Weekend roundup

[thistlechaser]

I made a decision: If I don't watch at least one thing from Netflix most every week, I'm going to cancel it. Most things in my DVD queue are things I'd see if I have to have something sent to me, not things I want to watch. My instant queue is a little better but not by much. (I never knew I was so little of a movie person; I spend hours going though the Netflix catalog and can't find anything I want to see.)

As part of that, I did the software updates and stuff to make me able to watch movies instantly on the Wii (thus on TV). That helped a bit. (If I only watch things on the computer, it's a pain because I have to keep flipping back and forth with WoW.)

I watched the new Star Trek movie, which wasn't bad. I'm not sure if I would have liked it more if I had watched it with 100% of my attention or not. Seemed like a typical summer movie.

The other movie I watched was Frozen. I went into it expecting it to be one of those "so bad it's good" movies. It got half of that right... Cut for "spoilers", as if this movie could have such a thing. So get this plot: Three (utterly unlikeable) college kids are skiing. They go up on the ski lift and suddenly it stops. Then all the lights go out. Oh nos! The New England resort (that location is important) is shut down for the week because of a holiday and a snowstorm! They're trapped!

One guy jumps off and breaks both legs. This scene was highly gross, they showed the bones sticking out of his flesh and blood splurting and all that.

Then... a pack of wolves shows up! At the posh New England ski resort! They eat guy #1, leaving guy #2 and woman up in the lift. Guy #2 decides to climb over to the next lift seat thingie and keep climbing until he reached one low enough to jump. For some reason the lift cables are "razor sharp"... The guy's hand becomes hamburger after the first few moments, but he keeps climbing...

While that's going on, Girl pees herself. Seriously, they show her crotch getting dark and then the pee dripping down into the snow. She also loses her hat and one glove. Instead of doing a reasonable thing, like keeping her bare hand in her coat, she falls asleep holding the metal bar. Her hand freeze to it...

All this time, none of them have their coats zipped all the way up. Snowstorm, days on the lift chair, frostbite, coats open.

I have no idea what happened to Man #2. There was a graphic shot of someone getting eaten by the wolf pack, but I have no idea which of the guys it was (or if the pack killed someone else!)

Girl's lift chair falls down basically on its own, making it low enough for her to jump... then it falls on her leg and breaks it. She eventually crawls within touching range of the wolf pack feeding on a man and makes it to the road and gets rescued.

Wow, I can't believe I typed all that out, the movie was not worth the effort of writing this up. The characters were horrible, more bad things just could not have happened, and WTF wolf pack in New England... Add on top of that how graphic the blood/violence was... Sheesh.


And in non-movie news: I found a new (new to me) market in WoW. The money is seriously good (I made 10K in just over a day), but I decided it's too much work for me. I have more money than anyone in a game would need, so I'm just going to sell off the stuff I have now and try to resist buying more mats.

I kind of envy that blogger I was annoyed at (the one who gave away all the goldmaking secrets), it would be nice to be able to openly talk about this stuff to folks. Ah well, maybe one day when I quit.

New Kitty is settling in. It's so strange having a young cat! She runs around and explores everything and wants to play lots. She can sleep anywhere and in seeming any position! Such as almost upside-down. The pillow has her butt up in the air, all the blood must be rushing to her head!

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Girl's lift chair falls down basically on its own, making it low enough for her to jump... then it falls on her leg and breaks it.

Wtf, that's just like stupidly convenient for the movie. And why wasn't that dude who tried to climb down the wire wearing gloves? Also, I know the ground would be hard below but like...how stupidly do you land when you break your legs so hard that the bones shoot up out of you...Bah.

Yay crazy kitty! Cats can fall asleep in positions I never understood. Our feral would sleep on the top railing that was like, 15 feet above the stairs and than your hear *thud* and she'd run back up the stairs, jump on the railing, go back to sleep, then *thud* again like half an hour later.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Everything was like that! The most awful stuff just happened to happen, over and over!

And why wasn't that dude who tried to climb down the wire wearing gloves?

He was! Arg! *pulls hair out* He gripped the cable ONCE wearing GLOVES and his hands ended up as bloody hamburger.

Ha! I'm glad your kitty never got hurt!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently that wire was made of braided razors instead of braided steel. I mean, I wouldn't want to climb down it with bare hands and your gloves would probably end up a little ripped and torn but if it's that or sitting in a chair in the cold for an undetermined amount of time...well ya.

As for cat, she was built like a tank. Jumping off shit (like the house for example) and falling off stuff all the time. Although when she got older and finally did injure herself once (twisted her leg or something) she stopped jumping off things or getting into positions where she would fall.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently that wire was made of braided razors instead of braided steel.

Nope, it was braided! When the girl's lift seat was slowly starting to fall, they showed the wire breaking strand by strand... I have NO idea why that would be sharp, let alone "razor sharp".

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I wonder why the wires would break at all anyways. I mean, I don't claim to know what I'm talking about here... But if they were to take a week holiday and close down I would assume there would probably be a chance of snow or at least a dusting and stuff might ice up when things melt during high noon and then quickly freeze up again nearing the end of the day. So, I would assume that the extra weight placed on all the carts by all that extra crap is FAR more then the weight of 1 unlucky skier...

Not to mention that if the cables were in such a bad condition that they were able to snap like that then maybe they should have used the time off to perform some maintenance (and probably replace the cables!) and thus find the girl in the chair. Damn you horror movie logic!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

If we're looking at logic holes, how could three modern day college kids not have a single cellphone between them?! This should have been so simple to solve:

1) They shouldn't have been forgotten on the lift to begin with.
2) They should have had phones to make a call for help with.
3) THERE ARE NO PACKS OF WOLVES IN NEW ENGLAND

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to forgive the first one. I mean, shit happens and people forget things. If the resort was taking a week off it's likely that the people manning both ends were just wanting to get the hell out of there for their time off then anything else and might have skipped some more time consuming steps to get out of there sooner.

As for the other 2, between 3 college students I believe statistically they should have had 7 and a half phones on them at the time (totally made up statistic). And wolves...well it was either that or bears. Even then a single (or a couple) bears don't nearly have the dread of a whole pack of wolves surrounding an idiot with broken legs on a ski slope.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they did try to explain how they got forgotten, but... seems like there should be more safety things in place.

Hmm, wonder why they stopped at just wolves? Why not wolves AND bears! Bears are about the only thing bad that didn't happen to them. Oh, that and food poisoning from the pizza they ate between ski runs.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Better yet, why didn't one of them have like an anxiety attack (because he left the 7 pills he has to take daily since he doesn't know how to deal with well, reality at the resort) and start rocking the chair, forcing the other 2 to throw him out of the chair to the ground, where he would break his legs, THEN get eaten by wolves. After that just for atmosphere when they are ripping into his corpse have bears come out and chase of the wolves and eat him from there!

After that, the only place to go is land sharks.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You, sir, should have been hired to write this movie instead of whoever they went with!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, Hollywood has yet to realize my brilliance.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

One day! One day they will!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

No, we need to have Bigfoot show up! He will eat the bear and fall in love with the female student. They will live happily ever after and raise hairy children.

...

The scary thing is, I actually work for "Hollywood." XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And then the girl can sing and the wolf pack will come running to frolic around the happy couple!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Yay! *throws pink glitter*

I should quit typing. My brain is fried from the 4 day jam session with the cutesy tummy bears.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it could work, although we might have to call him Sasquatch. Would hate to offend the people out there with big feet after all.

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

I was going to write Sasquatch, but could not figure out how to spell it. Now I know! XD

We certainly do not want to offend the Society of Bigfooted People. Or the wolf conservation groups, or the bear rescues...but college students are fair game!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they risked offending the braided steal wire unions by using such a low quality wire to hold up those lift chairs.

But of course college students are fair game. What are they going to do? Tweet about it? *scoff scoff scoff*

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

I...a ski resort that doesn't make sure everyone's off the lift before turning it off? And shuts down the whole place without warning? Wolves in New England?!

I don't even roleplay without doing the minimum amount of research. These people have no business making movies.

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

And that picture of your cat is adorable, especially with the toy mouse near her paws like she passed out in the middle of playing. D'awe.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eeee, yes! The mouse was a gift from a friend, I took the picture to show him she likes it. :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm no expert, but seems like they'd send someone to check every lift car and be sure it's empty! Just to prevent this sort of thing.

And wolves. In New England. Big, healthy, giant ones. A whole pack of them. Living on a ski resort. I can't help but laugh at how stupid that is! :D

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

So glad your new kitty is settling in! I love all the energy that a young cat has, although sometimes they can be a bit TOO demanding...*grumbles at Miss Kitty and her blue mousie toy of annoyance*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm used to a cat who doesn't move more than to her food bowl and to the litter box as needed. A trip from her bed to sleep in a sunny spot was a noteworthy event! Ellie New Kitty is like a totally different animal. I sure did blink the first time she effortlessly jumped onto the kitchen table...

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Does she suddenly drop down in the middle of an exciting game and fall asleep instantly? It's so funny when they do that. (Yes, I'm easily amused. Especially by kittens.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! She hasn't yet! I'd love to see that though. She's two years old, which is semi-starting to become a reasonable mature cat, so she seems to know to stop playing when she starts getting tired instead of PLAYPLAYPLAzzzzz

[kelen.livejournal.com]

She looks like my cat, Gilroy! :)

as for Netflix, Mark and I canceled that after like a week. He loves watching movies and yet had everything watched in a few days. They have a really poor selection of movies. Or so we found.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eeee, then I can say that Gilroy must be quite the handsome cat! :D

It's funny, I got Netflix because there was so little I wanted to see on TV, but since then TV has always had the better options! So strange!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

My cats have calmed down a bit since their kitten days, but they still run all over the place. They'll cross the entirety of the house twice sometimes (Run out of my room which is at the front of the house, down the stairs, into the kitchen, into the dining room, and finally into the living room...which is at the front of the house.). They jump all up on everything, especially Anorio. We do not talk about the blinds behind my computer chair and the fridge.

I just wish Anorio would quit jumping from his cat tree onto the china cabinet.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! Mine does that insane running thing as well, though luckily just a couple times a day. Most of the time she's a reasonable, mature, sleepy kitty!