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Moonrise Kingdom is pretty wonderful. Very Wes Anderson, and because the extremely odd-serious characters are slightly disturbed children it doesn't seem quite as unrealistic as most of his characters. The setting and some of the adults are completely absurd, but enjoyable so.
I really do recommend it. My favorite Wes Anderson outside of the Royal Tenenbaums.
Also, the main girl looks like Emma Watson playing Gwyneth Paltrow's character from Tenenbaums as a young girl.
My favorite bit from The Avengers in 15 Minutes:
FURY: Bought it off a couple of disappointed steampunks. Too many of the gears actually did something.
It's still behind Moonrise Kingdom on the actual want-to-see list, but you've nudged me from vaguely wondering to actively interested.
Moonrise Kingdom was higher on our list too, but it's not playing at the tiny theater here. Which is stupid, because it was filmed not too far from here.
Big!Boss and I had an Avengers moment today: the server crashed at 4:30, and there were only 3 of us left at work, none of whom have ever had to reboot the server. One co-worker refused to go near it, saying she would blow it up because she doesn't even know how a server works.
So Big!Boss and I go look at the server, and then we stare blankly at each other for a long moment, and all I can think is, "It appears to run on some sort of electricity."
Moonrise Kingdom is pretty wonderful.
I will second that. It was delightful as all get-out.
The movie I'm most looking forward to seeing is "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
Avengers In Fifteen Minutes
So Big!Boss and I go look at the server, and then we stare blankly at each other for a long moment, and all I can think is, "It appears to run on some sort of electricity."
LOL at both of these. Steph, we must not have the same job after all, because they'd never let me NEAR the server. Ours runs on the tears and sweat of displaced house elves, not "electricity", anyway.
How many levels does the "Reindeer Games" joke work on?
Steph, we must not have the same job after all, because they'd never let me NEAR the server.
I was the best of 3 bad choices, one of whom immediately called "Not it!" and took herself out of the running. Big!Boss is 81 years old and actually didn't believe me when I told him the UPS was not the server. So it fell to me to reboot the fucking thing, so...I resorted to the xkcd cheat sheet: [link]
Ours runs on the tears and sweat of displaced house elves, not "electricity", anyway.
Ours is held together by prayer and packing tape. And I think it's 100 years old.
How many levels does the "Reindeer Games" joke work on?
Two, at least: (1) Crazy antler hat; (2) no one lets Loki play with them.
I'm willing to entertain other levels.
Avengers in 15 Minutes line o' the day:
SOME TRAFFIC REPORTER: *cries*
xkcd does not lie. As far as I can tell, that's the proper protocol for 90% of computer problems. The other 10% require you to swap out back up tapes.
New pictures from The Hobbit! [link]