I've just been watching movies for days cos thats all there really is to do in the loung room. We downloaded memoirs of a geisha and watched that. It was alright, true to the book and all, but if i hadnt read the book i dunno if i'd like it, or even really get the relationships. I also went out and saw fun with dick and jane with billy. That was also okish, not as good as i thought it would be. The best bits were the little boy speaking spanish, and the fact that 'dicks' boss had a big 'shred it! Shred it! shred everything moment and took off in a helicopter, cos the veronica mars parallells were huge.
We rented some movies yesterday, a little something for everybody. A lot like love for me, which i enjoyed but probably wouldnt see it again. It was like when harry met sally except without the brilliance. Still it didnt suck. And we got Ice Princess, i guess for me aswell. Just a goofy disney movie, dad cried in it though! And the girl in it was pretty much me. There was this one bit where she said something like she cant have a three word conversation with anyone she hasnt known since kindergarton, and i was just like SAME!!! We bonded in that moment.
And then we got war of the worlds for dad. And me and everyone i guess cos eeryone loves that movie. Its seriously the scariest movie i've ever seen. It gives me the total wiggins.
So yes lotsa video watching. Everyone, including me, has been rewatching firefly lately too. Its so much the best show (excluding veronica). I cant wait for serenity to come out on the 8th i think.
And yes this has been me lately, all with the hot and movie watching. How exciting is me. me is so exciting i know.
Is it bad that a squeel everytime i see a yellow car, not even an xterra?
Umm and since i've been TWoPing as i wrote this i've come across an article i'd like to share with y'all. Cos of the funny and veronica reference and joss is god...
Guest Columnist Joss Whedon Eyes the Future of TV
Many people have asked me, "Joss, what is the future of television? What will we watch? And how will we watch it? Surely you must know, for you are wise, and slender." I usually smile and say nothing, because I wasn't actually listening to the question. But it's a good one, and I think it's time I let you in on a few highlights of Television-to-Be.
The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today's shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI-based, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin' '70s beat. (Jerry Bruckheimer will also have conquered Broadway with the CSI musical "FOLLICLE!" starring Nathan Lane as a frenetic but lovable blood spatter and Matthew Broderick as lint.)
Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can't be copied. Therefore, look for the original series Misplaced, as well as Unfound, Not So Much with the Whereabouts and Just Pull Over and Ask!
In a stunningly cost-effective move, CBS will air How I Met Your Biological Mother, That Bitch, which is just old episodes of How I Met Your Mother with snarkier narration. HBO's Westminster will continue the trend pioneered by Deadwood and Rome by making 19th-century England really dirty and weird, like Jane Austen with Tourette's. (Actually, I can't wait for that one.) Also, the constant slew of cable mergers will result in the creation of CinePax, a channel that's just very confused about its morals.
Every year another film actress gets "too old" for film leads and finds a (sometimes much better) home on TV. This trend will continue a few years hence when the aging but feisty Dakota Fanning headlines CSI: Vancouver Made to Look Like Chicago.
Obviously, we'll see advances in technology. TiVo, iPods, streaming video — the way we watch TV is changing dramatically. It's on our phones, in our cars — even projected on specialized eyeglasses. But don't listen to the talk about having shows beamed directly into your brain. That's science-fiction nonsense. Shows will be stored in the pancreas and will enter the brain through the bloodstream after being downloaded into your iHole.
And what of me? My short-lived series Firefly was the basis for the epic action film Serenity (now available on DVD! I have little or no shame), and the future will see even more incarnations of this visionary work, as it returns to TV as Serenity: The Firefly Years, then back to film as Firefly: Serenity's Sequel, back to TV as SereniFly, and finally end as the direct-to-eyeglasses series Choose a Damn Name Already. I promise it'll be as heartwarming and exciting as the original Serenity, now available on DVD. (Explain again this thing you call shame....)
That's all I can tell you, except for one last thing: Veronica Mars will still be on. Veronica Mars will still be on. We clear about that?
Bye-ee!
hnk lyl
nicole