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lls_mutantWhat a corny title.
My War of the Worlds review is up at Mutant Reviewers. I was rather pleased with this review, although it's not funny at all. I really didn't like the movie, although Rich (one of the other reviewers and the only other one who's done this one) did.
I really need to review a movie I like. My last three reviews (War of the Worlds, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, and Naked) have all been for movies I hated. We watched Hitch the other night, but I don't know how reviewable it is. (However, if you haven't seen it and you're looking for a nice light comedy, go rent. Definitely funny!) But I really, really want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so maybe that will get a good review. It would definitely be the type of movie Justin prefers we review, even if it is a new release.
In Harry Potter news, I've given up reading spoilers now. There's too many, and some of them I can tell are completely true. Plus, they're actually starting to get into the plot. I get a kick out of the shipping spoilers (because except for Remus/Sirius, I don't really care about ships) and the death spoilers don't bug me, but I don't want to know all the details of the plot in a chapter by chapter summary. (But I AM glad they finally released a book jacket summary. Really. Couldn't we have had that a while ago???) But chapter synopses is going a bit far. So I've deleted my link to the Spoiler Zone, even though I did jump in on a shipping debate to say "y'know, ship does not always equal True Love Forever...." Sheesh.
In some sections of fandom, it does seem like one kiss = marriage or unpartable soul mates. I remember my first kiss, and BOY am I glad that I'm not still with that guy. But more than that, I remember my first kiss with my husband, and it wasn't that romantic or soul-moving or anything like that. In fact, it was kind of drunk and we both ended up kind of confused for a few weeks before settling into a relationship, and it took a lot of time before the L word came up. And even then, it took him FOREVER. He'd never said the L-word before to a girl, and wanted to be sure when he DID say it, he meant it. My best friend always wondered how I could put up with it- I told her that if I ever heard the words "I love you", "Will you marry me?" wouldn't be far behind. I was right- there were six days in between the first "I love you" and the proposal. But we didn't know we'd be getting married from that first kiss. We didn't know it for probably a good 2-3 years in the relationship. So why does everyone assume just because Harry gets together with this girl or that, that he must be madly in love and ready to procreate? ::Sigh::
By the way, it sounds like more and more stations out in the midwest will be adding ethanol to their gasoline. Whoohoo! If anyone has a station that does this, could you please tell me what the percentage of ethanol in your gasoline is? 2%? 5%? I'm just curious. I work more on the diesel side, so I'd like to hear what people are thinking about ethanol. I'd also like to hear the opinions of more "normal people" on ethanol and biodiesel.
And speaking of, I should read this paper.
My War of the Worlds review is up at Mutant Reviewers. I was rather pleased with this review, although it's not funny at all. I really didn't like the movie, although Rich (one of the other reviewers and the only other one who's done this one) did.
I really need to review a movie I like. My last three reviews (War of the Worlds, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, and Naked) have all been for movies I hated. We watched Hitch the other night, but I don't know how reviewable it is. (However, if you haven't seen it and you're looking for a nice light comedy, go rent. Definitely funny!) But I really, really want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so maybe that will get a good review. It would definitely be the type of movie Justin prefers we review, even if it is a new release.
In Harry Potter news, I've given up reading spoilers now. There's too many, and some of them I can tell are completely true. Plus, they're actually starting to get into the plot. I get a kick out of the shipping spoilers (because except for Remus/Sirius, I don't really care about ships) and the death spoilers don't bug me, but I don't want to know all the details of the plot in a chapter by chapter summary. (But I AM glad they finally released a book jacket summary. Really. Couldn't we have had that a while ago???) But chapter synopses is going a bit far. So I've deleted my link to the Spoiler Zone, even though I did jump in on a shipping debate to say "y'know, ship does not always equal True Love Forever...." Sheesh.
In some sections of fandom, it does seem like one kiss = marriage or unpartable soul mates. I remember my first kiss, and BOY am I glad that I'm not still with that guy. But more than that, I remember my first kiss with my husband, and it wasn't that romantic or soul-moving or anything like that. In fact, it was kind of drunk and we both ended up kind of confused for a few weeks before settling into a relationship, and it took a lot of time before the L word came up. And even then, it took him FOREVER. He'd never said the L-word before to a girl, and wanted to be sure when he DID say it, he meant it. My best friend always wondered how I could put up with it- I told her that if I ever heard the words "I love you", "Will you marry me?" wouldn't be far behind. I was right- there were six days in between the first "I love you" and the proposal. But we didn't know we'd be getting married from that first kiss. We didn't know it for probably a good 2-3 years in the relationship. So why does everyone assume just because Harry gets together with this girl or that, that he must be madly in love and ready to procreate? ::Sigh::
By the way, it sounds like more and more stations out in the midwest will be adding ethanol to their gasoline. Whoohoo! If anyone has a station that does this, could you please tell me what the percentage of ethanol in your gasoline is? 2%? 5%? I'm just curious. I work more on the diesel side, so I'd like to hear what people are thinking about ethanol. I'd also like to hear the opinions of more "normal people" on ethanol and biodiesel.
And speaking of, I should read this paper.
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Date: 2005-07-14 04:08 pm (UTC)Gah, I won't go on about it, but I will say this: For the way you deal with romance, I applaud you! :claps again:
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:28 pm (UTC)It baffles me that people WANT the first version. Well, no. It doesn't. The fanfic version is how we sometimes wish life could be. But it makes for boring, boring stories. The fun of writing romance isn't just the build-up and getting together, but the coping and confusion and driving each other insaaaaaaaaaane. :)
It was one of the things I LOVED about the Harry/Cho relationship in OotP. They were both interested, they got to snoggage... and then it fell apart because they were both clueless idiots who had no idea how to cope with their own feelings, much less each other's.
What Harry and Cho really reminded me of was my favorite high school boyfriend. We started dating days after my dad was diagnosed with leukimia. Needless to say, I was kind of a wreck some times during our relationship. I've always believed that one of the reasons he broke up with me is he simply couldn't handle it- very much like Harry couldn't handle Cho. And neither of them should have had to. My problems then and Cho's problems were both very, very heavy issues that were hard to work through. A sixteen year old boy (well, Harry was fifteen but my boyfriend was seventeen) who hasn't dated the the girl before this (or even been THAT close to her for that long) shouldn't -have- to know how to cope.
I'll be curious to see how Harry relates to Cho in HBP. To give the high school boyfriend much, much credit he actually remained a very good friend, and although we don't talk often these days, he's still someone special to me. Relationships are always shades of gray, I think.
I also firmly don't believe in love at first sight, or born-to-be-soulmates, or one love in a lifetime. I think I've only truly loved one person (I'm not 100% positive about that), but I know people who have certainly loved more than one person. I do believe in soulmates, but I believe they're made, not born. And I believe that there are hundreds of people on Earth that a single person could be happy with, and you probably meet more than one in your life. It's just a matter of what opportunities you take and what relationships you chose to develop.
Wow. I waxed philisophical, didn't I?
::Sigh:: work....