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Wasting my time
Jul. 29th, 2013 11:39 pmI'm I'm taking care of my friends cats and there is something purring snuggled at my side. It feels good. Unfortunately, it turns out I am allergic to cats. Not deadly - I'm going to land in hospital if I stay in your presence any longer - more like - I feel short of breath after just walking up one flight of stairs which is how I usually know my asthma is acting up. But I was fine with my cat for years so I know I can live with one. I may just need to do this for long enough for my immune system to give up. I refuse to be catless forever.
I saw RIPD. It has nice visuals. Mary Louise Parker is adorable. Jeff Bridges is entertaining. Ryan Reynolds makes great puppy dog eyes. That's about all the good things about the movie. The bad thing is that is so incredibly predictable. The whole plot is made of cliches. You know what will happen next and how the movie would end from the start. Every trope you think of at the moment you meet his partner will happen. And now you know the whole plot of this movie. It's so predictable it hurts. If there is the most cliche way to go through a scene this movie makes sure it uses it. Someone called it a mix of Man in Black and Dead Like Me and that's very apt. However, it lacks the fun of the first and emotional depth of the second. If they spend less money on the wacky deados (seriously, they even call themselves that) and concentrated more on giving some emotional depth to the heroes this might be an interesting concept (and maybe even fun summer movie). Instead you just roll you eyes(and then facepalm when in the end they walk untouchable in the hail of bullets but their every shot kills and there is only two of them because every other RIPD cop mysteriously vanished) . It makes Avatar seem original.
You can watch something much more interesting and original on xkcd. Randal just announced the Time story has finished and you can go and watch the whole thing on one of the pages he linked. It's incredible how engaging can a black and white story with stick figures be.
I saw RIPD. It has nice visuals. Mary Louise Parker is adorable. Jeff Bridges is entertaining. Ryan Reynolds makes great puppy dog eyes. That's about all the good things about the movie. The bad thing is that is so incredibly predictable. The whole plot is made of cliches. You know what will happen next and how the movie would end from the start. Every trope you think of at the moment you meet his partner will happen. And now you know the whole plot of this movie. It's so predictable it hurts. If there is the most cliche way to go through a scene this movie makes sure it uses it. Someone called it a mix of Man in Black and Dead Like Me and that's very apt. However, it lacks the fun of the first and emotional depth of the second. If they spend less money on the wacky deados (seriously, they even call themselves that) and concentrated more on giving some emotional depth to the heroes this might be an interesting concept (and maybe even fun summer movie). Instead you just roll you eyes
You can watch something much more interesting and original on xkcd. Randal just announced the Time story has finished and you can go and watch the whole thing on one of the pages he linked. It's incredible how engaging can a black and white story with stick figures be.
