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listersgirlMy fringe show of the day was excellent, again.
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It's about two people who meet in a gaming room on the internet and turn out to not be quite what they portray themselves as, which is a trite concept, but they made it fresh. Plus the two actors were very physical, throwing themselves around the stage at one point in a fantastic representation of a video game.
Unfortunately I had terrible transit luck on the way there and back (on the way back, two streetcars in a row somehow managed to not see me at my stop, and they weren't out of service or too full. I am invisible! Plus it took me so long to get home that by the time I had lunch and got ready to leave again, there was no point in leaving because I would have been too late for my second show). Also, I could hear people honking outside even during the show, which put me in a terrible mood for the rest of the day. And it just got worse from there on. Bathurst was SO FUCKING LOUD. Why do people have no respect for other people? Is it entirely necessary to hold your horn down for 3 minutes straight while stopped in the middle of the street, AND blow your whistle? I hate sports and sports fans. I suppose this is what I get for living on the edge of Corso Italia, but for fuck's sake, they didn't stop driving around honking until after 3 in the morning.
Yesterday I was so annoyed that apparently I allowed everyone around me to be mellow, because I took all the annoyance on myself. Today, I'm still annoyed, plus I'm running on three hours sleep and I can't see straight. HATRED.
Luckily I avoided some of the evil by going to see Pirates. Since my whole expectation of the movie was to see Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow careen and slur his way across the screen in his sexy, drunken way, I was not disappointed. I would have liked to see more Jack and less underwater pirates, impressive as they were, but that's because I don't really care about the action, just the character interaction. I did kind of adore the complete over-the-topness of the 3-person fight on the giant wheel. This is not a subtle movie, so why not go with it? I will say, though, the movie was too long (although I wasn't ever seriously bored), full of racist undertones, and the ending frustrated me - this is not serial television! I know there's a third movie coming, but give me a real ending, even if you leave things open. The movie should stand on its own. Plus some of the shout-outs to the first movie, while reassuring that the writers actually *watched* the first movie, were too blatant. Of course, I keep forgetting it's a Disney movie (although, hello, this is awfully violent to be still being marketed toward kids).
All of which kind of makes it sound like I didn't like it, but I did! It was a totally fun time. And half the time I was laughing at things that no-one else in the theatre was, which amused me - it was like I was watching my very own pirate movie!
Real Time
It's about two people who meet in a gaming room on the internet and turn out to not be quite what they portray themselves as, which is a trite concept, but they made it fresh. Plus the two actors were very physical, throwing themselves around the stage at one point in a fantastic representation of a video game.
Unfortunately I had terrible transit luck on the way there and back (on the way back, two streetcars in a row somehow managed to not see me at my stop, and they weren't out of service or too full. I am invisible! Plus it took me so long to get home that by the time I had lunch and got ready to leave again, there was no point in leaving because I would have been too late for my second show). Also, I could hear people honking outside even during the show, which put me in a terrible mood for the rest of the day. And it just got worse from there on. Bathurst was SO FUCKING LOUD. Why do people have no respect for other people? Is it entirely necessary to hold your horn down for 3 minutes straight while stopped in the middle of the street, AND blow your whistle? I hate sports and sports fans. I suppose this is what I get for living on the edge of Corso Italia, but for fuck's sake, they didn't stop driving around honking until after 3 in the morning.
Yesterday I was so annoyed that apparently I allowed everyone around me to be mellow, because I took all the annoyance on myself. Today, I'm still annoyed, plus I'm running on three hours sleep and I can't see straight. HATRED.
Luckily I avoided some of the evil by going to see Pirates. Since my whole expectation of the movie was to see Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow careen and slur his way across the screen in his sexy, drunken way, I was not disappointed. I would have liked to see more Jack and less underwater pirates, impressive as they were, but that's because I don't really care about the action, just the character interaction. I did kind of adore the complete over-the-topness of the 3-person fight on the giant wheel. This is not a subtle movie, so why not go with it? I will say, though, the movie was too long (although I wasn't ever seriously bored), full of racist undertones, and the ending frustrated me - this is not serial television! I know there's a third movie coming, but give me a real ending, even if you leave things open. The movie should stand on its own. Plus some of the shout-outs to the first movie, while reassuring that the writers actually *watched* the first movie, were too blatant. Of course, I keep forgetting it's a Disney movie (although, hello, this is awfully violent to be still being marketed toward kids).
All of which kind of makes it sound like I didn't like it, but I did! It was a totally fun time. And half the time I was laughing at things that no-one else in the theatre was, which amused me - it was like I was watching my very own pirate movie!
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Date: 2006-07-10 04:11 pm (UTC)There's implausible but amusing and then there's just.. highly implausible. bah.
... and some moron brought a whole lot of small children, who were terrified and crying through the whole thing, and that dulled my enjoyment further. Those kids are now scarred for life.
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Date: 2006-07-10 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-07-10 08:26 pm (UTC)Bad. Oh so head-smackingly bad.
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Date: 2006-07-10 04:50 pm (UTC)Thank-you. You've said this much more brilliantly than I did. And I forgot to mention the racism. Love the pirates, found the movie to be rather lacking.
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Date: 2006-07-10 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 06:34 pm (UTC)Fucking World Cup
Date: 2006-07-10 06:51 pm (UTC)Funny, I thought we had noise bylaws against that sort of thing, or at least that sort of thing past 11PM. I'd've called the cops. Every. Time.
Re: Fucking World Cup
Date: 2006-07-10 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 08:08 pm (UTC)I agree with your comments on wanting a conclusion. Certainly doesn't need a cliffhanger to make me want to go see the third one. At least its only year waiting time.
Always seems that there is a lot of waiting on conclusions from different stories these days. Along side Pirates I'm waiting on the Harry Potter finale and a couple other books, plus it would be nice to see Lost wrap sooner rather then later.
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