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Today's plans went awry. ( Read more... )
Oh well, maybe we can go next weekend. I didn't work on my writing today.
Nor did I read. Instead:
1. I played Redecor on my phone. I'm at the A-List level now. I find it relaxing.
It isn't really free - you have to pay every once awhile to get materials and keep going. No video game is truly free. I like matching games, puzzle games, and pattern games. I do not like violent video games or anything with fighting in them.
2. I watched Fisk on Netflix. Apparently it was also on ABC, and is an Australian series, which takes place in Melbourne suburbs. It's about a recently divorced attorney, who out of desperation, takes a job at a family run probate firm in the suburbs of Melbourne. It's kind of comical. I didn't find it funny, so much as grating? I wouldn't to kill the airbnb folks by the end of the third episode. Asian characters are not well portrayed here - and that was also an issue.
Co-worker highly rec'd it. He also wants me to watch "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Almost Australian."
It's okay. I may go back to it.
3. Watched Cillian Murphy films. Weren't that long.
* The Party - which I saw for free on "Local Access" with annoying commercial interruptions at the most inopportune moments (such as at the point of main twist or climax). They should just have them before and after. And they have ten in a row. I played my video game during them or I fell asleep during them and during the show.
What's it about? It's kind of like a play, I think it was a play actually.
It stars Timothy Spall, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Bernard Goetz, and someone else...and has a few witty lines. Clarkson has the best lines.
Cillian Murphy plays Tom - a banker/fiancier, who is addicted to cocaine, and just found out his wife is having an affair with Timothy Spall - he's come to kill him. Except, he doesn't really want to - and doesn't because Spall's character has a terminal illness that is revealed prior...and it just goes off the rails from there. There's a nice twist at the end. But I honestly wish that wasn't the end, because - the movie ends right when it got interesting.
* Sunshine - directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, Rose Byrn, Mark Strong...
Considering the cast and director - it wasn't that good. Needed a better editor. I had issues following it, and got confused at one point. Also very tropy or predictable plot. I honestly think it would have been better if it stuck to it's course and didn't throw in the stereotypical bordering on cliche conflict that seems to be in all space mission/horror/thriller films.
The set-up? The Sun is dying, and needs to be jump started. Earth is in a frozen solar winter. Seven years ago - a ship went to throw a nuclear bomb into the sun - but got swept off course and never came back. Icarus 1.
Now Icarus 2 is off to put a bomb into the sun, and hopefully return.
But alas - they run into a signal from Icarus 1 and since their trajectory takes them with 1000-5000 miles of it, they feel they need to check it out instead of sticking to their course. It will provide them with two bombs, they may save the crew, etc.
What do you think happens? Yes, we've been here before. Many times. So many times - that I agreed with Mace - let's not do this, it's stupid. Let's stay on course. No good can come of this. If they survived out there - they are either nuts by now, or there's a monster. One or the other.
It would have been a better movie - if it had stuck to the science and figuring out how to complete the mission, survive, and deal with the craziness on board the ship - without going and doing that.
It was unnecessary plot point/distraction. Also they didn't do a good job of building up the characters - I didn't really know them or care about them. I just cared about the actors that I liked.
I have a crush on Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, and Cillian Murphy.
Anyhow, the cast is good. The visuals are good. The movie isn't. I expect better from Boyle.
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This brings me to...actors I have a crush on at the moment:
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Finally, tonight's dinner consisted of shrimp (wild caught and hand peeled) Zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, green onion or chives, broccoli rabe, and asparagus, seasoned with sea salt, garlic, parsley, red pepper, lime, (liguid amnions - ie soy substitute), and cooked in olive oil.
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Off to bed. Hopefully to sleep.
Oh well, maybe we can go next weekend. I didn't work on my writing today.
Nor did I read. Instead:
1. I played Redecor on my phone. I'm at the A-List level now. I find it relaxing.
It isn't really free - you have to pay every once awhile to get materials and keep going. No video game is truly free. I like matching games, puzzle games, and pattern games. I do not like violent video games or anything with fighting in them.
2. I watched Fisk on Netflix. Apparently it was also on ABC, and is an Australian series, which takes place in Melbourne suburbs. It's about a recently divorced attorney, who out of desperation, takes a job at a family run probate firm in the suburbs of Melbourne. It's kind of comical. I didn't find it funny, so much as grating? I wouldn't to kill the airbnb folks by the end of the third episode. Asian characters are not well portrayed here - and that was also an issue.
Co-worker highly rec'd it. He also wants me to watch "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Almost Australian."
It's okay. I may go back to it.
3. Watched Cillian Murphy films. Weren't that long.
* The Party - which I saw for free on "Local Access" with annoying commercial interruptions at the most inopportune moments (such as at the point of main twist or climax). They should just have them before and after. And they have ten in a row. I played my video game during them or I fell asleep during them and during the show.
What's it about? It's kind of like a play, I think it was a play actually.
It stars Timothy Spall, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Bernard Goetz, and someone else...and has a few witty lines. Clarkson has the best lines.
Cillian Murphy plays Tom - a banker/fiancier, who is addicted to cocaine, and just found out his wife is having an affair with Timothy Spall - he's come to kill him. Except, he doesn't really want to - and doesn't because Spall's character has a terminal illness that is revealed prior...and it just goes off the rails from there. There's a nice twist at the end. But I honestly wish that wasn't the end, because - the movie ends right when it got interesting.
* Sunshine - directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, Rose Byrn, Mark Strong...
Considering the cast and director - it wasn't that good. Needed a better editor. I had issues following it, and got confused at one point. Also very tropy or predictable plot. I honestly think it would have been better if it stuck to it's course and didn't throw in the stereotypical bordering on cliche conflict that seems to be in all space mission/horror/thriller films.
The set-up? The Sun is dying, and needs to be jump started. Earth is in a frozen solar winter. Seven years ago - a ship went to throw a nuclear bomb into the sun - but got swept off course and never came back. Icarus 1.
Now Icarus 2 is off to put a bomb into the sun, and hopefully return.
But alas - they run into a signal from Icarus 1 and since their trajectory takes them with 1000-5000 miles of it, they feel they need to check it out instead of sticking to their course. It will provide them with two bombs, they may save the crew, etc.
What do you think happens? Yes, we've been here before. Many times. So many times - that I agreed with Mace - let's not do this, it's stupid. Let's stay on course. No good can come of this. If they survived out there - they are either nuts by now, or there's a monster. One or the other.
It would have been a better movie - if it had stuck to the science and figuring out how to complete the mission, survive, and deal with the craziness on board the ship - without going and doing that.
It was unnecessary plot point/distraction. Also they didn't do a good job of building up the characters - I didn't really know them or care about them. I just cared about the actors that I liked.
I have a crush on Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, and Cillian Murphy.
Anyhow, the cast is good. The visuals are good. The movie isn't. I expect better from Boyle.
***
This brings me to...actors I have a crush on at the moment:
( Read more... )
Finally, tonight's dinner consisted of shrimp (wild caught and hand peeled) Zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, green onion or chives, broccoli rabe, and asparagus, seasoned with sea salt, garlic, parsley, red pepper, lime, (liguid amnions - ie soy substitute), and cooked in olive oil.
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Off to bed. Hopefully to sleep.