Slime Mansion

I guess I haven't made a real entry here, in, what, two months? Stuff has happened but it'd be lame of me to go over them one by one, so right now I'm deciding whether I should choose a topic to bitch about, a topic to squeal about, or just ask my LJ friends list for more favors, kind of like how I do in every other entry I make these days. ;D()

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Uh...

Let's talk about movies?

This is gonna be a bit difficult for some of you to choke down, but stay with me here, guys: I didn't see the first Pirates movie until two weeks ago. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm out of the loop. ...Furthermore, I only watched the last hour and a half of it, lawl. ;D Was at a friend's apartment at like 1AM and they were like, "hay let's watch Pirates!!" because they had just watched the second movie on its opening night or something, but I was like "dude I stink, I'm going home to take a shower," so I did that and by the time I got back zombie skeletons were invading the ship or something. I don't know!

Anyway, it was enjoyable. Everybody was a dick though, but whatever. ...I guess that's all I have to say about it.

Fast-forward a little to YESTERDAY when I saw Pirates 2 with Amanda at the theatre!! ...It was also enjoyable? But I think I might dislike pretty much the whole main cast. >_o Jack's a jerk, Elizabeth's mean, Will's bland, and everybody else doesn't matter. Oh, and Elizabeth made a shitty boy. ;o Characters I DO like though is the guy whose eye kept falling out (well, once a movie at least), and wtf NORRINGTON? Dude. Like. First movie I thought he was a total douchebag. And I thought he was a douchebag in this movie too, butlike. an attractive douchebag? :9

...which kind of goes to show how shallow I am. D: If you're hot and scruffy and abused and neglected then it's okay to be a tool!! <3

But I don't know. Maybe part of the reason for my total indifference towards the movies in general was maybe all the fangirling going on on my LJ friends list that I pretty much knew everything about the movies without having watched them before? (I had pretty much resolved to not ever bother watching the movie because it didn't interest me--not a fan of Johnny Depp, and he's kind of UGLY and REPULSIVE as Jack Sparrow anyway--so I didn't think that reading any spoilers would ruin me for anything. ;o) ...But that's not necessarily true because most of the crap I read about it either had no spoilers, or they didn't make sense to me so I just kind of didn't compute them into my long-term memory. The only thing that really stuck out was probably all the people mentioning the "An undead monkey!" line, and then me finally watching that part of the movie and just being like, "...oh. kay."

Umm. Also I'm retarded and fob because I can't understand piratespeak or whatever. During the first movie I had to ask for the subtitles to be turned on because the accents and crap weren't translating into anything coherent in my head. () (it might have just been a problem with the volume though, but whoknows.) And the Voodoo Lady in this movie was even worse--halfway through her scene I just kind of gave up on trying to comprehend what she was trying to say--I figure anything important she said would've been repeated back in proper English anyway. (And I was RIGHT >:o)

Well, despite all my Mnegh-ness about the movie, I really did find it enjoyable. XD()() I guess people normally wouldn't write long paragraphs about middle-ground movies, but since I watch so few movies I figured it was okay. >P Oh! I like compasses. I think I might be a bit of a dork for them. :( Remember that scene in Pocahontas? Towards the end where the compass arrow was spinning and spinning until it came to an abrupt stop pointing East towards the sun??

...Uh. I was gonna say that it was totally hot, but now I'm kind of confused by it. () Isn't the arrow supposed to point north?? What's it doing pointing east towards the rising sun? >O Or am I just not remember the scene right?

Anyway, I also watched The Memoirs of a Geisha today with . It was also enjoyable! :>() It was pretty to look at, but considering my mind's more on Pirates at the moment even though I watched it last night, I guess it didn't make a lasting impression on me, although this might also be due to all the fangirling/whining people did about this movie when it first came out. () That and the movie Hero made a bigger impact as far as visual orgasms goes for me. :>()

And I'm gonna feel like a total tool of AZN pride for saying this, but MAN it was so obvious that the cast wasn't Japanese! >O And they didn't even really try to at least make them look Japanese; like, Michelle Yeoh basically had the same hair she did in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (and wtf don't even get me started on the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon female reunion, or how Ziyi Zhang has become, like, the only "authentic" Asian actress that America knows about??), and Gong Li looked practically identical to Maggie Cheung in her role in Hero, both hairstyles being distinctly Chinese to me. I don't know, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but none of the hairstyles in that movie looked like they actually fit the place or era at all. >_o

...Oh Jesus, I just whined about hairstyles, huh? Dammit.

Okaybye.