Second verse, same as the first

[trinityvixen]

feiran, darkling1, and I saw Superman Returns on the 3D IMAX at 11 pm yesterday night because apparently it's a hotter ticket than The Producers when Matthew Broderick is in town and we couldn't see the 7:15 pm show because it was sold out. At 6 pm. And there was a line for the 11 pm show an hour before hand that rivaled that of opening night for any summer movie I've seen to date. For a movie that costs $5 more than the already outrageous prices we pay for cinematic adventures in this fair city. For a movie that is two-and-a-half-hours long. At a Sunday night showing. Sold out, too.

I love 3D. I still think I'm not doing it right. Maybe it's the shape of my head or something, but the 3D is never quite perfect. I used to think it was the glasses, cheap ass pieces of crap they have to make to fit all the people who go there. It's always blurry on the edges, not helped by the fact that most 3D movies feature quick-paced action scenes that compound the blur issue.

Didn't matter. I had fun, and I love 3D. 3D wheeeeeee! Plus, with the coupon I got from buying the third volume of the Superman Animated Series, it only cost me $4.50. It cost me a fucking lot of sleep, as we had four hours to kill until the show and didn't get back to the apartment until 2:15 am, but it was worth it. If you liked the movie and would be willing to see it again, go for it in IMAX. Might as well as not, yeah?

feiran was making a point about the 3D glasses not being very sharp for her either, so I wonder if this wasn't a problem of the movie in general. It was shot according to the director's taste, not necessarily to encourage a 3D audience first, so a lot of the action sequences, while neat, aren't really improved by 3D. Here's an example: the flashback to young Clark running and jumping around like a mad little idiot. That really didn't have to be in 3D. I'd have sooner preferred the bank robbery sequence in 3D.

I'd also have preferred the IMAX to have a screening process to keep idiots out. The girl behind us kept saying she wanted to reach out kiss Superman. As darkling1 so eloquently put it, "Well, I want to reach over and punch you, and only one of us is going to get what we want."

Also, boys? Is it really necessary for you air out your crotches whenever you sit down? This isn't a rare occurrence, either. Half the time I sit down on the subway, I'm on a bench where two good seats are being taken up by some sulking teenager or overgrown boy-man who's got his knees thrown wider than a whore's. What is it about your knees that refuses to let you you sit like your hips are capable of rotating your femurs directly out in front of you? Weak tendons? Is that it? Women do have stronger groin muscles... Anyway, knock it off. I am entitled to the space that is defined by my armrest even if my legs do not feel the need to expand to the edges of that boundary. Back the fuck out of my space.

I have more to say on the subject of Superman Returns--naturally, as all I ever talk about on this journal are my latest movie fixations and being pissed at work--but I just wanted to plug the IMAX a bit for now. We folk in NYC should get together to see more movies on IMAX. Some are definitely worth the extra bits, and there's this entirely too cute penguin movie coming out in 3D in the fall...

Ahem. I need to get to writing for class tomorrow. Wow. I have school work again. Crazy. I lay odds that I fall asleep before I manage to write anything.

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[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Any Volunteers?

Girl: How come you don't eat me out anymore?
Guy: You have ridiculously strong thighs.
Girl: So?
Guy: When you cum you crush my head.
Girl: Jesus, you're such a pussy.

--L train

via Overheard in New York, Mar 20, 2006

[mephistakitten.livejournal.com]

They have big dicks. REALLY big dicks. Like, if you had a dick that big, you'd sit like that too.

Either that or balls. Lots of them. Like a bunch of grapes. Wouldn't want to crush them!

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

I was responding to the strong groin muscles thing...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hah!

So, the guy sitting next to me in the theater was sitting spread-eagled and I whispered to Carrie about how that annoyed me. She whispered back, "Maybe it's because he has a big dick."

Without whispering, I gave a look and said, "No, not it's not."

We dissolved into giggles.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Yes.

No, I don't know. I slouch because I'm lazy and I don't slouch that far, nor do I shove my kneecaps into others' kneecaps.

[i-am-rachiv.livejournal.com]

Point well taken about the guys and how they spread eagle...

My theory is that they sit that way because, really, they all have vaginas...like the guy who recently pulled shit on me. Yes, they all have weepy, misting vaginas that they spread eagle in the hopes of some fulfilment.

But, brilliantly expressed pet-peeve!

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

.....um, am I the only one remember that part from high school bio class (and heath class) that the make body is hardwired to try and keep that area within a certain temperature range? So maybe every spread eagle guy you see is basically telling you they have Hot Loins =-þ

[teneda.livejournal.com]

Is it really necessary for you air out your crotches whenever you sit down?

Yeah, there was one guy that sat next to me in the Imax 3D of Batman Begins that was sitting like that. I got him to change seats rather quickly, all the way to another row.

All I did was to switch my knife from the small of my back and put it on my belt next to my keychain and then tell him flat out, "If your knees come across the boundary of the armrest, I'm gonna make sure I twist this along your femoral so you bleed to death before the previews end."

And you say people aren't courteous ^_^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I should hope not. I guess there must be some laziness factor. It seems mostly a plague of the younger generation, so maybe when you are all growed up, it will go away.

In the meantime, I reserve the right to zap offenders with elbow jabs to the ribs. I have very pointy elbows and if their knees need the space, my elbows do, too.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Dude, you threatened to kill him over that? Then how will he ever learn if he's dead? Really, I find physical violence needs to be applied up to the threshhold of blacking out pain at most.

It works better when they see how unimpressed the females are at their spreading of the genitalia, like when I said loudly to feiran that it didn't make his balls look bigger...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's also disgusting, thanks. You're having a run of those kinds of comments. Brilliant. Cheers.

And honestly, the leg-spreaders ought not to worry about damaging the testes with overheating. They're almost to a man not anyone I would want breeding any way (or so unlikely to breed as to make it not worth the Save the Sperm effort).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Cheers. I've had enough of this one, I tells you. A lot of my pet peeves about perfect strangers have to do with their tendency to throw their crotches or secondary genitals (hello, titties) in my face. I remember a glorious time when it was the height of embarrassment for a classmate to pull your pants down and expose your underwear. Now an entire generation of putzes is penguin walking with their jeans around their thighs because no women would see their boxers otherwise.

Men don't have vaginas, though, that's not why they do it. It's just that they have uglier genitals than we do and they try to puff it up so they can be proud ugly ducklings. If they'd just save it for when we want it, they'd be swans all the time, baby.

[teneda.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you see, it's the threat that is the issue. If he dies, Darwin has (for once) won. If not, then a message has been sent that such assholery (yes, I made the word up) is acceptable. Keep in mind, if it weren't for physical violence, we humans wouldn't be where we are today.

It works better when they see how unimpressed the females are at their spreading of the genitalia, like when I said loudly to feiran that it didn't make his balls look bigger...

Yeah, but not being female and all, all I can do is laugh at that. Good on you though, for giving me my first laugh of the day.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You could do. You'd be the male equivalent of the bull dyke. Just lean over and say, "Pardon me, stranger, but I can't help but notice that you want me to notice your nutsack. I see plenty in my orientation, and let me tell you: you ain't got braggin rights, sweetheart. Keep it saved for your boyfriend--I'm sure he loves you just the way you are."

[teneda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that would put me in for a gay-bashing once I left the theatre. Fighter extraordinaire I may be, but I'd rather not have that much blood on me just for the theatre seat/space.