Drifting off (Movie, FFX!, RL)

[thistlechaser]

If anyone had told me that I would not only like The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but I'd actually sit through it twice in a row, I would have laughed at them. I can't watch movies, I have the attention span of a gnat and cannot sit still and do nothing for two hours straight. Plus a Fast and the Furious movie? Ha ha ha.

I watched Tokyo Drift twice in a row, and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot. I'd willingly watch it a third time now and wish I hadn't deleted it off Tivo. (Hey wait, I can recover it! Yay! *does so and turns it on~.)

Part of me is still boggling over that, but another part sort of understands it: It was a bright, flashy movie with stuff always going on on the screen and a great soundtrack. It kept my attention! Bright lights! Bright colors! Cars driving fast! Music that had me bouncing in place so I wasn't just sitting there doing nothing!

I've never understood auto racing as a "sport", so I was especially amazed to actually enjoy the racing scenes. They were cool! They were so fast and wild! Amazing! And so damned scary that stupid kids would go home and try them!

More than all the flash and eye candy (so many sexy Japanese girls~), oddly I found myself enjoying the characters and the storyline as well. Yes, it had logic holes big enough for the cars to drift through, and yeah, it was highly odd that most Japanese people spoke English and somehow the main character understood Japanese pretty well at the end when he did nothing but speak English to the Japanese folks, but still, it kind of worked for me.

And even though I didn't see the second one and I'm not even sure I saw all of the first, I really liked the ending and how they seemed to wrap all three movies together.

FFXI: I've not been posting lately because I'm doing exactly nothing in game. Or next to nothing, I guess. I do H&C and digging every day, and Besieged when I can catch it, but that's it. A whole week of that. Today I RPed all day (been forever since 12 hours of straight RPing, yay!) and didn't even go digging until 8 PM. OMG did that suck, but it was my own fault for waiting. :P 20 stacks of greens and only got ~60 items in Woods/Thickets, gave up.

RL: Cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning. Trying to get the apartment in shape. Need to take a run to Goodwill or someplace like that tomorrow to drop off a load of stuff.

Wish I could sleep! Arg! Today, for no reason at all, I woke up at 6 AM! Sleep in, brain! It's the weekend! Woke up at 6, got up at 6:30. Was highly depressed.

Comments

[tacrozar.livejournal.com]

To some people... eating is a sport.

So auto-racing definitely has to be a sport. I like CART and Nascar racing alot. Its fun to watch on TV. If you remember (long time ago) there was a game called Daytona 500. I loved that game.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

To some people... eating is a sport

Don't remind me. That's the last thing the world needs... :/

I'm not a sports fan in general so I could be totally off, but to me a sport is where someone runs around a lot. A ball may or may not be involved, but it should be the person doing the work. Half the time I say (mostly to tease baseball fans ;) ) that baseball isn't a real sport because they do what, run a couple steps then stand around scratching themselves, then maybe run a couple steps more? That's not much work! ;)

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Baseball is so a real sport. >.>

Seriously, most people can't field a *routine* groundball. And covering the outfield is a lot of running!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And covering the outfield is a lot of running!

I'd pay to see US baseball players playing in "real" (EU) football games. Soccer. Running and playing for hours non-stop. :D That would be highly amusing, until they all started falling over dead of heart attacks. ;)

[quistie.livejournal.com]

I've all sort of respect for the real football, so I'm not gonna suggest that baseball players require the same level of fitness as football. Baseball is still an amazing sport though.

Don't make me bring out the Terence Mann defense...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I guess you could look at it the other way, too: What if soccer players had to be able to hit a little baseball and catch them with mitts and stuff. Different sorts of training needed on both sides...

[tacrozar.livejournal.com]

Love your baseball comment. Its a sport.

Is swimming a sport? One of your definition says otherwise. A very loose definition of a "sport" that I've heard is "where someone trains to compete in an activity where there is a winner." This loose definition leaves much room for interpretation. So poker, chess, spelling bee, and yes eating is a sport.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'd be fine with calling swimming a sport. Poker, chess, spelling bee, eating? I won't ever agree with that.

But maybe there should be another word like 'sport', for things that fit "where someone trains to compete in an activity where there is a winner" yet are not physical at all.

[jehryn.livejournal.com]

I'm with you, I thought that movie was going to be awful with no Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, or Tyrese when I seen the previews. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was though.. I'd say I have watched it about 4 times now. I don't even like that kind of music and I enjoyed the soundtrack alot too

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I don't even like that kind of music and I enjoyed the soundtrack alot too

Same! While I don't hate rap, I don't ever really listen to it either. I can't believe how much I enjoyed it in the movie!

[jehryn.livejournal.com]

I liked the music that is playing when Bow Wow/Twinkie's car is coming out of the garage alot for some reason.

And can you believe that the main character is the same little boy from the awesome movie Sling Blade?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I liked the music that is playing when Bow Wow/Twinkie's car is coming out of the garage alot for some reason.

Yeah, and the closing song a lot, too. Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatro (something something more spanish). I probably misspelled those. :P

[pomr.livejournal.com]

All three Fast & the Furious movies I've seen have been quite good, and radically different except for the car bits. Racing is pretty much going to be...you know...people trying to get ahead of each other, sort of like a constant high speed pursuit. =) Tokyo Drift was one of the more enjoyable ones simply for how whack the concept of racing in a constant controlled skid is to me. :)

As for sports -- not my thing. Never have been. Baseball is a lot more activity than say -- bowling, or my personal favorite non-sport: Golf, to quote Rita Rudner 'Golf is the sport of men in ugly pants walking'.

Now...question...you say you have no attention span, right? Please to be explaining how it is that you can have no attention span yet:

1) you craft for hours
2) you wait for besiged or various other events for hours
3) you RPd for 12 hours -- you said you did!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Now...question...you say you have no attention span, right? Please to be explaining how it is that you can have no attention span yet:

Hee!

Crafting and RPing for hours on end are different. Especially RP, I'm typing and thinking. Crafting I have to push the buttons every, what, 20 seconds or so? And you never know the outcome! HQ, NQ, break?

Waiting for Besieged is boring, yes, especially if I do nothing but stand there. (But usually I use the time to catch up on LJ or whatever.)

Watching a movie is just sitting there. You don't even move unless you're eating something at the same time. I've never felt playing FFXI for two hours was like watching a movie for two hours because in the game you're interacting with stuff and making choices and what you do or don't do has an effect on stuff. A movie? You just sit there. You might as well not even have a body for all the good it does you. It just doesn't work for me. :)

Tokyo Drift was one of the more enjoyable ones simply for how whack the concept of racing in a constant controlled skid is to me. :)

Yes! And it must have been hell on their tires.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Clearly, Thistle was RPing as somebody *with* an attention span.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee! :D