Stone knives and bearskins

[rivkat]

Cable is out, thus I am reduced to dialup. It never ceases to amaze me how fast I become spoiled by technological improvement. Using this old laptop makes me groan in impatience as it takes a laborious, oh, 20 seconds to launch an application when my G5 pops it up, and using dialup -- let us not speak of it.

But I had to pay for an eBay purchase or risk the dreaded negative feedback, and while I was here I just wanted to say that I saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and I didn't much care for it. Angelina Jolie is hot, but the story was flat and the plot more than usually nonsensical. That wouldn't have mattered to me as much, given the pretty visuals (not just Angelina, but the backdrops etc.) if Gwyneth Paltrow's character hadn't been such a moron. I think they were going for madcap 1940s Rosalind Russell type, but what they got was moron. Forget the high heels in the jungle, forget the backseat piloting, forget the other whining -- let's say you're handed a McGuffin by a dying scientist who tells you "keep this from the bad guy or the world is doomed!" Then let's say you're pointed to the bad guy's secret hideout. Do you say "two great tastes that taste great together!" and blithely bring the McGuffin with you?

I didn't think so. Because you're not a moron. Did I mention I felt strongly about this?

Comments

[ter369.livejournal.com]

The casting (all round) warned me off this film, but your mini-review assures me the script is no Raiders of The Lost Ark.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Had to read your subject line twice to get it.

Oh! Cable out.

Here I sit, no cable/satellite TV, no Tivo, no cable modem, and with bits of things to do on my desk while I wait for webpages to unfold. Am very, very thrifty. At least am not moron, like chick holding the McGuffin above.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

See, I recognize that I am spoiled. And if I could give up all these wonderful toys, perhaps I would lead a better life. (New book on this very subject: Better Off; my husband heard the author speak and says it sounds good, but I have no direct knowledge.) But when storms deny me, I pout.

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

"...if Gwyneth Paltrow's character hadn't been such a moron."

My opinion was (http://www.livejournal.com/users/kickair8p/11177.html)
"Polly Perkins: is the trope really that annoying? Yes, yes it is. On the up side, they didn't try to make her likable."

Liked the Joe/Dex subtext though!





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