On being a rabid fangirl.
I'm a media slave, especially for movies. If I hadn't been a elitist snob postsecondary student in high school, I would've been the AV geek, taken over the AV area and ruled it with an iron fist. I don't watch TV because I'm an ornery cuss - when I'm watching something, I want to be able to sit and watch it and not be interrupted by commercials, or Superbowl pre-empts. I also have no patience. Waiting an entire week for the next episode of anything will only cause me 6 days of frustrated anticipation. I would need a TiVo, but if I had a TiVo, I'd never leave the house again. I usually wait until the series comes out on DVD and catch up on it.
Firefly was a recent acquisition. I didn't get into it until I saw the preview for Serenity. The movie looked so good, I finally got around to watching the series, not knowing any of the truncation drama. Then, of course, I was stuck with a cliffhanger and two months until the movie came out. I had two more weeks to wait. Luckily, the Serenity comics helped close the gap. Way to reuse storyboards, Joss! I approve.
Transporter 2 was another movie I'd been spastic with anticipation to see. Well choreographed fight scenes, witty one-liners, gunfights, car chases, and most importantly, things blowing up. I was glad my friend and I had the theater pretty much to ourselves, because the movie had us in gleeful stitches. The best part was the Honda Civic commercial at the beginning, which showed an animated Civic doing the same sorts of things the car in the movie did.
We went to go see Doom on opening night, because I am a hopeless addict when it comes to The Rock without a shirt on. During the beginning of the movie, when we are first introduced to The Team, Ringside's Struggle was playing. I, being totally hopeless, started bouncing up and down in my seat shrieking, "OH MY GODS I KNOW THAT SONG! EEEE!!!!!" .. which got me a couple not so friendly looks. However, it also resulted in two people stopping me as I was leaving the theater, asking what song it was. I am not above pimping music I like.
At the risk of completely spoiling the movie for people, all I will say about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is that I didn't like it at all. To the point where I was burying my face in my friend's jacket and whimpering, "Make it stop!" Everyone else in the world will probably love it. At least four people reading this will go "WTF?! You liked Transporter Freaking 2 but you didn't like HP:GoF!?" .. and to that I say: pffft. I like movies for what they are - entertainment. If it entertains me, then in my not so humble opinion, it's a good movie. If it causes me to want to rip my eyes out of my head and pour salt in the bleeding open sockets, it's not a good movie.
Sadly, many movies make me want to do that, lately.
This weekend, I'm heading off to see Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash biopic. In preparation for this, I have been obsessively listening to my Johnny Cash cd's and thanks to friends on the internet have added the covers he did to "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus" to the collection of things playing on WinAmp. I had one person smarmily note that I'm going to be bitterly disappointed because Joaquin Phoenix did his own singing. I oh, so nicely pointed out for them that it's him singing in the trailer. Which caused them to do a doubletake and go listen again. He has a pretty voice, but it's not quite as gravelly as Johnny Cash's.
So. This is my sadly overdue update, wherein I fangirl all the movies I've been killing my time with for the past two months. Sorry about that. Had a brief attack of this thing called Real Life and it bit me on the ass pretty hard. Will return you to your regularly scheduled snark this week.
Firefly was a recent acquisition. I didn't get into it until I saw the preview for Serenity. The movie looked so good, I finally got around to watching the series, not knowing any of the truncation drama. Then, of course, I was stuck with a cliffhanger and two months until the movie came out. I had two more weeks to wait. Luckily, the Serenity comics helped close the gap. Way to reuse storyboards, Joss! I approve.
Transporter 2 was another movie I'd been spastic with anticipation to see. Well choreographed fight scenes, witty one-liners, gunfights, car chases, and most importantly, things blowing up. I was glad my friend and I had the theater pretty much to ourselves, because the movie had us in gleeful stitches. The best part was the Honda Civic commercial at the beginning, which showed an animated Civic doing the same sorts of things the car in the movie did.
We went to go see Doom on opening night, because I am a hopeless addict when it comes to The Rock without a shirt on. During the beginning of the movie, when we are first introduced to The Team, Ringside's Struggle was playing. I, being totally hopeless, started bouncing up and down in my seat shrieking, "OH MY GODS I KNOW THAT SONG! EEEE!!!!!" .. which got me a couple not so friendly looks. However, it also resulted in two people stopping me as I was leaving the theater, asking what song it was. I am not above pimping music I like.
At the risk of completely spoiling the movie for people, all I will say about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is that I didn't like it at all. To the point where I was burying my face in my friend's jacket and whimpering, "Make it stop!" Everyone else in the world will probably love it. At least four people reading this will go "WTF?! You liked Transporter Freaking 2 but you didn't like HP:GoF!?" .. and to that I say: pffft. I like movies for what they are - entertainment. If it entertains me, then in my not so humble opinion, it's a good movie. If it causes me to want to rip my eyes out of my head and pour salt in the bleeding open sockets, it's not a good movie.
Sadly, many movies make me want to do that, lately.
This weekend, I'm heading off to see Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash biopic. In preparation for this, I have been obsessively listening to my Johnny Cash cd's and thanks to friends on the internet have added the covers he did to "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus" to the collection of things playing on WinAmp. I had one person smarmily note that I'm going to be bitterly disappointed because Joaquin Phoenix did his own singing. I oh, so nicely pointed out for them that it's him singing in the trailer. Which caused them to do a doubletake and go listen again. He has a pretty voice, but it's not quite as gravelly as Johnny Cash's.
So. This is my sadly overdue update, wherein I fangirl all the movies I've been killing my time with for the past two months. Sorry about that. Had a brief attack of this thing called Real Life and it bit me on the ass pretty hard. Will return you to your regularly scheduled snark this week.
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