Here's The Thing

I did the adventure thing and took 2 buses (would have been 3, but I decided to be healthy and walk downtown) to Roseville to see The Thing at 10 a.m. The theatre wasn't packed, but there were a good number of folks there. No one sat near me, THANK GOD and everyone was very well behaved.

The movie was actually okay. I didn't love it but I didn't leave all angry and shit like I did after Rob Zombie's Halloween. That may be because something happens at the end that put a big ole smile on my face. Overall, the movie does leave a bit to be desired. It is really just a bunch of half-hearted reinterpretations of scenes from the previous movie with a hint of The Thing from Another World thrown in. Instead of blood tests to determine who's an alien, it's teeth. We get a spidery thing again, but it's a little different this time. And instead of Keith David and Kurt Russell, we get Adebisi (yaaaaaaaay!) and some dude who was sooooooooo not Kurt Russell.

On the plus side, the acting was pretty good and the pace is pretty quick (almost too quick). Overall, I enjoyed spending that $5.

After the movie, I had a about 40 minutes before my bus, so I walked over to the Best Buy to look at movies. I watched Hanna last night and I kinda fucking loved that movie, so I wanted to buy it (which I did, on DVD). Well, lo and behold, there on sale for just $9.99 on the shelf was a blu-ray of John Carpenter's Halloween. Boughten!!! And next to that (not on sale) was the 30th Anniversary edition of Halloween II and the best part is that is that it includes Terror in the Aisles. Happy Dance!!!!

I really want to get a new TV for my living room because I want to watch blu-rays on a big TV.

I am rambling and losing interest in what I'm typing. I'm hungry. Will find food and my update this post later. Or this is as good as this is gonna get.