I'm wishing that I had slept all day. Right now Spiderman 2 is on. It's atrocious. and I even liked the first one.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Jul 31, 2005 5:19:05 pm PDT #4509 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle - Jul 31, 2005 5:30:40 pm PDT #4510 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
All Spiderman2 left me with was a great desire to never see Alfred Molina (is that right?) shirtless.
Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2005 5:32:27 pm PDT #4511 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I seem to have two related superpowers in relation to insects - one useless/harmful one mildly_useful/don't_count_on_it.
I seem to attract mosquitos better than anyone I've ever known. If I go out with friends the bity bugs will ignore everyone else to dive bomb me. (Actually I guess that is useful - just not to me.)
The useful one: bees, wasps, hornets red ants and so forth - the insects with major stings seem to leave me alone. I have never been stung. When I was three there was a field filled with bees near our house. Knowing no better I would run into it, and chase to bees to watch all the pretty patterns they made - until my parents caught me and nearly had a heart attack and explained to me why this was a Very Bad Thing. At 20 I was also on a camping trip where six of us stumbled on a hornets nest. I was the slowest runner of the bunch and still the only one the did not get stung. In general I've had my share of this type of encounter and gotten away scott free. I would never bet on this; I'm pretty sure if I went deliberately provoking sting insects I would regret it sooner rather than later - but in the meantime I can boast of never having been bee/wasp/hornet/ant stung or spider bitten.
Of course the latter is one reason I don't have spider strength...
Kat - Jul 31, 2005 5:32:30 pm PDT #4512 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It's so bad that we can't stop watching it.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2005 5:48:53 pm PDT #4513 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked Spiderman 2 better than the first one, but I found some huge flaws in it that stand apart from my lack of affection for the character -- just some admission of the fact that the issues that bother him at the start of the movie are mostly unresolved at the end. I thought that dissatisfying.
Kat - Jul 31, 2005 5:51:30 pm PDT #4514 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It's painfully difficult for me to watch. I liked the first one so much more.
What did you like about the second one?
Susan W. - Jul 31, 2005 5:52:57 pm PDT #4515 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My worst insect experience involved falling off my bike and landing with my ankle in a fire ant bed. I don't think we even tried to count the individual stings, but it swelled up like a bad sprain.
msbelle - Jul 31, 2005 5:55:37 pm PDT #4516 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
manboobs.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2005 5:58:16 pm PDT #4517 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What did you like about the second one?
I hated the first one a lot, and that's why I liked the second one better. It's pretty faint praise, and I can't remember the details of the first to be able to explain how the second failed me less.
DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 6:44:51 pm PDT #4518 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat, I can't belive you're hating Spider-Man 2 - I thought it was much better than the first one, and I liked the first one fine.
Molina is a much better, more complex and interesting villain. And I thought Peter Parker's life was grounded in reality so that you understood the sacrifices he made to do the right thing. I think it's the best comic book movie that's been made.