i was just similar to give me a break.
Apr. 7th, 2011 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaMan, I am going to need a fic sticky soon, it is starting to take a lot of scrolling to find the Book One master post again. Which, by the by: a final round of edits and timeline checks, and, my internet connection willing, the first chapter should be up tomorrow evening.
It is finally maybe going to snow less often! The geese are coming back! I have seen a handful of deer and like eight wild turkeys! It might just be spring. Oh, and: there was an adorable tourist (out-of-state plates, at least) who stopped their car on my route home to take a picture of cows. Cows. I pass, what, four? five? farms on my way to work every day; it is fascinating and marvelous to me that someone might feel the need to photograph a cow while on a trip. I mean, I shouldn't assume; maybe they just like cows. Still, it was cute.
Work: good times. We have a new system for the daily newsletter that means I have to essentially re-code the content of at least one webpage every day. At least I am learning more HTML? What I really need is CSS; I'm hoping that posts fromfoxfirefey's upcoming S2/CSS/DW styles course will help. As terrible as I am at HTML/CSS, I am still way ahead of pretty much everybody else in the office, though. **weeps**
I have also watched some things relatively recently!
Rango - I went to see this one with my family, and my mother was the one who suggested it, which probably means I should have known it wouldn't quite be to my taste. The one thing I can say with absolutely no reservations at all is that the animation was beautiful; there were scenes where I seriously lost track of what was happening because I was staring at the sky behind the characters.
The overall story was perfectly coherent; it was pretty much A Bug's Life, but in the desert, and it was Flik alone, not the whole circus. Down to the making-a-big-fake-bird thing, even, although I'm hoping that was a little bit on purpose?
But the A-Bug's-Life plot was interspersed with utter weirdness - the incredibly long chase scene with the bats and the crossdressing, the thing where he crossed the interstate and the bugs carried him off to meetClint Eastwood Raylan Givens the Spirit of the West and his golf cart ... wat. I walked out of the theater with idriya going, "What the hell was that. No, seriously: what the hell was that?" It was like one step off from the movie I thought I was going to see, but it wasn't one step sideways, it was one step diagonally up in the air. **hands** It was missing something, some fundamental warmth or likability or something, I don't even know. I mean, it wasn't unspeakably terrible, it was no The Last Airbender; but it's not really on my multiple-rewatch list. Possibly you get more out of it if you've watched a lot of classic westerns.
Never Let Me Go - another of my mother's choices, and this one, I had thoroughly spoiled myself for, so I knew that I should only watch haphazardly and out of the corner of my eye. I cannot stand unhappy endings, they wreck me emotionally, so right out of the gate, this one was never going to make me like it. Killing Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield: also not a road to success for me.
Mostly, I did not understand why they never tried to escape. I mean, I understand that this was supposed to be a melancholy reflection on human nature and the soul and the meaning of life, not an action movie; but I think it would have made way more sense as an action movie. They have access to cars! You can't tell me that the premise wouldn't prompt serious resistance; there had to be people out there who'd help them get new ID and new lives and teach them how to make it in the real world. That movie, I would have watched and probably enjoyed. This movie, WAY less so.
Perhaps I am just too shallow to appreciate these things.
It is finally maybe going to snow less often! The geese are coming back! I have seen a handful of deer and like eight wild turkeys! It might just be spring. Oh, and: there was an adorable tourist (out-of-state plates, at least) who stopped their car on my route home to take a picture of cows. Cows. I pass, what, four? five? farms on my way to work every day; it is fascinating and marvelous to me that someone might feel the need to photograph a cow while on a trip. I mean, I shouldn't assume; maybe they just like cows. Still, it was cute.
Work: good times. We have a new system for the daily newsletter that means I have to essentially re-code the content of at least one webpage every day. At least I am learning more HTML? What I really need is CSS; I'm hoping that posts from
foxfirefey's upcoming S2/CSS/DW styles course will help. As terrible as I am at HTML/CSS, I am still way ahead of pretty much everybody else in the office, though. I have also watched some things relatively recently!
Rango - I went to see this one with my family, and my mother was the one who suggested it, which probably means I should have known it wouldn't quite be to my taste. The one thing I can say with absolutely no reservations at all is that the animation was beautiful; there were scenes where I seriously lost track of what was happening because I was staring at the sky behind the characters.
The overall story was perfectly coherent; it was pretty much A Bug's Life, but in the desert, and it was Flik alone, not the whole circus. Down to the making-a-big-fake-bird thing, even, although I'm hoping that was a little bit on purpose?
But the A-Bug's-Life plot was interspersed with utter weirdness - the incredibly long chase scene with the bats and the crossdressing, the thing where he crossed the interstate and the bugs carried him off to meet
idriya going, "What the hell was that. No, seriously: what the hell was that?" It was like one step off from the movie I thought I was going to see, but it wasn't one step sideways, it was one step diagonally up in the air. **hands** It was missing something, some fundamental warmth or likability or something, I don't even know. I mean, it wasn't unspeakably terrible, it was no The Last Airbender; but it's not really on my multiple-rewatch list. Possibly you get more out of it if you've watched a lot of classic westerns.Never Let Me Go - another of my mother's choices, and this one, I had thoroughly spoiled myself for, so I knew that I should only watch haphazardly and out of the corner of my eye. I cannot stand unhappy endings, they wreck me emotionally, so right out of the gate, this one was never going to make me like it. Killing Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield: also not a road to success for me.
Mostly, I did not understand why they never tried to escape. I mean, I understand that this was supposed to be a melancholy reflection on human nature and the soul and the meaning of life, not an action movie; but I think it would have made way more sense as an action movie. They have access to cars! You can't tell me that the premise wouldn't prompt serious resistance; there had to be people out there who'd help them get new ID and new lives and teach them how to make it in the real world. That movie, I would have watched and probably enjoyed. This movie, WAY less so.
Perhaps I am just too shallow to appreciate these things.
