I have a big head and little arms. I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through.

[holytoastr]

Yesterday evening I stepped off the bus.... right into a big pile of dog poop. I was not happy.

Ben took me out to chipotle to cheer me up. We laughed at the max occupancy sign (17) in the restaurant because there had to be at least 30 people in there, not even counting employees.

When we got home, we watched Meet the Robinsons, which I had seen the ending of on tv a little while ago and liked enough to want to see the rest of it. It was a delightfully nerdy movie. It had little jokes all over the place going by so fast, I feel like I only caught half of them. The Todayland part made me laugh out loud. It had space mountain! :)

My favorite character was the villain, Bowler Hat Guy. Everything he did made me smile. Everything.


Receptionist: You're the two o'clock?
Bowler Hat Guy: Yes, I am!
Receptionist: [suspiciously] You're Mary Johnson?
Bowler Hat Guy: Um...yes. Mary's short for...um...
Receptionist: Marion?
Bowler Hat Guy: Um...can that be a boy's name?
Receptionist: Yes.
Bowler Hat Guy: Then yes!


Bowler Hat Guy: Now, to lure him out of the house... I know! I'll blow it up! Yes! Yes, and... uh... no... no. That won't work. Then he'll be dead. Oh, I know! I'll turn him into a duck! Yes, it's so evil! Oh... I don't know how to do that... and I don't really need a duck... this may be harder than I thought.

I read that something like 60% of the movie had to be re-done because it was so bad the first time around. I watched some of the deleted scenes. I'm glad they changed what they did. It made for a much much better movie. It would have been very sad and cynical without the changes.

After the movie, I crawled into bed feeling a lot better. But just as I was drifting off, I shot straight up! I forgot to go to the pottery lab! Ben tricked me!

Oh well. I'll try again on Thursday. Hopefully there will be no dog poo to ruin that evening.

Comments

[jizai.livejournal.com]

BHG is pretty awesome. I'm almost afraid to get the dvd now. When I finally caught this movie on tv I expected it to be dreadful and was so so surprised at how amazing it was... don't want to be let down again by how dreadful it was originally.

[holytoastr.livejournal.com]

You could skip the deleted scenes. :)

The big difference between the original and the final was that in the original, the Robinson family was trying to trick Lewis into feeling good about himself so he would fix the time machine. I like the final better where they actually all like him for who he is. It's a lot sweeter.