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[vicarz]

Saw 28 weeks later this weekend. No spoilers except - it sucked balls. Granted, the people I was with liked it, but I maintain that objectively the movie blew. The first movie was mostly a psychological thriller by comparison - this movie pushed the boundaries of implausibility far beyond the first, violated their own premises (or made further implausible leaps) too much to ignore, had child actors (always a sin - these were as annoying as old star trek episodes), and used cheap horror movie tricks to make you jump. You know that scene in the house, where the lights go out and the steak knife is missing? You walk around the corner and SCREAMLOUDNOISE oh it's just the cat? Half the damn movie is like that. The rest of the movie is like a regular gore-fest mixed with MTV - if you lack anything interesting to show, just shake the camera around a whole bunch. So scream, low light, surprise, shaky camera. My first first-run movie in perhaps a year and it sucked. My own fault - I thought it might be like the first one.

The movie theatre was also loud as hell. I actually stuffed my fingers in my ears, and I go to clubs. I swore off movie sequels a long time ago, so my own fault for violating that rule, but now I'm thinking since the matinee is $7-8, ads last 20 minutes and are awful, and the volume is out of control - I may just stop watching first-run movies entirely. At least at home with a huge surround sound and screen I can fast forward the crap, skip the commercials, keep the volume reasonable.

I think I'm might be a pussy. I'm not usually the one to back out of a fight, but I’m looking at how I interact at work and with friends. Perhaps I'm too accommodating and let people walk all over me. I used to just walk when people treated me bad. Now I just try to adjust and understand their side. Now...maybe that's not a good approach. Maybe I need to tell them the problem, what's wrong with it, argue the point if they wish, and then tell them to fuck themselves. At work this is trickier, but I think the fact the Director of our Division feels free to insult me in emails to 3rd parties shows that I'm not fighting back enough.

On the other hand, I had discounted the rumor that she got her job by fucking the (then) Director (now the AA). I've heard more confirmation on that rumor from multiple sources. It's so trite to assume people at work fuck each other, but I must say that the story does fill in a lot of holes that otherwise make no sense here. Still - whether true or not, I either need to not care about being insulted - or figure a way to exert power. I may go to her house and kill her cat - nothing personal about the animal, but the legal consequences to that act are small and the impact is large. Problem with fighting at work is getting fired, so what do you do? File an EEO? What weapons do I have?

Comments

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

I suppose you could try fucking the director/aa...

yeah, ok, no good solutions here. I'm sorry :/

[ex-dasboot.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling that's what they'd do with it, especially after seeing parts of the trailer with huge explosions.

That always happens with sci-fi movies. They take a great little story, something small in scale, something that does OK in the box office, and for the sequal turn it into some huge, epic production where the fate of the entire world is at stake, effectively ruining everything about the original that made it enjoyable.