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Dec. 27th, 2009 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordOk, so I've started sucking at updating again. But here's what's been going on with me in the past week:
I saw Avatar with some friends last Tuesday. Visually and technically it was stunning and innovative and helped make me see the point of 3D for the first time ever (although as a person who has a phobia of needles and cannot look needles on TV without cringing, I did not appreciate seeing someone get a shot in 3D IMAX. But that probably is not true of most people). Plotwise... very predictable and slightly offensive for reasons that plenty of people have mentioned before and I don't really want to get into. It's definitely worth seeing (especially in 3D IMAX), but maybe not worth spending $20 on.
I saw Annie for the first time in like over 2 years last Thursday. I was kind of nervous because it's been so long since we talked that I was kind of afraid she'd be like "...why was I friends with this person before?" But it ended up being a lot of fun. She's super into Doctor Who now! Yay! I finally have someone in the real world who loves and watches the show! Well, my mom does, but I feel like I can't be fannish in the same way with her as I can be with a friend, you know? But that was cool, anyways. (Btw, I watched the newest Doctor Who, and all I have to say is HOLY CRAP I NEED PART 2 RIGHT NOW. Luckily it's only a couple days away!)
Christmas was good. I got some new noise-canceling headphones which is awesome since my last pair has literally fallen apart. I also got Psych Season 1 on DVD which I'm looking forward to rewatching at some point. I have so many things I want to watch or rewatch this break; there's no chance I'm getting to them all.
Yesterday I went and saw The Hurt Locker with my mom. I highly recommend that movie. It's just amazing. The people next to me were so freaking annoying though. god. Do people not know how to behave in movie theaters anymore? They kept making incredibly stupid comments really loudly. Like at the point in the movie where he finds like 5 bombs connected to each other by wire, they were like "Why doesn't he just cut the wire?" Um, are you bomb-diffusing experts? Also, the movie made it really clear that he had to get this thing in the middle of the bomb out and cut those smaller wires. And there was a point where there were different Iraqi people watching them while he was trying to diffuse a bomb and one of the guys said something about how there was a guy video taping them and one of the people next to me was like "SHOOT HIM! WHY WON'T HE SHOOT HIM?!" And I was like "...uh, because he hasn't done anything to indicate that he's about to harm them in any way? And maybe they don't want to shoot first and ask questions later and potentially harm an innocent person?" And there were plenty of other moments like that, but those were the ones I remembered best. It's weird that in the past few years the people that have been most annoying in movie theaters are like adults or elderly people and not teenagers and kids like you might expect. If you want to talk through a movie, fine, but either go to a completely crowded showing so people can't hear you as well or wait until it comes out on DVD. ugh.
Anyways, I've started my first End of the Decade picspam, and I'm not even a quarter of the way through. ugh. I'm thinking I'm going to have to cut down the number of movies I was planning on picspamming if I want to finish this anytime in the next week. I'm pretty much just hoping to get this done and then that'll be it, because I really don't see me having time to also do best episodes and TV shows of the decade and best movies/tv shows of the year, like I was planning. There's just no time, unless I decide to not sleep and never go out with friends for the next few days.
I saw Avatar with some friends last Tuesday. Visually and technically it was stunning and innovative and helped make me see the point of 3D for the first time ever (although as a person who has a phobia of needles and cannot look needles on TV without cringing, I did not appreciate seeing someone get a shot in 3D IMAX. But that probably is not true of most people). Plotwise... very predictable and slightly offensive for reasons that plenty of people have mentioned before and I don't really want to get into. It's definitely worth seeing (especially in 3D IMAX), but maybe not worth spending $20 on.
I saw Annie for the first time in like over 2 years last Thursday. I was kind of nervous because it's been so long since we talked that I was kind of afraid she'd be like "...why was I friends with this person before?" But it ended up being a lot of fun. She's super into Doctor Who now! Yay! I finally have someone in the real world who loves and watches the show! Well, my mom does, but I feel like I can't be fannish in the same way with her as I can be with a friend, you know? But that was cool, anyways. (Btw, I watched the newest Doctor Who, and all I have to say is HOLY CRAP I NEED PART 2 RIGHT NOW. Luckily it's only a couple days away!)
Christmas was good. I got some new noise-canceling headphones which is awesome since my last pair has literally fallen apart. I also got Psych Season 1 on DVD which I'm looking forward to rewatching at some point. I have so many things I want to watch or rewatch this break; there's no chance I'm getting to them all.
Yesterday I went and saw The Hurt Locker with my mom. I highly recommend that movie. It's just amazing. The people next to me were so freaking annoying though. god. Do people not know how to behave in movie theaters anymore? They kept making incredibly stupid comments really loudly. Like at the point in the movie where he finds like 5 bombs connected to each other by wire, they were like "Why doesn't he just cut the wire?" Um, are you bomb-diffusing experts? Also, the movie made it really clear that he had to get this thing in the middle of the bomb out and cut those smaller wires. And there was a point where there were different Iraqi people watching them while he was trying to diffuse a bomb and one of the guys said something about how there was a guy video taping them and one of the people next to me was like "SHOOT HIM! WHY WON'T HE SHOOT HIM?!" And I was like "...uh, because he hasn't done anything to indicate that he's about to harm them in any way? And maybe they don't want to shoot first and ask questions later and potentially harm an innocent person?" And there were plenty of other moments like that, but those were the ones I remembered best. It's weird that in the past few years the people that have been most annoying in movie theaters are like adults or elderly people and not teenagers and kids like you might expect. If you want to talk through a movie, fine, but either go to a completely crowded showing so people can't hear you as well or wait until it comes out on DVD. ugh.
Anyways, I've started my first End of the Decade picspam, and I'm not even a quarter of the way through. ugh. I'm thinking I'm going to have to cut down the number of movies I was planning on picspamming if I want to finish this anytime in the next week. I'm pretty much just hoping to get this done and then that'll be it, because I really don't see me having time to also do best episodes and TV shows of the decade and best movies/tv shows of the year, like I was planning. There's just no time, unless I decide to not sleep and never go out with friends for the next few days.
