Sunday, July 30, 2006
Kerri-Anne: Hey I like your shirt!
Aidan: Thanks, I bought it cause it looks like an old couch.

Pretty uneventful weekend, but a few items of note:

1. Apparently it's Bruce Campbell week at Future Shop or something. On Friday me and Shaun hit the FS to find something to do that night, and we found not one but TWO hilarious-looking Bruce Campbell TV series, one called Jack of All Trades, where he's an American agent who has a horse named Nutcracker because he likes to jump onto the horse from high altitudes. The other I forget the name of, but it was more expensive so I only bought Jack of all trades to try out.

2. Finally watched Batman Begins. I thought it was fine, but still think Dale's review is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

3. Went to a pig roast! An actual pig roast! Truth be told we were slightly disappointed when the roast pig tasted pretty much like pork roast. Which, in retrospect, makes perfect sense. I don't really know what we were expecting.

4. Yesterday Shaun and I watched what I honestly think might be the worst movie ever, A Sound of Thunder. It's set in the future, where a time travel company lets rich clients travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs for thrills. Of course, they're not supposed to change anything, because of ramifications of changing the future. Naturally, something gets changed, future gets fucked up, chaos ensues. A decent enough premise. But they totally blow the actual execution. First of all, the CG is just HORRIBLE. Five minutes in, we see a yellow car go by, a grey car go by, a blue car go by...and then those same three cars, over and over again. Not to mention about 75% of the movie was very obviously shot against a green screen. It was terrible. Another bad thing was the changes. Remember in the Simpsons where Homer messes up the past? And there's like, Flanders as world leader, giant muffins as homes, insect people, etc. - all sorts of crazy shit? Well in this movie, there's ape-dinosaurs (which looked really weird), lots of plant overgrowth, some hallucinogenic thorn plants, and giant bats. And that's pretty much it, DESPITE the back of the box bragging about "lizard-men." Just horrible. After finishing it (which I had to convince Shaun to do, after he shut it off in disgust after the main guy killed a giant sea serpent underwater with a knife), we tried to think of something good about the movie, and honestly couldn't think of a single thing. Rating: 0/10.


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