W/e update
Nov. 8th, 2009 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredericksIt's been a relatively quiet week. No complaints from my end (I know! I will reconcile this in the near future). I feel good. And well. Good and well. I do feel as though I'm pulling a turtling act, but as it's cyclical for me I figure I'll move past soon enough.
Friday I went with an aunt to see the new Christmas Carol movie. It's a flick that I'd never choose to see if left to my own devices, but my aunt wanted to go and I figured I'd hang with her for a bit. We were both expecting a comedy as Jim Carrey was headlining, but there were few (intentional) laughs to be had. The dialogue was fairly sparse overall (which I appreciated), but the entire movie felt a little "off" to me. Part of it had to do with the eerie appearance of Zemeckis's CGI animation choice; the stop-action animation's attempts to mirror live-action lent everything a horror-like quality, as if characters were one glance away from grinning manically and brandishing bloody silverwear. My aunt wanted a comedy and so was disappointed with the presentation. I didn't want a comedy and was still somewhat disappointed (I do wish things had stuck closer to the source material, as I don't think idiotic overly long chase scenes involving unexplained shrinking factored much into Dickens's work).
One good thing to come out of Friday's movie experience? We were shown a preview trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Holy Cocaine, that movie looks awesome. True fact: I spent the first two minutes of the trailer chuckling at the edited slashy onscreen interactions between RDJ's Holmes and Jude Law's Watson before a female character stated the two had been flirting since the first day they met. Bwah! Loving it. December 26th? I'm SO THERE.
I'm also stoked about a movie coming out November 25th, Ninja Assassin. The plot looks absolutely ridiculous, but it does star Rain (RAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! ::shakes fist at sky::), and that dude is hot as hell. Yeah, I'm shallow; wanna make something of it?
On the reading front I'm up to the fifth book in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series, titled The Last Olympian. The series as a whole has been a fun read, but not the engrossing ride I thought I'd find after finishing the first chapter of the first book. It's impossible not to draw parallels to the Harry Potter series, and I find myself wishing that more time was spent on details during Percy Jackson, even if it were to lead to the bloating that was found in the latter HP books.
I haven't been keeping up with my shows. I last saw "How I Met Your Mother" three weeks ago, and I have a backlog of two episodes of "Supernatural" on my iPod. When I come home I barely have enough energy to make it through the Times before I wrap things up for the night. I'm slacking. *sigh* Still, I'm relatively upbeat so that should count a little. It was a gorgeous outside today, I do hope it keeps up for a good portion of the week.
Friday I went with an aunt to see the new Christmas Carol movie. It's a flick that I'd never choose to see if left to my own devices, but my aunt wanted to go and I figured I'd hang with her for a bit. We were both expecting a comedy as Jim Carrey was headlining, but there were few (intentional) laughs to be had. The dialogue was fairly sparse overall (which I appreciated), but the entire movie felt a little "off" to me. Part of it had to do with the eerie appearance of Zemeckis's CGI animation choice; the stop-action animation's attempts to mirror live-action lent everything a horror-like quality, as if characters were one glance away from grinning manically and brandishing bloody silverwear. My aunt wanted a comedy and so was disappointed with the presentation. I didn't want a comedy and was still somewhat disappointed (I do wish things had stuck closer to the source material, as I don't think idiotic overly long chase scenes involving unexplained shrinking factored much into Dickens's work).
One good thing to come out of Friday's movie experience? We were shown a preview trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Holy Cocaine, that movie looks awesome. True fact: I spent the first two minutes of the trailer chuckling at the edited slashy onscreen interactions between RDJ's Holmes and Jude Law's Watson before a female character stated the two had been flirting since the first day they met. Bwah! Loving it. December 26th? I'm SO THERE.
I'm also stoked about a movie coming out November 25th, Ninja Assassin. The plot looks absolutely ridiculous, but it does star Rain (RAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! ::shakes fist at sky::), and that dude is hot as hell. Yeah, I'm shallow; wanna make something of it?
On the reading front I'm up to the fifth book in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series, titled The Last Olympian. The series as a whole has been a fun read, but not the engrossing ride I thought I'd find after finishing the first chapter of the first book. It's impossible not to draw parallels to the Harry Potter series, and I find myself wishing that more time was spent on details during Percy Jackson, even if it were to lead to the bloating that was found in the latter HP books.
I haven't been keeping up with my shows. I last saw "How I Met Your Mother" three weeks ago, and I have a backlog of two episodes of "Supernatural" on my iPod. When I come home I barely have enough energy to make it through the Times before I wrap things up for the night. I'm slacking. *sigh* Still, I'm relatively upbeat so that should count a little. It was a gorgeous outside today, I do hope it keeps up for a good portion of the week.
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Date: 2009-11-08 11:50 pm (UTC)My whole family pretty much decided to skip the Jim Carey Christmas Carol movie. It's one of our Christmas traditions to watch the Muppet's version of it that came out forever ago, so we didn't see a point in watching another one.
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Date: 2009-11-09 02:44 am (UTC)And ditto on the Law/Downey Jr combo. It should be illegal, that amount of hotness on the screen at one time.