Various media-related musings
Jul. 18th, 2004 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredericksI'm sitting here, having just recently gotten off from work, watching one of the best channels ever created, A&E, that has a special on polygamy as realized in certain Mormon sects (and waiting patiently for the season finale of Queer as Folk). The whole idea of a woman "giving herself to her husband" most definitely rubs me the wrong way, but otherwise I don't have much of an opinion either way on the lifestyle. What does amuse/sadden me is the typical Christian idea that my way is right and if you don't live my way/follow my teachings then you're worthy of scorn and hell. What people do to make themselves feel special...
Watched "I, Robot" yesterday with the brotherly units. I really wasn't expecting much and, hey!, I wasn't disappointed. But it was a fun waste of two hours. I had no idea the director of "Dark City" helmed this one. I also had no idea that Wash played a robot (his voice? totally hot) and Farmer Hoggett was in this thing front and center. The one thing I did have an idea about was the final outcome; most of Asimov's stuff, as far as I can recall from my infinitely nerdier and sci-fi-ier HS days, revolved around robots getting into conflicts with humans due to the Three Laws of Robotics. Basically, the one way to stop humans from coming to harm is to protect humans from themselves, and that'd mean locking them down and worse. So, yeah, the outcome wasn't in doubt. The implicator, sort of (hey, it was 11PM and I was tired; sue me!), but the outcome? nope. What irked me? The fact that all black grandmothers in movies seem to talk in the same patois - "Hey, baby! How's it goin'? How you feelin'? Let me cook you something". I knew how Det. Spooner's grandma would sound before she opened her damned mouth, and it had me cringing. They all don't sound like that! Damn. Hmph. At least there wasn't the typical accelerated love interest bit in this flick. That was refreshing.
Ack. Half an hour and change until QAF starts. Can someone cook for me, please? This cookie and tea bit is so not nutritious.
Watched "I, Robot" yesterday with the brotherly units. I really wasn't expecting much and, hey!, I wasn't disappointed. But it was a fun waste of two hours. I had no idea the director of "Dark City" helmed this one. I also had no idea that Wash played a robot (his voice? totally hot) and Farmer Hoggett was in this thing front and center. The one thing I did have an idea about was the final outcome; most of Asimov's stuff, as far as I can recall from my infinitely nerdier and sci-fi-ier HS days, revolved around robots getting into conflicts with humans due to the Three Laws of Robotics. Basically, the one way to stop humans from coming to harm is to protect humans from themselves, and that'd mean locking them down and worse. So, yeah, the outcome wasn't in doubt. The implicator, sort of (hey, it was 11PM and I was tired; sue me!), but the outcome? nope. What irked me? The fact that all black grandmothers in movies seem to talk in the same patois - "Hey, baby! How's it goin'? How you feelin'? Let me cook you something". I knew how Det. Spooner's grandma would sound before she opened her damned mouth, and it had me cringing. They all don't sound like that! Damn. Hmph. At least there wasn't the typical accelerated love interest bit in this flick. That was refreshing.
Ack. Half an hour and change until QAF starts. Can someone cook for me, please? This cookie and tea bit is so not nutritious.
