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I had a short voice lesson on Saturday, because we spent the first twenty minutes rehashing the recital. We agreed that I was not the worst performer there, and also agreed on who the two best were (and neither was me).
I spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening in the Fenway movie theater.
First I saw The Pirates!, because it was Aardman and I want to encourage that sort of silliness whenever possible. It was quite silly, and very well done in the stop-motion animation department. I get the feeling I should Netflix it and watch it in slow motion so I find all the things in the background that are there to be found. (Particularly the list of rules in the Pirate Captain's cabin, which were perfectly legible but weren't in any shot long enough for me to read past #1: The Captain is always right.)
The movie in general made me grin, but the travel montages made me laugh. They're shown on old maps, and the ship goes bouncing around the map and gets blown away by the drawing of Aeolus and gets snapped back again when it hits the border around the map, or bumps into Poseidon and hops around while he tries to smack it with his trident, or runs fairly seriously aground in California and has to hop back to the ocean in a hurry when the pirates fail to get any plunder from the Indians, or...anyway, it was silly, and I enjoyed it, but maybe not $11.50 worth.
The Avengers, on the other hand...yowza! I love almost everything about that movie, except for the fact that the flying invisible aircraft carrier can get airborne with only four engines. Apparently I should chalk it up to the comic book laws of physics, but it bugs me. For some reason I thought it needed more engines.
However, I love everything else. I love the character interaction and the dialogue and the fact that the script let the heroes argue with each other. And watching the Hulk mop the floor with Loki is worth the price of admission, regardless of the rest of the movie. I love the giant metal flying fish from space, and I love the fact that they aren't giant SHINY metal flying fish from space. Just because it's alien technology doesn't mean it has to be black and/or shiny.
(The guy sitting behind me couldn't stop saying "Oh, SHIT", whenever anything happened. Depending on the circumstances, he either meant "That's awesome", or "That's gonna suck", but it always came out as "Oh, SHIT.")
I would go and see The Avengers again tonight if I wasn't afraid the Hairy Beasts would smother me in my sleep. They got dinner five and a half hours late yesterday because I was off enjoying myself. (Eat, drink and be merry, for on Wednesday I have jury duty? Something like that, anyway.)
I spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening in the Fenway movie theater.
First I saw The Pirates!, because it was Aardman and I want to encourage that sort of silliness whenever possible. It was quite silly, and very well done in the stop-motion animation department. I get the feeling I should Netflix it and watch it in slow motion so I find all the things in the background that are there to be found. (Particularly the list of rules in the Pirate Captain's cabin, which were perfectly legible but weren't in any shot long enough for me to read past #1: The Captain is always right.)
The movie in general made me grin, but the travel montages made me laugh. They're shown on old maps, and the ship goes bouncing around the map and gets blown away by the drawing of Aeolus and gets snapped back again when it hits the border around the map, or bumps into Poseidon and hops around while he tries to smack it with his trident, or runs fairly seriously aground in California and has to hop back to the ocean in a hurry when the pirates fail to get any plunder from the Indians, or...anyway, it was silly, and I enjoyed it, but maybe not $11.50 worth.
The Avengers, on the other hand...yowza! I love almost everything about that movie, except for the fact that the flying invisible aircraft carrier can get airborne with only four engines. Apparently I should chalk it up to the comic book laws of physics, but it bugs me. For some reason I thought it needed more engines.
However, I love everything else. I love the character interaction and the dialogue and the fact that the script let the heroes argue with each other. And watching the Hulk mop the floor with Loki is worth the price of admission, regardless of the rest of the movie. I love the giant metal flying fish from space, and I love the fact that they aren't giant SHINY metal flying fish from space. Just because it's alien technology doesn't mean it has to be black and/or shiny.
(The guy sitting behind me couldn't stop saying "Oh, SHIT", whenever anything happened. Depending on the circumstances, he either meant "That's awesome", or "That's gonna suck", but it always came out as "Oh, SHIT.")
I would go and see The Avengers again tonight if I wasn't afraid the Hairy Beasts would smother me in my sleep. They got dinner five and a half hours late yesterday because I was off enjoying myself. (Eat, drink and be merry, for on Wednesday I have jury duty? Something like that, anyway.)