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oakenguyThe honeymoon with the new apartment is over: apparently you can't have the microwave and the bathroom light going at the same time without blowing a fuse. I discovered this while wearing just shaving cream and my Cat in the Hat "I know some new tricks!" boxers, which made going down into the cold, cold basement interesting.
Please note that the boxers are Old-Style Cat in the Hat, not the Mike Myers version who looks, frankly, like someone took the Grinch and spray-painted him. They should really have CGIed him. In fact, physicists tell us that since there are infinite parallel universes, somewhere out there is a universe where the Cat in the Hat was CGI and this summer's Hulk was actually Mike Myers in a suit. And if I get elected President I pledge to fund physics programs until we can open up a gateway, and rent movies from this universe.
Which is a roundabout way of saying I rented 'Hulk' last night, for something brainless to watch while assembling our new entertainment center. Which, considering both the movie and how many times I got pieces backwards and had to take out the screws and start over, turned out to be a bad idea.
First note: it took 23 drafts to write this??? The 'New Yorker' had a recent article about a fight between different writers for appropriate screen credit, and frankly, if I was Peter David or John Byrne (the two best-known writers of the comic--David, in particular, was the one who linked the Hulk to repressed memories of an abusive father) I would've been laughing until I cried as I read it.
Second note: it's not fair to arrest Nick Nolte for drug use, and then expect him to take roles like this without any chemical help in his system.
Third: it might have been meant as an homage to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but branch-to-branch fighting between a two-ton Hulk and three one-ton dogs was....interesting. I don't know about Ang Lee's canine experience, but it'd take a lot more than some gamma radiation to get MY dog to hop onto a tree branch. And at night? With critters not used to their new size and strength? That's slapstick waiting to happen.
Please note that the boxers are Old-Style Cat in the Hat, not the Mike Myers version who looks, frankly, like someone took the Grinch and spray-painted him. They should really have CGIed him. In fact, physicists tell us that since there are infinite parallel universes, somewhere out there is a universe where the Cat in the Hat was CGI and this summer's Hulk was actually Mike Myers in a suit. And if I get elected President I pledge to fund physics programs until we can open up a gateway, and rent movies from this universe.
Which is a roundabout way of saying I rented 'Hulk' last night, for something brainless to watch while assembling our new entertainment center. Which, considering both the movie and how many times I got pieces backwards and had to take out the screws and start over, turned out to be a bad idea.
First note: it took 23 drafts to write this??? The 'New Yorker' had a recent article about a fight between different writers for appropriate screen credit, and frankly, if I was Peter David or John Byrne (the two best-known writers of the comic--David, in particular, was the one who linked the Hulk to repressed memories of an abusive father) I would've been laughing until I cried as I read it.
Second note: it's not fair to arrest Nick Nolte for drug use, and then expect him to take roles like this without any chemical help in his system.
Third: it might have been meant as an homage to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but branch-to-branch fighting between a two-ton Hulk and three one-ton dogs was....interesting. I don't know about Ang Lee's canine experience, but it'd take a lot more than some gamma radiation to get MY dog to hop onto a tree branch. And at night? With critters not used to their new size and strength? That's slapstick waiting to happen.
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Re: You, too?
Date: 2003-11-12 06:15 pm (UTC)Hmm.
How do you feel about three day weddings?