Drifting again
I think this job is killing my inspiration or something. I haven't had much going on in my life lately, so that's really cut down on the LJ-type posts since I don't have anything to tell anyone about anything, but there really seems to be a soul sucking monster on my fics. I'm even having trouble with songfics. I know it's bad when I can't even get a songfic written.
Sigh.
Moving on, I'm in decent spirits because So You Think You Can Dance has just started its new season and there's going to be a Canadian So You Think You Can Dance. I'm looking forward to the Canadian one a lot. Mainly because it's going to extend the dancing season by a couple months. I am less happy about the new Indiana Jones movie.
I mean, aliens?
What the hell?
Since when does Indiana Jones have anything to do with Area 51 and the Greys outside of an Indiana Jones/Stargate or Roswell crossover? Sure, it was pretty fun and the stunts weren't bad, but the alien thing really bothered me.
The other thing that got to me was the kid. There are two possibilities with that kid. The first is that swashbuckling is genetic and he was able to do all that stuff because it comes with being Indy jr. The other possibility is that his mother and anyone else who had a hand in raising him trained him sufficiently to be able to keep up with his father. I suspect the latter because of the degree to which he was not surprised by his mother being comfortable driving an army vehicle through a jungle at high speeds with someone having a sword fight on the hood.
I'd be at least a little taken aback by that if one of my parents suddenly started in with the action movie skills.
Okay, I know. It's an action flick, don't overanalyse. I think it's more that the movie hit some of my suspension of disbelief buttons. Happens to the best of us.
I also saw Prince Caspian. That was fun, though I felt it departed a great deal in tone from the book.
Peter was really bitter. I mean, really bitter about the whole King thing. That really never happened in the book. He didn't spend the first chunk of the book being pissed off that he was no longer Peter the Magnificent, High King of Narnia. But he really did in the movie. There he is, getting into schoolboy fights because he remembers being The King and can't let go.
And he really can't let go. He goes marching in there, taking away Caspian's authority, running roughshod over everything. Although he was right, if Caspian had had the sense to do his job, the attack would have worked.
Quite frankly, I can't see why they couldn't have kept consistent with the book there. In the book, the failure in battle is on the open field and is because Caspian doesn't know how to use the resources he has because he's so inexperienced as a general. He hands the reins over to Peter in the book because he's glad to have a competent general there.
Instead, Peter is practically bitchy and Susan is wildly foreshadowing becoming a nonbeliever in time for the last book, Lucy is drifting around warbling on like some secondhand crappy saint about how Aslan will come to save them and Edmund is the only one who seems at all grounded in the here and now through the whole thing.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie, it's just that some parts of it felt very distanced from the book and I find it very hard to tell how much is due to needing to find ways to keep the movie from getting too long and how much is just 'modernisation'.
And of course I lost my cell over the weekend too. Which stank because it's not like it's old or anything else like that. So I got a new one, and since they were out of the nice cheap ones, I splurged and picked up a camera phone. So I have picture of things that I will post here eventually, when I figure out how, and use them as illustrations of things I want to whine about. Because I just don't do the artistic thing.
So that's about it for me.
Man I need to get me a life.
Meh. Forget a life. Nap will do.
Dammit! At work. No nap in the offing. Stupid work.
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Sigh.
Moving on, I'm in decent spirits because So You Think You Can Dance has just started its new season and there's going to be a Canadian So You Think You Can Dance. I'm looking forward to the Canadian one a lot. Mainly because it's going to extend the dancing season by a couple months. I am less happy about the new Indiana Jones movie.
I mean, aliens?
What the hell?
Since when does Indiana Jones have anything to do with Area 51 and the Greys outside of an Indiana Jones/Stargate or Roswell crossover? Sure, it was pretty fun and the stunts weren't bad, but the alien thing really bothered me.
The other thing that got to me was the kid. There are two possibilities with that kid. The first is that swashbuckling is genetic and he was able to do all that stuff because it comes with being Indy jr. The other possibility is that his mother and anyone else who had a hand in raising him trained him sufficiently to be able to keep up with his father. I suspect the latter because of the degree to which he was not surprised by his mother being comfortable driving an army vehicle through a jungle at high speeds with someone having a sword fight on the hood.
I'd be at least a little taken aback by that if one of my parents suddenly started in with the action movie skills.
Okay, I know. It's an action flick, don't overanalyse. I think it's more that the movie hit some of my suspension of disbelief buttons. Happens to the best of us.
I also saw Prince Caspian. That was fun, though I felt it departed a great deal in tone from the book.
Peter was really bitter. I mean, really bitter about the whole King thing. That really never happened in the book. He didn't spend the first chunk of the book being pissed off that he was no longer Peter the Magnificent, High King of Narnia. But he really did in the movie. There he is, getting into schoolboy fights because he remembers being The King and can't let go.
And he really can't let go. He goes marching in there, taking away Caspian's authority, running roughshod over everything. Although he was right, if Caspian had had the sense to do his job, the attack would have worked.
Quite frankly, I can't see why they couldn't have kept consistent with the book there. In the book, the failure in battle is on the open field and is because Caspian doesn't know how to use the resources he has because he's so inexperienced as a general. He hands the reins over to Peter in the book because he's glad to have a competent general there.
Instead, Peter is practically bitchy and Susan is wildly foreshadowing becoming a nonbeliever in time for the last book, Lucy is drifting around warbling on like some secondhand crappy saint about how Aslan will come to save them and Edmund is the only one who seems at all grounded in the here and now through the whole thing.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie, it's just that some parts of it felt very distanced from the book and I find it very hard to tell how much is due to needing to find ways to keep the movie from getting too long and how much is just 'modernisation'.
And of course I lost my cell over the weekend too. Which stank because it's not like it's old or anything else like that. So I got a new one, and since they were out of the nice cheap ones, I splurged and picked up a camera phone. So I have picture of things that I will post here eventually, when I figure out how, and use them as illustrations of things I want to whine about. Because I just don't do the artistic thing.
So that's about it for me.
Man I need to get me a life.
Meh. Forget a life. Nap will do.
Dammit! At work. No nap in the offing. Stupid work.
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