Sunday, August 8, 2004

That's the sound of inevitability.

I've been watching movies today. Actually, I've been watching movies all my life, but that's kind of digressing from the point here. Right now, Angelina Jolie is Lara Croft and she's kicking some big, scary, stone man ass. Before that, The Matrix was on. And before The Matrix was Romeo Must Die. All of which I have already seen, probably too many times. The other night I had the pleasure of seeing The Manchurian Candidate, and I really, really enjoyed it. It was intense, and even a little scary, in the way that you hope your senators aren't that corrupt and crap like that doesn't actually happen. The camera angles were pretty interesting, as well. They seemed to emphasize the entire mood of the film itself, which is pretty cool. I'd like to see the old movie, and also read the book that it was based off of. Should be interesting. I don't have any pictures developed yet, and honestly, I don't think I'll be getting around to them in time. I'm going to try, of course, but it's kind of expensive, and I've got about seven or eight rolls of film to get done, not including the new one from Universal. Even after I get them done, I'll have to scan them, and once I'm back in Tallahassee, it's going to get even harder. I think Shin took better pictures anyway. =P It was a lot of fun though, like I said before. Despite some early traffic and trouble with my damn park pass (don't even ask), we got into Universal Studios and began our lovely day with the newest and coolest ride there, Revenge of the Mummy. I was quite happy to learn that Orlando's version is better than the one in Hollywood. I bite my thumb at you, Universal Hollywood! After that, we just continued down the road and went on whatever ride popped up next. Since we got there as the park opened, the wait times for the rides were generally easy. At least, for the first few hours. Around noon, however, some of the rides began to hit the 60-70 minute wait time, and that's when it really starts to suck. We ended up not going on Men In Black or Back To The Future because the queues were so incredibly long. Eventually we headed over to Islands of Adventure and waited the 75 minutes for Spider-man. Which wasn't actually 75 minutes - it was more like 90 minutes, but who's counting? Well actually, this one lady was. Just as we were getting on the ride, this woman comes up and starts bitching out the guy seating people about how the wait time said 75 minutes, but she'd been waiting for a whopping 85 minutes and that they should change the sign and that they should be on the ride and blah blah blah. I can't tell you how much I despise people like her. It's a theme park - you're going to wait in line, lady. If you want to cut the time down, get yourself an Express pass. Otherwise, quit your bitching and wait like the rest of us. Anyway. Spider-man is awesome. It's probably one of the best rides in the park, besides the Hulk. But our friend Shinmaru doesn't like rollarcoasters, so we didn't go on them. Spider-man, however, makes up for that. It's just really freaking cool. I was thinking, too, that Shinmaru is also very lucky because the music and the big beach-like fluffy balls they were bouncing around in the line are a relatively new addition. First time I've seen them, at least. It definitely makes the waiting so much easier, heh. Okay, I've got to run now. I'll try and do more later. Keep your fingers crossed for the pictures. ^_~

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