Thoughts for the evening...
Sep. 24th, 2004 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroserose--Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is an extremely enjoyable movie. Not exactly "great cinema", but entertaining, well done, and just plain fun. There seem to have been a shortage of good old-fashioned adventure movies since Raiders of the Lost Ark...Props to Kerry Conran for it. I was pretty impressed with the film in general; they managed to get the whole 1940's serial style pretty accurately without seeming overdone or hokey. The soft-focus filter did a good job of imitating the Vaseline-on-the-lens trick that was popular at the time, and while the backgrounds *do* seem a little obviously computer-generated at times (especially in scenes involving a lot of people), the actors more than bridge the gap. And here's a little tidbit I found for those who have seen it already... "Totenkopf", the name of the bad guy, is apparently German for "Dead head. =D"
--I was looking in the mirror today while washing my hands, and I noticed something - I'm a pretty attractive person. Physically, anyway. So, theoretically, it must take work for me to be as reclusive as I am. But by the same token, my personality does tend to turn people off - for one thing, I'm very outspoken and forceful at times, and for another, my social skills, while passable, aren't as good as they could be. I do have a tendency to either ramble and hog the spotlight or else hide in a corner, depending on my mood at the time. I don't know why this particular subject was in my head today, other than perhaps that I've been wondering why it is that I have a hard time making friends. But then, another possibility is that my definition of "friend" is on a slightly higher level than most folks'; I've got a few of the "go hang out and watch movie" sort of friends, which to me seem more like acquaintances. But I have very few of the "people you can pour your heart out to; people who understand you and the way you think and don't judge you" type of friends. (Actually, at this point, it's arguable that I don't have any here in person.) And when I do find someone that I click with, I usually end up sleeping with them, which is great at first, but if the relationship goes sour, it tends to ruin it. No wonder I've been trying to convince Brian to come to college here...
--On the off chance that anyone's heard of A Series of Unfortunate Events...if you like satire, and if you're at all familiar with the Victorian melodramatic poor-unfortunates novels (i.e. Oliver Twist), it's pretty hilarious reading. A bit overdone in places, and obviously written for a grade or two below Harry Potter, but amusing nonetheless. Great if you have an Addams Family-esque sense of humor, like I do. And here's the really fun part: There's a movie coming out. Saw the preview tonight, and I was sold on the costumes and the sets alone. (It almost made up for the preview of the Spongebob Squarepants movie that preceded it. *shudder* Probably the only thing I've ever seen in a movie theater that made me curl up into a whimpering ball and hide my eyes.) I just hope they don't dumb it down and make it into another insulting-kids'-intelligence flick...Actually, in general, I hope the moviemakers/book writers take a page from the HP series and realize that if you treat kids like they're smart, they'll respond in kind.
--I'm getting a car, I'm getting a car, I'm getting a car! =D=D=D Here are pictures of the one I want to get...everybody keep your fingers crossed that they haven't sold it and that it passes the mechanic's check and everything.
--I was looking in the mirror today while washing my hands, and I noticed something - I'm a pretty attractive person. Physically, anyway. So, theoretically, it must take work for me to be as reclusive as I am. But by the same token, my personality does tend to turn people off - for one thing, I'm very outspoken and forceful at times, and for another, my social skills, while passable, aren't as good as they could be. I do have a tendency to either ramble and hog the spotlight or else hide in a corner, depending on my mood at the time. I don't know why this particular subject was in my head today, other than perhaps that I've been wondering why it is that I have a hard time making friends. But then, another possibility is that my definition of "friend" is on a slightly higher level than most folks'; I've got a few of the "go hang out and watch movie" sort of friends, which to me seem more like acquaintances. But I have very few of the "people you can pour your heart out to; people who understand you and the way you think and don't judge you" type of friends. (Actually, at this point, it's arguable that I don't have any here in person.) And when I do find someone that I click with, I usually end up sleeping with them, which is great at first, but if the relationship goes sour, it tends to ruin it. No wonder I've been trying to convince Brian to come to college here...
--On the off chance that anyone's heard of A Series of Unfortunate Events...if you like satire, and if you're at all familiar with the Victorian melodramatic poor-unfortunates novels (i.e. Oliver Twist), it's pretty hilarious reading. A bit overdone in places, and obviously written for a grade or two below Harry Potter, but amusing nonetheless. Great if you have an Addams Family-esque sense of humor, like I do. And here's the really fun part: There's a movie coming out. Saw the preview tonight, and I was sold on the costumes and the sets alone. (It almost made up for the preview of the Spongebob Squarepants movie that preceded it. *shudder* Probably the only thing I've ever seen in a movie theater that made me curl up into a whimpering ball and hide my eyes.) I just hope they don't dumb it down and make it into another insulting-kids'-intelligence flick...Actually, in general, I hope the moviemakers/book writers take a page from the HP series and realize that if you treat kids like they're smart, they'll respond in kind.
--I'm getting a car, I'm getting a car, I'm getting a car! =D=D=D Here are pictures of the one I want to get...everybody keep your fingers crossed that they haven't sold it and that it passes the mechanic's check and everything.
