No, wait for it--

[nekokoban]

I still think the coolest thing about "being an adult" is the whole autonomy over what I do and when I do it when it comes to socializing. So if, say, I come home from work and find zinjadu sitting in front of my door and going "dude, Harry Potter?" I can just toss my stuff down and head on back out without having to explain or justify or even really let anyone know where I'm going. (I mean, I did call my mom, but that was also a preplanned thing, and she would've fussed if I'd forgotten to call. Again.)

So, yes! Harry Potter movie -- I feel so accomplished; if not for my accomplices, there would be a very good chance I would not have seen it at all. 8Db But I'm glad I did, and it was definitely one of the cooler parts about being "adult." I mean, yeah, there's that whole job thing and the bills and the headaches, but there's also going to a movie and then holing up at a Red Robin afterwards with buddies and being. Kind of stupid, but that's par course♥

I also saw the Transformers movie yesterday, as part of a team outing (I can think of much worse things than an official company outing and being paid to see what was in fact a ver entertaining movie). Apparently I internalized more of the Transformers mythos from when I was a kid than I thought -- a lot of it was vaguely familiar in that tip-of-the-tongue (brain) sort of way.

The downside? I've seen the trailer for The Dark is Rising.

...

Christopher Eccleston, I do love you. But that trailer made me want to stab someone with the ice cream cone I was eating. :(

(I mean, okay, the friends I was with haven't read the book, so they agreed that it looked like a sort of generically cool fantasy movie. But as soon as I heard them going on about Will, Will, Will, I, I ... whut.)

And I still have roughly an hour before bedtime, so! Time to work on springkink stuff that's due Saturday. :Db

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[nekokoban]

I'd heard about the director's ... tendencies, which sort of makes me wonder WHY he picked up this series in the first place, honestly. But as I understand it, they're excising the pagan elements AND all the Arthurian references (and how's that for shooting yourself in the foot, given how heavily the sequels rely on the Arthurian element).

I confess I'll probably go see it, but I will also concede I may get thrown out of the theater for constant yelling YOU CAN'T DO THAT or the ilk. T_T

[half-shadow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's suppossed to be a beautiful mix of christianity/Arthurian christianity and paganism/Arthurian paganism. Geez.

Yeaaah, I think I'll probably "compromise." I'll probably end up downloading it, to see if by some miracle, the movie is decent... But if not, I've not given them any money and I don't get banned from one of the two theaters in Denton, Texas.