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Feb. 18th, 2008 03:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progTaking a break from the thon at home. Just wolfed down a Dunkie's egg sammich. Will return to Starship Somerville presently.
It's been a strong thon so far, actually. I enjoyed "Cloverfield", the surprise opener, despite knowing everything about it and expecting not to like it. "2001", my big fear, went over all right. Far from restless, the audience was silent to the point of reverence. When hecklers' grumblings became louder than murmurs, they were loudly shushed.
I found myself not at all bored through the parts that aren't boring, but I was counting the minutes ticking past otherwise. I'd forgotten that it's not just the Blue Danube-scored scenes and the psychedlic stuff at the end, but the pacing of many bits on board the Discovery. Those pods sure do take a long time to rotate. But, it's been exactly 10 years since the last time I saw this movie (which I've seen many times all told) and I used these slow bits to reflect on ways my life has changed since the last time I watched these very frames flickering past. So that was all right.
"The Last Mimsy" makes me want to spend time around children again. As did conversations with the enthusiastic little girl one row up, attending the thon for the first time with her dad. We debated gently over whether the Martians from George Pal's "War of the Worlds" (the 10pm show) were scary or silly, or some of both.
It's been a strong thon so far, actually. I enjoyed "Cloverfield", the surprise opener, despite knowing everything about it and expecting not to like it. "2001", my big fear, went over all right. Far from restless, the audience was silent to the point of reverence. When hecklers' grumblings became louder than murmurs, they were loudly shushed.
I found myself not at all bored through the parts that aren't boring, but I was counting the minutes ticking past otherwise. I'd forgotten that it's not just the Blue Danube-scored scenes and the psychedlic stuff at the end, but the pacing of many bits on board the Discovery. Those pods sure do take a long time to rotate. But, it's been exactly 10 years since the last time I saw this movie (which I've seen many times all told) and I used these slow bits to reflect on ways my life has changed since the last time I watched these very frames flickering past. So that was all right.
"The Last Mimsy" makes me want to spend time around children again. As did conversations with the enthusiastic little girl one row up, attending the thon for the first time with her dad. We debated gently over whether the Martians from George Pal's "War of the Worlds" (the 10pm show) were scary or silly, or some of both.
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Date: 2008-02-18 01:44 pm (UTC)