After the movie we all went to downtown Mountain View to have dinner. We tried a few places before settling on Niji Sushi, since they didn’t have a long wait. We got some tasty tasty food, then headed over to Riley and Wit’s house for the Game of Thrones episode. The episode was the start of the battle at the wall, and was the first episode to stay in a single location. I was kind of surprised that they would do that, but wholly understand. The battle at the wall is one of the biggest events in the entire series, and they will certainly continue the battle in the next episode.
I enjoyed the movie. Before going in Steph found a thread on reddit that suggested the movie was pretty much an analogue for how video games work with die, rinse, repeat. This was most certainly true as the main character had to get past hard spots in the fighting and memorize specific actions to take as specific points. The ending was a little off, but that is to be expected. It seemed like they had one ending, but it didn’t play well since people wanted the main character to live. I thought he didn’t do nearly enough random goofing off with the ability. We went to see it at the Mercado AMC 20, with Jeremy, Riley, Wit, and Rong.
Iliya and I went to the Dance Libre performance that Tina was a part of. She did a great job in the dancing as did the rest of her group. The plot was very much separate, and related to the rest of the performance only slightly. The plot was vegetarian zombies turning into flesh eating zombies. The secret to keeping them vegetarian was the rutabaga. That said it did provide a decent amount of comic relief and segues. There were also lots of comic relief points in the dances, and I was most impressed with how well they were incorporated, while the dancers didn’t miss a beat. I was satiated at about an hour of the dancing, but the rest of the performance was still quite good. The thriller dance at the end was a nice finish to it.
I liked the movie, even though there were some outlandish things they did. The new powers that Kitty had were one. I did like all the epic battle scenes in the future. I also liked how they did a full reset of the series like was done with Star Trek. It will be nice to have some of the old characters back, and without a lot of the baggage that they had started with. I was also excited to see the ending credits scene. It will be interesting to see if that actually makes it to the next movie.
We went to Riley’s place after dinner to watch Game of Thrones. It was a pretty good episode, and I like the changes they’ve been making. It simplifies things a lot, while not losing the characters or the story. I think this can be done since the screen gets across a lot of information that the books might not be able to succinctly.
I like the movie, and while they mention some other super heroes, the did like all the other super hero movies and mainly ignored their existence. The new hero introduced was a little underpowered, except his ability to survive massive g-forces without blinking.
Stephanie showed me the movie Amelie, and I liked it. The whole movie was a series of quirks, but it was funny quirks and the story was nice. I also liked that it didn’t end with everyone in love and getting along. It seemed more real that way.
Steph and I joined Jeremy and his gf for The Wind Rises. I really enjoyed the start of the movie, but it had a very anticlimactic ending. It isn’t the kind of movie that I’d want to see again, but it was nice to see once.
I really liked the early premise of the movie with certain lego people being master builders that could build things out of any of the legos and if it looked right it would work. I really liked the way real world objects also came into play. When it changed over to the real world situation, it lost a little bit of the mystique that it had built up. I really enjoyed the movie, and it was a great date with Steph.
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