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Veni, vidi, da Vinci
May. 20th, 2006 11:02 pmLast night I saw the Da Vinci Code with Eva over at the Winnetka 21. We also had dinner at the Applebee's Bar, where the service was kind of slow and forgetful (I wanted mashed potatoes, they brought almond rice pilaf), but generally good. I got pretty tipsy off a Strawberry Daiquiri, and it was the first time I got carded! :D All the other times (even when I'd been to that same Applebee's), I'd never gotten carded. Hee.
On to the movie: Don't trust the French. No, seriously. All that BS about it bombing at Cannes, critics laughing at the most critical scene, etc... bunch of horseradish. Now, I read the book first (about 2 years ago), and the movie was a pretty damn good adaptation. I didn't re-read the book before seeing the movie, so I'm unsure what may have been changed or cut out, but a good deal of the movie still managed to surprise me.
Eva and I rushed to the theatre from Applebee's on the other end of the parking lot, but there was no line, so we managed to get into the theatre all right. Problem was, there weren't any pairs of seats together, and plenty of people were "saving seats." I think that's stupid, but hey, until the show actually begins, it's fine. We got seats in some of the front rows, chowed down on our apple pie and ice cream pre-show time and sat back to enjoy the movie.
I will state for the record that almost any movie where Hans Zimmer does the music, I will enjoy it. I don't know why, but I LOVED the music in Da Vinci, and he also did the music for Pirates of the Caribbean. Go figure.
Controversy wise, the movie is an adaptation of the book. The book came out something like 2-3 years ago. Raising hell over a movie that is essentially saying the same thing as the book is lame. "Jesus had a wife, and she was Mary Magdalene. They had a child, and that 'royal bloodline' continues today." That's what the book and movie both claim. Yeah, there are historical facts that can back that theory up, but there are also plenty of facts that poke holes in what Dan Brown said. But the book was fiction, and so's the movie. I wish people would stop whining over it. FICTION. Anyone that's seriously got some faith in Jesus and the Christian way will do some research before renouncing everything they've ever believed after seeing a movie/reading a book. And any SMART Christian will know that ONE BOOK does not constitute "research."
Moving on, I had a weird dream last night that I only remember one piece of: "Lasschere." It's a name-- a man's name. I only remember that "Lasschere was thought to have fathered at least three children," but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw that. I have this weird impression that I read it off a screen, but... I still don't know. O_o
Now, onto YU-GI-OH!
Today's episode:
YUGI: We all know how you feel about him, Téa
ME: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!? (Like FUN Yugi knows anything about Téa's feelings for Yami Yugi. Okay, he might have an INCLINATION, but he's the one that loves her. No one EVER found out about how Yami felt about Téa, if anything. Likewise, Joey et. al. had an INKLING about Téa's feelings for him, but she never said it outright. WHY? For the same reasons I used in WDKY: she knows it would break Yugi's heart. Once Téa realized they were "separate souls" or "separate minds," she knew how bad it would be for her to be in love with one half of Yugi, but not the other half-- the "true half."
Nonetheless, that episode had me going "SEE! SEE! This is why 'Break' totally could have happened! No one ever bothers to understand a girl's heartbreak!" At least not in Yu-Gi-Oh... but it is a shounen series. :P I also think that I may have been plotbunnied, but with a BAD BAD fic idea. Like, one of those ideas that you think about, but it's so stupid, so it really ought to fizzle out. I really OUGHT to finish writing WDKY. Srsly.
Also, I noticed while I was working on WDKY24 that the Ani-Manga spells the combo-sphinx "Thinien," while the TCG card spells it "Theinen." I don't know why Upper Deck changed it, but the first spelling is Arabic for "two," which could make sense, considering Thinien is formed from TWO other sphinxes-- Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia.
The 'Andro' in Andro Sphinx comes from 'Androgynous,' even though it's probably assumed to be male, but is otherwise a genderless monster. There's nothing that LOOKS particularly female about Andro, though. However, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (from 1913!) says an Androsphinx is a sphinx with the head of a man and the body of a lion. The monster in question has neither. :P
Teleia is the interesting one-- Teleia was the name for Hera after she married Zeus, apparently-- the "grown up" version of the Greek Goddess.
And since I'm feeling somewhat sick to my stomach at the moment (stupid blintzes), I think that will be it for tonight. I slept too much anyway, so now I have work to catch up on. :P
On to the movie: Don't trust the French. No, seriously. All that BS about it bombing at Cannes, critics laughing at the most critical scene, etc... bunch of horseradish. Now, I read the book first (about 2 years ago), and the movie was a pretty damn good adaptation. I didn't re-read the book before seeing the movie, so I'm unsure what may have been changed or cut out, but a good deal of the movie still managed to surprise me.
Eva and I rushed to the theatre from Applebee's on the other end of the parking lot, but there was no line, so we managed to get into the theatre all right. Problem was, there weren't any pairs of seats together, and plenty of people were "saving seats." I think that's stupid, but hey, until the show actually begins, it's fine. We got seats in some of the front rows, chowed down on our apple pie and ice cream pre-show time and sat back to enjoy the movie.
I will state for the record that almost any movie where Hans Zimmer does the music, I will enjoy it. I don't know why, but I LOVED the music in Da Vinci, and he also did the music for Pirates of the Caribbean. Go figure.
Controversy wise, the movie is an adaptation of the book. The book came out something like 2-3 years ago. Raising hell over a movie that is essentially saying the same thing as the book is lame. "Jesus had a wife, and she was Mary Magdalene. They had a child, and that 'royal bloodline' continues today." That's what the book and movie both claim. Yeah, there are historical facts that can back that theory up, but there are also plenty of facts that poke holes in what Dan Brown said. But the book was fiction, and so's the movie. I wish people would stop whining over it. FICTION. Anyone that's seriously got some faith in Jesus and the Christian way will do some research before renouncing everything they've ever believed after seeing a movie/reading a book. And any SMART Christian will know that ONE BOOK does not constitute "research."
Moving on, I had a weird dream last night that I only remember one piece of: "Lasschere." It's a name-- a man's name. I only remember that "Lasschere was thought to have fathered at least three children," but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw that. I have this weird impression that I read it off a screen, but... I still don't know. O_o
Now, onto YU-GI-OH!
Today's episode:
YUGI: We all know how you feel about him, Téa
ME: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!? (Like FUN Yugi knows anything about Téa's feelings for Yami Yugi. Okay, he might have an INCLINATION, but he's the one that loves her. No one EVER found out about how Yami felt about Téa, if anything. Likewise, Joey et. al. had an INKLING about Téa's feelings for him, but she never said it outright. WHY? For the same reasons I used in WDKY: she knows it would break Yugi's heart. Once Téa realized they were "separate souls" or "separate minds," she knew how bad it would be for her to be in love with one half of Yugi, but not the other half-- the "true half."
Nonetheless, that episode had me going "SEE! SEE! This is why 'Break' totally could have happened! No one ever bothers to understand a girl's heartbreak!" At least not in Yu-Gi-Oh... but it is a shounen series. :P I also think that I may have been plotbunnied, but with a BAD BAD fic idea. Like, one of those ideas that you think about, but it's so stupid, so it really ought to fizzle out. I really OUGHT to finish writing WDKY. Srsly.
Also, I noticed while I was working on WDKY24 that the Ani-Manga spells the combo-sphinx "Thinien," while the TCG card spells it "Theinen." I don't know why Upper Deck changed it, but the first spelling is Arabic for "two," which could make sense, considering Thinien is formed from TWO other sphinxes-- Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia.
The 'Andro' in Andro Sphinx comes from 'Androgynous,' even though it's probably assumed to be male, but is otherwise a genderless monster. There's nothing that LOOKS particularly female about Andro, though. However, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (from 1913!) says an Androsphinx is a sphinx with the head of a man and the body of a lion. The monster in question has neither. :P
Teleia is the interesting one-- Teleia was the name for Hera after she married Zeus, apparently-- the "grown up" version of the Greek Goddess.
And since I'm feeling somewhat sick to my stomach at the moment (stupid blintzes), I think that will be it for tonight. I slept too much anyway, so now I have work to catch up on. :P
