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on the way from Salt Lake City to Cincinatti, we had the option to watch Guess Who. you know, the awful one with Ashton Kutcher and Cedric the Entertainer. and it was, in fact, awful. but it only cost us the price of the $2 headphones that john and i shared, and was also slightly more entertaining than staring at the miles of flat farmland in Kansas.
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saturday night i was having movie withdrawal amongst all the unpacking and laundry sorting. so we decided to catch a later showing of Sky High. it's PG so i knew there wouldn't be a big crowd at a 9:50 pm show on a saturday night. there were maybe only three or four other groups, mostly involving children. i'm not saying it was outstanding or anything, but i really enjoyed it. as comic book geeks, there were jokes in there that we only seemed to get. i mean, we'd be laughing right out loud at parts and no one else was even chuckling. we were clearly the only ones that found Bruce Campbell so damn funny. he alone made it worth the price of student admission. i recommend to those who like comics and superheros and are willing not to take either too seriously when seeing this.
also, props to the guy playing the newscaster who only had about three lines, but had a great one to deliver anyway. there's a picture of a completely ridiculous giant robot stomping on a city and the guy says, "It looks like evil has struck our morning commute."
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yesterday afternoon we took in The Island. i'm still a little pissed at whoever decided to blow the surprise in the previews, but i liked it regardless. there were some minor plot holes and things that lacked credibility (you fall off a huge building in a tremendous explosion and only suffer a cut to the forehead?), but i can generally let those slide. there was one thing that really bugged the crap out of me, though. this is supposed to be taking place 50+ years into the future and they are still driving our current day cars? seriously. they had one or two "modernized" cars, and some souped up trains and buses, but they were still driving the same damn cars we are today. including the Dodge Magnum, Honda Element, and Hyundai Sonata. no shit. like, his budget ran out before he got to cars. heck, i can even overlook a lack of change in fashion, but cars? that's just ridiculous.
but i digress. all in all, i liked this movie. lots of stuff blowing up is always fun. just suspend that disbelief at the door.
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saturday night i was having movie withdrawal amongst all the unpacking and laundry sorting. so we decided to catch a later showing of Sky High. it's PG so i knew there wouldn't be a big crowd at a 9:50 pm show on a saturday night. there were maybe only three or four other groups, mostly involving children. i'm not saying it was outstanding or anything, but i really enjoyed it. as comic book geeks, there were jokes in there that we only seemed to get. i mean, we'd be laughing right out loud at parts and no one else was even chuckling. we were clearly the only ones that found Bruce Campbell so damn funny. he alone made it worth the price of student admission. i recommend to those who like comics and superheros and are willing not to take either too seriously when seeing this.
also, props to the guy playing the newscaster who only had about three lines, but had a great one to deliver anyway. there's a picture of a completely ridiculous giant robot stomping on a city and the guy says, "It looks like evil has struck our morning commute."
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yesterday afternoon we took in The Island. i'm still a little pissed at whoever decided to blow the surprise in the previews, but i liked it regardless. there were some minor plot holes and things that lacked credibility (you fall off a huge building in a tremendous explosion and only suffer a cut to the forehead?), but i can generally let those slide. there was one thing that really bugged the crap out of me, though. this is supposed to be taking place 50+ years into the future and they are still driving our current day cars? seriously. they had one or two "modernized" cars, and some souped up trains and buses, but they were still driving the same damn cars we are today. including the Dodge Magnum, Honda Element, and Hyundai Sonata. no shit. like, his budget ran out before he got to cars. heck, i can even overlook a lack of change in fashion, but cars? that's just ridiculous.
but i digress. all in all, i liked this movie. lots of stuff blowing up is always fun. just suspend that disbelief at the door.
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Date: 2005-08-02 01:10 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2005-08-02 01:54 pm (UTC)From:And the Fantastic Four was better than I expected. I'm a big fan of the Thing.
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Date: 2005-08-02 04:38 pm (UTC)From:i think you're just in it for the bruce campbell. ;)
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Date: 2005-08-02 04:40 pm (UTC)From:i liked both of those movies. i know people complained about the FF, but i have never read those so i had no preconceived ideas about it and i thought it was really, really funny at times. good, dumb entertainment, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Date: 2005-08-02 05:54 pm (UTC)From:Dr. Doom has a great origin and to mess with it (and the subsequent changes) make little to no sense...
The FF themselves I feel were much better served by the movie...