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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…
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…
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