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Jan. 17th, 2003 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnYay, had my first orientation at the YMCA tonight. It was pretty cool, I can't believe I haven't started working out until now given the rather sedentary lifestyle I live. Really, it makes me feel absolutely incredible. And to top it all off there was a really hot east indian guy doing laps around the track who looked like a super-beefy version of the guitar player from Sum-41. Yum.
Rented Signs which was a very pleasing movie. I've been a fan of all M. Night. Shyamalan's work including the under-rated Unbreakable. Definitely some very good storying telling going on. Thematically his movies aren't topically obvious. He's a tricky one, that Shyamalan. Also rented The Acid House which is another movie adaptation of an Irving Welsh book.
On a SimCity kick lately. Nope, not SimCity 4 but the old version for the SNES and on my Palm.
Speaking of Palm, I am totally cheesed at that glorified address book already. I've had the thing barely a year and it's already acting funny. Sometimes it crashes requiring a reset and it always crashes now when sending an outgoing IR transmission. I appreciate the appointment alarms and ability to get the news every morning with AvantGo BUT it seems to me that a subscription to the newspaper and a digital watch would meet most of the needs I expect from my Palm for a lot less. That glorified digital watch from Microsoft seems more and more appealing if the price and functionality is right.
Rented Signs which was a very pleasing movie. I've been a fan of all M. Night. Shyamalan's work including the under-rated Unbreakable. Definitely some very good storying telling going on. Thematically his movies aren't topically obvious. He's a tricky one, that Shyamalan. Also rented The Acid House which is another movie adaptation of an Irving Welsh book.
On a SimCity kick lately. Nope, not SimCity 4 but the old version for the SNES and on my Palm.
Speaking of Palm, I am totally cheesed at that glorified address book already. I've had the thing barely a year and it's already acting funny. Sometimes it crashes requiring a reset and it always crashes now when sending an outgoing IR transmission. I appreciate the appointment alarms and ability to get the news every morning with AvantGo BUT it seems to me that a subscription to the newspaper and a digital watch would meet most of the needs I expect from my Palm for a lot less. That glorified digital watch from Microsoft seems more and more appealing if the price and functionality is right.
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Date: 2003-01-17 10:58 am (UTC)Signs? Really? Cos' what about that part where his "solution" was the most retarded, it's been used Twilight Zone and umpteen Outer Limits cheap shot? Or casting yourself as the lynchpin in a dramatic monologue where you sound like you've come straight from community theater 101? Or having a stupid side character (the army guy) reveal an entire backstory to one of the main characters in a ridiculous standalone speech? "Hey, remember when you killed that guy and went to prison and you lost the love of your life so you never got over it and that's why you're afraid of heights which will come into play later and that's why you'll have a change of heart and learn to do the swan stance for those big karate-offs at the end of the movie? Huh? Remember that? Just thought I should remind you."
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Date: 2003-01-17 12:19 pm (UTC)As far as a scary suspense movie goes the forms of communicaton as "signs" and the basement scenes were really great. But I agree, looking back on the film 24hrs later there are definite weak spots. But what was good was definitely very good.
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