What I'm reading/watching.

[serene]

stonebender asked what I'm reading. The nice thing is that I *am* reading. I had no time for such diversions when I was working retail. Now, whee, I have time to read, and even to see movies once in a while.

What I'm reading:

Fat!So?
The Golden Compass
Flim-Flam!
Red Mars
The latest issue of the Skeptical Enquirer

Good (fsvo "good" that includes "cheesy but fun") movies I've watched lately:

Spinal Tap
Buckaroo Banzai
Goblet of Fire
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Bad movies I've watched lately:

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Thunderbirds

And we have this one on tap:

On Edge (a skating mockumentary)

Oh, and I saw this play with stonebender:

Marius

Wow. That's more veg-out time than I've taken in months.

Comments

[artemii.livejournal.com]

is the golden compass the best book ever written or what?

(ok, so that's a slight exaggeration)

i am so sad at what they are doing to it for the movie. i will not see it.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm only a few dozen pages into it. I like it better than Harry Potter already, but I have to wait to see if it's the best ever. :-)

I'll usually see movies of books I've read even if I know they're gonna be horrid.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

they are removing all the anti-Church stuff because they don't want to "offend" anybody.

of course as usual by "anybody" they mean "conservative christians". *sigh*

[lysana.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding that said rumor is a bit unfounded. I'm waiting for the final print to be sure myself. Having been a conservative Christian when Last Temptation of Christ was released in movie form, I know full well that scripts change multiple times between initial and final form. Not to mention how easily people of a certain bias are willing to believe the worst.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

well, i read it as a straight news story (not a rumor) in the british press, but that doesn't necessarily mean the script won't have changed before the movie comes out.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I thought that the first two books were quite amazing, and I'm not much of a reader myself. As a whole series, I thought it fell short of Narnia in the category of parareligious young adult fiction, but if someone grokked the ending on a personal level I could see how they might feel that it was the better epic.

[nmc.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not the target audience for this group of comments, not being into the parareligious stuff, but as an aside, the ending of TGC swung me the other way. I really liked the books until the last couple chapters. After which, I disliked them intensely and retroactively.

Actually, the same goes for most (all but one?) of the Pullman books I've read.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I have Fat!So?.

I liked the first Charlie's Angels movie: women smiling and enjoying themselves and not needing rescuing -- now when I see an movie with awful female roles my children know to say "yeah, yeah, you're going to say you need to see Charlie's Angels again to wash the taste out of your mouth."

I disliked Buckaroo Banzai.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

stonebender asked what I'm reading. The nice thing is that I *am* reading. I had no time for such diversions when I was working retail. Now, whee, I have time to read, and even to see movies once in a while.


Yey! I'm so glad you're getting more "reading" *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink* time. :) Asking what people are reading is one of my getting acquianted/reacquianted questions.

What I'm reading:

Fat!So?

Cool!

The Golden Compass

Good stuff.

Flim-Flam!

I wanna read that.

Red Mars

Still working on that one, eh? I loved the Mars books. I am a Kim Stanley Robinson fan but I have lots of friends whose opinions I respect that really disliked the books. His Antarctica works with the same issues and themes. If you find you don't want to finish the Mars books I'd recommend it as an acceptable substitute. If you still wanted to try a KSR book.

The latest issue of the Skeptical Enquirer

Good (fsvo "good" that includes "cheesy but fun") movies I've watched lately:

Spinal Tap

Loved it!

Buckaroo Banzai

I loved it even the extended version but I agree with you that the released to theater's version was better.

Goblet of Fire

I think I have made my position clear about this movie. :-)

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

I like Doctor Who although I don't think I'm a fan. I mostly watched Tom Baker's version. I have been thinking about putting some Doctor Who episodes on my Netflix.

Bad movies I've watched lately:

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

I really liked the first Charlie's Angels *hated* the second.

Thunderbirds

I loved the television show, haven't seen the movie yet.

And we have this one on tap:

On Edge (a skating mockumentary)

Haven't heard of it.

Oh, and I saw this play with stonebender:

Marius

That was a fun play wasn't it?

Wow. That's more veg-out time than I've taken in months.

Yay!

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

what does "fsvo" mean?

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

"For Some Value Of"

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'd call all of that "veg-out" time. Some of that stuff sounds decidedly self-building.

Another movie

[serpentdove.livejournal.com]

If you liked Spinal Tap and Buckaroo, i strongly reccomend Repo Man.

Re: Another movie

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Yes! I heartily second the recommendation -- Repo Man is one of my favourite movies ever!