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I'm in SoCal. It was 79 freakin degrees when I landed, WOOT. And it's supposed to get into the 80s. OMG so different from Seattle, which was at least sunny the day I left, but cold, so cold (and rainy and windy in the week before).
Before we left, my mom and I went to see The Woman in Black, because she looooooves horror films and I had just read the book. I'd heard before going in that they'd changed quite a bit from the book, so I was expecting that. It wasn't surprising, because even while reading the book I had no idea how they were going to turn it into a movie, when it was so short and much of it was establishing mood. All the stuff they added to make it scarier or whatever, I didn't actually have much of a problem with. They kind of had to, and some of it was an improvement over the book. However, I hated the ending. And by ending I mean like the whole last 20 minutes or so; the whole 'resolution' part of the movie. ( Why I hated the ending -- very spoilery spoilers for the book and movie. )
When we were in line for tickets, there was some lame guy behind us explaining the general premise of every available movie to his companion. That wasn't why he was lame. The reason he was lame was because I overheard the following: "Oh, The Women in Black. Yeah. That's based on memoirs. From World War II. It's about the soldiers' widows." Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wut? I mean, I guess I applaud his imagination and bullshitting skills (though it was based on a title that he got wrong)? But seriously dude, IF YOU DON'T KNOW, DON'T MAKE SHIT UP. :))
Before we left, my mom and I went to see The Woman in Black, because she looooooves horror films and I had just read the book. I'd heard before going in that they'd changed quite a bit from the book, so I was expecting that. It wasn't surprising, because even while reading the book I had no idea how they were going to turn it into a movie, when it was so short and much of it was establishing mood. All the stuff they added to make it scarier or whatever, I didn't actually have much of a problem with. They kind of had to, and some of it was an improvement over the book. However, I hated the ending. And by ending I mean like the whole last 20 minutes or so; the whole 'resolution' part of the movie. ( Why I hated the ending -- very spoilery spoilers for the book and movie. )
When we were in line for tickets, there was some lame guy behind us explaining the general premise of every available movie to his companion. That wasn't why he was lame. The reason he was lame was because I overheard the following: "Oh, The Women in Black. Yeah. That's based on memoirs. From World War II. It's about the soldiers' widows." Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wut? I mean, I guess I applaud his imagination and bullshitting skills (though it was based on a title that he got wrong)? But seriously dude, IF YOU DON'T KNOW, DON'T MAKE SHIT UP. :))
