Monday Stuff, Movies, Shopping

[kybearfuzz]

Monday was pretty busy, a big cue of how the rest of the week will go. I dread tomorrow as I'm expecting some drama and fireworks at the office. Such is life. If it were always on an even keel, I suppose it would be boring.

I had a follow-up appointment regarding my ultrasound from a few weeks ago. Nothing troublesome, just hearing the results from the actual doctor who sent me for the exam. All is well.

After the appointment, I went for a jog and then decided to hit a movie. The Final Destination in 3D was pretty good. Same formula as the other three, one guy foresees a horrible, death-filled event at a race track. In getting his friends and a few lucky others away from the track in time, he saves them from an immediate death, but one-by-one they meet an untimely and creative demise on their own. It's violent fluff, but entertaining. I'm not sure I'd buy it, but I'd see it again. There's no extra scene at the end.

After the movie, I wolfed down a dinner at Qdoba and then headed to Kohl's to do a bit a shopping for my upcoming overseas trip and found a nice green shirt that will go well with a favorite tie of mine. I'm still looking for a few things, but I have nearly a couple of weeks to go.

My last stop was the comic book shop. I found a couple of 1970's back issues of "Superboy and Legion of Super-Heroes" that I didn't have, so it's been a grand day for a Monday :D

Comments

[squirreltot.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear everything was OK from the Doc.

Did you look up any Midnighter comics?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Ah, I knew I forgetting something. I'll have to look for that on the next trip. I need to keep a running list of the comics I want to look for. Maybe I'll plug it into the iPhone for quick reference.

[anziulewicz.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the first Final Destination. The "Big Bus Scene" remains one of the high points in horror cinema.

I ADORED Final Destination 2. Here's the review I posted on Amazon:

"The "Final Destination" film franchise has one purpose: To show a variety of attractive, self-absorbed, brainless young people get snuffed in a variety of very imaginative ways. And trust me, it doesn't get much more entertaining than this. Each movie consists of a succession of elaborately staged set pieces, each of which is designed to toy with the audience until one person's gruesome death finally takes place. These set pieces often have a delightfully "Rube Goldberg" quality which constantly fakes out and misdirects the viewer. And trust me, these people deserve what's coming to them. Show some guy tooling down the interstate in his Hummer, yakking away on his cell phone about what girl he plans to poke next, and you know that he is destined for a horrifying demise. This second installment in the franchise doesn't have a great yell-out-loud shock like the first movie (Think: BIG BUS SCENE), but it's still tremdously entertaining. My partner and I had a ball in the movie theater. We LAUGHED and LAUGHED and LAUGHED .... "

I was disappointed by Final Destination 3, the one with the roller coaster. It seemed lacking in the ghastly humor of the first two films.

All that having been said, do you think I should see the new one?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think you'll enjoy the new movie, if only for the usual elaborate death scenes.

And I wonder if you enjoyed the first two more because they were written by the same person, Jeffrey Reddick. I actually went to college with the guy, though we were not much more than acquaintances. It's nice to see someone from my neck of the woods do well.