We watched Maleficent the other night. Angelina Jolie was fantastic. The costume, set, and creature design was lovely. The script, and therefore the movie, was a disappointment.

( cranky spoilers here )

We saw Thor 2 today. I liked it, but I had some lingering questions and uncertainties about certain events in the film, so I have invented some alternative backstory that they're probably not going to use for future films but that is now The Way That Happened in my head.

( headcanon cut for spoilers and/or disinterest )

We're going to a convention next week, and I am on a panel. It is a panel I thought sounded interesting, because it's not a topic I know much about ( Read more... )

The other day, andres_s_p_b mentioned, and I quote, "Saruman's underpants of many colors."

I was nonplussed.

"Think of it like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but with Saruman!" he continued brightly.

So I did.

The Rocky Horror Middle Earth ShowStarring ( Read more... )

So I saw the new Pixar movie, Brave, this weekend. It was good -- the plot was more interesting than I was expecting from the trailers, and it is of course entirely gorgeous.

It was a little more serious than other Pixar movies (first 10 minutes of Up excepted[1]), as the plot is actually about an emotional relationship, with action being kind of ( Read more... )

I am having an issue with television lately. I like shows with nice ensemble casts -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Leverage, Castle. However. Could we have one without the romantic tension, please? It's not obligatory! I promise, I will still like witty dialogue even if nobody is using it to talk past each other for this week's angst-creating ( Read more... )

Last night, at dinner, chinders and andres_s_p_b were discussing Portal 2, which they have been playing incessantly.

"Wheatley's a great character," said chinders.

"Yeah," agreed andres_s_p_b. "He's like Dr. Who if he was an idiot ( Read more... )

This has been a good vacation. Thursday and Friday functioned as pretty normal weekend days -- Galen and I met cjsmith for tea and pastries Thursday afternoon, and other than that I mostly slept in and did bits of housework and lazed about reading.

This morning I took Galen, brooksmoses, cobalt_00, and argh128 hiking. We went out to Arastradero, because it's close and they allow ( Read more... )

The new Sherlock Holmes movie is great fun. I really like these versions of the characters ( Read more... )

This guy's doing really adorable ASL versions of a bunch of songs, including some of Jonathan Coulton's. ("First of May" was going around a while back -- same guy.)

He put together a great costume for Re: Your Brains. I really like the chorus.

Here's Still Alive, from Portal. Good facial expressions; I think they match the tone of the song quite ( Read more... )