3 posts tagged “entertainment”
How are you spending New Year's Eve?
Hanging out with some acquaintances in a dry hot wooden house in central Melbourne - drinking Coca Cola and admiring the visuals on the Mac monitor belonging to my host. Now at home chilling out. Just cooked some gnocchi mixed with pesto for a late supper. Got a text message from my dad in New Zealand. Happy New Year everyone!
Film & TV writers are on strike, which means everything except reality TV could halt production. Do you support the strike? Are any of your favorite shows in jeopardy?
Shock - horror - maybe people will have to find other activities for a week. Like...erm...read a book, ride a bike or have a conversation. Either way society is unlikely to collapse for whatever amount of time it takes.
What movie did you expect would be terrible, but was actually really good?
I don't know if I could say this was really good - but I was surprised how much I enjoyed this Ashton Kutcher vehicle. Part of the reason I expected not to enjoy it was because the last thing I remember seeing him in was so bad I can't even recall the title. Unintentionally ended up watching the bad Ashton Kutcher vehicle twice because the teenage daughter of a friend did so and I was baby sitting her or something. It was about disasterous honeymoon where embarassing things kept happening to the groom and the bride's parents hated him or something - it was like a Z grade Meet The Parents, but it was incredibly popular for some bizarre reason. Anyway this is what I said about The Butterfly Effect on a facebook entry:
Difficult issues like child abuse dealt with in an interesting way. What would happen if many of us could remember certain incidents in our lives and then we had the power to go back and change them? Ashton Kutcher is surprisingly good and sympathetic as the time travelling lead. A bit silly and the cover makes it clear it's trying to be Donny Darko-ish - but it's good.
