We saw
Avatar
today in 3D, and while the fact that it was basically
Dances with Wolves
was glaringly obvious, I still found it visually stunning. I know every review has already said this, but the worldbuilding was amazing.
The video logs that Jake had to record all had a date stamp, and I noticed that the year was 2154, and all I could think was that there is NO WAY humans could develop such technology in ~150 years. And THEN I thought, the first thing Grace did when she hopped out of the Avatar-pod was
light up a cigarette,
which made me think, Seriously? After 150 years,
smoking hasn't been made illegal?
It's the little things that grab me. But yeah, it was amazing to watch.
man, I completely disagree with the matrix sequels being on the list, but whatever.
I have to vote with them on the sequels. I really have to ignore them when I consider the original. They did so little of what I enjoyed with the first one.
Xkcd is with ita.
(Actually it combines three cartoons. The bottom row is the one relevant to this conversation.)
I thought Sherlock Holmes was all sorts of fun. Of course, me being me, I would
have preferred if they left the magic as magic, instead of tacked-on rational explanations.
Yeah yeah, I know, that wouldn't have fit with the general canon. But it was marvelous fun, and the interaction between Holmes and Watson was great.
Also, my wardrobe is sadly lacking bustles. I need more.
We got trailers for Iron Man 2 (wheee!), Inception (whee?), Sorcerer's Apprentice (It'd be more wheee! about it if it wasn't Nicholas Cage), some rom-com with Jennifer Anniston that I don't even remember the title of, and some cop movie with Bruce Willis. I was hoping for a Wolfman trailer (paranormal! Vaguely Victorian-esque setting!), and I was
really
hoping for an Alice In Wonderland trailer. Alas, I got neither.
The cop movie--was it the one with Tracy Morgan? That looked like a distillation of everything I found annoying. We had that one too.
The cop movie--was it the one with Tracy Morgan?
With Bruce Willis? Called
A Couple of Dicks?
Called A Couple of Dicks?
They changed the name. It's called
Cop Out.
Speaking of which, does anyone know how detectives became known as "dicks". I have been wondering that for ages, but google (understandably) tends to send me to porn.
