Convenience Food for Thought
It occurs to me that one could cut Will Ferrel’s character completely out of Wedding Crashers and the movie would have not only made just as much sense without him, it would have been better. Bringing in Will Ferrel at the end of the movie was a bit like eating expired ice cream… it leaves a bad taste in your mouth after what had, up until then, been a perfectly decent meal. I’m not saying Wedding Crashers was groundbreaking cinema or anything, but it really wasn’t necessary to bring Ferrel into it, especially since he’s given the only role he was ever particularly “good” (and I use that word liberally) at: an over-hammed jackass. I say he’s good at it because every time he plays an over-hammed jackass, it’s more irritating and smack-you-upside-the-head stupid than the last time he did it. There really isn’t even any point to introducing his character in person (especially not 20 minutes before the end of the movie). Everything revolving around him is re-iterated in following scenes. You could completely cut out his exposition at the beginning of reel 7 and just leave him with a cameo at the end of the finale wedding, and nobody would even notice.
In other movie news, everyone must go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as soon as they possibly can. I’m serious.
I’m nowhere even close to being packed for Mysterium yet… I should do that. I haven’t even bought a shirt. I should do that too. I’ll probably be packed Wednesday… or knowing my luck, Friday morning right before I leave. Blah. I’m looking forward to this year, largely to see what sort of spirits I can expect the rest of them to be in once Cyan moves on to something else entirely. I’m pretty certain that from now on, these things are going to be pretty small in size, with the lure of new product demonstrations not dragging people in by the plane-full. If the focus has, in recent years, drifted away from simply meeting up with your online friends, as many claim it has, after this year, either things will swing back to the way they were in 2000 and 2001 (and 2002, for that matter… nobody knew Cyan would be presenting at ‘01 or ‘02), or it’ll just all fall apart. Personally, I’m hoping for the former.
And now, a Mac aside. I’ve noticed that right-clicks don’t register on the Dashboard… did someone at Apple forget that two-button mice can be used with the OS and not program event handlers for it?
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