Saturday Double Feature
Aug. 14th, 2010 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenThis afternoon's event was a movie. Since between us we wanted to see two different movies, we compromised by seeing them both, with dinner in between.
First up was Sorcerer's Apprentice, aka Nick Cage Playing Nick Cage. It gets a special place in my heart for its stance that magic isn't much different from technology (just a different form of energy manipulation), which is a theory I've wanted to explore in writing for a while. Minus points for turning all magic into nervous system electrical energy, but at least magical fire can still be extinguished by a vacuum. I give the movie overall a solid "Eh"-- I don't want my 90 minutes nor my money back, but I won't go out of my way to see it again.
Dinner was Bar Louie, which is nice but somewhat spendy. Then again, there were five specialty drinks at the table (only one was alcoholic), so the food portion of the bill might not have been the spendy part.
Next was Scott Pilgrim vs the World, aka Michael Cera playing Michael Cera. I'm aware that there's some sort of source material for this, but I've never read it. Hence, I found the movie disjointed, and I had some believability issues with the plotline. The funny bits made up for it, enough to also give it an "Eh" overall. The difference between the two is that Sorcerer's Apprentice earned its rating by being pretty much "Eh" all the time, while Scott Pilgrim earned its rating by yo-yoing between "OMFG that's awesome" and "WTF was that?"
First up was Sorcerer's Apprentice, aka Nick Cage Playing Nick Cage. It gets a special place in my heart for its stance that magic isn't much different from technology (just a different form of energy manipulation), which is a theory I've wanted to explore in writing for a while. Minus points for turning all magic into nervous system electrical energy, but at least magical fire can still be extinguished by a vacuum. I give the movie overall a solid "Eh"-- I don't want my 90 minutes nor my money back, but I won't go out of my way to see it again.
Dinner was Bar Louie, which is nice but somewhat spendy. Then again, there were five specialty drinks at the table (only one was alcoholic), so the food portion of the bill might not have been the spendy part.
Next was Scott Pilgrim vs the World, aka Michael Cera playing Michael Cera. I'm aware that there's some sort of source material for this, but I've never read it. Hence, I found the movie disjointed, and I had some believability issues with the plotline. The funny bits made up for it, enough to also give it an "Eh" overall. The difference between the two is that Sorcerer's Apprentice earned its rating by being pretty much "Eh" all the time, while Scott Pilgrim earned its rating by yo-yoing between "OMFG that's awesome" and "WTF was that?"
