BITE MY SHINY, METAL AIR!
I had today off. I had a doctor's appointment and way back when decided that I'd just take the whole day off. It was a long week because I had taken a few days off before the fourth weekend and was just not getting back into the groove.
The weekend of the fourth was a lot of fun. My college bud, Pam, was in town for a choral function and I met with her and hung out and talked for a while. Saturday, I did nothing. If I had I might have hung out with Pam on Sunday but ended up going to Chris and Sarah's 4th cookout. They filled water balloons and we played in their park/open lot area. It was also Tracy's birthday -- not my sister, Traci, who's birthday is literally on the 4th but Kevin and Tracy, Tracy who's birthday is around then.
Back to today. My appointment was at 1:30 and I had timed my movie-ing perfectly. Despicable Me started at 11:30 and with trailers would get me out at 1:15-1:20. Then to the doc's (just a block away from the theater) from 1:30 - 2 and then Airbender at 2:20. Perfect, right?
Despicable Me
I did not see it in 3D and there were a few scenes where you had a good POV (cookie robots and roller coaster) where it would be put to good effect. The movie is about a super villain, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), down on his luck -- trying to compete with the new, younger, more dynamic super villain, Vector (voiced by How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel). Thwarted in gaining access to Vector's lair Gru notices 3 orphan girls selling cookies (see, cookie robots was not a typo) easily gain access. So... he adopts them. The relationship between Gru the girls is the heart of this movie and it does not disappoint. Gru has family issues with his mother and Gru and her relationship affects his viewpoint towards the girls. Overall, the emotional range isn't explored as deeply as it could but then again it is a kid's movie. It's not Pixar weepy but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
The opening scenes have some very slapstick, Roadrunner/Coyote style scene but this is not the norm for the rest of the movies. At least not the norm for the human characters. Gru has minions, tiny yellow humanoids that speak in their own language, who are seemingly indestructible. The most surprising scene with the minions involved one breaking another's back and then shaking him like a glow-stick until he, yes, glowed!
After, a quick trip down the block to my diabetes doctor. I've become hella lax with my 'betes because my blood glucose is very much under control. So much so that I don't really try now. Anyway, my doc was 25 minutes late but only talked with me for 15 minutes. I've rescheduled but I'm not sure that I'm going back. There's nothing he can tell me that I don't know. The only thing he can really do is prescribe metformin. I know what I need to do, it's a matter of whether I do them. Anyway got out at 2:18 and did I go home? No! I was in theater by 2:23 for Last Airbender.
(Avatar,) The Last Airbender
I've seen most of the first 2 seasons Nickelodeon animated series and enjoyed them. M. Night did a good job of adapting and I thought it was good, not great. I have no problem with the racial recasting but the big problem was I didn't really care about anyone. The actor playing Aang was not able to express the crazy, carefree joy of his animated counterpart. Dev Patel as Zuko did the best job but his one-note "I must regain my honor" might have worked for a Hong Kong Kung-fu film but not a major theatrical release. The effects and the stuntwork was fun and one of the early scenes where Aang escapes from a fire nation ship really made me happy. The movie's fun if a little simple but certainly not worth the rating it got on rotten tomatoes.
Tomorrow a signing with Jill Thompson at Challengers and then next week the Grease sing-a-long!
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I had today off. I had a doctor's appointment and way back when decided that I'd just take the whole day off. It was a long week because I had taken a few days off before the fourth weekend and was just not getting back into the groove.
The weekend of the fourth was a lot of fun. My college bud, Pam, was in town for a choral function and I met with her and hung out and talked for a while. Saturday, I did nothing. If I had I might have hung out with Pam on Sunday but ended up going to Chris and Sarah's 4th cookout. They filled water balloons and we played in their park/open lot area. It was also Tracy's birthday -- not my sister, Traci, who's birthday is literally on the 4th but Kevin and Tracy, Tracy who's birthday is around then.
Back to today. My appointment was at 1:30 and I had timed my movie-ing perfectly. Despicable Me started at 11:30 and with trailers would get me out at 1:15-1:20. Then to the doc's (just a block away from the theater) from 1:30 - 2 and then Airbender at 2:20. Perfect, right?
Despicable Me
I did not see it in 3D and there were a few scenes where you had a good POV (cookie robots and roller coaster) where it would be put to good effect. The movie is about a super villain, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), down on his luck -- trying to compete with the new, younger, more dynamic super villain, Vector (voiced by How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel). Thwarted in gaining access to Vector's lair Gru notices 3 orphan girls selling cookies (see, cookie robots was not a typo) easily gain access. So... he adopts them. The relationship between Gru the girls is the heart of this movie and it does not disappoint. Gru has family issues with his mother and Gru and her relationship affects his viewpoint towards the girls. Overall, the emotional range isn't explored as deeply as it could but then again it is a kid's movie. It's not Pixar weepy but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
The opening scenes have some very slapstick, Roadrunner/Coyote style scene but this is not the norm for the rest of the movies. At least not the norm for the human characters. Gru has minions, tiny yellow humanoids that speak in their own language, who are seemingly indestructible. The most surprising scene with the minions involved one breaking another's back and then shaking him like a glow-stick until he, yes, glowed!
After, a quick trip down the block to my diabetes doctor. I've become hella lax with my 'betes because my blood glucose is very much under control. So much so that I don't really try now. Anyway, my doc was 25 minutes late but only talked with me for 15 minutes. I've rescheduled but I'm not sure that I'm going back. There's nothing he can tell me that I don't know. The only thing he can really do is prescribe metformin. I know what I need to do, it's a matter of whether I do them. Anyway got out at 2:18 and did I go home? No! I was in theater by 2:23 for Last Airbender.
(Avatar,) The Last Airbender
I've seen most of the first 2 seasons Nickelodeon animated series and enjoyed them. M. Night did a good job of adapting and I thought it was good, not great. I have no problem with the racial recasting but the big problem was I didn't really care about anyone. The actor playing Aang was not able to express the crazy, carefree joy of his animated counterpart. Dev Patel as Zuko did the best job but his one-note "I must regain my honor" might have worked for a Hong Kong Kung-fu film but not a major theatrical release. The effects and the stuntwork was fun and one of the early scenes where Aang escapes from a fire nation ship really made me happy. The movie's fun if a little simple but certainly not worth the rating it got on rotten tomatoes.
Tomorrow a signing with Jill Thompson at Challengers and then next week the Grease sing-a-long!
Places to find me:
Deviant Art
Kirst Graphics
I've never seen the series though. But after watching the movie, maybe I shouldn't? hmmmm