The World Exploded! Yay!
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liptonrm_backupJust got back from the Memorial Day Weekend of Party DOOM! Great fun was had by all and many great thanks have to go out to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drunken_buzzard and chica_buena who were our hosts for the weekend and are officially the coolest people on earth. Barbecue on Saturday, ghost stories on Sunday, many entertaining, creepy movies and one amazingly bad/cheesy movie all made the weekend perfect. My ghost story creeped everyone out (probably because it was true) which is a nice change seeing as I'm usually the one who's scared out of my mind. The weather was, of course, sucky (I seriously can't remember a sunny, pretty, warm Memorial Day, ever) but the partying was great and the friends were even better. Love you guys and thanks a lot!
And I got a birthday cake to top it all off. Yay! And people I hardly know sang to me. Even Cooler!
Got home yesterday and went with the Da and the Big Lug to go and see The Day After Tomorrow and before I say anything else, just know that I Loved It!
I was predisposed to love a movie like this. I'm the kind of person who actually thinks up end of the world contingency plans and what it would take to survive various scenarios (like super-flus and asteroids and technoligical break-downs and things of that nature) I have planned out overland treks in which I have nothing but what I can carry in my backpack and thought about how to survive in a post-apolcaplyptic world. And guys, this is what I do for fun;-). Of course I was going to love a big apolcalyptic disaster movie. Shoot, I still enjoy Deep Impact;-).
The cast as a whole acquits itself well. My Ian Holm love was re-established and strengthened by his turn as Dr. Terry Rapsun, the doomed climatologist stranded in the Hebrides. No one in this movie had to do a lot of actual acting because, as in all movies of this genre, the people took second stage to the destruction itself. Thankfully, the actors made the human plight realistic enough that when mega-tornadoes were destroying Los Angeles and tidal waves were engulfing New York City and sub-zero tropospheric air was freezing Great Britain you really felt horror and despair for the people caught in nature's path. Good, solid job all around.
I adored the gringos crossing illegally over the Rio Grande into Mexico (we're all mojados!), I loved the librarian who was determined to save the Gutenburg Bible from burning and I compeltely agreed with him and would have wanted to do the same. True, there probably were other Gutenburg Bibles in the world and even ones that survived the climactic holocaust (but that means burning, I wonder what the appropriate freezing word would be...) but it was the principle of the matter. The stupid Angelenos staring stupidly at the super-tornadoes cracked me up. Poor westerners, they don't get fifty national weather service announcements a summer telling them what to do in case of a tornado, I kind of felt sorry for them;-). I saw the wolf attack in the ship coming a mile away and both the Da and I kept on expecting some sort of field amputation with a dull jack-knife, both because of the septicemia and the wolf-mauled leg; suppose we just needed some more blood, guts and gore.
Loveditloveditlovedit. The special effects were extraordinary, it really felt like I was seeing all of that destruction. I can't count the number of times I had to bite my finger to keep from yelping. I'm sure part of the reason I loved this movie was the realistic plausibility it had. Global-warming notwithstanding, we do know that the Earth goes through climactic shifts and cycles. Ice Ages happen and one could happen again. I learned at an early age that the Great Lakes and the topography of Michigan were formed by glaciers and if they came this far south once they could conceivably do so again. We still don't completely understand what this planet is capable of.
In summary, we're all pretty much screwed (especially us Michiganians;-) but it's fun while it lasts. Oh, and I have a really nice fireplace in my basement, so if the super hurrican-blizzards start you can all come to my house and we might be able to survive it;-).
Now, go enjoy Tuesday and be sure to be nice to Mother Earth cause if I were her I'd be gettying pretty bitchy too.
drunken_buzzard and chica_buena who were our hosts for the weekend and are officially the coolest people on earth. Barbecue on Saturday, ghost stories on Sunday, many entertaining, creepy movies and one amazingly bad/cheesy movie all made the weekend perfect. My ghost story creeped everyone out (probably because it was true) which is a nice change seeing as I'm usually the one who's scared out of my mind. The weather was, of course, sucky (I seriously can't remember a sunny, pretty, warm Memorial Day, ever) but the partying was great and the friends were even better. Love you guys and thanks a lot!And I got a birthday cake to top it all off. Yay! And people I hardly know sang to me. Even Cooler!
Got home yesterday and went with the Da and the Big Lug to go and see The Day After Tomorrow and before I say anything else, just know that I Loved It!
I was predisposed to love a movie like this. I'm the kind of person who actually thinks up end of the world contingency plans and what it would take to survive various scenarios (like super-flus and asteroids and technoligical break-downs and things of that nature) I have planned out overland treks in which I have nothing but what I can carry in my backpack and thought about how to survive in a post-apolcaplyptic world. And guys, this is what I do for fun;-). Of course I was going to love a big apolcalyptic disaster movie. Shoot, I still enjoy Deep Impact;-).
The cast as a whole acquits itself well. My Ian Holm love was re-established and strengthened by his turn as Dr. Terry Rapsun, the doomed climatologist stranded in the Hebrides. No one in this movie had to do a lot of actual acting because, as in all movies of this genre, the people took second stage to the destruction itself. Thankfully, the actors made the human plight realistic enough that when mega-tornadoes were destroying Los Angeles and tidal waves were engulfing New York City and sub-zero tropospheric air was freezing Great Britain you really felt horror and despair for the people caught in nature's path. Good, solid job all around.
I adored the gringos crossing illegally over the Rio Grande into Mexico (we're all mojados!), I loved the librarian who was determined to save the Gutenburg Bible from burning and I compeltely agreed with him and would have wanted to do the same. True, there probably were other Gutenburg Bibles in the world and even ones that survived the climactic holocaust (but that means burning, I wonder what the appropriate freezing word would be...) but it was the principle of the matter. The stupid Angelenos staring stupidly at the super-tornadoes cracked me up. Poor westerners, they don't get fifty national weather service announcements a summer telling them what to do in case of a tornado, I kind of felt sorry for them;-). I saw the wolf attack in the ship coming a mile away and both the Da and I kept on expecting some sort of field amputation with a dull jack-knife, both because of the septicemia and the wolf-mauled leg; suppose we just needed some more blood, guts and gore.
Loveditloveditlovedit. The special effects were extraordinary, it really felt like I was seeing all of that destruction. I can't count the number of times I had to bite my finger to keep from yelping. I'm sure part of the reason I loved this movie was the realistic plausibility it had. Global-warming notwithstanding, we do know that the Earth goes through climactic shifts and cycles. Ice Ages happen and one could happen again. I learned at an early age that the Great Lakes and the topography of Michigan were formed by glaciers and if they came this far south once they could conceivably do so again. We still don't completely understand what this planet is capable of.
In summary, we're all pretty much screwed (especially us Michiganians;-) but it's fun while it lasts. Oh, and I have a really nice fireplace in my basement, so if the super hurrican-blizzards start you can all come to my house and we might be able to survive it;-).
Now, go enjoy Tuesday and be sure to be nice to Mother Earth cause if I were her I'd be gettying pretty bitchy too.
