Blather, rinse, repeat

WTF?! Same to you, space! Geez, some nebulae. :/ Actually, that just demanded to be an icon, didn't it? Hmm, I thought so!

Welp, I spent a few hours today studying for tomorrow's quiz. It's my first quiz this trimester. I think it's going to be pretty hard; I was confused in class as to what was doing what to whom and why, and even studying from the book didn't necessarily clear up my confusion.

Oh my gosh, I owe a huge review of Wolverine, don't I? And I don't really have time to write a whole big thing up! I went to see it Thursday with my bestie Kim. We smuggled in ice cream and candy and got ready to watch scenes of nakie Huge JackedMan. We weren't disappointed! There definitely was a lack of clothes in some scenes. However we both agreed that he is a little too huge and maybe too veiny. I like guys who are kinda ropey with nice forearms and I kinda like prominent veins for some reason, but not when they're all bulging like they're about to explode etc. and he was definitely a little too bumpy, but yeah, the movie itself! That, too!

I mean, it was pretty good; and holy crap, why did no one tell me that David Henney's fine-ass self was in that movie? I was so happy; I love to look at him.

GAMBIT! Gambit had some of the best scenes and he actually sorta beat out Wolverine for sheer coolness, which was kind of weird.

The whole thing with the chick was just tacked on. It seemed like filler; time-filler as well as character-filler. "We need to give him depth; I know, put a tragic chick in his past." You know, that just doesn't work for me.

But the fight scenes were terrific and overall it was a fairly enjoyable ride. I'd see it again sometime for sure.

Oh! In fangirl news, NEW TAKING BACK SUNDAY SONG / VIDEO:




Okay, I just love this, and if it wasn't for me using my nice new "eff you space" icon I'd for sure be using my TBS one. OMG I have an icon conflict, I think that's a first. Anyway, this song is kind of a departure from their usual style which I loved very well--you know, dueling vocals building up to a huge climactic chorus--and which I miss. This is a new sound for them and it gets away from a formula which I admittedly adored. Yet, this is a fantastic song and I really dig it on an entirely new level. As far as the video, well I like this on many levels as well. First of all, it reminds me of the X Files aliens, or "oiliens" if anyone remembers those. Secondly and less important though admittedly a factor, Adam Lazzara? So damn weird and quirky that he's still incredibly hot. I mean I know that he's all married and has a kid and whatnot, but I'm still a girl and my eyes and sensibilities still work, so just deal with it.

I met these guys and I've seen them live a bunch of times. They are awesome. ^_^ ♥

So this all makes me happy.

Well, I'm cooking my dinner and getting ready for Kung Fu tonight. Ummm also I joined this free dating site, why I don't know, I tend to do that every three years or so, right? I hate when I do that, although it's gratifying because guys write to me, and on this site (which is totally free, WTF,) these gentlemen are for some reason ridiculously dreamy, and the dreamy guys are writing to me, wth is that about, seriously? WTH? It's just that, attractive men talking to me when they don't have to (or they're not already my good friends) is blog-worthy. ^_^

And now for the weather: IT'S DAMN CHILLY.

Okay, eggplant parm, gotta run. Later!

Welp! My little hibernation time is at an end it seems! I'm just popping in to tell you guys that I am getting ready for school tomorrow. I promised myself that I would call it "uni" because I like the way my British friends call it that, but I can't seem to bring myself to. :D I just can't British it up. ;D

Anyway, I've got my backpack and all my huge-ass medical books and some pens, and shoot, I even have an assignment book that my wonderful friend Kim gave to me. It's black with red dragons. ^_^ (She also gave me a gift certificate to the school book store. O_o )

My first class is chemistry and I'm really freaking out.

What if I get lost? What if I go into the wrong room? What if I'm the only one in the class? What if everyone stares at me, or what if I make a bunch of mistakes? What if I forget to put my clothes on and show up naked?

All that stuff.

In the meantime, I owe myself a huge update.

New years was pretty nice. Jo-chan was over, and we were at my parents', where we watched Kung Fu Panda (it was kinda cute,) and some X Files episodes. I showed everyone Bad Blood which they all thought was pretty cool. The next day, SB and his girlfriend came by for dinner. Then we all went over to Chris and Tim's and SB played with Boychild (who just about worships him,) for about an hour or so.

Before new years, Jo-chan and I had a marathon FFVII game. We are up to the end of the game where you go into the crater but we keep putting it off. We also played tons of RE4, and taped the gruesome deaths off the TV so we could make this video: ( under the cut! )

EWWW!

Also, the night before NYE we watched Resident Evil Degeneration. The story wasn't bad and the zombie action is pretty good. The animation was not stellar though. In fact, the cut scenes of the game were better. They were animated better, written better, were scarier, had more depth and more characterization and everything. Leon was a weird, quirky, dorky hero in the game, with facial expressions and douchey one-liners, and he got scared and spazzy and he also laughed at himself and was really kind to Ashley, and he was just tons of fun. In the movie, however, they used a different face model and they took away all of his quirks. He didn't have the douchey one-liners or the humor. What I like in games is that sly, self-referential jokiness, and the movie only had a bit of that and none of it came from my favorite character. They drew him pretty, but not as pretty as he was, and he didn't have a facial expression through the whole thing.

The animation was weird. The hair constantly looked like it was underwater, and they drew the shoulders in a really, really odd way. The shoulders kept distracting me throughout the movie.

I am not one of those people who think that building on something I loved, or adding to it, "ruins" the original. You can't ruin the original because it still exists in its first form. I'm so glad they made the movie and we had so much fun watching it and MSTing it throughout the whole thing. There were so many moments where you could throw in your own lines such as "That's my gun, I promise; Unless you don't want it to be. Then we're cool." Or, "that's not your gaydar going off, I assure you." Or, "Leon S. Kennedy. The 'S' is for (endless combination of things to say.)" Or as Jo-chan told me my uncle said, "He shot him in the Curtis!"

As much as the movie bugged me out and was nowhere near being as awesome as the game, I would watch it again. Advent Children it was not, but hey. What is? :)

Let's see, let's see, what else. Oh, of course! And then Saturday we had a little Kung Fu holiday party at the restaurant next to where we train. It was me, the Lady Chrysanthemum, Snarklit, the Gold Dragon, Matt Damon, Sifu, and a young woman who used to train with us but hasn't since she left for school, we'll call her Saucy Tart. It was so weird at first. Saucy Tart, Chrysanthemum and Gold Dragon and I were the first ones to show up, while Sifu went to show MD our new school. Then they came back and Snarklit showed up and we all put some tables together and for the first half hour it was really quiet. I don't know why, but we kind of sat there like we didn't know who each other was for a few minutes; as if we hadn't spent years choking each other or throwing each other to the ground or something. I couldn't figure it out. Then as soon as dinner came everyone loosened up and started gabbing. Eventually Sifu's wife--let's be traditional and call her Simu--showed up with their really cute baby and had dinner with us, before she had to take the baby home to feed her.

I love it when we're all out together. ^_^

Chrysanthemum had to leave first, but the rest of us stayed on until well aftef closing time, much to the consternation of the poor workers who wanted to go home. I felt bad about that. Saucy Tart and Snarklit left, and then Sifu, MD and Gold Dragon and I walked over to the school to look at our new excersize pullup equipment thingie that Sifu bought for the school. I tried it out and it is lots of fun. Then we all bailed--most of us for home, Gold Dragon for another party--and I got home around midnight.

With few exceptions, it was a really fun night. Also my hair was crazy and I wore a really cool blouse from that Chinese clothing store. ^_^

That's my week in review!

I am currently trying not to think about tomorrow while also thinking about it constantly and hoping that it's going to rock my entire world in the best possible way. :)

Mild spoilers, nothing you can't figure out for yourself.


Hmmm.

I just think that Klaatu should realize that there is a HUGE difference between "seeing the good side" to a person (or the entire human race) and actually believing that they will change. Everyone says they can change when it's about to end, and maybe they change for a little while until they think the threat is over, but you can't change what is fundamentally there, you just can't.

And seriously, if all Helen had to do was prove to Klaatu that humans had a good side and weren't merely destructive, let's forget about the whole "Oh I miss my dead husband and love my stepkid, watch us mourn together" thing, and instead just have sex with him. I mean if he was moved simply by witnessing something as trite as a cemetery scene, why not just skip over all the syrupy stuff and just bang? He was like, "There is another side to you. I see that now." No, all you saw was that humans are afraid of death, and you obviously already knew that what with the "please don't kill us" thing.

If anyone did the "another side to humans" convincing it was that Chinese dude and John Cleese, and they didn't have sex with him, so.

Helen should have hit that with the fist of an angry god. I mean, first, before doing anything else. Before even trying to reason with him or beg. "That's another side to us humans. Now have some Gatorade and call off your little silver bugs."

That's what I would do. If an alien came down saying he had to destroy humans to save the planet, but maybe not if only he could find something decent about the human experience, and he was all Keanu Reeves looking, I would do that.

I would so do that to save the human race.

The acting was okay, I love John Cleese. The kid was hella frigging annoying, I wanted to slap him out of the script the entire time. jennifer Connelly's always pretty decent and Keanu is, you know, Keanu. He's hit or miss for me and he didn't really have a hell of a lot to do in this film.

One of the best things was that I saw a commercial for The new Resident Evil movie with Leon in it! I nearly screamed! Now on Amazon it says the release date is 12/27, but everywhere else it says the 30th. WTF?! Goddamnit, I want my beautifully rendered, badly scripted fanservice NOW thank you!

Oh, and also this which has nothing to do with the movie:



Well, we've already lost lots of human rights over the last eight years; I hope to gain some back instead! And I'm not sure about connecting with a broadsword of any kind. I really will try to drink more fanfiction, I'm sure I won't be givine Native American's to charity (what an American way of thinking! >_<) I wouldn't mind starting a Pele fund, and skitty_kitty already knows my true feelings: That we are some sort of cosmic twins!


:D

Gacked from reanimated SENATOR BIDEN SMACKDOWN:



But in all seriousness, he's making excellent points and he's refuting the spins put on his words by Faux News, and I think that anyone who watches Faux News as their main news source should take a look at this, because it's clear how they are spinning everything he says, and here he is cleaning up the mess and setting things straight. I like it.

In other news, I scored big at Target today! I got some much-needed jeans, sweatpants, a really cute skirt, some pajama bottoms that are as warm and comfy as you can possibly imagine, and DREAMY fuzzy socks. I am such a comfort whore.

To appease the voice of Jared Leto in my head, I tried on some skinny jeans too. They made me look like a pencil. No thanks. >_<

Then I went to Blockbuster and picked up two movies, one recommended to me by SB and one that he didn't see but just told me about. He recommended The Prestige, which I will watch tomorrow. Tonight I watched Deception, with Ewan McGregor and Huge JackedMan, both of whom are hot but only one of whom is my husband (Ewan.) (Ewan and I have been together for almost thirteen years now and we are still going strong.) The movie was driven by "idiot plot" which basically means that none of it would have happened if the characters hadn't acted like idiots. The whole thing could have been prevented by telling the truth (there was nothing for Ewan's character to lose if he had taken any of the many chances to safely tell the cops what he knew.) Also, I called the plot "twist" from the very beginning because it was so damn obvious. HOWEVER. Ewan is my husband and I love him very much. How can a dude who is a year older than I am still be such a baby boy? He's got the "bashful little boy lost" thing down pat and probably will have even when he's 60. And Huge JackedMan is just like a jar of testosterone; he kinda makes you want to roll in him or something, it's crazy. Which is weird because his face is so pretty.

Yare yare! I am superfly excited for the RE4 movie! But, in real life? Yeah, Tuesday is my interview at the college and I have to write a paper, too. Then it's waiting on getting accepted or not. I completely admit that I am nervous about the whole thing.

Two more days left at our old Kung Fu school, and then we are moving to a bigger place up the road a piece. Bigger is better and all, but I'm so weird about firsts and lasts and I was kinda settled into this place and I liked looking out the window at the beautiful pond. Well, the new place will be super nice. Bigger, too.

Le sigh. I'm up way past my bed time, so I guess I will turn in and read a bit. (Oh, I'm re-reading the Dragonlance novels. The plots are still cliche and silly. Raistlin is still the most compelling aspect of the entire series.)

Good night!

I am using this icon because it's Cloud Strife's birthday. Okay, yes, I know, I should be ashamed to know that. But I am not. I am a FANGIRL. See my well-worn copy of FFVII. You just can't find that out there anymore! CHOKE ON IT!

Wow, I have a lot of catching up to do, and a lot more pics to share.

On Thursday, we walked to the beach. "We" was my Ma, Chrissie, Boychild, Celia (her sister, my cousin,) and her two youngest kids Mimi and Zack.

( Beautiful sunset, ridiculously cute kids, and great pics, if I do say so myself. )

On the way home, Celia and Mom and I sang the theme to WKRP in Cincinatti, like really, really loud. Then Celia and I sang Stone Temple Pilots "Plush" and wondered why we had never wondered wtf the lyrics were about before. Then Zacky grabbed my hand and he wanted to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which we did. We found some footprints from road paint which went in a circle and disappeared. Zack was convinced it was "The Jolly Mean Giant" who was going to come and scare him that night, but I tried to tell him it was a nice angel wh had flown away. Then we were stopped by my neighbor's husky, Fire, who was running around trailing his leash. He jumped on and licked all the kids before the neighbor came to get him. Then he let all the kids pet him. When they left, Mimi said to me, "THAT MAN LICKED ME!"

"Err, dog," I told her. The last thing you want is a kid telling random people that a man had licked her.

We went back to Chrissie's house where Zack and Mimi didn't want us to leave, and Zack said to me, "Umm, umm, umm...

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Iloveyou!!"


That was Thursday. I had hoped to take her oldest boy, Brando, to Kung Fu with me tomorrow, but I haven't heard from her, so I'm not sure.

In other news, I said goodbye to my beloved birdies on Sunday. The three bluejays (including, of course, the super friendly one,) and the TITMOUSE (whose name is Tifa,) are all going to live with my friend Laura until release.

I spoke to Bluejay and I told him, "This is where our ways part for now. You've been a good friend, and thanks for spending the summer with me." Then I said fare thee well to Tifa the TITMOUSE.

I think I'm keeping the neurological robin (Dana,) till the end. She keeps getting worse. She can't keep her head still and she will never fly. But she does eat on her own, and she bathes and preens and sings. I think she's going blind in her left eye which makes me think she's got a brain tumor. I might experiment with some different remedies and see if anything works. She's a sweet thing. You never know.

Dude, man, so today I just saw Tropic Thunder. It was as hilarious as I'd heard it would be. Ben Stiller has this way of making comedies that are so satirical that their truths make me feel embarrassed for the people he's satirizing. I mean, the satire is so right on the mark that you're just like, "Ohhh. Ouch." There were parts where I totally LOLed.

Aside from the movie, here are some things I'd like to add.

So, I need to find me a guy with eyes like RDJ. I'm not talking about the silly blue contacts, but I mean the whole dark, dramatic look thing. Eyes like that make me want to hit it with the fist of an angry god.

The best parts of the movie were his random one-or-two liners that made everyone else go O_o.

"Satan's Alley" needs to be a real movie. ;)

Why are movie theaters so cold? I swear my nips are gonna hit the screen.

Moving on.

So okay, here's a weird thing. I'm putting this on the table, okay, I wouldn't mind some opinions. It's weird; bear with me. Here we go.

I might have mentioned that I've been seeing the same set of letters on license plates everywhere, and they spell out the publishing company to which i just sent my manuscript. Oddly, since I sent that bitch out, I have not seen that name on any license plates. But, it has been replaced with another word, and this one disturbs me. Everywhere I go, everytime I go out, without fail, at least twice in one trip, I see EGG on a license plate. Everywhere. EGG. Constantly. No more publishing company. (Which was odd enough in itself; there are, as far as I know, a handful of three letter publishing companies, but I only kept seeing this one. And believe me, I looked for the others.)

So EGG has been following me around, or actually I have been following it, since I always seem to be behind it. And in the last week another funny thing has happened, and I didn't really pay much attention to it because it's just a fannish thing. A few times I've seen plates with the letters as follows: CGB. CGB Spender was Cigarette Smoking Man's initials on X Files. He was played by William B Davis.

Today in the parking lot, I parked behind an EGG license plate. On my way home, I was behind this dude in a truck. His vanity plate read DAVIS. I thought that was kinda funny. We both turned onto the same road an dhe pulled over to the right lane and pointed out his window like he was trying to indicate something. He was pointing to the car that had been in front of him but was now in front of me, a maroon mini van. The dude was probably not pointing out the minivan to me, but it sure seemed like enough of a weird occurrence that I was curious.

Willing to follow the White Rabbit to a point, I shrugged and pulled up behind the maroon minivan. I have to tell you that even I was surprised to see that its license plate read "EGG."

Man, wtf. WTF? WTMFF?

Now I know that there is some kind of mental disorder where you see signs and connections in everything. I realize that this is a form of OCD and I know i have OCD. you you gotta admit that's kind of weird and might make anyone spit-take. Right?

Help me out with this!

I just got back from seeing The Mummy. Oh man, the dialog was so bad. I mean, did I seriously, seriously hear the line "you guys are like mummy magnets?" Every other line was total cheese whiz. The jokes were really awful, too, the physical gags and a few lines that tried really hard to be puns. I like Brenden Fraser, I really do. I think he's fun, and interesting, and intense (Gods and Monsters,) and a really good actor when he gets a role that requires him to be one. This wasn't that role, though. (And he's blazingly hot, too. Okay, so there's that.)

Also, I had some logic problems with the movie, too. Like for instance, there's this one time when ♥Jet Li♥ has a really, umm, expedient way of getting back down a huge mountain and to where he wants to go--I don't want to spoil it, but let's just say it'd be hard to beat--and Brenden Fraser is like, "BUT WAIT! We have a plane that could keep up with him!" and the script fails to mention that before they can get on the plane they have to go, HELLO, HALFWAY BACK DOWN SAID MOUNTAIN ON FOOT. Things like that, you know?

And I really didn't like Maria Bello as Evie. She wasn't funny, or cute, or cool. She tried to be funny and cute and cool, but she way overplayed it and it just didn't work for me.

But the effects were really good and it had, like Yetis and stuff, so that was pretty cool. A movie with ♥Jet Li♥ I sorta expect to have really cool martial arts, and it didn't. There was this one fight scene between ♥Jet Li♥ and Brenden Fraser and at first I was gratified because Jet Li is winning, obviously, but then Brenden Fraser rallies and starts to get in his shots. Ummm, ♥JET LI♥. If he kicks you, I'm pretty sure you're staying down!

Also, ♥Michelle Yeoh♥, oh my god, HOW IS SHE SO BEAUTIFUL? It's not even possible! Why wasn't she in it more? Why didn't she get to kick so much more ass and do so many more stunts, which she obviously can? I wish I could just wake up one day and be her clone, just to have her skill and her looks.

Russel Wong was ridiculously hot. I mean to the point where even when he was a zombie for most of the film, he was hot. That's honestly the first time I've looked at a frigging zombie and thought, "I'd hit that, shyeeeit." WTF is wrong with me. Umm, when they make a movie out of my book, he's going to be in it.

Anyways, that's what I thought of that. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be and I wish it hadn't tried so hard to be funny. I also wish that mothers wouldn't think it was a great idea to bring their spoiled, yammering little bastards to the movies and let them talk in their "outdoor voices" throughout the movie and go tromping up and down the aisles, and then just coddle them in their laps when people tell them "shhh." Especially when they're around ten frigging years old and should know better.

( Slight spoilers for X Files )

Here's another weird thing! When Mulder is going through his cell phone numbers, presumably to call Scully, he very obviously scrolls down to the name Gillian and starts to hit send.
WTF?

Anyway, it was loads of fun, and I will for sure break out my old X Files tapes to watch later. :D

I'll admit up front, with no reservations that I didn't like The Dark Knight partly for the opposite reason that I did like Iron Man. So let's just get this out of the way: I either agree or disagree with the theme of something, and that greatly colors my overall enjoyment. If it's a theme or message that gets me going in a good way, like say the evils of war-mongering, and American accountability, I will enjoy it more. But if the theme is something that I disagree with, I am more likely to be bias against the entire experience.

Here's what I took away from The Dark Knight:

1) Sometimes innocent people have to die if you want to flush out The Terrorist. It sucks, but there's nothing you can do about it.

2) It's okay to use technology to spy and eavesdrop on an entire city in order to find The Terrorist, as long as you only do it once.

3) Even though someone who used to be good did evil deeds, like killing a bunch of people and almost killing a child, he should still be made a martyr, because people are ignorant and they need a hero, a White Knight. And if someone innocent (a "dark" knight,) has to be blamed for those evil deeds, that's acceptible, because people can't handle the truth of one of their leaders not being The Good Guy.

4) It's excusable to beat up your mom and sister if you're stressed because you made eight billion dollars a day for talking in a husky voice for a while and then the dead guy will probably get the Oscar. (Heh, no, not really of course, just being snarky.)

Nuh uh. Those are the very ideas that annoy me.

The movie was well done, and, except for a few parts where I was like, "Oh, please" with the overdoing it (Christian Bale, actually, and not Heath Ledger, who was supposed to be overdoing it,) was well-acted. I thought the effects were great. The scariness was really scary without having tos how any gore at all. There were things that made no logical sense (how a certain person's eye could stay functional for one example, and for another, how the Joker knew that there was going to be a boat of convicts and one of non-convicts and had both the time and foresight to set that whole thing up,) but I am always willing to suspend my disbelief when it comes to movies that require me to, and usually I can overlook stuff like that. (The eye thing did bug me though.) I really enjoyed the lack of overbearing soundtrack; there were times that were really tense and I was like, "What's not here that is here in other movies?" and I would notice that it was music. Sometimes the soundtrack is really overbearing and the music is unneeded and I liked how it was handled int his movie. And Heath Ledger really was creepy and intense and did his own thing.

But the propoganda, dude, I could not get past it.


Oh, anyway, this cute House test:

Your result for The House, MD Personality Test...

Dr. James Wilson

55% Eccentricity, 40% Confidence, 60% Kindness

Take The House, MD Personality Test at HelloQuizzy

I just (a few hours ago) got back from having sex with Edward Norton! I didn't have quite so much sex with him as I had with RDJ last week, but I still totally had sex with him and I'll tell you guys all about it in a minute.

I wanna show you guys something really sweet. Last night I got a call from Lao Shir because she had found a little baby bird and she didn't know wtf to do. So I went a'runnin' like I always do when there's a baby bird and took him. (And in the meantime hung around with her for about an hour too, in her adorable, beautiful little house by the bay, to talk about everything from evil clowns to Kung Fu to hot boys. She's 50'-ish and a lifelong single lady, I'm 35 and a lifelong single lady, so we have a lot of fun talking about these subjects. ^_^ Also, she is fantastic. )

ANYway.

You have never seen ( something as teeny and fragile as a baby sparrow or finch. )
How adorable is that?

I did an unorthodox thing with him, too. I put him in the nest with my hatchling starling. Starlings usually kill small birds, but they're both hatchlings so right now all they're doing is keeping each other warm.

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I think it's a good idea because the baby sparrow has splay-leg, which is a metabolic bone problem due to diet (the parents probably died right after the storm and the baby had nothing to eat.) Also because he fell about twenty feet, and it's the nest and the other babies that keep their legs from splaying, because they're packed in together really tightly. But one thing you can do for splay-leg is try to re-set the legs, and one way to do that if it's not too bad is to just pack them in a nest really tightly, preferably with other babies. So as long as the big doofy starling doesn't go trampling him and covering him in crap, it works out for both of them.

Neat, huh?
( And this is just a really cute caterpillar: )

Right, so the Incredible Hulk! Well, as I implied, it was good, but not nearly as good as Iron Man. I like both actors a hell of a lot, but I guess I liked the tone of Iron Man better and, I dunno, it was kinda humorous and light and I felt a lot more sympathy for Tony Stark for whatever reason. ("For whatever reason" probably = he was a snarky bastard with katana-wit, and then he did heroic things while retaining both snarky bastard wit and a sense of vulnerability that RDJ has with him in every role, and that's hot. But I digress.)

Edward Norton did have some naked time in this, but it was like only one scene and I kept going back to the logical problem of his pants. I mean I realize they made a point of saying that he had to buy stretchy pants or whatever, but like, just how come all of his other clothes got shredded off except for anyplace there are naughty bits? I mean did he get to keep his like 18 inch waist when he changed into the Hulk? (OMG, he is so skinny. And I think the skinniness works, you know, a dichotomy, Oh look this scrawny pale guy turns huge and green, imagine!) The pants gave me a big logic problem!

Then there was the problem of Liv Tyler. Why'd she spend the entire movie doing her lines in the voice of a six year old girl, what the hell was that?

Oh my gosh, there's this one scene where it's the obligatory "time to bang" scene, only obviously they can't get it on because of the whole racing pulse/embarrassingly timed morphing problem, which made me A) LOL pretty hard and B) actually put way too much thought into that. I mean, what if they were banging and he Hulked out during that? Oh my god, the potential tragedy and/or internet porn!

I totally like it in movies when Match-stick City gets to be NYC, and I was into all the cars getting thrown around for the first twelve hours of the fight scene, and then in the last, like one hour I was like, Err, okay, enough with the cars. All I could think of was that insurance companies probably don't cover for stuff like that, that goes for the apartments too, 'cause a lot of those got all buss' up.

Tell you one thing, there is a scene where Hulk is running towards uhhh, well Tim Roth's hulk type monster thing for a huge, epic mid-air crash/battle, except they ran towards each other for a really long time and I started to think how funny it would be if at the end of it they leapt into each other's arms and embraced and cried together. When you see the movie, picture that.

The only other thing that induced eye-rolling was towards the end when Tim Roth monster dude is like "Any last words" and Edward Norton Hulk goes, "HULK SMASH." I was like, Seriously, "hulk smash?" WTF is this, the Monster Mash? "MMM, mash good!"

But in all seriousness it was a really good movie with plenty of Edward Norton angst/introspection, if you're into Edward Norton angst/introspection, which I am. The dude is honestly an incredibly fine actor in everything he does. And he is BEAUTIFUL, as I've mentioned. Even the Hulk was strangely appealing, maybe even cute in a green, veiny, huge, "this is why steroids need to stay illegal" kind of way.

Lou Ferrigno had a really adorable cameo (don't even ask me how I remembered what he looked like, as The Incredible Hulk tv show is a vague memory from my childhood; I think I saw it maybe three whole times.) I didn't stay till after the credits but I will say that the last 120 seconds or so were my favorite part of the movie. Seriously, I came.

Anyway it was a really cool pre-summer movie. I am SUPERFLY excited about the trailers I saw, too. I don't think I've been this into the summer movies since I was a kid, seriously. There was a trailer for the new Mummy movie which not only has Brenden Fraser (I could eat him alive, honestly,) but also Jet Li and Michelle Effing Yeoh who is my idol. Then they had the X Files trailer and I literally leapt out of my seat and cheered when I heard the music. I think I cried a little. Then, you know, Scully, my other hero. I thought it was odd because when my friends and I would ask each other "if you had to kiss a girl who would you kiss?" I would answer Michelle Yeoh and Gillian Anderson. How weird is that?

Wow, you guys even get a review of the freaking trailers, how cool am I?

Here's what I'm wondering. Right, so after they make all these superhero movies, they all get together for one big movie, right? This is the Avengers or something? (I'm sorry for my ignorance; I was not a huge Marvel Comics fan.) So are there any girl avengers, or is this just going to be a a formula of "powerful male superhero / intelligent, loyal and sympathetic female in need of eventual rescue" kinda thing? That's what I wanna know.

Well, that's my update for today. Hope you are all chillaxing and having happyfuntimes.

IRON MAN.

I'm a huge movie-cynic. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to a point, but usually when things get preposterous I get annoyed. I hate cliches. I hate America superhero cliches. I hate American cliches. One of my biggest pet peeves in movies is when the superhero has a female assistant who is modest, stalwart, under-appreciated, smart, and occasionally in need of rescue.

These things annoy me in movies.

However I can tell you unreservedly that Iron Man is the best movie I have seen in quite a few years and probably will see in the next few.

OMG you guys, please go see it. It was so good.

The other thing that really impressed me about the movie was that it dared to tread into dangerous territories for big Hollywood movies: American accountability, the evils of warmongering, and the notion that not everyone from a place with lots of sand is the enemy. They didn't go too deeply or fearlessly--with the political climate what it is, a film like this really can't yet--but they did go there at least and it was heartening.

Okay, there were, of course, a few mistakes and a few plot holes that annoyed me, but not so much that it destroyed the movie for me. One thing that bugged me was how it took Tony Stark forever to learn how to maneuver his mecha (sorry guys, I am a manga/anime fan at heart and this, to me, is total mecha,) but when the bad guy (don't want to spoil the movie so I'll just say "bad guy" here) gets into his for the first time, he's like a natural at it and doesn't have to practice. That gave me a moment of WTFness but even during that I was just like "OMGOMGOMGFANPOODLE" anyway, so.

And RDJ is just about as hot as they come, gotta say. I grew up watching his films. I had little choice in the matter because my cousin who lived with me was/is obsessed with him. Either way I've always found him compelling and incredible, even at his worst times. Yet now, not only is he even more the actor he used to be, he's also fully goddamn meffing hot and deserves props just for looking really healthy and beautiful.

Also, the ending made me ROFL and want to cheer my fool head off at the same time.