This summer has largely been uneventful and relatively unproductive. Turns out my brain works better when I have something to consistently do every day. Shame the job market sucks (though kudos to you clever folk who managed to beat the system and stay employed this summer!) but school will be resuming soon and hopefully then my mind won't seem so utterly stagnant.
Let's see...
Daytime television is the worst.
Thank god for DVR.
The horror movie franchise is more lacking than ever.
Despite the fact that superhero movies kind of suck (seriously, they're all set-up movies and you can TELL that they are!), I have been enjoying them of late. Saw the Hulk back when it came out because of Reasons (okay, because of Edward Norton) and thought that would be the end of my Marvel-inspired movie watching until Certain People insisted I see Thor, Captain America, and at least the first Iron Man. I have finally done this, and now I can FINALLY see the Avengers. So that's good. Also, Dark Knight Rises was a relatively satisfying end to the trilogy. Not as good as Dark Knight, of course, but still! I thought it was going to be uber shit-tastic, and was pleasantly surprised.
Also I kind of want to write about superheroes now. But where to start! And lord knows I don't need another project on my plate, but when have I ever been reasonable?
Alrighty, hopefully this is a sufficient enough post for Rachel to not feel awkward about posting her Very British Adventures, which is what we all really want to read about, right? :D
Musics:
This is not a new song for any of you (I hope!), but Jen showed me thissss weeks ago, I want to say, and I LOVE IT. Howl's Moving Castle and Florence+The Machine? Yes, please!!
I loved Batman! And I have stories about British movie theaters, they have assigned seats and booze. It's fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI love the tag for this!
I MADE IT FOR YOUUUU.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would very much like to hear about this. Assigned seats? Waaat.
Dude that has got to be like the highest quality youtube video I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAlso please tell me you did not like Thor. What an awful movie.
Lastly YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE AVENGERS WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE.
I COULDN'T SEE THE AVENGERS UNTIL I SAW THE OTHER MOVIES FIRST, AMY. I'm not a huge Marvel fan so I wouldn't have understood who everyone was. All I knew about Tony Stark was that he was Iron Man and uh, that's it. I know more about the Hulk and all that (even without having seen the movie), which is ironic because he's one of my least favorite of the Avengers. I didn't know squat about Thor or Captain America, so the movies were useful, especially since Loki is the main villain in the Avengers movie.
ReplyDeleteThor was...definitely the worst of the bunch, I'd say. I didn't *hate* it, since I went in not expecting much to begin with and found Hemsworth's portrayal of Thor delightful, but my god what were they thinking when they went with that horrendous hairstyle for Loki. No wonder the dude hates everyone.
But that movie was the most guilty of screaming "I AM A SET UP MOVIE SO I HAVE VERY LITTLE PLOT N STUFF." Seriously. Loki was all like "AH, I AM GOING TO LET OUR SWORN ENEMIES IN SO I CAN WREST THE THRONE FROM MY COOLER BROTHER AND HIS MUCH MORE APPEALING HAIRSTYLE" and then the fucker was all like "LOL JK IMMA KILL YOU BITCHES NOW EVEN THOUGH IT TURNS OUT I'M ONE OF YOU. GOTTA IMPRESS MY FAKE-DADDY." At least, that's what it looked like to me. Did I miss something? Or was he just overcome with illogical Hitler-syndrome, bent on destroying his own kind? With that hairstyle, who can tell?
Long comment is long.
WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IRON MAN. The first one. The one that matters.
ReplyDeleteIron Man was fairly good! I do not know if it is my favorite, however. I will have to consider the matter further.
ReplyDeleteI just like Thor's crying about his hammer. The rest is like "why is this such bad plots?"
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