man before the public turnaround on him. I mean, I love that the people realize he's just helping out and saving people, even while the cops and the press are making him into public enemy number one, but I feel like the movie needed maybe a couple of headlines about Spider-man: Threat or Menace? or something, but not the full on J. Jonah, before the awesome cranes scene.
I'm more and more convinced that was Norman Osborn in the mid-credits scene, which doesn't even really count since it was in the trailers, but which means he's probably the villain in the next one.
Interestingly enough, these two articles talk about the stuff that was cut from the final version of the movie, most especially the change in Spidey's origin, making it less random mutant spider bite and more Peter's dad genetically engineered Peter and the bite just activated him. I do think the fact that Richard Parker created the spiders that bit Peter, and the webbing he uses, is an interesting wrinkle, and I liked the fact that it's not just a freak occurrence but happens when Peter's snooping around at Oscorp, but I don't like the idea that it was some kind of destined thing that Peter's dad did to him. It kind of misses the whole point of Peter's story. I'm really glad they decided not to use that.
Ugh. I have some writing to do, but I might just go to bed early instead.
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