I saw Despicable Me 2 yesterday and Pacific Rim last week. Pacific Rim was freaking amazing and I highly recommend it. Despicable Me 2 was okay, but I liked the first one better.
Oh, and comic.
Todd didn't just say "I'll call Lillian" because his parents haven't ever met the orphanage staff.
YAY LILLIAN SHE’S BAAAAACK
Also: f1rst p0st! w00t!
“Despicable Me 2 was okay, but I liked the first one better.”
I was afraid of that. I was thinking of going, but I think I’ll just wait for the video release. (Also I think I’ll pass on “Monsters University,” ’cause I haven’t seen the first one yet either.)
I don’t know, I’ll vouch for Despicable Me 2. My boyfriend and I laughed our way through pretty much the entire movie, and I really appreciated the character development that Gru displayed. They made sure to show time had passed, and that the characters had evolved a bit since the first movie. (Rather than simply rehashing the badguy-saddled-with-cute-kids dynamic of the first movie. This movie was more about them being a family, while dealing with a new plot.) I honestly didn’t expect that.
I think my big issue with it is they had so much potential for the final scenes that didn’t get used. Dunno how much more I can say on that without giving spoilers.
Also this working-nights-sleeping-days life I lead makes it difficult to slot the time for a movie in without sacrificing something else, like sleep—and I might fall asleep in the theater. With a video, I can stop or start it at will—you can’t do that in a theater. (Well, you could, but there’d be a riot.)
I think I’ll just wait for the next “Hobbit.”
I loved Pacific Rim and Despicable Me 2. Monsters University was rather MEH.
Frankly thought Pacific Rim was the best live action episode of evangelion that I’d ever seen!
Hahaha, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one seeing that!
Well, Monster’s University is a prequel. No need to have seen the first one.
And the obvious question is “wait, how do they know it’s toxic?”, which leads to all sorts of interesting plot discoveries.
Could be just like they know about her food allergies- trial and error at the orphanage. toxic doesn’t mean deadly at any dose. half a children’s Tylenol could have made younger Selkie very sick, so it goes in her record as “Things not to give Selkie.”
Alternately, “important man in a suit” could have given the orphanage some insight based on what they know about the species physiology under layers of government secret classification.
He did say, “Maybe it’s the other way around”. Aspirin, Salicylic acid, comes from willow trees, so it is plant based, thus toxic. Acetaminophen might be totally synthetic.
Aspirin, or, rather, acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is totally synthetic. Salicylic acid is the active bit found in willow bark and some other plants, from which it can be extracted, but ASA was first synthetized in 1853, and was made into the Aspirin brand, by the end of that century.
One way is a scratch test. Where you apply a small amount of different substances to a tiny scratch in the person’s back in a grid pattern and review the results over time. Itches horribly even if you’re not allergic to anything.
There’s several other ways to find out as well, including having an incident that would have been fatal if not for the application of a treatment like an Epi-pen.
And relatives could be allergic and it could be hereditary.
And some allergies are due to substances that can be identified in the blood. Like knowing about death from blood transfusion of the wrong sort.
My mother worked as a nurse for an Allergist for quite a while.
I am not a gilled, finned mer-creature but tylenol gives me migraines unless it’s in small doses/mixed with asprin. So I can take excedrin (for my actual migraines/stress headaches) but straight up tylenol or cold medication with tylenol in it gives me a super bad headache and also leaves me kind of twitchy/on edge/seeing things. It’s not deadly to me, but it’s not pleasant at all.
I was VERY disappointed in Monsters University. I guess I was expecting, I don’t know, MORE than what it was. Not to say it was a bad movie, but it just didn’t make me feel how animation movies usually do.
As for Despciable Me 2, I thought it was WONDERFUL! Naturally it wasn’t as good as the original, but the laughs were non-stop, and the reluctant love story was cute even for kids. (Side-note: I heard they turned down Al Pacino as the voice of the bad guy; he was “too over the top”. Hello? Have they MET Al Pacino?!?!?!)
I read that too! Apparently Pacino walked away from the project a month or so before it aired in theaters, after the character was fully voiced and animated and everything, over creative disputes, and they got a new VA to do all the voice work at the eleventh hour while also matching the already-animated lip-synching.
If the random Internet site I read is truthful, of course.
I honestly didn’t expect much from MU from the start. I would have been interested in finding out what happens AFTER they take over the factory, with Boo growing up, etc. But this prequel really had nothing to add to the story. We know they’re friends, so having them start out as enemies is kind of predictable. We already know that Children aren’t toxic (might have been nice to go into how that myth got started) so that lets some of the tension out of the cabin scene. And the storytelling itself was just very simple and linear, compared to how cleverly the world and story were established in the original movie.
It was an entertaining movie. There were good jokes, and Hardscrabble was a great character. But it really had little to offer beyond that. The story was too thin to really immerse yourself in.
This always bothered me about Monsters Inc. Are we *sure* children aren’t toxic? They never really prove that they’re not. Sully doesn’t instantly drop dead, but maybe he gets monster cancer five years down the road. I mean if just the sceams are volitile/chemically unstable enough to be the basis of your energy production… And even the good guys wear hazmat suits…
Creative Disputes usually means “not enough cash.”
Ha.
Well, you know, Abraham Lincoln said 75% of stuff on the internet is true.
I can say that Acetaminophen is a derivative of Aspirin so technically they would both not be good for her … I know that much because they both don’t work on me.
Not necessarily true. Aspirin and Acetaminophen block pain in two very different ways. Just because they are derived from each other doesn’t mean the chemical effect is still the same.
After all, Table Salt is a derivative of Hydrochloric Acid.
Due to past problems with ulcers, I can’t take aspirin or ibuprofen. So I take acetaminophen. But then, I’m not a merfolk — that I know of …
Pacific rim was every giant robot anime in one glorious package. I loved it.
My favorite way to answer the phone to my family/friends is “Jack’s Crack Shack! Girls clean until midnight.” I have no idea what the last bit means, but I got it from the webcomic FAMIB.
It appears to mean that the workers clean up until midnight… Oh, wait. Say that with an accent. Ah. Okay. Now it means the girls you get while you get your smack are drug-free until midnight;P
Here’s a Selkie-related question that popped into my head recently. If she can eat cheese, can she drink milk?
XD Gosh, what an odd comment among all of the others ones about aspirin and movies…
My guess (and it’s purely a guess, since I’m not Dave): she’s probably lactose intolerant. So, yes and no; her body won’t reject it, but it probably isn’t all that pleasant for her or for anyone around her.
(I see an opportunity for fart jokes, though.)
If she were lactose intolerant, cheese would upset her stomach as well though. I should know. I had it for years before I grew out of it. Lactose has to do with dairy, so my question is if she can eat cheese, does that mean milk is out of the question?
As if in, if she can tolerate cheese, then by that logic, she should be able to have milk too, right?
Is this the first time we’ve seen Todd’s phone wallpaper? Because I love it. Especially since it appears to be another Selkie drawing.
It’s not a Selkie drawing, it’s the logo of the Punkasaurus Rexes (the band that supplied Todd’s Andi-specific ringtone, and which Jessie loves).
Why do I remember this detail, Dave?
Because you’re secretly punk rock?
I had a lot of fun at Pacific Rim. I kind of wish they’d gone deeper into the Drift stuff, but it was a great giant robot monster movie, like Evangelion vs Godzilla with some Robotech thrown in.
Despicable Me 2 was cute. The minions keep stealing the show though…
Is she running a fever? If she is, then the aspirin or acetaminophen is good. If it’s more of a stomach virus or just a cough, then it won’t really help much. The aspirin would just make her stomachache or nausea worse.
And after everything is explained to Lillian, heads will roll. She won’t let the Trunchbulls roll all over Selkie and Todd. Todd’s allies are adding up now.
Nick Manly is right. I wouldn’t want Lillian mad at me for anything. And her knowing about the Trunchbulls will get Agent … um… Brown? (brain cramp, sorry) involved and from there the Trunchbulls are likely in for quite an unpleasant surprise.
Heh, reminds me of some of the other lines I use to answer the phone:
“You stab ’em, we slab em.”
“You kill ’em, we chill ’em.”
“You dice ’em, we ice ’em.”
And my favorite: “Florida Abortion Clinic- No fetus can beat us!”
I’m going to hell, I know.
Your comment made me choke soda through my nose. Well played!