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charloweenDDR update: I have a bead on a PS2, have bought dance pads from eBay and now all I need are the games. Any helpful hints on how/where to get cheapo old DDR games? Burning them doesn't seem entirely possible because modding the PS2 seems needlessly complicated. Not to mention illegal. You know. (Help Char play DDR!)
Last night was another York is U Movie Night, and we showed Superman Returns. Oooh, excited. Except not. I stuck my head in the theatre a few times while the movie was going on (I was selling snacks outside) and my favourite disconnected moment was Lex prancing around, crowing about "kryp-ton-ite" and kicking Superman but good (hee! ♥ Lex). And Superman was just lying there, being boring. And passive. A force being acted upon, and never acting, only reacting. With his rugged American good looks and soulless mild-cow eyes. The next time I peeked in, Superman was dead (and lighting defib. machines on fire from beyond the grave) and there really wasn't much of a difference from the first time I looked in, and he was standing in the middle of a crowd with the same expression on his face.
It's entirely possible that I could enjoy the movie if I watched it through from start to finish, but I have other things to do with my time than watch ol' Super-*Meh* make mildly-confused faces for three hours.
Why does Superman have to be so boring and dumb? Did his sense of humour just atrophy all of a sudden the first time he learned he could fly? Come to think of it, Nathan Petrelli is no chucklepuss himself... maybe flight feeds off the humour gene? Wolverine doesn't fly, and has been known to smirk. Spiderman doesn't really fly, just swings around, and he's about 5/10 on the make a joke/take a joke scale. Joker doesn't fly, and he's great fun at a party. Ditto Harley Quinn. Green Lantern seems to be the serious type, but I'm not as familiar with him. Maybe there's something in this?
ETA: Daily Show clips edited to "I Touch Myself". Fake news OTP! Whenever I send my mother something strange, she asks if I go looking for these things or if they find me. I SWEAR TO ALL THAT ONE MIGHT FIND HOLY they find me.
Last night was another York is U Movie Night, and we showed Superman Returns. Oooh, excited. Except not. I stuck my head in the theatre a few times while the movie was going on (I was selling snacks outside) and my favourite disconnected moment was Lex prancing around, crowing about "kryp-ton-ite" and kicking Superman but good (hee! ♥ Lex). And Superman was just lying there, being boring. And passive. A force being acted upon, and never acting, only reacting. With his rugged American good looks and soulless mild-cow eyes. The next time I peeked in, Superman was dead (and lighting defib. machines on fire from beyond the grave) and there really wasn't much of a difference from the first time I looked in, and he was standing in the middle of a crowd with the same expression on his face.
It's entirely possible that I could enjoy the movie if I watched it through from start to finish, but I have other things to do with my time than watch ol' Super-*Meh* make mildly-confused faces for three hours.
Why does Superman have to be so boring and dumb? Did his sense of humour just atrophy all of a sudden the first time he learned he could fly? Come to think of it, Nathan Petrelli is no chucklepuss himself... maybe flight feeds off the humour gene? Wolverine doesn't fly, and has been known to smirk. Spiderman doesn't really fly, just swings around, and he's about 5/10 on the make a joke/take a joke scale. Joker doesn't fly, and he's great fun at a party. Ditto Harley Quinn. Green Lantern seems to be the serious type, but I'm not as familiar with him. Maybe there's something in this?
ETA: Daily Show clips edited to "I Touch Myself". Fake news OTP! Whenever I send my mother something strange, she asks if I go looking for these things or if they find me. I SWEAR TO ALL THAT ONE MIGHT FIND HOLY they find me.
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 05:27 pm (UTC)And Superman has just always been lame. I've never found him to be at all intriguing. >>
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Date: 2006-10-14 07:30 pm (UTC)The sentence scans the other way just fine. :D
And the only time I've found Superman interesting is in that Red Son book...
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Date: 2006-10-14 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 08:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 07:02 pm (UTC)I LOVE the irony of it-- that Superman is so PASSIVE unless specifically called upon to Do What Is Right and yet everything in the damn city revolves around. Lex Luthor is obsessed and I mean obsessed with Superman and the big guy can't even summon up some HATRED for the guy-- just pity and disgust. And he won't kill anyone and everything is so black and white for Superman. So yes, I think he's boring and vacant, and isn't it hilarious that HE is America's Superhero?
Now that I've appropriately geeked myself out...
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Date: 2006-10-14 07:38 pm (UTC)Ha! True.
I like the idea that it's Superman's own choice to be such a... boring pile of mashed potatoes. I mean, I can completely understand why he'd rein himelf in - with all that power, he could destroy the world if he sneezed too hard. He *has* to be boring if he wants to preserve his adoptive planet, because any show of strength could have disaterous effects. But passive resistance (and only fighting when he really *has* to!) isn't nearly as interesting an arc as having no superpowers, just a lot of money and childhood trauma that makes a dude dress like a *bat*.
As for SV... I never followed the show, but the episodes I've seen have been straaaaange.
RE: The Video
Date: 2006-10-14 08:13 pm (UTC)Re: The Video
Date: 2006-10-14 08:48 pm (UTC)