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[topaz119]

So, I have new tires for my car. And they are aligned, yay? I tried to enjoy the (ok, MUCH) smoother ride on the way to the office this morning, because, ugh, that just ate up another chunk of money that I could have gotten so much more entertainment from.

Adulting. So not fun.

We managed to see Jurassic World this weekend, as BabyBoy has been dyyyyyying for it to come out. Um, the dinos were cool? Also, my fellow Disney peeps, there's a shot down the center of the park that is like looking straight down Mainstreet (DL & WDW) except there's a pyramid instead of a castle. We might have been cackling over that. Alsoalso, and I say this as a parent who took a 3 year old to see Return of the King in the theaters (eh, third kid, plus he'd spent his entire life watching his brothers play assorted LOTR games – he sat on my lap and counted cave trolls during the movie. PJ used a LOT (" ") of cave trolls in that one, in case you were wondering), there were some really small kids in the theater, who were freaking traumatized.


I feel like the movie would have been infinitely better with more of the raptor!biker gang, but unfortunately, nobody ever listens to me.

And just between us? Claire's damned shoes annoyed the crap out of me. Plus, at the end, I honestly leaned over to the boys and said, "Pepper Potts would NEVER have been sitting and not doing anything while people injured on her watch were still waiting around." Also, Pepper would have dispatched any number of competent people to deal with the wayward nephews in the first place, not run out to find them herself, and thus would have been in the control center when the ImGen goons came in to take over (except that probably would have meant that D'Onofrio's character wouldn't have gotten eaten, which would have been super-disappointing, but I'm sure we could have thrown him to the raptors at some point regardless.)

Someday, I would like an awesome action movie where everybody does everything right and shit still goes to hell, because that's how big and bad the Big Bad is. I feel like I got a tease of that from Skyfall, where everyone was feeding my competence-porn kink, yet Matters Were Still Dire. I would like more of that, please.

But, hey, dinosaurs! :D

I DVR'd the original movie over the weekend, and once #2's semester is done (tomorrow, ack) we will have to watch along.

In other news, the breakfast table was all blood and gore and speculation again (GoT season finales, always fun), my replacement Anova sous-vide circulator arrived just as I was about to leave for the office this morning, the rebooted Poldark starts here in the US on Sunday and my Beach Week staging area is getting completely out of control. Now, if I could just sort out the work issues…

Comments

[sperrywink]

Adulting sucks and tires are so expensive!

Yeah, that's what I've been seeing about Jurassic World.

[topaz119]

I mostly had fun at JW (really), because once it gets started, it does not stop, but I was rolling my eyes a couple of times (and covering them a couple more!)

[amalthia]

I think my favorite part of the Jurassic World movie was how much like a theme park they made the island, including the lines and the petting zoo area where the little kids could ride the baby dinosaurs. :) The heels bugged me too.

[topaz119]

It was like a textbook design of a theme park, and then whoosh--dinosaurs! And the heels were just so annoying, like, oh, *real* women can run in heels, that's how you know they're badass. So stupid. I found myself thinking at the end, after she'd gotten the T-rex loose and was down on the ground, 'well, if you'd stuck a pair of hiking boots in her SUV, your heroine probably would still be able to run at this point. How quaint.'

[amalthia]

I kept expecting her to become dinosaur food...I can barely walk in heels, I'm not sure if women can actually run in them and have okay traction.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Your feelings about Jurassic World are exactly mine! I took the boys to see it for son #2's 10th birthday yesterday, and they enjoyed it a lot, and I...couldn't believe how bloodthirsty it was. I mean, were we really supposed to enjoy the assistant being tossed around screaming before she was eaten?

And just between us? Claire's damned shoes annoyed the crap out of me. Plus, at the end, I honestly leaned over to the boys and said, "Pepper Potts would NEVER have been sitting and not doing anything while people injured on her watch were still waiting around." Also, Pepper would have dispatched any number of competent people to deal with the wayward nephews in the first place, not run out to find them herself, and thus would have been in the control center when the ImGen goons came in to take over

THIS! And then the other nominally in charge guy left, too, and got killed. It was the worst crisis management ever, and bothered me no end.

Chris Pratt and his raptors almost made up for things, but I felt like even his huge charisma got dampened by charmlessness of the movie. Plus, zero chemistry with Bryce Howard.

Here's hoping the MI: Rogue Nation is a livelier movie!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I am almost afraid to get my hopes up for MI5 -- Ghost Protocol was such an unexpected treat, I'd hate to have this one let me down.