Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Week 53 (+18) Grrrr I've been lax on posting each week

53

-The racing number of Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of his own, first appearing in the 1969 film The Love Bug.


Been a busy week all-in-all but, even at the same time it has been very lazy.

So for me and the boys the long waited third expac came out for WoW/World of Warcraft: Cataclysm at midnight on the 6th. We grabbed up a CE (collectors edition) at Best Buy for Paul and then I had to run John up to work before coming back down and picking up mine and John's CEs at Gamestop. So we have been spend a lot of our down time enjoying the new things and levels in WoW.

Also got new Netflixs so we got to watch the new season of Doctor Who episode one and two. All I can say is AWESOME! I think the last Doctor (number 10) was a much sexier nerd then the new Doctor (number 11) but both are funny as hell. The new Doctor had my busting up laughing through both episodes. Also saw Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. It had a great idea and plot pushing it and I was sad that it was not based on a book. Would have been a great book for YA. Much better then the Percy Jackson movie, though the PJ books have some fun ideas that they play with.

Speaking of books, movies and ideas I've been trying to puzzle the best way to keep a 'idea journal/notebook' for writing. I think I'm going to just have to have a unorganized notebook full of all the ideas I like.

Like all the ideas I got while watching the National Geographic "Is It Real" episode on King Arthur. They put forth three ideas about who he/the myth might have been based off of. I liked the one about him being a home grown man based off of 'The Bear' Owain Danwyn (Owen White-Teeth). Much better and prideful idea then the 'High King' or as interesting as the idea is a Roman solder that stayed behind with 'his adopted people'. In fact the idea that he was a Roman is the idea behind a Hollywood movies that came out in 2004 "King Arthur". It is a great film but I dislike the idea that the man the myth is based on was something other then from Briton (as it was called way back when).

Which kinda brings me back to the idea notebook. I have as of late many tabs popped up on my Firefox browser and then for some asinine reason it keeps crashing. I just had to go back through my browser history for the pages I had popped up on 'The Bear'.

Also had to deal with a big fuck up with my school tuition that has made me uber pissed. I worked it out more or less but it is still let me anything but happy.

I came across this quote while reading a fan site tonight and it is the kind of thing I would say to John.

""...but this is a fantasy world where fantastic things happen. And sure, there are rules, which is why you can turn into a cat but not a turtle, but they're not your real-world rules." -Saeadame

This is similar to my answer to people that can't suspend disbelief and enjoy fiction whether it is fantasy or sic-fi.

Anyway this is all for tonight post.

Monday, October 27, 2008

I see dead people O.O

Ok not really lol.


So since I have no plans and no plans to run my siblings around trick-or-treating (neither want to as they feel to old to) I'm looking up horror flicks for Halloween.


So popcorn and chills are the plans for me and as such I'm now digging through them on netflix. First off is "Fido" a horror/comedy. No reason ya can't have a laugh while shivering. Next we have "The Return" which is in the same vain as the J-horror (Japanese Horror) favorite "Ju-on" ("The Grudge" In America) and "Ringu" ("The Ring") but American made. One of those ones that keeps you guessing until the very end. Good thing because I have a tendency to be able to figure many films out before the mid point and that can make it a tad boring for me (lol John hates when I can tell him who or what did it by the mid point in a movie). Next is the remake of Hong Kong horror/thriller "Gin Gwai". "The Eye" is about a blind woman given sight after an operation only to start seeing things. Not a new idea by any stretch but hey it looks like it can squeeze a few jumps and spooks out of it.

*sigh* It is rather hard to find a good horror flick that is not either 1)a slasher flick, or 2) rated 'R'. And when trying to get films that both John will watch and Paul and Rachel will not bock at it is kinda tuff. So I hope they like the pick I have made for a fun and shivering Hallow's Eve.