Today’s been a busy day. I went out errand-running with my dad this morning, trying to deal with the bank again. They *finally* cleared the check I got for that job I did way back in December with Simon. They held it for 11 days for no reason! I’m really fed up with them. And, on top of all that, they were rude today when I came in to check on it. I hate banks.
I got to see “Spider-Man” this afternoon. I enjoyed it, even though I had my doubts about Tobey Maguire. Turns out I was pleasantly surprised – he captured Peter Parker pretty well. (Hey, after growing up with three older brothers who were obsessed with comic books, I know my way around the Marvel Universe.) I was slightly disappointed with Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane. She didn’t have depth, but then again, I may be biased because I always liked Mary Jane and I’ve never been too fond of Kirsten Dunst. Although Spider-Man hasn’t been my favorite super-hero (Batman would whoop his butt) I still enjoyed the comic books from time to time, and the movie certainly matched the feeling of the character. Man, the guy they got for Mr. Jameson was spot on! Some people might think it’s a bit too campy, or a bit too silly, but what can you expect when you take the silliness villain and try to capture him on the screen? Willem Dafoe captured the Green Goblin perfectly, I was very impressed, but I’m afraid the villain was my only real problem with the movie. It’s not that he wasn’t portrayed well, quite the contrary. Dafoe got the insanity of the character, as well as the eccentricities, it was just the stupid helmet. All I could think when he was on screen in that silly costume was “Power Rangers, my goodness no, it’s the Power Rangers.” But, I’m not sure how they could have done it differently. So, all in all, I liked it. If you like Spider-man you’ll love the silly campiness of the film. If not, you’ll like the special effects. And if you’re a Stan Lee fan, you’ll just love it no matter what. 🙂
Somebody shoot me if I start talking about Star Trek like that. I feel myself sinking deeper in the geeky abyss. Hehehe.
After that the movie watching didn’t end there. I’ve been having bad phantom pains again today so I decided to take it easy. I watched ‘The Avengers’ for a while because I felt like distracting myself while doing two things at once. I wanted to play online and watch/listen to a movie at one time. Then my parents got home from their ‘date’ and we watched a movie we rented; ‘Harold and Maude’. Now I know why I never liked 70s movies. 🙂 It was so dang weird. It was great up until the last fourth of the film. It’s about this kid, who looks like he’s 12, who falls in love with this 80 year old woman. Up until the final third it was just about them doing crazy stuff, and how the boy was obsessed with death. (And believe it or not, it was funny.) But then it got all icky. Eeeugh. 12 and 80 don’t mix. He’s supposed to be 20, I think, so he’s not twelve because he was driving, and his mother was trying to marry him off. And he had hair on his chest, and I haven’t met many twelve-year-olds with chest hair. But still. You look at the kid’s face and he looks *so* young! Here, see for yourself: if you dare. Weird, weird movie. It reminded me of my friend Jordan up until the last third. The fake suicides were just hilarious.
Yeah, okay, so I’m morbid. You should have been to my house for dinner last night. We had some missionaries from our church over for dinner and we found out Missionary Number 1’s father is a mortician. He told us all sorts of funny mortician jokes, it was great.
Geeze, that sounds awful.
Something else I don’t like about the 70s: what was up with those pants?
Okay, I think I’m babbling now. I’m off to bed, good night!