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The weekend reportszdzdzas
Nov. 4th, 2013 11:30 amGot that extra hour Saturday night as we fell back!! Let's see. Saturday we went out and saw GRAVITY at the Imax at Square One in Mississauga. This is a great movie and you should completely see it right now; the 3D was the best 3D I've ever seen in a movie, it's full of "how did they shoot that" scenes that are frightening and beautiful at the same time, lots of "oh my god that's pretty much everything habitable we have in orbit destroyed" scenes, an aggressive use of actual physics and science behind everything, and a chaste callback to the opening of BARBARELLA.
After that we went to Target and bought a Brita water filter pitcher and some cat food and assorted household items. Then we went home and watched some more really forgettable Japanese anime direct-to-video titles from the 1980s: NORA, which is a tedious cliched SF computers-taking-over plot stretched out to an hour, and TWINKLE HEART, which is about three laser-gun-gals fighting giant monster stuffed animals and rescuing little happy stuffed animals and then at the end they are working in a diner. So it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Sunday we got up and went out to a flea market in Oshawa. Kind of on a whim. Found some neat stuff including a really early issue of CRACKED and an Acrobunch diecast robot from the 80s and a Mad Magazine flexi-single. Then we had BBQ sandwiches at a place in Pickering that has surprisingly good BBQ sandwiches. Got back, worked on the latest installment of ZERO FIGHTER, had delivery pizza and hot wings for dinner (HEALTHY EATING SUNDAY!!), noticed Let's Anime had gotten mentioned on Metafilter with subsequent sad commentary from offended video game fans, and watched the live-action HIMITSU NO AKKO-CHAN movie, which is the premise of the 60s manga (girl with magic compact that can turn her into anything) mixed with the recent spate of "little girl becomes adult magically, wacky hijinx ensue" movies, mixed with a typically Japanese plot of the good workers trying to save their good corporation from the evil takeover by the evil corporation that does not share their strong sense of corporate purpose. The corporation is a cosmetics outfit called, appropriately enough, Akatsuka (the original manga is by Fumio Akatsuka). Not a bad movie, I wanted more goofy kid slapstick, but what can ya do.
After that we went to Target and bought a Brita water filter pitcher and some cat food and assorted household items. Then we went home and watched some more really forgettable Japanese anime direct-to-video titles from the 1980s: NORA, which is a tedious cliched SF computers-taking-over plot stretched out to an hour, and TWINKLE HEART, which is about three laser-gun-gals fighting giant monster stuffed animals and rescuing little happy stuffed animals and then at the end they are working in a diner. So it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Sunday we got up and went out to a flea market in Oshawa. Kind of on a whim. Found some neat stuff including a really early issue of CRACKED and an Acrobunch diecast robot from the 80s and a Mad Magazine flexi-single. Then we had BBQ sandwiches at a place in Pickering that has surprisingly good BBQ sandwiches. Got back, worked on the latest installment of ZERO FIGHTER, had delivery pizza and hot wings for dinner (HEALTHY EATING SUNDAY!!), noticed Let's Anime had gotten mentioned on Metafilter with subsequent sad commentary from offended video game fans, and watched the live-action HIMITSU NO AKKO-CHAN movie, which is the premise of the 60s manga (girl with magic compact that can turn her into anything) mixed with the recent spate of "little girl becomes adult magically, wacky hijinx ensue" movies, mixed with a typically Japanese plot of the good workers trying to save their good corporation from the evil takeover by the evil corporation that does not share their strong sense of corporate purpose. The corporation is a cosmetics outfit called, appropriately enough, Akatsuka (the original manga is by Fumio Akatsuka). Not a bad movie, I wanted more goofy kid slapstick, but what can ya do.
