Break a Leg

Last Friday I turned 32 years old.  Which means I'm finally starting to feel like I'm in my late 20's.  27 possibly.  It was well celebrated - my crew and I went and saw Watchmen, then partied at my house.  I did not get the random birthday hook-up as has happened in years past, but neither did I spend all night praying to the porcelain god, so I consider the night a draw.  Then I had lunch with the family on Sunday.  My mom made me a ham.  I love ham.

People often say that birthdays are a time for reflection, summing up the past year, and seeing what you've learned and can carry over into the next year.  I say bugger that.  I try to learn from life as I go.  If I had to collect a year's worth of experience and then right down everything only at the end, I'd forget a crapload of stuff.  I mean, I have a hard enough time remembering a phone conversation I had yesterday.  Live in the now!  Woo!

*Cough* Ahem. 

 So, Watchmen was interesting.  I haven't read the graphic novel, so I had no expectations about it whatsoever.  I like not knowing anything about a movie before I go into see it.  That way I'm not distracted by the changes or what is missing, and I can just focus on the movie for what it is.  Overall I thought Watchmen was pretty neat.  I thought it was pretty cool visually and I didn't mind the acting.  I did think the guy that played Osmandius was a horrible casting choice.  From one scene to the next I couldn't tell if he was supposed to have some kind of accent or not.  I thought some of the violence was a bit gratuitous, as was the amount of blue penis.

But I tend not to be overcritical of movies.  During the course of watching a movie, if something happens that bothers me in some way, I tend to just ignore it and forget about it as soon as something else happens.  I tend to evaluate movies with the following criteria:

1.) Did stuff happen?

2.) Did I stay awake?

3.) Did I gnaw through anything that I shouldn't have gnawed through during the course fo the film?

If the answer to these questions is Yes, Yes, and No respectively, then the movie is ok by me.  People with opinions bother me.

But that's just my opinion.

Happy Jenday!