Jan. 15th, 2015

supercheesegirl: (stop hammer time)
Apparently the last time I posted about movies was over a year ago. I have no time to see movies these days but it's not THAT bad.

Last summer we went to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I hadn't seen the previous movie, but it was followable enough. It had its kickass moments - an ape shooting off a machine gun riding on a horse jumping through leaping flames, for example, which was just so laughable - but overall it was way too violent and depressing for me to be watching. If I'm going to take time and spend it watching a movie, it needs to not leave me feeling miserable afterwards. Meh.

At some point in the last godknowshowlong, F and I watched The Hangover as well as the first half or so of The Hangover Part 2. They are really funny movies.

On New Year's Day, we left f with my parents for a sleepover and went to a hotel for a night off. (The hotel was maybe 2 miles from my mother's house, and we stayed in the room for pretty much 22 hours straight. What?) While there, we watched most of Harry Potter #5 (the one with the Triwizard Tournament) as well as some portions of The Hangover Part 3 (we basically caught the very beginning and the very end). We also watched The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which we both really wanted to see and liked a lot.

Finally, on January 3 we got a babysitter and went to the movies. We saw Wild, the film based on the book by Cheryl Strayed. I really loved it and thought it was a successful adaptation.

OK so I've seen, tops, 4-5 movies in the past year. That's not too terrible, right?
supercheesegirl: (conan the barbarian)
My first books for 2015 were books 4 and 5 in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Because the events in the two books are happening concurrently - Martin split half the characters into one book and half into the other - I read both books simultaneously according to this chapter order. It was a big reading project that I'd been wanting to do for a while, and it was fun. However, goddammit George R.R. Martin, stop killing people off, or rather, please kill off all these extraneous characters who made you put one book's worth of material into two books and then get back to what's happening with the damn Starks. I don't care what's going on in Dorne.

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