One of the things I most love about having a DVR is being able to save good shows to watch on nights when there’s nothing good on TV. Unfortunately, tonight I have to settle for watching Poseidon — a poor remake of a film I slept through when I was 5.
On the rare occasions when I manage to look up from the computer monitor — i.e., when the screaming gets loud — I can’t help wondering: just how much plastic surgery did Kurt Russell have before this film?
Seriously.
Meanwhile, having forgot all of the characters from the initial film aside from Shelly Winters, I can’t help feeling like Kurt Rusell is a bit too MacGyverish for your ordinary luxury cruise-going guy. Any second now I expect him to discover golf cart parts in the cruise ship’s disco — because the writing is that bad — and watch as an archipelago appears to ferry the chosen characters to safety.
The one good thing: watching Fergie drown.
Now here is the bad side of TiVo: the best crap you can record off of cable to watch when there’s nothing but stuff that’s worse than crap on TV is still, well… crap.
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July 1, 2007 at 4:50 am
Yet another sterling illustration of mindless, Grade A, American ramblings. Why not relay these useless comments to channel “E” and broadcast it to all the other cretins across your nation. The USA is a nation that choses to isolate itself from the rest of humanity in order engage in its own self-indulgent, hollywood culture of popcorn and oreos.
Kate, do you actually embrace a heritage that stems beyond the age of Warhol? Honestly, I have not met a single yank whose personality can not be artificialy packaged and sealed in a brown paper envelope. Your people, including yourself are so transparent it boggles the mind!
go soak up some culture beyond Kurt Russell woman! go and visit the halls of Imhotep, Darius, Semiramis or anything!!!!
salam
July 1, 2007 at 8:38 am
Darius,
Wow, an ad hominem attack from a misogynist elitist. How surprising. Plenty of culture to soak up where ever one looks for it. But there is a difference in choosing to engage in education or wanting to engage in entertainment. Why don’t you do exactly what you implore, enjoy some life outside of your own little world?
July 1, 2007 at 12:10 pm
It never fails to astonish when people feel the burning need to trash other people’s blog musings. If I don’t like something I read, I don’t comment. Just as I would change the channel in order to avoid watching trash on TV. But no, I guess some people are so filled with their own self-importance that if they didn’t share it, they might explode.
July 1, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Oh, Darius and his ilk like to stop by on a regular basis and mess with me.
When you live in a place that prevents men and women from having a nice dinner together at a restaurant, outlaws alcohol and porn, and doesn’t even let you enjoy a nice BLT now and again, well, you gotta create your own entertainment.
July 1, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Yes, I guess so. Poor things.
July 2, 2007 at 10:27 am
Thanks, Darius, for reminding us that idiots are a global phenomenon.
July 2, 2007 at 10:35 am
Also, that people in Turkey evidently don’t pay attention to their own news or anyone else’s, for that matter.
July 2, 2007 at 10:51 am
Yes, well, our resident village idiot here is so well traveled, he doesn’t need to read the news. He’s been there, and knows the facts, right? By “gentle arts”, one can only assume he means this sort of thing.
I have to say, though, that he’s done a fabulous job of using those $5 words. Technically, everything he said was correctly constructed, but I’m afraid I’m at a bit of a loss (being a stupid American). That bit about your conservative streak being illegitimate lost me completely, given that your hubby isn’t in Iraq and your devotion to him is fairly obviously anything but mindless.
July 2, 2007 at 10:11 am
Darius mahdi 23, Imam Ghazali
block 5, street 8
Tabriz, Iran
Dearest Kate,
If your idea of entertainment is Alcohol and pornography, then you are more warped than I ever thought. Have you considered the possibility that some people may extract joy in this life from the gentle arts? Also, there is not one arab country, including non-arab, such as Iran, and Turkey that prohibit a man and a woman to be seen together. You see Kate you have never traveled outside the sphere of America so I do not expect you to know these things. Truth is Kate, this conservative streak you have is completely blind and illegitimate since it is a product of your mindless devotion to your mercenary husband currently serving in Iraq no doubt.
salam
July 2, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Ignoring Darius, because he is simply not worthy of note…
The first Posiedon Adventure was decent. This modern remake was complete and utter crap. The ending was spectacularly bad, considering the remarkably poor amount of engineering thought that went into it.
Consider: This cruise ship supposedly has bow thrusters. Bow thrusters are nothing more than propellers turned sideways and mounted in tube that goes all the way through the bow of a ship. This particular ship had two propellers per tube. To make thrust, both of those propellers will have to turn the same direction (or at least impell water in the same direction), otherwise they will just cancell each other out.
Guess what the film-makers did? Cancelled them out.
*sighs*
Leave it to Hollywood to frak up perfectly simple science.
July 2, 2007 at 2:04 pm
In all honesty, I fell asleep during the remake, too.
Guess the more I change, the more I stay the same.
July 2, 2007 at 3:51 pm
He’s all the way over in Iran? And he’s hooked on Venomous Kate in the USA? Wow. Kate, dear, you must be so proud.
Or maybe there’s just nothing else to do in Iran except bash foreign blogs.
July 2, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Yeah, I feel special.
Unless he’s my birth father.
July 3, 2007 at 3:58 am
Darius mahdi 23, Imam Ghazali
block 5, street 8
Tabriz, Iran
Kate, I want to have your babies.
July 4, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Seems as though “Darius”, or someone much like him, decided to visit my weblog and leave a little hate as well. Unfortunately for him, I edited it out, though, if it really was him, I would like to call him out as a liar – the individual in question lives in Kuwait, not Iran.
July 5, 2007 at 2:04 am
no, I am in Iran but I use a Kuwaiti proxy