If you thought I was boring before, wait til you read this entry

[valis2]

Hello flist...this is just one of those random entries.

I watched Dante's Peak last night. I saw it when it first came out in the theater, and a friend has it, so I thought, well, yummy Pierce, I'll watch it again.

This movie contains (er, spoiler alert, if you somehow have avoided this movie for several years yet still evince a desire to rent it some day):

• The hero who is tragically ignored until it is pretty much too late to do anything about it now


• The plucky older woman who is eccentric and stubborn (otherwise known as "The lake's turned to acid? Bah!")


• The heroine who multitasks at an alarming rate, somehow running a coffee shop, raising two children by herself, and finding time to be mayor of the whole town too


• A dog whose sole purpose is to get itself into danger so that the rest of the characters can run around pell-mell trying to find it


• A Super Kewl Truck with a Snorkel so it can drive across a river


• Exchange between two characters: "It's quiet up here." "Yes. Too quiet."

It also ends in the most bizarre way...with the hero trapped in a truck. I don't know why, but it just seemed odd when I first saw it, and then again this time. I know, there's still the happy moment where everyone embraces despite broken limb, but still, I'm so used to the typical action-hero-takes-a-bullet-to-the-thigh-or-shoulder-and-keeps-going thing. Having a film where the hero has to be rescued...hmmm.

Went shopping today. The malls were a nightmare. The parking was a nightmare. The shopping was a nightmare. Ugh.

Small moment of joy...my favorite drink, Oregon Chai, was on sale, and...they actually had it in stock. And it was a real sale, not a use-your-card-but-it's-only-twenty-cents-less thing. Instead of $3.99 it was $2.50. So I bought twelve. Yum. I should probably go back and buy more.

Yes, now comes the time of the year where I am panicked about money most of the time. It's nice being a crafter, but then you have to face up to the fact that there is no income coming in half the year. Which is why I have three occupations. Yep.

This is getting even more pointless than I originally expected. G'night, flist.

Comments

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Hahah, but you gotta LOVE movies like that. Cheesy to the max, with some cool special effects... I remember I rather liked Dante's Peak. The boat dissolving in a lake of acid was some pretty good suspence. And the old lady? How cool was she? And you gotta love the sweet kids rushing off to save their grandma (or was it the dog?) in a car they don't know how to drive...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's fairly amazing to me that the kids somehow made it to grandma's, despite the cloud of ash, the narrow mountain roads, and the incline. Then again, it is a movie.

It was the grandma and the dog, if memory serves me correctly.

[bob-the-mighty.livejournal.com]

You watched that ON PURPOSE?!?!?!?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes, actually...a friend loaned it to me.

[zakkati.livejournal.com]

I must have watched that film half a dozen times: usually when I'm collapsed on the sofa in a post-work vegetative state and changing channels is too much of a fag!

Strangely, all I remember is the amazing, melting Grandmother too.

Reminds me of that volcano film with Tommy Lee Jones(I think!)where city workers go into the tunnels to rescue people from a stranded tube-train; and in the end the boss-man picks up the unconscious driver and carries him to safety by wading through the volcano juice.

I'm rather concerned that all I recall about these films are people with molten limbs! Sick!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I was only half-watching it as I did other things, but it was worth it for the few amusing moments where I laughed out loud at contrived situations and ridiculous, science-free moments.