bored. Episode I bored.

[orangerful]

Library is slow this morning, as is to be expected on a Wednesday. But to make it worse, the station I picked to sit at has sloooow internet. That, or it's just the sites I want to go to, like hotmail and the DCSWCC forums. How can I kill time without fully functioning internet!

I'll tell you how, by ordering even more graphic novels. I went and googled like mad until I found the website for the comics course at UMBC. And just as I'd hoped, the booklist was up there, so I've been ordering the books that I haven't read it. Funny part is, I'd already read 5 of the 9 core readings!

What I really want is the course itself though. You know, you watch Citizen Kane because you know it's important for some reason, but you really don't understand why it's important until you read a history of film book and find out it was the first time the flashback was used and yadda yadda. I'd love to get ahold of a book like that; something that explains why The Watchmen is considered such an important comic or why Bone is so popular. Something that discusses the superhero comics AND the not-superhero comics (stuff I prefer). Because I have a feeling I'm missing something.

We watched the first 20 minutes or so of Jurassic Park last night with dinner. First, I need to get that movie on DVD because my video looks horrible. But anyway, I have so many memories connected to that movie. It came out when I was 12 years old, and I remember being really worried that my friend Tara and I wouldn't be allowed in the theater since it was rated PG-13! haha. It was the first movie I remember seeing multiple times in the theater; I had to have seen it at least 7 or 8 times. I remember taking everyone I knew. I probably still have the ticket stubs somewhere (it was the start of that little habit too). It was also the first film with all that "Dobly 5.1" sound! Oh, the T-Rex's roar, made my body shake...I LOVED IT! All those new sound systems had just been installed and they worked so well. Now they are so common place and no one seems to really take care of them.

Speaking of movie memories, I just had this image of 'beauty and the beast' in my head...the Disney one. I remember taking my grandparents to see that movie when it came out, and I was so excited about it. It was the end where the beast has been stabbed by Gaston and he's lying on the ground and Belle is crying and I remember, as a kid, you're really wondering if he's gonna make it or not. So I'm sorta watching my grandparents reaction to see if they are shocked by what looks like his impending death. Then some kid behind me says "He's Okay, just watch, he's fine!" to their friend and I was infuriated. I remember being on the verge of tears at having heard the "surprise" ending and knowing it had been "spoiled" for my grandparents. Looking back now, I realize that was ridiculous because no Disney film would kill off the lead and there was no way it was that big a deal to them.

I've been anti-spoiler ever since then I guess. I refuse to spoil things for people and I try to avoid them myself. Other big spoiler memory comes from Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Do you guys remember that flick? the girl with the horse and she would jump off the high dive? Based on a "true story"? Anyway, I was showing that to someone too, and my dad walked up behind us and asked the "is this before the [SPOILER] part?". I was so angry, I remember yelling at him and crying and being so upset that he had ruined the big surprise twist.

Anyone else have random movie memories like this? Come on, it's slow at the library today - entertain me with your nostalgia!

please?

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Godzilla

[dstntp1lgr1m.livejournal.com]

When I went to see Godzilla (mind you I built up a lot of personal hype for that movie b/c I grew up having every single Asian Godzilla movie on VHS) and when we got there to see it it was also a big day because I had gotten my head shaved that day, and at that time it was pretty heavily reinforced that I looked pretty good that way, so I had a big head about myself.

While watching the movie I remember really liking everything, how they made Godzilla very stealthy, but I just wished he had breathed fire like in the originals, but oh well, I really don't complain much about that movie.

However, throughout the entire film there was a guy behind us who kept spoiling every scene with his "girlfriend."

You'd see a huge mass of something rushing in the water (which if you didn't know it was Godzilla then you were dumb) but this guy would wait until the exact moment Godzilla would start to rise and he'd be like "Oh, see told you, there he is, coming out of the water." Like no fucking shit, I can see that for myself. Shut the fuck up. WEll he kept doing stuff like that through the whole movie. Godzilla would nearly step on someone and the guy behind me would say "Uh oh, he's about to step on him, I bet you he'll miss though."

Piss me off to no end. Godzilla was like my monster hero as a child and I've waited years and years for somethign phenominal like that. I turned around to the guy and said, "Hey blabber mouth! When you talk you ruin the whole movie. And by the way.... we can actually already SEE what's happening, we don't need sport commentary. Shut up!"

My mother was with me, and calmed me down then turned to him and reinforced that he needed to shut up.

A few days later, turned out the guy recognized my mom from work and put in a complaint about her behavior in the theater. My mom's reaction was to put him on the spot in front of everyone saying "What kind of fucking idiot reports me for telling you to shut up during a movie? Besides, everyone here is laughing at you because they know you're not very good with girlfriends which is why you were talking so much." Turns out the pregnant lady that was with him during the movie wasn't his girlfriend. He only said she was so he could get sympathy I guess for being embarassed ona date. turned out the woman was his sister. He never lived it down from what I heard.

Re: Godzilla

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

ugh, i can't stand people like that!!! I'm an avid "no talking during movies" person, especially the first time thru. And I NEVER talk in the theater (unless the movie is painfully bad and I have to say "excuse me, I need to leave before my intestines leaps up to throttle my brain")

and to report your mom at work? why would they care?

Re: Godzilla

[dstntp1lgr1m.livejournal.com]

well, I talk, but mostly during comedies or something, or the occassional emotional reaction.... examplehearing during Serenity and occassionally Dave and I would pass jokes between each other. :) But I think that's ok isn't it.

Just like I know better than to boo when cho chang comes on screen. LOL I won't do that for real. :)

[to-each-her-own.livejournal.com]

I LOVED that movie. OMG. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Man. I had a crush on the guy in it, and I love the girl as a character from the very beginning when she latches herself onto that chair.

*sigh* I am such a horse girl, but even more so back then, and I was like....man....I would SOOOOO do that. (Because you are younger and incincible.) But yeah...I wanted to be like her. She was all strong and I can do anything-y.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen that movie in so long, but as soon as you mentioned the chair, I got an image of the scene in my head. What kind of other random stuff is trapped in my brain!!! No wonder I can't learn anything new!

I don't think I've ever known a girl who wasn't a "horse girl" at some period in her life. of course, we grew up in the age of 'my little pony' so it was pretty much guaranteed. What is it about horses? Someone should write a paper.

but not me because that would require more work.

[to-each-her-own.livejournal.com]

hahaha. We have too much random trivia information. and I have random scientific facts just floating around in there too.

Girl's just love horses....except for the really prissy girls who won't get dirty or something. ;) I've heard pychology/philosophy people say it's sexual or something... But I don't really think that.

I also agree about not looking into it further personally....because yeah...no time...haha. Or at least...I'm not motivated to make the effort.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

the prissy girls take the expensive lessons though and wear the helmets and such. The rest of us just wanted to jump on a wild stallion and run away.

Or not. (destertale is going to smack me for that comment, you are excluded from that comment Laurel!)

I really don't want to think it's something sexual, especially when it's little girls. Plus, most little girls who love horses have never actually been on one. *shrug*

[to-each-her-own.livejournal.com]

heehee. My Mom was a horse trainer so I got those lessons for free, but I hated posting and wearing the helmet. ;) I'm more of a western girl anyway. haha.

[jellibean.livejournal.com]

I was a My Little Pony fiend (I had at least 20 of them, including the pretty, elegant looking skinny ones, not to mention the house and the bed and the stable..), but I never wanted a real pony. *shrugh* huh.

Horses really intimidate me. I'm not scared of them, but I know better not to act stupid around them. It's kind of like the Fear of God--more like a respect for their abilities to mess you up than an actual fear of them. Maybe it's because I'm so short and I'm afraid they won't be able to see me. lol.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I still have my barrel of ponies (for some reason the toy boxes my parents got me were chaped like mini-trash cans...weird). I had the skinny ones too, I decided that they were the teenagers, since there were baby ponies and grown up ponies and no one in between. I have a few other ponies that I decided were boys. One of them I took into the bathtub with me and his hair dried in a mohawk style, so he was a dude. Then I had one that was an autumn orange color and for some reason I just decided he was a guy. Then the boy ones actually came out, and I got the fireman one...so he was the super hunk haha.

Memories..

[jellibean.livejournal.com]

Jurassic Park was the first PG-13 movie I saw in theaters too, but I was in 2nd grade. I BEGGED my parents to take me to see it, and I was so scared when the T-Rex goes after the car w/the kids, my dad took me out of the theater. That part and the part where the raptors chase Ellie through the power station were the scariest..

I love Disney movies.. when I was little I wanted to be Belle and Jasmine. I even had Jasmine pajamas that looked like her outfit.. turquoise and two-piece and everything.

And I had completely forgotten about Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. I loved that movie too..

Were there any movies you hated/were scared of as a kid and refuse to watch to this day? I hated "Never Ending Story," "E.T." and "Flight of the Navigator." The first one because it scared me and all three because I didn't understand them, got easily confused, and throught they were boring. ^_^

ROTJ was my favorite SW movie as a kid because of the Ewoks and I thought Princess Leia was so pretty. We went to Disney World when I was 5 and I got my picture taken with Wicket the Ewok at the Star Tours ride. It was awesome.

Re: Memories..

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I probably would have been freaked out by that in 2nd grade, monsters usually bug me...though for some reason, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom didn't bother me! I watched that non-stop when I was little (and I was pretty little because I have an audio tape of me trying to explain the movie) and that's pretty intense. For the longest time I refused to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark because the ghosts at the end scared me. I was pretty good at hiding my eyes for stuff and I think they caught me off guard one day so I was pissed.

I adore most modern disney movies. Usually once a year I go thru a crazed Disney phase and pop in all the soundtracks and usually watch at least one of the movies. I wish they still made quality stuff like that :(

I didn't watch E.T. for a long time too, mostly because I was traumatized by the fact that he left at the end. I still have my E.T. stuffed toy that my mom bought me right after the movie, since I apparently told her that ET could have stayed with us (I have since bought a BIGGER talking E.T. who lives with me in my apartment now...guess some things never change). I really love that movie now. It's got so many levels and layers (though I was a bit miffed that Spielberg tinkered with the re-release, I'm happy he put out the original version edition on DVD)

I loved Neverending Story and Flight of the Navigator though I haven't seen Navigator since it first came out. I'm sorta afraid to watch it now as it might just be really bad.

There's that random Anime movie that I mentioned on here a few weeks back that I'm still afraid to watch. Anime and me just do not get along.

RotJ was my fave of the trilogy when I was little too. I'd get out my rancor toy and play along with the movie. Thing was, the middle was sorta boring for a kid, so I'd just get up and find my toys and pull them in front of the TV right then. I think ANH is my favorite right now.