So as you may be able to tell, I've updated my blog! Well, adjusted some of the colo(u)ring (for those of the British persuasion) and updated the links and such. Not too exciting, but it's 90-something degrees out, which makes being lazy very easy. Right now sitting in front of a fan with my laptop in front of me, watching the Sox ticker (Bonds homered, but Sox are still up in the 8th). My web-surfing is slowing down after 2 hours, so I decided to go through the email, then hit up the blog. And since I don't have much to post about, decided to make up my own news. Like fixing up this blog. Oh sure, I could do some research, but the fan keeps blowing the papers around, and if you think I'm moving away from that you're nuts. I saw Pirates III yesterday. Disappointing. If you only saw the first one, stay there. If you saw the second one, like I did, hoping that it would continue the antics of the original, well, you know how that turned out. Basically I was just hoping for some sort of closure for the series since I'd already sunk (if you'll forgive the pun) 5+ hours into the series. So now I'm down almost 8 hours to Jerry Bruckheimer, with very little closure. Lame.
Happy Father's Day everybody!
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8 comments:
Love the new look, babe. Really sets off your eyes. Sorry to hear that Pirates III is lame. However, having seen the first two, it is inevitable that I will see the third. For more or less the same reason that I must see the upcoming Transformers movie, despite the fact that it will inevitably suck (although hopefully less than the original animated movie...).
Um, hello? Michael Bay is directing? Of course it's going to suck at least as much as the animated movie! But this time, with more super-close up head shots of people emoting...
I find that there are two ways to get more enjoyment out of the Pirates movies: 1) go in with super low expectations (which I did with II, and found that it was, to my surprise, watchable; and 2) go with 2 or 3 8- or 9-year old boys. I'm pretty sure their excitement at being pretty much anywhere will be enough to buoy you through the bad bits. (8-year old boys like anything so long as it's presented to them with an exclamation point at the end. "Let's go swimming in the unheated pool at 9 o'clock in the morning!" --"Yeah!")
I know it's a Michael Bay movie, but have you actually seen the animated movie? Mr. Bay is bad, but he's not the worst out there...
Dude. I own the animated movie.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Also, it was $13. Pete made me buy it. ::shame::
Don't blame Pete for your Orson Wells fascination. We all know you love his fine voice acting in that film. Also, I will be seeing the new Transformers movies, because, well, things will transform into robots and vice versa. How much cooler than that can you get?
Any transforming robot coolness will be nullified by Bay's pure shit-tasticness. Pearl Harbor.
Bad Boys II.
Armageddon.
You can watch him sodomize your cherished childhood memories if you want; I'd spend the $18 for two tickets on an Optimus toy, and fly it around the kitchen and attack the toaster and stuff and make the chee-choo-cha-cha-choo transforming noise every time I transformed it.
If you've seen Hot Fuzz, you know that Bad Boys II was really one of the greatest action movies of all time. That's all I need to know about Michael Bay.
The funny thing is, as much as I loved the Transformers as a kid, I don't think I ever actually saw an episode of the show until about three years ago (when I saw the animated movie). So, really, I don't have any cherished childhood memories to destroy. I just want to see the big transforming robots!
(Also, if you want the really cool toys, Rip, you're going to be shelling out more than $18. My friend Jason has a couple of the really expensive ones, and damn are they cool!)
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