Movies seen lately, missions accomplished, and further GBS Street Flunky ramblings

[annathepiper]

Movies seen lately:

Men in Black II, seen with Amy as part of her belated birthday celebration. Amy liked the movie, but solarbird, spazzkat and I weren't particularly impressed. There were some funny bits, but most of the funny bits were already in the trailers. Mostly, the movie in our joint opinions lacked the comic timing of the first.

Minority Report on the other hand was a pleasant surprise, nicely complicated, and aside from a couple of shaky bits with the plot at a particular scene about midway through the movie, very well thought out. I am neutral on the subject of Mr. Cruise, but he did a fine job in this flick. And I was quite pleased that between Dar, Paul, and me, I was the only one who clued in as to why the precog characters were named what they were, which I shan't elaborate upon here lest spoilers. (Well, okay, I got two out of three and sort of had the third, but for some reason spazzed entirely about that particular name; Paul, however, picked up on that as soon as I identified the other two.)

Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon, Boy Spy. He still looks mighty young to me, especially to be playing a character like Jason Bourne. I've only read about 150 pages into the book on which this flick is based, but even on that small acquaintance with the character I was able to tell that they'd greatly simplified him and the plot surrounding him in this story, when mamishka and I went to go see it last night. Pleasant enough flick but I think I'll enjoy the book more, when I borrow it from Meems.

And in GBS news I amused Paul when he overheard me remarking that I had gotten some sun, after wandering around for three hours this afternoon looking for places to leave fliers for the upcoming show. "What, they've got you beating the pavement?" .

What can I say, Alan Doyle is really, really cute. And he sings purty, too. ;) Besides, it gets me out of the house. But them Newfies better appreciate me, wandering around in eighty-mumble heat for three hours looking for places to leave their fliers today. They better give me a T-shirt. ^_^

Only found one good place after a ramble along Sand Point Way and 65th, and that was Gaelsong, the store that sells Celtic-related stuff on 65th. They were quite happy to put a flier on their door when I told them it was for a Celtic rock concert, and were kind enough to point me at Galway Traders over in Ballard, where I will go later in the week.

The other good thing about going to Gaelsong, though, was that they had a list on the door that said "Interested in Irish/Gaelic language lessons?" I am! So I left my name and number on it.

Also, I mailed off a tape of the GBS concert that was broadcast this past Sunday to syn, one of the many Two Moons denizens who have LJ's and with whom I have been RPing for quite some time. She's a fellow raving GBS fan and made Great Big Puppy Eyes at me when I told her the B'ys had had a concert on TV. I figure I should be hearing her squeal from Tennessee in about four or five days.

Lastly, happily, I got the clasp on Dad's necklace fixed remarkably painlessly. It had been refusing to clasp properly, and Dad's necklace falling off of my neck is absolutely unacceptable. So is replacing the chain. But there's a new-ish jewelry repair place on the Ave, and the old-ish Oriental gent therein replaced the clasp for me, no problem, and even dropped the whole necklace into a little vat-lookin' thingie and hit some buttons, and when my necklace came out it was all shiny. All for five bucks. Cool. :)

Comments

[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind Men In Black II. Even saw it just after Men In Black I (Went over to a friend's house to see it on DVD) And didn't notice anything particularly wrong with either. Neat movie. probably not one (for either of them) I would watch again. The company was good though.

Then I saw Lilo & Stitch Saturday. MAN> That was EXCELLENT> Now I'm trying to find an excuse to go see it again. The last movie I saw more than once in the theatre was Matrix. Though the company in this case had to tolerate his shirt being all soggy afterward

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[annathepiper]

Lilo & Stitch was totally delightful. Heck, I might wanna see that again myself.

[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

too bad it won't be out on DVD anytime soon.

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[annathepiper]

It'll probably be coming out around Christmas, I betcha. Need a few more weeks for it to move out to the obscurer theaters, but it's still playing at Pacific Place downtown.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Soula's been making noises about going to see Lilo & Stitch this weekend, and dragging people along. (Not that I have to be dragged very hard.) So, ask her what her plans are!

I generally agree about MIIB. The first one had great style and timing, and it holds up well to repeated viewings. The second, well, the jokes seemed worn out after just seeing the _trailers_. It wasn't awful, just predictable. I guess it's just surprising that the first one wasn't.

(Haven't seen the other movies you've seen recently yet.)

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[annathepiper]

Well, L&S is starting to go away... the only place within reasonable distance of our house that I'd consider going to see it is Pacific Place, which is downtown.

And yeah, I agree... MiB II wasn't awful... just... boring. And you can't have that with this kind of humor. :)

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

ooh ooh! *clues in about the precog names*

I'll have to msg you later and check if I'm right in my thinking. One of them threw me off but I think I got it now.

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[annathepiper]

Hehehehehe. Msg me or email me, either way. ;)

[ssha.livejournal.com]

You should also see about dropping some at the Irish Emigrant, Galway Arms, and that other Irish Pub further down U. Way.

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[annathepiper]

I tried to stop at the Irish Emigrant and the Galway Arms on the tail end of today's flier run but they weren't open yet. I shall try them tomorrow. :) I have but 26 of these little fliers left, I shall be out real soon!