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Catching Up and Geeking Out
May. 12th, 2003 02:21 pmI spent all yesterday playing tag with electrical storms, until the lightning won (as it will) and I ended up without power. Very irritating. Even that couldn't wreck my happy mood, though, because on Saturday...
I got a DVD player! Woooo! At last!!
Heh, sorry about that. But I finally got one! And it's so shiny and silver and pretty pretty pretty... Now all I need is the time to set it up and the money to go on a DVD buying spree. At the moment, my selection consists of both versions of FotR, the National Geographic special on FotR, and Stargate (I have an unwholesome attachment to that movie.) No Princess Bride, no Ghostbusters, no Grosse Point Blank... If my shiny, silver, pretty pretty pretty DVD player and I were exiled to a desert island in this state of movielessness, we'd be sad. Eventually. After I'd absorbed every atom of all those FotR extras (eeeeee!).
And I also (finally) saw X2. My movie-watching brain was pleased- it's not incredible, but it's hella entertaining. I preferred it to the original, since the effects are mostly better, it has the benefit of being able to lose the "X-Men for Beginners" weight, and it has some nice anger and angst (essential to anything X). As sequels go, it's definitely more Empire Strike Back than Temple of Doom.
My "longtime X-Men cultist" brain, of course, was thrilled by the whole thing (I turned from the faith years ago [boo, farcical "Trial of Gambit"! Boo!], but you can never really get free). I need the DVD (eee!) now, so I can get all the easter eggs that I missed. 'Cause dayum. This is a flick for geeks. ( Much more blather ici, complete with big movie spoilers, some pre-current continuity comic spoilers, and speculation for X3. Which better happen. Or we're gonna have a scene. )
Heh, sorry about that. But I finally got one! And it's so shiny and silver and pretty pretty pretty... Now all I need is the time to set it up and the money to go on a DVD buying spree. At the moment, my selection consists of both versions of FotR, the National Geographic special on FotR, and Stargate (I have an unwholesome attachment to that movie.) No Princess Bride, no Ghostbusters, no Grosse Point Blank... If my shiny, silver, pretty pretty pretty DVD player and I were exiled to a desert island in this state of movielessness, we'd be sad. Eventually. After I'd absorbed every atom of all those FotR extras (eeeeee!).
And I also (finally) saw X2. My movie-watching brain was pleased- it's not incredible, but it's hella entertaining. I preferred it to the original, since the effects are mostly better, it has the benefit of being able to lose the "X-Men for Beginners" weight, and it has some nice anger and angst (essential to anything X). As sequels go, it's definitely more Empire Strike Back than Temple of Doom.
My "longtime X-Men cultist" brain, of course, was thrilled by the whole thing (I turned from the faith years ago [boo, farcical "Trial of Gambit"! Boo!], but you can never really get free). I need the DVD (eee!) now, so I can get all the easter eggs that I missed. 'Cause dayum. This is a flick for geeks. ( Much more blather ici, complete with big movie spoilers, some pre-current continuity comic spoilers, and speculation for X3. Which better happen. Or we're gonna have a scene. )
