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mrlachatteWe dropped Lukas, my brother, off at Conrad Grebel today, which is part of the University of Waterloo. He's still in the same city as us, 15 minutes away by bicycle, but it's like a little part of our family died. On the other hand, I'm an only child now.
I spent last night watching Firefly, I finished episode 3 ("Bushwhacked") at 2am, was feeling decidedly creeped out so I watched the fourth before going to bed at 3am. The first and second episodes were fantabulous, 3 was spooky and 4 was over the top. I watched 5 earlier today, and I enjoyed it, and 6 is going well as we speak.
I saw Transporter 2 with friends today, it was positively terrible. The good kind of terrible, however, the kind you can make fun of. It had some of the worst one-liners I've seen in ages:
"Didn't your mother ever teach you to say thank you?" (after a death-defying cop chase)
"She tried, but failed miserably."
and about 5 seconds later:
"So we've escaped?"
(police chopped appears in front of the car)
"Think again."
(anorexic girl in lingerie with machine guns destroys chopper)
"Thought over."
The best line in the movie was definitely when "Frank" sped his car under a private jet that was taking off, jumped onto the landing gear, climbed into the plane and broke the co-pilot's neck, before confronting the villain:
"I'm sorry, this plane trip is cancelled."
(Villain raises gun)
"I'm sorry, you are cancelled."
There was a ton of product placement as well, there were Heinekin bottles in the fridge, an iPod that was featured for 10 seconds, and this gem of a line:
"Doctor is busy. Sit, listen Panasonic. Is American rap music, is good!"
Transporter 2 had the most improbable action scenes I've ever seen (including Sahara, which ended with the entire Nigerian army chasing after the heroes, led by the president from his missile-firing helicopter), but the trump scene involved a car with a remote-controlled bomb, and Frank flipping the car over in mid-air so that a dock crane just happens to scrape the bomb off of the undercarriage before it blows (the bomb, not the movie.)
All in all, a fun time. It was surprisingly missing any gratuitous sex scenes though, that's something the producers may want to consider for Transporter 3.
I spent last night watching Firefly, I finished episode 3 ("Bushwhacked") at 2am, was feeling decidedly creeped out so I watched the fourth before going to bed at 3am. The first and second episodes were fantabulous, 3 was spooky and 4 was over the top. I watched 5 earlier today, and I enjoyed it, and 6 is going well as we speak.
I saw Transporter 2 with friends today, it was positively terrible. The good kind of terrible, however, the kind you can make fun of. It had some of the worst one-liners I've seen in ages:
"Didn't your mother ever teach you to say thank you?" (after a death-defying cop chase)
"She tried, but failed miserably."
and about 5 seconds later:
"So we've escaped?"
(police chopped appears in front of the car)
"Think again."
(anorexic girl in lingerie with machine guns destroys chopper)
"Thought over."
The best line in the movie was definitely when "Frank" sped his car under a private jet that was taking off, jumped onto the landing gear, climbed into the plane and broke the co-pilot's neck, before confronting the villain:
"I'm sorry, this plane trip is cancelled."
(Villain raises gun)
"I'm sorry, you are cancelled."
There was a ton of product placement as well, there were Heinekin bottles in the fridge, an iPod that was featured for 10 seconds, and this gem of a line:
"Doctor is busy. Sit, listen Panasonic. Is American rap music, is good!"
Transporter 2 had the most improbable action scenes I've ever seen (including Sahara, which ended with the entire Nigerian army chasing after the heroes, led by the president from his missile-firing helicopter), but the trump scene involved a car with a remote-controlled bomb, and Frank flipping the car over in mid-air so that a dock crane just happens to scrape the bomb off of the undercarriage before it blows (the bomb, not the movie.)
All in all, a fun time. It was surprisingly missing any gratuitous sex scenes though, that's something the producers may want to consider for Transporter 3.
