Posted September 11th 2009 by Adrian DeHerrera.
I am so psyched for this movie. I mean, people have said so many good things about it, seriously, it has to at least be good. Oh it's starting now. And this popcorn is so buttery -- man this is awesome. I think I'll just sit back and relax and start becoming one with the film and ...
"Daddy... what is that thing?"
Oh, a family sitting behind me. And, wow, Daddy is feeling the need to reply. Because you see, Daddy apparently doesn't realize that everyone around him has paid a stupid amount of money to watch a film without commentary from a 7-year-old girl who has no idea what District 9 is about or why those mean men just shot ET in the face.
Daddy.. come on, are you really trying to explain the plot in layman's terms. And by layman I mean terms that a little girl can understand for a movie that has such similarities to the bloody atrocities of apartheid. Why is a grown man bringing a little girl to a movie with car chases and loud explosions? Why do people feel that they can talk in the theater like they're in their living rooms? Why... oh wait... is that a baby crying?
Did I just hear a baby cry over there?
Ma'am. Ma'am you are not seriously telling me you brought a baby into a loud, packed theater and thought the sounds of screams and cries blaring from the speakers might become like a lullabye to your Little One's delicate ears.
Are you homeless? Was there nowhere else to put the baby except in your loving arms and you are in the theater to take solace from the uncaring world around you? Are you hiding from the police?
No? Then what in God's name possessed you to bring a child into this world... and then bring him to the equivalent to a rave from hell to a tiny baby's ears? Madame, listen I like kids. I really, really do. But your loud and continual "SHH!"ing in the poor kid's face isn't really teaching him much of a lesson because now he is crying louder. Oh the bottle isn't working it seems. Hm ,well maybe you can take him outside and perhaps drive back home where you can give him love and affection in an environment that doesn't foster trauma and terror. Oh, well you've decided to cradle him and talk to him while this quiet, emotional sequence plays out. Thank goodness because I love hearing a grown woman talk in baby language while trying to emotionally resolve the poignancy of what's happening..
Now your infant is gargling and making sounds like a Chihuahua. Isn't that sweet? Well these are the best years of motherhood – the years where you can ruin all sorts of experiences for others. I didn't need to watch this movie anyway.
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Posted September 2nd 2009 by Adrian DeHerrera.
Hoo boy.
Seriously, who could have expected this? A comic book company swallowed whole by a giant mouse?
It sort of made sense back in 2004 when Disney pounced on and consumed the Muppets like a tasty felt-flavored morsel. The Muppets themselves are intrinsically family friendly, very marketable and hadn't been even vaguely interesting since The Jim Henson Hour, and were in dire need of assistance. Luckily for the Muppets, Disney invigorated the increasingly lame company and it soon churned out modern classics like The Muppets' Wizard of Oz starring Ashanti and... well... that one time Kermit helped co-host New Year's Rockin' Eve.
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Posted May 31st 2009 by Adrian DeHerrera.
Well actually it's kinda cold and there was a frightening Asian he-she call girl outside of our hotel, but it's already been a great start to E3 2009!
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Posted March 5th 2009 by Adrian DeHerrera.
Xavius finds the "Eye of the Tiger" at the gym. Surprisingly it's on a treadmill.
Eye of the Tiger
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Posted February 25th 2008 by Adrian DeHerrera.
Now, God knows I loves me some RPG's. I can play for hours and hours, leveling up characters, fighting monsters that could only have leapt from the imagination of someone tripping on acid, or, you know, from a Japanese person. Regardless of the laziness of long-winded FMV sequences and impossibly outdated random battles, I'm a sucker for 60-hour jaunts into RPG territory.
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