Media
Saw Transformers. Terrible movie. But entertaining The pacing was off, they introduced too many characters and didn't do anything with them, and sometimes it felt like a cross between a commercial for the army and a commercial for General Motors. And yet there were moments when I was bouncing in my seat from glee. It was enormously entertaining and not just because they subverted the usual boy-girl romance paradigm. The girl and boy didn't exactly hook up. She clearly liked the Camero better. (the Camero being Bumblebee, one of the Autobots...) Yeah. Car sex?
Also, only one of the black guys died this movie. [Redacted "spoiler". I swear to go I will run through the Borders parking lot when HP comes out, making up spoilers at the top of my lungs, if people are this bitchy about it.]
The animation rocked, though. There were some totally awesome scenes, like the Autobots trying to hide stealthily in a tiny suburban garden, and just about any time they were climbing girders like monkeys. Okay, really, any time a Transformer was on-screen they looked cool...
Also, Gary let me read this week's issue of Runaways. It's very clearly a Joss production now, with all the little asides the quirks that implies. The plot is a little weird-- but you know I'm a nerd when my first thought was "Wait, they just saved people from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?" I'm sort of liking it, although there are some leaps in logic. Or it might have just felt that way because I read it at midnight after a long day. I'll probably re-review it on Thursday when I get my books. What did stand out, though are a few character moments. Leapfrog produces holograms of Chase's parents working on her and the first shot of the hologram... is Chase's father holding a wrench up and the real Chase flinching back.
And then there's Chase's expression when the hologram of young Gert shows up...
And, oh hi, Victor is NOT totally interested in Nico. Apparently he was rebounding. Cause the new girl he starts blushing over reminds me a lot more of Gert than she does of Nico. (She could stand to be chubbier, but she's clearly not Nico-level scrawny, and anyway she's a "Street Arab", an urchin, so the fact that she's skinny makes sense. She apparently has a buff boyfriend, though.)
I'll do a more coherent review on Thursday, when I can reread the book.
Also, only one of the black guys died this movie. [Redacted "spoiler". I swear to go I will run through the Borders parking lot when HP comes out, making up spoilers at the top of my lungs, if people are this bitchy about it.]
The animation rocked, though. There were some totally awesome scenes, like the Autobots trying to hide stealthily in a tiny suburban garden, and just about any time they were climbing girders like monkeys. Okay, really, any time a Transformer was on-screen they looked cool...
Also, Gary let me read this week's issue of Runaways. It's very clearly a Joss production now, with all the little asides the quirks that implies. The plot is a little weird-- but you know I'm a nerd when my first thought was "Wait, they just saved people from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?" I'm sort of liking it, although there are some leaps in logic. Or it might have just felt that way because I read it at midnight after a long day. I'll probably re-review it on Thursday when I get my books. What did stand out, though are a few character moments. Leapfrog produces holograms of Chase's parents working on her and the first shot of the hologram... is Chase's father holding a wrench up and the real Chase flinching back.
And then there's Chase's expression when the hologram of young Gert shows up...
And, oh hi, Victor is NOT totally interested in Nico. Apparently he was rebounding. Cause the new girl he starts blushing over reminds me a lot more of Gert than she does of Nico. (She could stand to be chubbier, but she's clearly not Nico-level scrawny, and anyway she's a "Street Arab", an urchin, so the fact that she's skinny makes sense. She apparently has a buff boyfriend, though.)
I'll do a more coherent review on Thursday, when I can reread the book.