What I’ve Been Up To…

Wednesday, 23. December 2009

Sorry I haven’t really been around for a while… In these past few days I had to bake five different types of cookies, babysit my niece and nephew, do my Christmas shopping, go to the hairdresser, have a Christmas party, finish a book, go to the movies (twice, or actually three times, except that I didn’t get to see a movie one time) and do loads of things and my digital life got pushed to the back burner.

Here’s to hoping that things are kinda back to normal now.

Anyway, breaking news first:

Avatar sucks. Avatar is Dances With Wolves, except that the wolves have six legs and wings and the natives are blue. Avatar is much too long. Avatar is sexist and racist. And I’m really glad that I didn’t have to pay for my ticket. [More on that in my actual review.]

[And my apologies to B. and abstrakt that I didn't go with them as planned, but I got an offer I couldn't refuse. :)]

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But…but…but…I we all wanted to go together!!!! *wails*

I hope you realise that I’ll be spending considerable time on plotting your forfeit… (Be afraid! Be very afraid!)
by deadra Wednesday, 23. December 2009 at 15:16

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- Well, you should have told me that you changed your mind about watching it, shouldn’t you? ;) Anyway, it’s not so often that I can go to the movies with my brother-in-law, so I took the chance I got. :)
  
  And you can’t plan anything until you get your things for the LG done. First things first. :)
  by kalafudra Thursday, 31. December 2009 at 14:59
  
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It was very chauvinistic. In every sense of the word (race, gender, age, disability – you name it). Sucked that the only decent female characters all bought it. And if I were in Greenpeace I’d be seething, it really did have a strong “the environment is beautiful butterflies and puppies, let’s hug a treeeeeee!” sort of message.

But hey, I’m a sucker for 3D glasses and Aussies making good in Hollywood. And we did get the preview for “The Wolfman” which looks like it’ll either be awesome or dreadful, at least piqued my interest…
by liberrydwarf Monday, 28. December 2009 at 9:43

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- I’m really looking forward to the Wolfman – though you’re right: there’s not much wiggle room: Either pure AWESOME or pure TERRIBLE.
  
  Anyway, chauvinistic really is a good word for Avatar. In basically every aspect.
  by kalafudra Thursday, 31. December 2009 at 15:01
  
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