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The Perfect Day to Feel Really Sick
Jul. 8th, 2019 11:00 pmMy son is at sleepaway camp. My daughter has a full day of day camp. My husband is at work. I only have two scheduled activities today, and one of them was canceled or at least delayed by the other party anyway. I did have to cancel my walk, however, which is a bummer.
I do not know if I just had too much soy milk (cereal for dinner) or if I ate something that had gone bad or what. No one else in the family is sick (knock on wood or whatever).
I watched Bumblebee today. I did not really feel like reading more, but was awake enough to move downstairs to the couch. I picked a movie that was not a kiddie movie (options there would have included live action Disney movies), and which we already owned. I was sort of hoping for Fantastic Beasts 2, but apparently we never bought that? I may give in and correct that soon.
Bumblebee is a Transformers movie. It is a prequel (I guess?) set in 1987 when Bumblebee is sent as a Scout to Earth to ensure the Autobots have a place to regroup to continue their resistance. Or whatever. Hailee Steinfeld is good in a role that could have felt way too much like Lindsey Lohan in Herbie: Fully Loaded. As it was, it felt like that on occasion, but more in a feel good homage way and not in a OMG what were you thinking sort of way.
I was the age in 1987 (down to within a few weeks, as near as I can tell) as Charlie is in the movie, so that was all kinds of weird. I tried to keep the carping about hairstyles down to a minimum. Her job at an amusement park results in some really fantastic backgrounds in those sequences. I could have wished that Memo had a bit more of a role — he was fun, and the interactions between the two were really relatable. I guess I now have a better sense of how people felt when Peggy Sue Got Married came out, who were that age in 195x and had pretty mixed feelings about that movie. The reference to being made about no reception and missing Alf was pretty hilarious. I sort of wished that the animated Transformers movie could have gotten an Easter Egg, because that came out the summer before this movie is set. I worked at a movie theater during those years, so it was really on my mind as I watched this.
I do not know if I just had too much soy milk (cereal for dinner) or if I ate something that had gone bad or what. No one else in the family is sick (knock on wood or whatever).
I watched Bumblebee today. I did not really feel like reading more, but was awake enough to move downstairs to the couch. I picked a movie that was not a kiddie movie (options there would have included live action Disney movies), and which we already owned. I was sort of hoping for Fantastic Beasts 2, but apparently we never bought that? I may give in and correct that soon.
Bumblebee is a Transformers movie. It is a prequel (I guess?) set in 1987 when Bumblebee is sent as a Scout to Earth to ensure the Autobots have a place to regroup to continue their resistance. Or whatever. Hailee Steinfeld is good in a role that could have felt way too much like Lindsey Lohan in Herbie: Fully Loaded. As it was, it felt like that on occasion, but more in a feel good homage way and not in a OMG what were you thinking sort of way.
I was the age in 1987 (down to within a few weeks, as near as I can tell) as Charlie is in the movie, so that was all kinds of weird. I tried to keep the carping about hairstyles down to a minimum. Her job at an amusement park results in some really fantastic backgrounds in those sequences. I could have wished that Memo had a bit more of a role — he was fun, and the interactions between the two were really relatable. I guess I now have a better sense of how people felt when Peggy Sue Got Married came out, who were that age in 195x and had pretty mixed feelings about that movie. The reference to being made about no reception and missing Alf was pretty hilarious. I sort of wished that the animated Transformers movie could have gotten an Easter Egg, because that came out the summer before this movie is set. I worked at a movie theater during those years, so it was really on my mind as I watched this.