We watched Sherlock, and played some FTL at Riley’s place on Sunday evening. The episode of Sherlock was pretty good, but the bad guy didn’t get as built out as I was hoping. The FTL was fun, as I showed Riley and Steph how to win the final boss battle. We then had the others play through a round with me coaching them in some ways. Riley unlocked 3 ships along the way, and Steph was in sector 7 when she got taken out by a slaver. Wit just picked up the game, and I think his introduction was by far the most painless one can hope for, but he is surely addicted now.
I really liked the way the movie was unpredictable, but things followed from each other. It also did away with a lot of the cheesy stuff like true love’s first kiss. The musical numbers were very forced feeling, and the troll one was just awkward.
This was a pretty good movie, and they went way off the path of the book in this one. I was a little upset at how small a part Beorn played, but I suppose he doesn’t really fit in too much to the rest of the story, or the Middle Earth mythos. I hope they still have him as one of the epic fighters in the final battle sequence. I really like the parts they added in with Gandalf, as it is really cool to see a lot more of something that was only vaguely referred to in the book. I went with Jeff and his friends, and enjoyed the experience.
Jimmy is moving out of Beachhead to get married and live in Freemont. We gave him a going away dinner with Steph and I cooking tom yom and red curry. It was all very tasty and the soup turned out as the best we’ve made. Even Wit was really impressed by the quality of the soup. Tina made some amazing cookies, that turned out to be about the size of a small plate. Riley, Amit, and David also joined later with Candice coming over after dinner. Steph and I decided to break out the ginger cider and we’ll probably have people over Friday for a bottling party. I’m not sure if we have everything we need or enough bottles, but it should be fun to taste it all and get a sense of how it turned out. After dinner we watched X-Men First Class, and it was just as good as I remember it.
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I decided to bike over to meet with Steph, Nick, and Andrew at the AMC 20. It was about a 1.5 hour bike ride, and since half of the trail was unpaved, it took me a bit longer than I thought it would. I had a really great time on the ride since I was listening to audiobooks and the weather was perfect. I should bike without a backpack more often. I got there just in time, and the theater wasn’t that packed so we got pretty good seats.
I thought the movie pacing was both too fast and too slow. There were parts that didn’t seem to give it any good story, but increased the drama that I could have done without. There were also lots of scenes that were there just to be flashy, which was nice on the big screen, but made some of the more important points from the book not make it in. I haven’ t read the books, but I listened to some of the comments about the choice of what went in and what didn’t and I was surprised a good bit. I am going to have to read the books now.
Last night Steph and I went to see the movie Gravity with Brian, Riley, Andy, and a few other people I wasn’t as familiar with. We showed up just in time and Brian had saved us spots.
This was a surprisingly good movie. I don’t think it is the kind of movie I would watch again, and I would have been fine waiting to see it until it came out on dvd, but it was still nice to go see in the theater. There was a lot of birth symbolism, and the issue with her daughter. I couldn’t quite see how it all worked together in the symbolism, but I could tell that it was there. I personally think the entire move was just a big birth metaphor.
Steph and I have started watching a decent anime called “Attack on Titan” at the suggestion of Andrew. I like it so far, but the premise has some really strange parts to it. There are these nearly invincible giants called Titans that eat humans, but they are also idiots and naked. The only part that makes them scary is their size, strength, and speed. I find it funny how often these things sneak up on the main characters, like they would be sneaky at all.
Robert and I just put live the kickstarter campaign for the game we’ve been working on for the last 2 months.
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I rather liked this presentation of The Lorax. I really enjoyed the early interactions of the Once-ler and the Lorax’s forrest. It was adorable and funny. The rest of the movie was a little predictable, and didn’t have as many double entendres that I normally expect from animated children’s films. The end was also a little too happy for the way the book ends.
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