Connie's outing for Friday....
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1. I know I'm horribly behind the times, but I just want to confirm what everyone else has already said: Mandoo Bar rocks. Korean food is good. The service there is not to be believed. We'd take a few sips of water, and the glass would be refilled. As soon as we were finishing up the first thing we'd ordered, they brought the second, and when we finished that they brought the third, so we weren't trying to juggle several dishes on the table at once (we share our food when we eat out).
2. We saw War of the Worlds. I have yet to read the original by H. G. Wells, so my thoughts will be soly concerning the movie.
1. Okay, this is just a general thought about the whole thing - this is a piss-poor way of conquering a comparatively primitive people. I mean, sure, it's exciting to blow everything up, go on a little joyride, but when you're done you're left with a planet full of rubble you have to clean up. It's far simpler to just leave some sort of disease that targets humans (but not you!), or even chemicals. I mean, when I bomb the house to get rid of bugs, I don't actually bomb the house. I spray insecticide, then let it air out. Granted, you can't air out a planet, but with all that technology I'm sure there's some way you can spread a poison through the air and then minimize the effects once everybody's died.
2. Question number two is this. When I go out conquering worlds, and I decide to garden, I don't look around and say "Oh, gee, that's a nice place for a ha-ha, and some apples would be great there, but what this place really needs is more kudzu. Evil, red kudzu." I just don't. Do aliens really like having to mow the lawn 50 times a day?
3. So, everybody is being attacked, and killed - and why the fuck are the survivors converging on major population centers like Boston? Um, hello? That's stupid? You did not know in advance that the aliens were being felled by the common cold, so... stupid!
4. On that note, our main characters were stupid for driving on the roads if they didn't want people to see they had a working car. Brilliant plan. Remember what I just said about major population centers? Double that for roads. All a road does is lead you from one alien-infested town to another. Get off the road and into some deserted field. As a long term plan, this sucks, but in the short term I guarantee nobody's blasting the middle of nowhere. Well. There is the Ukraine.... Regardless, you're still safer away from the crowds of people.
5. People are just dumb, though. I can understand walking out in a freak storm to see where the lightning hit, but after the earthquake, and the monster rising from the ground, why the fuck are you standing around watching? RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! And the guy with the camera? Dude. I can vaguely accept that the electronics are working again, but you don't know that! Trust me, when monsters rise out of the ground and start blasting everything in sight, my first thought isn't to see if I can get this on film. Only a very select group of people are allowed this sort of stupidity, and they have a duty. I want to see a press badge on you before I call Darwin on your ass.
6. Weird axe guy scared me to death. Did he, or did he not, scream "serial killer"?
7. So, they're all in the basket, and the mouth/vagina of doom is eating people, and they just let it happen. But when our protagonist gets eaten, they all pull together and with the combined weight of obesity prevent this from happening? If this works, why didn't they try it before? Cool job with the grenade, though.
8. What on earth would the aliens have done once they'd eaten and vaporized their fuel source?
9. Why was the mom's house in Boston completely untouched? And why were they still there? That's not where I would be!
10. There was a lot less looting than I'd expect. And nobody seemed to have gotten religion and congregated in a church to pray while awaiting certain death. This makes me happy. (Nothing against getting religion, but that would not be my first choice at the end of the world. Well. Maybe.)
11. Felled by the common cold. Well, that's what it was in the original, anyway. I like that. It's a nice change from "Those plucky humans! No matter how insurmountable the odds, no matter how invincible the foe, they perservere! They rise up, and take control, only to go to their lawful place among the stars!" That gets boring.
12. Remember Star Wars, on Hoth, where they tripped the giant walking things? Didn't anybody think to try that here?
All in all, a fun day. Of course, combined with Shade's Children... I'm going to have such bad nightmares tonight. And nobody wants to play parcheesi avec moi.
Oh, and I like this icon, but the font is starting to get to me just a little bit. It didn't when I took it... If anybody can modify...?
Edit: *giggles* On the way home, on the train, some guy came on and started playing the sax. Loudly. Badly. After a minute or so, he promised to leave if he got money. We shouldn't give in to terrorists, but I thought a dollar was well worth some peace and quiet, inasmuch as one can get that on the trains.
2. We saw War of the Worlds. I have yet to read the original by H. G. Wells, so my thoughts will be soly concerning the movie.
1. Okay, this is just a general thought about the whole thing - this is a piss-poor way of conquering a comparatively primitive people. I mean, sure, it's exciting to blow everything up, go on a little joyride, but when you're done you're left with a planet full of rubble you have to clean up. It's far simpler to just leave some sort of disease that targets humans (but not you!), or even chemicals. I mean, when I bomb the house to get rid of bugs, I don't actually bomb the house. I spray insecticide, then let it air out. Granted, you can't air out a planet, but with all that technology I'm sure there's some way you can spread a poison through the air and then minimize the effects once everybody's died.
2. Question number two is this. When I go out conquering worlds, and I decide to garden, I don't look around and say "Oh, gee, that's a nice place for a ha-ha, and some apples would be great there, but what this place really needs is more kudzu. Evil, red kudzu." I just don't. Do aliens really like having to mow the lawn 50 times a day?
3. So, everybody is being attacked, and killed - and why the fuck are the survivors converging on major population centers like Boston? Um, hello? That's stupid? You did not know in advance that the aliens were being felled by the common cold, so... stupid!
4. On that note, our main characters were stupid for driving on the roads if they didn't want people to see they had a working car. Brilliant plan. Remember what I just said about major population centers? Double that for roads. All a road does is lead you from one alien-infested town to another. Get off the road and into some deserted field. As a long term plan, this sucks, but in the short term I guarantee nobody's blasting the middle of nowhere. Well. There is the Ukraine.... Regardless, you're still safer away from the crowds of people.
5. People are just dumb, though. I can understand walking out in a freak storm to see where the lightning hit, but after the earthquake, and the monster rising from the ground, why the fuck are you standing around watching? RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! And the guy with the camera? Dude. I can vaguely accept that the electronics are working again, but you don't know that! Trust me, when monsters rise out of the ground and start blasting everything in sight, my first thought isn't to see if I can get this on film. Only a very select group of people are allowed this sort of stupidity, and they have a duty. I want to see a press badge on you before I call Darwin on your ass.
6. Weird axe guy scared me to death. Did he, or did he not, scream "serial killer"?
7. So, they're all in the basket, and the mouth/vagina of doom is eating people, and they just let it happen. But when our protagonist gets eaten, they all pull together and with the combined weight of obesity prevent this from happening? If this works, why didn't they try it before? Cool job with the grenade, though.
8. What on earth would the aliens have done once they'd eaten and vaporized their fuel source?
9. Why was the mom's house in Boston completely untouched? And why were they still there? That's not where I would be!
10. There was a lot less looting than I'd expect. And nobody seemed to have gotten religion and congregated in a church to pray while awaiting certain death. This makes me happy. (Nothing against getting religion, but that would not be my first choice at the end of the world. Well. Maybe.)
11. Felled by the common cold. Well, that's what it was in the original, anyway. I like that. It's a nice change from "Those plucky humans! No matter how insurmountable the odds, no matter how invincible the foe, they perservere! They rise up, and take control, only to go to their lawful place among the stars!" That gets boring.
12. Remember Star Wars, on Hoth, where they tripped the giant walking things? Didn't anybody think to try that here?
All in all, a fun day. Of course, combined with Shade's Children... I'm going to have such bad nightmares tonight. And nobody wants to play parcheesi avec moi.
Oh, and I like this icon, but the font is starting to get to me just a little bit. It didn't when I took it... If anybody can modify...?
Edit: *giggles* On the way home, on the train, some guy came on and started playing the sax. Loudly. Badly. After a minute or so, he promised to leave if he got money. We shouldn't give in to terrorists, but I thought a dollar was well worth some peace and quiet, inasmuch as one can get that on the trains.
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Date: 2005-07-08 10:34 pm (UTC)How sad is it I am posting this when you are literally RIGHT through the wall from me? Ah.... livejournal. Gotta love it.
And that Korean place rocked.
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Date: 2005-07-09 05:06 am (UTC)though the whole machines underground thing was new. in the book they fall like meteorites.
people are, largely, cattle. in crises they do tend to congregate. fear is a powerful emotion - and the adrenaline rush often clouds thinking. people do dumb things like race back into burning buildings to rescue others. [death toll increases by one.]
ditto re: basement man falling apart psychologically under stress. [he seems to be a smushing of perhaps two or more characters.]
much was done for drama. as i recall, in the book, the central character was separated from his family early and did not see them again until all was over.
the red 'kudzu' was an alien plant. [the 'spraying blood' scene didn't clarify anything, plotwise.]
in the book, the people being collected were taken to camps - possibly to be 'farmed'.
in movies, people always hang around too long so the director can establish the story or whatever. but then, people do behave like cattle in large groups. [i'd not be waiting around to see what was coming up!]
how did our man know he only had a minute to get the kids sorted before the tripod got to his house? and what made him think he would be safe in another urban area? ditto on your point re boston ... sure a city that big would have been trashed as well ... [though that would dash the happy ending that spielberg likes.]
and thanks, but we can do without the religious moralising at the end.
spielberg would not show people as depreaved as they really are. certainly not americans in a crisis. [and certainly not post september the eleventh, two thousand and whatever.] that'd be 'unpatriotic' ...
and so on ...
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Date: 2005-07-08 10:34 pm (UTC)How sad is it I am posting this when you are literally RIGHT through the wall from me? Ah.... livejournal. Gotta love it.
And that Korean place rocked.
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Date: 2005-07-09 05:06 am (UTC)though the whole machines underground thing was new. in the book they fall like meteorites.
people are, largely, cattle. in crises they do tend to congregate. fear is a powerful emotion - and the adrenaline rush often clouds thinking. people do dumb things like race back into burning buildings to rescue others. [death toll increases by one.]
ditto re: basement man falling apart psychologically under stress. [he seems to be a smushing of perhaps two or more characters.]
much was done for drama. as i recall, in the book, the central character was separated from his family early and did not see them again until all was over.
the red 'kudzu' was an alien plant. [the 'spraying blood' scene didn't clarify anything, plotwise.]
in the book, the people being collected were taken to camps - possibly to be 'farmed'.
in movies, people always hang around too long so the director can establish the story or whatever. but then, people do behave like cattle in large groups. [i'd not be waiting around to see what was coming up!]
how did our man know he only had a minute to get the kids sorted before the tripod got to his house? and what made him think he would be safe in another urban area? ditto on your point re boston ... sure a city that big would have been trashed as well ... [though that would dash the happy ending that spielberg likes.]
and thanks, but we can do without the religious moralising at the end.
spielberg would not show people as depreaved as they really are. certainly not americans in a crisis. [and certainly not post september the eleventh, two thousand and whatever.] that'd be 'unpatriotic' ...
and so on ...
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Date: 2005-07-09 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-09 08:45 am (UTC)*perks* Garth Nix?
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