Pop, Pop, Pop Culture: October 2007 Archives
I was going to title this, "Seen any good movies lately," but alas, I go too infrequently. Of course, I can't blame that on The Boy or the cost of a babysitter, either. I can, however, blame it on the fact that I haven't seen an interesting movie trailer in many, many months. There are 2 possible reasons for this:
- The folks in charge of trailer-making suck.
- The folks in charge of making movies are making boring useless movies.
The latest ads for films I've seen either on TV or at the theatre have featured, in no particular order:
- Pained middle-aged people being played by either Susan Sarandon or Tommy Lee Jones.
- Animated bees, which might be interesting, except that Jerry Seinfeld's voice is so distinctive and distracting that I can't pay attention to the bee as a character because every episode of Seinfeld ever made is running through my head as soon as I hear him speak.
- George Clooney striding purposefully up a hill - why? We don't know! But it's George Clooney! And he's STRIDING! UP! A! HILL!
- American flag imagery over a backdrop of despair. Gee, I wonder if this is a war movie? And if so, I wonder what sort of take on it the moviemaker will have? Hmmmm. It's a puzzle!
- Russell Crowe versus Denzel Washington in the dark, with guns and wet pavement. Woo.
- Vampires!
- Angelina Jolie with a tail. In 3-D. And CGI. And it's Beowulf. I'm...well, uh...Huh.
And these are the ones that have at least made an impression on me - God knows how many others are floating around out there. Sigh. At least I enjoyed 3:10 to Yuma.
Okay, so I was trying to find the Graduation mini-movie from Kim Possible, which apparently ISN'T AVAILABLE for either download or purchase - don't get me started yet again on my craptastic DVR which isn't TiVo and which therefore SUCKS because it doesn't understand the concept of ONE HOUR MOVIE and only recorded half the episode, thereby ruining our family's entire evening of fun and viewership, DAMN YOU DIRECTV DVR! - and ran across a phenomenon called ToonTown, which is like EverQuest for the Elementary set, except free. Well, this is from Disney, so obviously you can pay for "an upgraded experience," but there's a lot to do for free, so free it is.
The Boy and I created a toon, and I thought, "This'll be fun for a few days."
Famous last words.
That place is freaking addictive! We fish, and play games, and defeat evil cogs by throwing pies in their faces, and have pets and help friends in battle, and - good grief. There's a reason I never started World of Warcraft, or any other MMORPG. I understand my limitations, and my tendency to be sucked into the internet. However, I grossly misunderestimated Disney - a mistake I shall not repeat, friends.
So now I have my toon, and The Boy has his, and he uses his TV time on ToonTown.
Good news - no TV. Bad news - I've become obsessed with completing the task that will give us Frame 16 of the Sound Gag Training Movie, so that we'll have a new and improved weapon in our anti-Cog arsenal.
I can't believe I just typed that sentence.
Sigh.
At least my TV Boyfriend and his Geeky Ginormous TV Brother will return tomorrow evening, so I can be distracted from my burning need to defeat Cogs.
