weekend, not as expected.
Jan. 3rd, 2011 01:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynTomorrow I will re-enpicture the finished woven scarf. The phonecam shots taken in the evening (even with the big lamps on) suck.
I put the loom back in the box.
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I watched several George Carlin specials this weekend. I also listened to Pay It Forward.
Pay It Forward as a phrase has become part of our culture, but quite clearly no one using that phrase has any fucking clue what it actually means. I didn't agree that the movie was a "gentle drama" which is how Netflix describes it. It's a movie about a boy who lives in Las Vegas with an alcoholic single mother who hits him, who thinks life completely sucks and when challenged to find a way to improve the world he decides to do the hard things that help people and challenge them to help three people themselves in return. It stars Haley Joel Osment and I've only seen him in two movies but he's Kenny-from-Southpark in both of them. Generally I think child abuse, main character death, addiction, suicide attempts, and hopelessness are not "gentle" topics. I'm not sure there are any interpretations where that would be an acceptable adjective for this movie.
Then we watched cartoon movies. We'd apparently missed the Superman Batman Apocalypse movie, and Batman Under the Red Hood (or something like that). It was weird because the animation and story in the Red Hood one were vastly superior but the characterization was vastly superior in the Apocalypse one. And both of these tripped one of my peeves. The idea that the good guys cannot ever kill anyone, no matter how much they deserve it, no matter anything. It's really hard for me to see Batman not killing the Joker as heroic since he knows the Joker will kill hundreds of other people and has already done so. It really bothered me that no one killed Darkseid's Granny even when it would have been trivial to do so. If you're actively damning dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people by your inactions, that's actually evil and consequently you cannot be a hero.
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I'm giving up on The Red Pyramid which was recommended by someone here on DW in one of the book groups. I'm shocked that the Percy Jackson book got made into a movie but the Gregor books did not, because at least Gregor wasn't actively moronic.
That makes my book count for the year -1.
I put the loom back in the box.
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I watched several George Carlin specials this weekend. I also listened to Pay It Forward.
Pay It Forward as a phrase has become part of our culture, but quite clearly no one using that phrase has any fucking clue what it actually means. I didn't agree that the movie was a "gentle drama" which is how Netflix describes it. It's a movie about a boy who lives in Las Vegas with an alcoholic single mother who hits him, who thinks life completely sucks and when challenged to find a way to improve the world he decides to do the hard things that help people and challenge them to help three people themselves in return. It stars Haley Joel Osment and I've only seen him in two movies but he's Kenny-from-Southpark in both of them. Generally I think child abuse, main character death, addiction, suicide attempts, and hopelessness are not "gentle" topics. I'm not sure there are any interpretations where that would be an acceptable adjective for this movie.
Then we watched cartoon movies. We'd apparently missed the Superman Batman Apocalypse movie, and Batman Under the Red Hood (or something like that). It was weird because the animation and story in the Red Hood one were vastly superior but the characterization was vastly superior in the Apocalypse one. And both of these tripped one of my peeves. The idea that the good guys cannot ever kill anyone, no matter how much they deserve it, no matter anything. It's really hard for me to see Batman not killing the Joker as heroic since he knows the Joker will kill hundreds of other people and has already done so. It really bothered me that no one killed Darkseid's Granny even when it would have been trivial to do so. If you're actively damning dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people by your inactions, that's actually evil and consequently you cannot be a hero.
-----
I'm giving up on The Red Pyramid which was recommended by someone here on DW in one of the book groups. I'm shocked that the Percy Jackson book got made into a movie but the Gregor books did not, because at least Gregor wasn't actively moronic.
That makes my book count for the year -1.
