July 11, 2003

*yawn*

Not that anybody but Whir is around to be reading this anyway, but oh well.

New page stuff - linked to a bunch of Civ 3 Epics that've been around for a while but not linked. Did that in preperation for Epic 31, which I shall go play in a few minutes.

Saw The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen today with Mom. Spent the first half of the movie thinking "This movie is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too cheesily bad." Then about halfway through, I shrugged, realized that it was a fairly enjoyable cheesily bad movie for all of that, and sat back and enjoyed it. Not the height of great cinema, but worth watching on video if you need something.

OTOH, all the previews for everything looked like crap. ENOUGH with fucking Seabiscuit already. I don't CARE. Actually, the only movies I think I care about for the rest of the year are that Tom Cruise in Japan thing...Last Samurai or something, just because, well, it's Japan and it's Meiji period, and Meiji Japan is cool; Bad Boys II, because the first one ruled, and, well, Will Smith likewise rules; Matrix Revolutions for the obious reasons, and Return of the King for just as obvious reasons. And I swear when the DVDs all come out, I'm going to sit down and binge on LOTR DVD watching for like a day straight. It'll rock.

In other news... Kings of the French is almost done. I've got what may well be the last reign. Hopefully. It's about time. On to newer, more Holy Roman things.

And something else I was thinking about in the theater. People, for the most part, are simple beings. The world is a very complex thing, and we like explanations for all of that, but scientific explanations are generally pretty complicated, and they're not all that exciting. And we like excitement, too. So we revel in, well, mysticism, be it religion or funky New Age astrology in the newspaper. Whatever. Somehow we relate better to the stars controlling our lives or government conspiricies than free will or terrorism. It's easy. It's exciting. We like both.

And this thought, interestingly enough, I came up with while watching previews for, um, Tomb Raider, I think. And some funky Catholic supernatural mystery thing. *shrug* The mind is a funny thing.

Posted by Dwip at July 11, 2003 5:20 PM
Comments

I want to see Tomb Raider. Mmmm, Angelina.

Posted by: Whir at July 12, 2003 1:17 AM

You have suffered a humiliating space race loss. 660AD.

Ya, I guess, you know, if your neighbors are putting things into orbit in 660AD, you pretty much deserve lose.

Posted by: Whir at July 12, 2003 4:18 AM