Friday, July 30, 2004

 I just got back from seeing The Village, and i really liked it. When i first heard about it way back a long time ago, i was just excited about Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody being in a movie together (i'm easy to please! i don't ask for much!) and i like Shyamalan's movies, so it was like a recipe for success. Anyway, it had good surprises and wasn't really what the previews would lead you to expect. Very sad and thoughtful, creepy in a rather poignant way, and pretty. Lots of pretty. It's still got me thinking about it- there are a few big moments that i can't get out of my head. And i always like it when movies manipulate your emotions based on what they've made you believe, and then twist that around, changing your perception of what you didn't even think to question. Hooray for manipulation, i say!

Annnd, i finally got to see the Batman Begins trailer, which looks like it's gonna be awesome (well, of course- the CAST [with the exception of Katie Holmes] and Nolaaaaaaan). I'm a big fan of comic book movies that are, uhm, you know, good.

I really, terribly want to see Garden State, and have been looking forward to it all summer, but i fear it's never going to be released near me. I haaaaaate limited releases, haaaaate them with a fiery passion. Just because i don't live in California or New York, i don't get to see the good indie movies? Bullshit. I deserve better, movie industry! You are a cruel mistress!

I've been watching several episodes of Dead Like Me nightly, and am almost through the first season (it's really handy when there are only fourteen episodes! So compact, i could carry it around in my pocket!). I really like it- Rube is awesome ("Peanut"! aww), as is everyone else (well, i didn't like Daisy at first, but she's gotten better. I was just starting to like Betty when they got rid of her.) Is it wrong that i ship George and Mason? I mean, they really don't even seem to like each other much, but i waaaaant them to. I NEED a 'ship, and it's natural for me to gravitate toward the lead-girl-i-like with cute-guy-i-like combination. And they've had moments! And they're cute! And they'd be cute t-o-g-e-t-h-e-r.

- 8:32 PM

Monday, July 26, 2004

 I really, really wish i could have been in San Diego to go to Comic Con. Really. So much geeky goodness in one place! And the completely frustrating part is that i was JUST in San Diego. And i passed by the convention center several times. That's cruel, is what it is.

I've been watching my Firefly dvds and getting all re-obsessed with the show (thus some of my yearning for Comic Con- THE WHOLE FUCKING CAST was there. And they showed a mooooooovie trailer AHGADFAKFDJGK). I've also been re-reading Goblet of Fire, so the HP obsession is hanging in there- FF and HP are the big two at the moment (it fluctuates far too much for my own good, you know). Tonight i watched the first two episodes of Dead Like Me, because i'd been wanting to see it for a while. I liked it. And Mason is the best.

I'm kind of geeking out right now, or wanting to, because earlier today i also felt the urge to watch more Sailor Moon (whaaa? I miss it sometimes is all! A while ago i started downloading eps from the final season that i never saw, but then i got lazy and stopped... but i really feel like i should watch them.) AND i want to get caught up on Farscape- i saw about 3/4 of season one, but then my Sci Fi channel reception went to shit and they aired some of them out of order and i taped some but never watched them and basically it got all screwed up. I could download them, i just don't have room on my hard drive. And i've been kind of planning on getting a new computer (this one is old, but it still works fine and i'm used to it and i don't like change, but more space and non-crashiness would be nice), sooooo i should wait for that. Eesh.

Do i need more shows to watch? No, i most certainly do not. And yet, i DO need them. Even though i have a tendency to give up after a while and not make time to watch them (no matter how much i want to. My attention span is utter crap). It's a terrible affliction.

- 1:07 AM

Sunday, July 18, 2004

 I saw I, Robot today (yesterday! Saturday!). I actually vehemently had not wanted to see it- they showed that goddamn trailer with practically every movie i've gone to see for the past several months, and i thought it looked like crap. And i scoffed at my parents for wanting to see it. But then i heard some decent things about it, and i didn't have anything better to do, so i saw it. And i ended up enjoying it (quite reminiscent of when i saw Terminator 3). It wasn't absolutely brilliant or anything, but it was entertaining and much, much better than i had been expecting. The special effects and fights were incredible. And Alan Tudyk! (okay, so that was also a factor in why i saw it. Even though it's just his voice, i don't care.) Aww, Sonny was great. I also watched a couple episodes of Firefly tonight, because it's a good thing to do. (and, again- Alan!)

- 3:10 AM

Friday, July 09, 2004

 So the past few days i was at Universal Studios with my family, which was fun, as always. I was really spectacularly pissed off when i heard they were going to take out the Alfred Hitchcock show and replace it with Shrek, and now that i've seen the Shrek show i am still pissed off (hey, wow, fart jokes! I'm impressed! That's totally better than Psycho and Rear Window and AGAGHAGHDFJKHFKJ). And it's sad they replaced Hanna-Barbera with Jimmy Neutron, because when i was younger i adored the Hanna-Barbera ride. These kids today, i don't know about them. AND they took out King Kong, which had a good smell (yes! it smelled like bananas! it was great!) and the fake city stuff was cooooool (one time my older brother brought a permanent marker along and we wrote our names on the graffiti-d walls in the queue area), but it was replaced by The Mummy which turned out to be FUCKINGAWESOME, so that one's okay. It's kind of crazy to think that the park opened fourteen years ago, when i was SIX, and we were there opening day. Aww, i still miss the Ghostbusters show.

Islands of Adventure was fun too, of course. That was actually the birthplace of my Spider-Man love, i kid you not. Hey, i can't control how i become obsessed with things, it's a delicate formula. (See! I went back to find the entry and actually didn't realize it was that long ago. And wow, reading my old entries is painful and makes me want to slap myself. I sound like a moron. Err... well, a bigger moron!) Annnnnyyyyway, we got soaked on a water ride early in the day (literally, all my clothes were dripping), which felt okay for a little while due to the suffocating heat, but eventually became very uncomfortable. So we took a break and went back to the hotel to swim and change clothes (which we also did the first day. TOO HOT). Later on we also rode The Hulk (big green awesome roller coaster, just so you know) in the rain, and it was very painful being pelted by the water droplets (and surprising, as it hadn't been raining that much when we got in line), but also a fun new experience!

My mom's car broke down today, on the way home from seeing Anchorman (which was GODDAMN HILARIOUS. The two reviews i've seen of it so far were mediocre/bad, which i cannot understand and have surmised that my family is simply too humorous and intelligent for the average American and/or movie critic). Luckily, she had been expecting it and we were only one and a half blocks from home on an empty street when it happened, so we got out and pushed the rest of the way. This is noteworthy because i've never had to push a dead car before! It was easier than it had always looked to me. But also very tiring.

- 11:17 PM

Sunday, July 04, 2004

 This afternoon i watched Flight of the Navigator with my family. It's sort of a Fourth of July tradition (because the story is set on the Fourth of July!), and it's one of those movies that i saw about a billion times as a kid. I haven't seen it in a while, but watching it i could still remember it all incredibly vividly. It's actually a pretty good movie, too- cheesy, but good- (you know how sometimes there are those movies that are such a part of your life that you can no longer recognize whether it's good or bad anymore?), and of course, hilariously '80s.

We also went out on the boat to watch the fireworks downtown. We used to do that a lot when i was younger, bring some food and the radio along and watch the show, but there are so many crazy people out on the water it's kind of annoying. The past few years we've either gone up to DC or watched the fireworks from our roof.

On the way out, just as we left the canal there was a boat in front of us with some woman who was very obviously drunk off her ass, dancing around and yelling. We laughed and laughed. And then, as we got farther out, another boat sped by and the drunk lady flashed the guy. And then she kept flashing people. And we laughed and laughed and laughed some more. I mean, i really don't know if there's anything better than watching obnoxious, drunken strangers make fools of themselves. When you get right down to it, isn't that what this country is truly all about?

The fireworks were cool, and it's always nice to go out on the boat, so that was fun. I also took some pictures. When we got home we set off bottle rockets on the dock, landed a few in neighbors' yards, shot some into the water for kicks. Ahh, freedom.

- 11:55 PM

Thursday, July 01, 2004

 Man, everybody's talking about how they adored Spider-Man 2 so much more than the first one, and i feel baaaaaad because i wasn't psycho-crazy in love with it! And i LOVE Spidey! I think i need to see it again, i really do. I want to, i watch the tv commercials whenever they come on and they show all the cool stuff and it's like "hey man, that rocked!" AND i can think of pleeeenty of good things i liked. I think i focused too much on the negative. I couldn't see the forest for the treeeeees! See, at this rate, i'm just going to beat myself up into liking it. I'm certainly still thinking about it, AND am rediscovering my love for Pete, so, it's cool, i'm FINE.

- 10:09 PM