Guess who is a dipshit?

[trinityvixen]

Me!

I was totally wonked by the start-of-the-week-isn't-Monday thing and I missed my class last night. At least I got the bathroom cleaned. I missed class, yes, but I didn't just goof off with my ill-gotten hours.

Speaking of class, need to go get the form not to be raped by the tuition for what is, essentially, a play-fun-happy class for me.

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I mentioned (somewhere at the bottom of this post) that I'd seen Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End already at the drive-in upstate. I also mentioned that, drive-in speaker quality being what it is and rain having the effect it does on your viewscreen (i.e. windshield), I didn't really see it all that well. Would anyone be interested in maybe a matinee showing some time this weekend? Matinees are any show before 12 noon, I believe.

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Actually, I saw two movies at the drive-in, which is a steal for $7. Hell, I'd pay that much for Pirates alone, and sometimes the second movie is worth it to. Alas, not the case with the last second-movie I saw: The Invisible. This was a Sixth Sense rip-off for the teens only not really because the guy knew he was dead. Only he wasn't, really. Confusing? Not really when you see it. Note: DO NOT BOTHER SEEING THIS MOVIE. Not even you, ivy03, even if it does have Callum Keith Rennie in it.

You know what makes it really an egregious bit of cinematic trash? The story resolves with the person responsible for the "murder" coming around to realizing she did something wrong and trying to make amends about two days too late. I hate this kind of thing. I know last-minute rescues are most daring, but really? If you're the "bad guy having a change of heart" in a situation without time pressure other than the length of time it takes for person to die of exposure (which isn't that immediate), CHANGE YOUR MIND BEFORE DAY THREE, GODDAMNIT.

This is what bugged both feiran and I about Saw III. The purpose of the tests this time around were to challenge a guy to loook past his hatred and save people in distress who'd wronged him in the past. For at least some of them, he'd wait until they were unsaveable before he'd have his change of heart. WTF? Why bother? This is a pet peeve of mine, which I'm sure can be countered with many a good example of last-minute changes of heart that resolved to the benefit of the heroes (David Morse's and Ed Harris' in The Rock is one), but still. It's like moonlightalice hating on narratives that rely on mistaken coincidences to sustain character arcs (I think at the time she was referring to Harry and Peter's unconsummated lust confusion over Norman Osborne's death in Spider-Man 3). There may be plenty of good uses of this narratively weak device, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a narratively weak device.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I might come see it again because I loved this one possibly even more than the first one. I also think maybe this calls for a rewatch of the first two -- any interest in having a showing of the first two at someone's house/apartment/whatever, with the required alcoholic beverages, of course? Bonus if we can get people up here: matinees are anything before 4.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have a problem doing so in either location. Let's have a groupthink on it when more people reply, what?

You should post in your LJ, too, and we'll drum up interest (or see if there is any).

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Nobody ever wants to come up here, though. Y'all are lazy shits. :P But seriously, people could come over late Friday night or some such, watch, drink, crash, and we'd head out to AWE on Saturday morning.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

As long as I could figure some time to work on my paper for class, that would be fine with me.

Heeeey...is it hot enough yet for the pool? That's a sure way to get ME up there :)

[viridian.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Class?

It could be, if we could get it up, like, tomorrow. It'd take that long for the pool to warm up enough to swim in by Saturday. I'll poke Ben; he wanted to have people over NEXT weekend anyway. We COULD in theory just put off the Pirates matinee til then.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let's do that.

Even if I'm the only one who comes. Or, if people come for pool, we could sneak away for movie.

Oh shit, I think I'm going to Boston maybe that weekend. Hang on, let me find out, but yes! Start making plans!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

HERE IS BETTER THAN BOSTON!!!!!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I do not disagree. I go to Boston for company alone. Ain't no place better than New York.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see the pool up again! And not just for the girls-in-bikinis reason.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

As I said, I know Ben wanted to have people over in a few weeks, so hopefully we'll have the pool up by then despite not having it up at all last year.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can't make it next weeked (8-10). That's when I promised to go to Boston and I won't otherwise be able to see Liz M for a looooong time if I miss it (plus I already promised when I bailed on her back in mid-May).

Can we do it the weekend after? This weekend even? Any weekend!?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Not this weekend if people want the pool, but people could still come up and do Pirates. I'll see about moving the party-party that Ben wanted to have to the weekend after, though, because naturally I want you to come to that, too.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yay party-party. With booze. And hookers. In fact, forget the party!


Kidding. Let us really have a party. And pirates, too, if we can.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Damn bikinis.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the second one, so I'd want to watch that before seeing World's End. But I'm up for it. This weekend is hectic and I don't think I can do it, but next weekend would be okay.

And yes that is one of my pet peeves with one notable exception: comedies.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Comedies are a fair exception--that's where we get "comedy of errors" from, right? Misunderstandings, so common to human nature, being exploited for human are made of win. But I thought you said you didn't like Twelfth Night, and isn't that a comedy (specifically of errors)?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

OMG how can anyone not like TWELTFH NIGHT? :O!!!!!!

That's some kind of blasphemy.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

I love Twelfth Night! Don't listen to her! She's full of lies!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I am, apparently. I have no idea where that came from. If I track down the real culprit, we can stone him/her together.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Good, because like, I was going to have to defriend you or something. :P Twelfth Night is my not at all secret favorite.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Oh I love Twelfth Night! Shakespeare is a great example of this kind of thing. I find that modern comedies that use the same trope never do it well, though. I mean, look at 90% of the crap movies out there. It's always based on some fundamental misunderstanding that's really just stupid and cheap. I really don't know if I could explain why it works when it does or doesn't work when it doesn't, but it's far from being universally successful.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think the cheap comedies use it as we are discussing on LJ--making big tiffs out of little bits. I mean, two people not getting the motives of the other--that's the plot of every rom com ever, yet it works when it's Pride and Prejudice and doesn't in...well, take your pick of Amanda Bynes movies.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

... like She's the Man, the remake of Twelfth Night!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

YES! See, the concept is sound, but the movie terrible!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Weekends are crazy busy for the foreseeable future, and I think feiran and I may be seeing Pirates 3 tonight anyway, but I'm not sure yet.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

You know what's funny? After seeing the trailer, I wanted to see The Invisible and I didn't even know CKR was in it. Was he playing a creepy psycho guy again?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He was playing the sympathetic cop who was trying to convince the bad kids in over their heads to come clean. He was also really pretty righteously hot.