Kevin's musings

Just got back from The
Return of the King. It was quite excellent. I happen to
think the third book is the worst of the lot. The Sam and Frodo
stuff in there is endless and not very exciting. The battles in
the book are good tho. The movie made the Sam and Frodo parts
interesting and the battles were cool. Very nice movie. Its a
toss up between this and the first one wich was better. Will
likely have to see it again, and of course get the deluxe dvd
version when it comes out.

Just suffered thru The
Hulk. Oh my ghod was it bad. Here’s some general rants
about this fetid pile of parrot droppings. (My apologies to
parrot droppings).

Why is it that most recent movies insist on making dialog so soft it’s
hard to hear it, but making the explosions and other stupidity
so loud it breaks your speakers? I guess it gives more dramatic
impact to the move, but I find it so annoying that it’s hard to
describe. When watching the DVD at home I tend to keep a window
(yes, I watch moves on a computer) open on my laptop logged into
the move machine with the mixer up and ready. I have to turn it
up for dialog and down for big boom shit. Fucking Hollywood.

This movie had about 1 dimension. Ok, so you show a cute collage of
Bruce growing up in the credits, but that doesn’t really make us
care about him. There wasn’t really any character there. How
about some footage of him before he hulked? Why should we
fucking care what happens to him? Why?

Granted that the military isn’t the smartest thing in the world, but
they should be able to learn from their mistakes. Why on fucking
earth would they keep trying to kill the hulk when they know
that it’s just making him madder and madder?

Special effects are fun, but hours and hours of them in a row is
boring and useless. Without any kind of a story or anyone we
care about at all, special effects just make your move cost more
and us madder that we wasted time watching it.

Jennifer Connelly
is cute and all, but thats not enough to make a movie. Well, a
non porno at least. Of course on one of the irc channels I
frequent, the discussion was: What happened with her breasts?
She was flat (and very cute) in labyrinth. Then she was gigantic
in the rocketeer. Goggle seems to say that she did have
reduction surgery, and also lost weight and had a
kid. Personally I liked her best when she isn’t as endowed.

Why do they always have to make a ending so they can have the opening
for the sequel? Christ. I sure hope there isn’t a sequel to this
craptacular POS.

I had a bottle of wine with dinner and the movie tonight. I should
have opened the vodka. Or perhaps the bottle of ever-clear.

Well, back from investico field. It was pretty grueling, but not
particularly difficult work. Some observations (in not
particular order):

The volunteers/employees at investico park at the Denver
Colosseum. Since the check in is done at the stadium, you could
in theory take advantage of free parking and shuttle bus by just
using it.

There were lots of security drones around, but they were quite low
key. I was kind surprised that there was no search or walking
through metal detectors. I could have walked in with whatever I
could wear no problem. Not sure what checks fans have to go
through.

I found it kinda funny that they were talking about being very strict
on some things (beer rules mostly), but yet had a list of names
of people who were mucky mucks and should be given whatever
they want.

So you spent a ton of money for a ticket to a game and what do you do?
Stand around and look out the view and wander around. I many
times heard my co-workers (who cared more than I about such
things) ask someone what the score was and they had no idea.

When I explain to you I can only sell you two beers, don’t keep trying
to let me sell you a third one. There was this otherwise nice
seeming lady that kept trying to get me to sell her another
beer. Sheesh.

Our booth ran out of pretty much everything by the end of the 3rd
quarter. Some things we started out not having. 6 bottles of
water sold out in about 15min before the game. The coke was gone
in one of the dispensers from the start, and the other died
before halftime. We were thinking it was because it was the last
game of the season and they wanted to get rid of as much as
possible so they didn’t have to deal with it off season.

Broncos games have big spenders. I can’t recall the number of 100’s I
got. Lots of 50’s. Carding everyone was I thought a good way to
do it. Some of the older folks were very happy to be carded
again.