The Frogurt Is Also Cursed

Got this one from phinnia. Ten of my favorite movie moments, in no particular order:

( Behind the Cut )

Go see it. Now. In 3-D if at all possible.

There are some changes to the book (none a big deal, IMHO, and if Neil Gaiman was okay with them, so am I), but the stop motion animation, the look/style, the voice casting were all outstanding. Superb!!

Toni and I are watching Casablanca on DVD.

It just got to the scene where Sam's playing As Time Goes By for Ilsa, and Rick comes out to stop him.

Toni started making an LOLcat based on Ilsa's reaction shot: "O Hai..."

I tried to finish it: "...I'm in Ur Cafe', Bogartin'... Oh, wait." (I meant to conclude with "...Bogartin' Ur Piano Player.")

We then both proceeded to ROTFLOAO. Classic. :-)

Watched the newest James Bond flick, Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, this afternoon.

While my favorite Bonds are still Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan, I like this reboot of the franchise very much. Still some cartoon physics (particularly in some of the jumping around in the early chase scene around the construction site), but that's to be expected in any Bond film, and it's definitely a grittier Bond (both character and film). Craig's portrayal was appropriate for an early James Bond, IMHO, and I can see how he develops some of his well-known traits early on as a double-o.

I may not know art, but I know what I hate... and I don't hate this.
-- C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons

I found less to rant about than I thought I would. Broke down and went to see An Inconvenient Truth this afternoon. Bullet-point observations:

• Al Gore's speech patterns are a bit annoying and his delivery, to me, still sounds a bit pretentious.
  
• Some of the personal touches in the film were overblown, IMHO. I think I know what he was trying to do, but he overdid it.
  
• I was misinformed about his reference to the Aral Sea - I had seen somewhere he tried to pass it off as solely a result of global warming and not Russian diversion. Wrong. It was right there correctly.
  
• On the same token, I want to look into what I've heard about the snowcaps on Kilimanjaro - I've seen studies that blame their melting more on deforestation than global warming. Both are a problem, but the film and Gore make it seem like global warming is to blame.
  
• I broke down afterward and spent some allowance on the book because it does have his charts in it - I want to check the references. Some of the items still seemed (shockingly - not - considering the presenter) overly politically-oriented.
  
• Specific to the above, I need to look into the hockey-stick CO₂ and temperature projections. I've also heard those aren't quite playing out as predicted.
  
• For a film claiming also to offer solutions, I felt like he tried to cram a little bit of that info into the last five minutes.
  
• I did like his use of the Futurama clip.
  
• I can see how someone who either doesn't like Gore or isn't very educated or interested in the topic would be bored to tears by it since it's a live performance of his traveling slide show intercut with a few other things.

So, I'm not so ranty as I expected, but I think the Discovery Channel's Global Warming: What You Need to Know and a number of The Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen's recent blog entries were both a bit more objective.

Just got back from seeing it a few minutes ago, so I haven't sat down and thought about it critically, but then again, this, to me, isn't the kind of movie that needs that. It's a popcorn comic book in which I had fun watching mutants kick butt.

The bottom line: I was entertained. Was it as good as the first two? IMHO, no, but it had tough standards to meet w/o Singer and still managed to fit as the next chapter in the movies' canon (why worry about maintaining the comic book canon when the first two movies departed so far already?).

Finished my C programs. And, yes, elmegil, you can smack me as you threatened because I did take more than an hour. Primarily because, in finishing the first one I had to finish, I ended up needing to put in a bunch of break points to print all the variables at various stages to see where one of them was getting munged. Turned out I was making an error in precedence and needed parentheses around a pointer variable I was decrementing. Oops. The last one, providing solutions to a quadratic equation, went much more smoothly - cranked it out in about 20 minutes.

Since Toni is leaving around 11:00 or 11:30 or so tomorrow morning, I'm putting off starting studying for my calculus test until after she leaves. I'll have all afternoon tomorrow as well as Monday and Tuesday evenings - I'm done with everything else homework-wise I have to do this week before Wednesday.

Have a mild headache, too - stupid head still acting somewhat like a barometer. Too bad I can't take advantage of that and, based on how I'm feeling at a particular time, be able to say the current pressure is 1002 hPa or something. :-)

Just put The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Edition in the DVD player as background and am just vegetating while waiting for dinner in a while.

LotR reminds me - the WMO should add the name Sauron to the hurricane name rotation. Then we could see the Eye of Sauron. *ducks* ;-)

The DVD of March of the Penguins has the cartoon of 8-Ball Bunny on it!!

Bugs Bunny came to Martinique
When he arrive, he was pretty weak
His knees look like they would buckle in
His tribulations caused by a penguin.

Now he's built a boat on which they both can leave
He hope that fickle fate have nothing up her sleeve

If he should accomplish this daring thing
A miracle to Martinique Bugs did bring.

:-)

Harry is sneaking around the library under his newly-received invisibility cloak.

Toni: "It'd be funny if he couldn't see through it."

Me: "That would sort of defeat the purpose, I would think."

Toni: "But that'd still be funny."

Me: "Yeah, but then it'd be some sort of Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal cloak, though."

:-)