Workin' on our night movies....
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captainsblog"When I listen to Bob Seger, you KNOW I'm depressed." -- Dave "The Missing Link," 1979-80 roommate.
I'm not, really- just tired. Happy that Eleanor's mostly off restriction now, VERY happy I didn't have to spend all of today in court hearings and depositions and, would-be worst, having to drive around between all of them in what is turning into Really Bad Winter Weather again.
Instead, a nice warm night at home with all in.
Two nights ago, we watched 2010. It had its moments; some touching, a few funny ones (seeing Doctor Captain Bridger Floyd playing with dolphins, for one thing, and Helen Mirren as a Soviet space keptin, for another), the usual suspension of disbelief required for the ending (a new star in the solar system without any effect on our planet being about as plausible as, I don't know, a Time Lord Home World just materializing in your backyard without any effect on our atmo or gravity), and a LOT of backstory that they just got wrong about the 21st century as Clarke and his screenwriter-director-general-dogsbody predicted it to be. Just the existence of a Soviet Union was a clear swing and miss; likewise, the presence in the White House of a very Bush-sounding reactionary president. The technology was caught in a swing between stuff way beyond our current capabilities (like HAL and his sister SAL, not to mention interplanetary travel) and stuff which we passed by in about 1988 (like all the other computer systems on Discovery and the Russkie ship, which looked like something off a 1970s Space Invaders arcade screen). It was nostalgiac to watch it once, but recommending it long-term? I'm afraid I can't do that, Flist.
As for tonight and the weekend, we have a pair of other Hitchcocks (and I don't mean Katie, Mel) to continue that film festivalry. Trouble with Harry, which was part of the lost film collection that I saw in '84 and don't think I've seen any of since; and Notorious, which I can't say for sure I've ever seen. Emily requested that we begin with the latter, or rather the earlier, of the two- Notorious is certainly the darker choice, so I give her credit for going with something a bit more challenging.
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Eleanor's making chicken. Or, as she put it, "God made the chicken; I'm just cooking it." Skweet.
ETA. Eep. Stacy Haiduk's stuck on a soap opera? Not that seaQuest was any big resume boost, but she had a Heroes gig not too many years ago.
I'm not, really- just tired. Happy that Eleanor's mostly off restriction now, VERY happy I didn't have to spend all of today in court hearings and depositions and, would-be worst, having to drive around between all of them in what is turning into Really Bad Winter Weather again.
Instead, a nice warm night at home with all in.
Two nights ago, we watched 2010. It had its moments; some touching, a few funny ones (seeing Doctor Captain Bridger Floyd playing with dolphins, for one thing, and Helen Mirren as a Soviet space keptin, for another), the usual suspension of disbelief required for the ending (a new star in the solar system without any effect on our planet being about as plausible as, I don't know, a Time Lord Home World just materializing in your backyard without any effect on our atmo or gravity), and a LOT of backstory that they just got wrong about the 21st century as Clarke and his screenwriter-director-general-dogsbody predicted it to be. Just the existence of a Soviet Union was a clear swing and miss; likewise, the presence in the White House of a very Bush-sounding reactionary president. The technology was caught in a swing between stuff way beyond our current capabilities (like HAL and his sister SAL, not to mention interplanetary travel) and stuff which we passed by in about 1988 (like all the other computer systems on Discovery and the Russkie ship, which looked like something off a 1970s Space Invaders arcade screen). It was nostalgiac to watch it once, but recommending it long-term? I'm afraid I can't do that, Flist.
As for tonight and the weekend, we have a pair of other Hitchcocks (and I don't mean Katie, Mel) to continue that film festivalry. Trouble with Harry, which was part of the lost film collection that I saw in '84 and don't think I've seen any of since; and Notorious, which I can't say for sure I've ever seen. Emily requested that we begin with the latter, or rather the earlier, of the two- Notorious is certainly the darker choice, so I give her credit for going with something a bit more challenging.
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Eleanor's making chicken. Or, as she put it, "God made the chicken; I'm just cooking it." Skweet.
ETA. Eep. Stacy Haiduk's stuck on a soap opera? Not that seaQuest was any big resume boost, but she had a Heroes gig not too many years ago.
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:51 am (UTC)...and finding out she's had a Heroes gig, that just makes it better! I haven't seen her in anything since... *consults IMDB* ...I think I've seen the NCIS episode she was in, maybe?
Before that, not since I last watched her Due South episodes, which was a while ago. I ran across those originally while she was still on SeaQuest and I was so, so thrilled.
Wow, back then I didn't know what her last name meant. Now I do, thanks O-Zone!
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Date: 2010-01-11 06:54 am (UTC)