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So last night we're watching tv, and John is flipping channels, mostly between the Apprentice and the TV Land Awards (and holy hell, what kind of problems does Melissa Rivers have?), and there's a tribute to Sid and Marty Kroft.
I constantly read people raving about their work, and how it was pivotal in their development, and life would have no meaning without it, and these people all seem to be my age. Which troubles me, because I have absolutely no memory of H.R. Pufnstuf. So I finally looked it up on wikipedia, and it went off the air the month I was born.
So now I feel better.
We also watched the workprint of Wolverine: Origins, and I thought there were very many pretty people in the movie. Actually, pretty men. Ryan Reynolds may be the most physically perfect person in existence, and I liked his character in the first part of the film. I knew Dominic Monaghan was in the film, but he's only in it for a few minutes, and doesn't have much to do. When he shows up in the sideshow, he is creeepy. I don't know if that is on purpose.
I actually loved the credits and wanted that to be the story - the two brothers fighting through all the wars.
This is what I didn't like:
1. The final section felt completed unconnected to the first. At first it's all, I have to find Sabertooth to stop him from killing, and then it's all, hey, we'll fight Deadpool together and then Sabertooth can run away. The end.
2. Because it's the origin story, it's an action movie where the good guy doesn't win. Or really succeed at anything. Sabertooth is Wolverine's brother, who's kinda crazy and homicidal. But you can't kill Sabertooth, because he's a major character (actually, was Sabertooth in any of the three X-men movies?). Stryker? Can't kill him. He's a major protagonist in the X-men movies. And ultimately, Wolverine doesn't even learn from what happens, because he loses his memory!
So basically, the movie is pretty men running around shirtless (and sometimes pantsless) exploding things and in the end, nothing really changes except we're told how the good guy got amnesia. Okay.
I am much more excited for Star Trek.
I had my niece for part of the weekend. I was planting flowers, so she came to the nursery with me, and helped me pick out things. We picked out a cherry tomato plant for her to grow, and I told her I'd keep in my yard, and she could help plant it and care for it when she came over, and watch the tomatoes grow. We also planted Sunflowers (Russian mammoths) and I am sooo excited to see if those take. Also, planted hostas, petunias, tomatoes (beefsteak and big boy), bell peppers, and banana peppers. I also transplanted my butterfly bushes and shocked the hell out of them pulling them from the ground. I think they'll come back, but it may not be this season.
The end! How was your weekend?
I constantly read people raving about their work, and how it was pivotal in their development, and life would have no meaning without it, and these people all seem to be my age. Which troubles me, because I have absolutely no memory of H.R. Pufnstuf. So I finally looked it up on wikipedia, and it went off the air the month I was born.
So now I feel better.
We also watched the workprint of Wolverine: Origins, and I thought there were very many pretty people in the movie. Actually, pretty men. Ryan Reynolds may be the most physically perfect person in existence, and I liked his character in the first part of the film. I knew Dominic Monaghan was in the film, but he's only in it for a few minutes, and doesn't have much to do. When he shows up in the sideshow, he is creeepy. I don't know if that is on purpose.
I actually loved the credits and wanted that to be the story - the two brothers fighting through all the wars.
This is what I didn't like:
1. The final section felt completed unconnected to the first. At first it's all, I have to find Sabertooth to stop him from killing, and then it's all, hey, we'll fight Deadpool together and then Sabertooth can run away. The end.
2. Because it's the origin story, it's an action movie where the good guy doesn't win. Or really succeed at anything. Sabertooth is Wolverine's brother, who's kinda crazy and homicidal. But you can't kill Sabertooth, because he's a major character (actually, was Sabertooth in any of the three X-men movies?). Stryker? Can't kill him. He's a major protagonist in the X-men movies. And ultimately, Wolverine doesn't even learn from what happens, because he loses his memory!
So basically, the movie is pretty men running around shirtless (and sometimes pantsless) exploding things and in the end, nothing really changes except we're told how the good guy got amnesia. Okay.
I am much more excited for Star Trek.
I had my niece for part of the weekend. I was planting flowers, so she came to the nursery with me, and helped me pick out things. We picked out a cherry tomato plant for her to grow, and I told her I'd keep in my yard, and she could help plant it and care for it when she came over, and watch the tomatoes grow. We also planted Sunflowers (Russian mammoths) and I am sooo excited to see if those take. Also, planted hostas, petunias, tomatoes (beefsteak and big boy), bell peppers, and banana peppers. I also transplanted my butterfly bushes and shocked the hell out of them pulling them from the ground. I think they'll come back, but it may not be this season.
The end! How was your weekend?