Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Grrr. All day yesterday I was going back and forth on seeing Avatar today. "But I hate crowds! But it'll be expensive! But but but!" This morning I woke up and decided to go for it. But, to try to avoid crowds, I wanted to catch the first viewing of the day. 9:30 AM in one theater, 9:45 AM in one down the road. I was up and ready, so I headed for the 9:30 one.

Got there at 9 AM. It was sold out. Grrr.

Sped off to the other theater. Got there at 9:15. Sold out.

Grumble. What a waste. All that stressing and debating and worrying back and forth if I should go, and I ended up not being able to.

Guess my record of not seeing movies in theaters will stand. Last time I went to one was 2007...

(Edit: Unlocked. If anyone saw the main part of this post, just ignore it! I should have recognized that RP was hitting some RL buttons...)

This darned New Moon movie keeps tempting me. I love werewolves, and it looks like it's full of half-naked hot guys! Win-win? But I haven't read the books nor do I have interest in doing so, so... But the werewolf effects look soooo well done, and some of those guys are downright lickable!

Yay good weekend so far!

Last night: Cooking (chicken tacos) with tersa and a movie! Windtalkers, which had been on my list to watch. Turns out it was good to watch for a totally unexpected reason! My character in the RP that I've been doing for months was a soldier up until a week or two ago, and he's done that 'charging into enemy gunfire' thing. On one level, I knew what it would be like, but seeing it in the movie gave me a whole new level of understanding. (PS: What an amazingly insane thing to do. It's a wonder anyone survived those battles!)

This morning: PvP! Eeeeee! I did three hours of it! (I don't often get such a big block of WoW time.)

Dear FFXI: I say this in all fondness and respect: Take your Campaign battle system and compare it to WoW's PvP system, then fix yours. Love, Thistle

The PvP system is so amazingly handy. Sign up for the next available battle (which took at most 60 seconds this morning), and you get a popup window to accept being sent to the battle. Go ahead on with your usual game-life, no need to stand around and wait! No need to travel! No wasted downtime! Just endless battles!

I had stayed in the area I like most of the time (I forget the name of it, one of the two A-names, with the wolves. Frostwolf Clan, I think?). I finished up in WG just for something different, but the people were so nasty on the raid party channel that I gave up after that and just went offline and had lunch.

I keep trying to compare Horde and Alliance, perhaps I'm wrong to do so, but I can't help it. Is this something known/explained? In all my time doing PvP, Horde has only won once. Once in thirty or so battles. Is that just bad luck? (Doesn't overly matter to me, I have fun either way, it's just a curious thing.)

I think I did somewhat better today, though I think it was more battlefield related than anything I really did. For me, PvP works best when it's a big group of Us vs a big group of Them. No one on one, pleased to be ignoring the giant bullman shooting you from afar.

I'm glad I finally found something I really enjoy in WoW, though it surprises me it's PvP. It worries me how pleased I am when I kill people! I like being nice! ...but it sure is nice shooting people full of bullets! Heh heh heh.

This is my favorite part, the whole entire force riding out to battle on various mounts. :D

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. While technically really well done and wonderful to look at, story-wise this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Robots have no emotions. Robots have no feeling. Movie ends right there.

Even if emotions could somehow be programmed into robots, there would be no reason to do it for one like Wall-E. You really want a worker doing a redundant trash-related task to feel bored? Resentful? Angry at having to clean up after humans?

How the hell can you have a love story between two robots?

Grrrr.

Toss onto that perhaps the most heavy-handed "eco-message" I've ever seen in a movie, and I wanted to stab the screen through most of the film.

The only thing that could have salvaged this a little bit could have been the ending. If Wall-E had stayed 'reprogrammed' (or memory erased or whatever it was) it would have been a darkly satisfying end. But no! We must have a happy ending for the children!

And tell me why most animated movies need "wacky sidekicks"? Yeah, those defective robots were really important to add in...

I can't believe how many people loved this movie. Based on reviews I've read around in the net, I may be the only person in the world who hated it.

But seriously. Robots cannot feel anything. They cannot feel love. The movie was based around nothing but one giant flaw. *mumble*