'this is like war of the worlds'
Aug. 3rd, 2002 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateGetting ready to leave last night, and Marny pins me: "We're trying to choose between The Rookie and Windtalkers. Which should we see?"
I'm not sure why she's asking me, since our tastes are, to say the least, divergent. But she's had surgery recently, so maybe it's the follow-up drugs. "Um...I think I'd slit my wrists rather than see either one."
Long pause. "But which one should we see?"
"Do you have any books?"
. . .
Anyway...Today Mom and I went to see Signs. Forced to sit in the third row, which led to twin bitch headaches from Hell and a realization of just how bad the local projection systems can be.
So. Looks like we've got the anti-Independence Day, which is not a bad thing. It's an old-fashioned little movie - you can see it being made in the 40s with Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart ("Wol--wol--Swing the bat, Merrill! SWING IT!"). And...it is War of the Worlds, which makes me happy no end since that's one of my favorite books ever, with a little Don't Look Now mixed in.
It'll probably sink like a stone. Go see it.
I'm not sure why she's asking me, since our tastes are, to say the least, divergent. But she's had surgery recently, so maybe it's the follow-up drugs. "Um...I think I'd slit my wrists rather than see either one."
Long pause. "But which one should we see?"
"Do you have any books?"
. . .
Anyway...Today Mom and I went to see Signs. Forced to sit in the third row, which led to twin bitch headaches from Hell and a realization of just how bad the local projection systems can be.
So. Looks like we've got the anti-Independence Day, which is not a bad thing. It's an old-fashioned little movie - you can see it being made in the 40s with Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart ("Wol--wol--Swing the bat, Merrill! SWING IT!"). And...it is War of the Worlds, which makes me happy no end since that's one of my favorite books ever, with a little Don't Look Now mixed in.
It'll probably sink like a stone. Go see it.