Nerd Pillow Talk

 

"Okay, now you be Shatner"

I'm frankly astonished there wasn't a single "Great Scott!" orgasm or nuttin' from Back to the Future....

I would hit it so hard that whomsoever removes it shall be the next King of England...

So I'm watching the new series Camelot on starz and I'm a little unsure of how to feel about it. Thus far it's been fairly good exposition but I don't know about the players. It's mostly unknown people, although Joseph Fiennes is Merlin and Claire Forlani is Queen Igraine. I suppose that's the advantage of an extensive story being told on a network that's had good success with their original shows though, they can introduce the unknown and people will still watch. It's worked for the Spartacus series.

So far we have Arthur, who was removed from his mother's arms at birth by Merlin and given to another family to be raised, with no knowledge of his lineage, in order to keep him from becoming totalitarian like his father. Morgan, his half sister, who believes the throne is her birth right and will stop at nothing to obtain it, including black magic. Merlin, who has visions of Arthur uniting the kingdom but expects to control him as well. Kay, Arthur's loyal adoptive brother who has come with him to Camelot to help him achieve his goals. And Guinevere, who Arthur has fallen in love with, but is married to one of his knights.

I'll keep watching though, I'm looking forward to the introduction of more key characters and so forth.

And I do have to say, on a shallow point, the man who plays King Arthur's brother is smokin' hot. That is all.

A touch of random nothingess

A gem of Andy wisdom from Weeds - one of my favorite TV characters of all time.

 

Double win. Much like a ... double rainbow? Wait. That only applies to NPH.

Picture is unrelated

So in the two weeks it's been since I've had a full day off from work, my sleep schedule has shifted, and instead of staying up til 2 am and getting up whenever the hell I feel like, I've now been passing out at 11 pm latest and am consummately awake by 10 am latest. Only problem being I have nothing to do in those hours between waking up and going to work usually around 4. Clean the kitchen... check. Take a shower... check. Have lunch and watch 5 hours of a Law and Order: SVU marathon... sigh... check.  I can run all the errands I ever have in about 2 hours one day a week. Also this is also opening an ever bigger gap of nothingness on the days I don't have to work at all. Long story short I need a hobby or something.

Movie Snob in Action

So over the last week I saw two very different movies, Sucker Punch and Rango. One thing I enjoy doing the most is critiquing the things I've just spent an arm and a leg to sit through, though I've admittedly found a new theater recently, the Cinebarre off of 104th and Grant in Thornton, which only charges $5 for movies Monday-Thursday, so movie going isn't the same eye-gouging experience as it is at other theaters. On to the reviews! Mild spoilers.

Sucker Punch
Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) and starring Emily Browning, Abby Cornish and Jena Malone. I'll be blunt. I did not enjoy it. The cinematography and graphics were interesting, but overall the fight scenes were the same things we've been seeing since the first Matrix movie. And for a movie revolving around chicks in tight costumes kicking butt, that doesn't bode well. The plot is thin and the performances were so-so. A lot of up close shots of Emily Browning looking all porcelain with her fake eyelashes and doll hair. And half the freaking premise of the movie is that she can mesmerize men with her dancing, but not once do you actually see it. Not to mention we basically get "incepted" again because it's a dream within a dream.

                                    Rango

This is a movie about a reptile (voiced by Johnny Depp) who gets separated from his owners and ends up pretending to be a small town old West sheriff in the desert. My sentiments unfortunately carry over to this movie as well. It had weird animation, which I guess was supposed to be part of it's "thing", but it was kinda graphic for a kid's flick. Which I know is the new selling point to get parents to take the offspring to the movies is the promise that it will be entertaining for both parties, but this didn't feel like the case. It had a LOT of grown-up references, which wasn't it's downfall, but didn't make the movie more appealing. I just felt no real emotion towards it, it made me chuckle a bit, but I was pretty meh about the whole thing.



I hope the upcoming movies will be better than the spring movies thus far. Although, I did really enjoy Paul.