Another day, and a little more work on the short story. It’s sometimes like pulling teeth, but I think I recognize the mouth. (If that makes any sense.) And then it was a couple of movies.<\/p>\n
First was Batman & Robin<\/i>, which I’ve subjected myself to before but did this time with the Rifftrax<\/a> commentary. (The movie is almost unbearable even with<\/i> the funny mockery.) And then I closed the evening on a more serious note with The Hunger Games<\/i>.<\/p>\n I thought the movie actually improved upon the book in some places, though notably not<\/i> in the book’s best and most powerful scenes. I’m thinking this might be less of an issue in the sequels, as best<\/i> scenes were in increasingly rarer supply. (I wasn’t too fond<\/a> of Mockingjay<\/i>, the third and final book.) This one felt simultaneously rushed and over-long, but it’s a well-painted future world with some good casting, so that helped. This is probably damning it with faint praise, but it was<\/i> better than Batman & Robin<\/i>. (Then again, there are certain types of cancer that are better than Batman & Robin<\/i>.)<\/p>\n So that was my Wednesday. Including last weekend, I’ve now been off for five days, and there’s two whole weeks of it still ahead of me. Frankly, at this point, that seems a little ridiculous, but I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another day, and a little more work on the short story. It’s sometimes like pulling teeth, but I think I recognize the mouth. (If that makes any sense.) And then it was a couple of movies. First was Batman & Robin, which I’ve subjected myself to before but did this time with the Rifftrax commentary. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,14,28,12],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}