Why do lights look like little "X"s at night but circles during the day??? >_>
I watched my little town's fireworks out my kitchen window tonight, and they were pretty, but the entire time I was thinking "Why didn't you use this money to fix the damn town/school?!"
I don't usually watch many films, but the past week has been very, very boring. First, my dad rented The Pink Panther 2 and Inkheart, which we watched back-to-back.
I would like to say that the second Pink Panther movie should be ripped in half by a lawn chair monster and any further sequels should meet the same fate. It was pathetic! The characters described by the first film are ruined. Clouseau is replaced by a racist idiot (not a funny idiot anymore, a regular one) and Ponton is a complete wimp. I wanted to see him, now more than ever, hit Clouseau in the face like he's supposed to! Also, this was not a mystery story, because you could figure it out within a few minutes of the movie's start. Now, this isn't to say that the first film was lovely, and that this one doesn't do it justice, but I at least laughed a little at the first one. This was worse than Disaster Movie, and that's saying something.
Now, Inkheart! <3 I liked this movie- thought the idea was cute. Even though it had a very abused general plot format, I thought it was fairly decent. There is one inconsistency I noticed in the plot, however. Near the beginning of the film, when they are trapped in Capricorn's village, Moe reads the Great Storm out of the Wizard of Oz to create a diversion and help them escape. Then he, his family and Dustfinger (spelling?) go about leaving. While they're driving away, Dorothy's house falls out of the sky onto the road behind them. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is with Toto inside the house when it is lifted. The storm drops the house on the Wicked Witch in Munchkin Land, Oz, with Dorothy soon stumbling out. So! Dorothy and Toto are outside the book, in the house, on the road to Capricorn's village. Now the mistake I think there is: Before the second capturing of Moe's daughter, she is in the author's house, and wants to know if she has her father's magical ability. So, she takes the Wizard of Oz book from before, and starts reading about Toto. Surely enough, he appears on the floor, startled. But he's already outside the book somewhere. Why do movie writers do things like this? Aren't they professionals???

Thursday night we watched The Island of Dr. Moreau, which was very odd. It's an older movie, so the blood looks like Strawberry Quik, (>.<

and it really ruins the drama of the scenes. The movie is about a pair of sailors who wash up on a tiny island controlled by a mad scientist. Or, well, it's about one sailor, because, for whatever reason, Dr. Moreau kills one of them mysteriously on the day they arrive. Other than the Doctor, the island is populated by his mercenary assistant/body guard; a young, Asian woman that he bought for a dozen eggs when she was eleven years old (just ew); and many, many miserable animals that he has tried to turn into humans. The next ship visit to the island won't be for two years, and the sailor (Radick) must go along with the Doctor in order to be safe. The Doctor's settlement lies within a massive, wooden wall. Outside the animal people are able to roam around, and they are very unfriendly toward humans for obvious reasons. I don't want to ruin the plot, because I think this is a feature worth watching, but it's fairly obvious what will happen before the film is over.
We also watched Dead Again. It was the weirdest movie I've seen Robin Williams in, and the weirdest character I've seen him play. It was one of those stupid, centered-around-past-lives movies...
I'm sorry if this journal is very unorganized/poorly written, but it's late and I'm yawny.