the whole studio caught transformers<\/i> after work on friday\u2026woot! k, before i get to the movie, i should just mention that i <3 the american method of movie-going. buy online, pick up tickets, kick and fight your way to a good seat. here its just a mess. we waited in line for about half an hour in the rain while being nearly run over by the tram because the line extended out into the street. our reservations were also \u201cwiped\u201d by some computer glitch they had\u2026that was super. on the upside tho, they assign seats, so we didnt have to fight for them. and they serve beer in the lobby\u2026surprise. the theater itself was pretty nice. we caught transformers<\/i> at the tuschinski<\/i>, an art deco theater built in 1921 (its been since modernized). the interior was still pretty grand tho. i tried taking a panorama with my cell phone\u2026the picture looks like shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nthe movie\u2026woot, eye candy up the ass. the detail on the transformers were just crazy. sorry mel, but the newer \u201cdetailed\u201d versions of the transformers are just infinitely better (for the cinema, mind you) than the blocky toy and cartoon versions. they wouldve just looked stupid and\/or cheap. quote our resident animation impresario alex\u2026(in a spanish accent) \u201cfuuuuck. thats crazy! fuuuuck! fuuuuck\u2026<\/i>\u201d etc etc. story-wise\u2026whatever. seriously, what were you honestly expecting from a movie based on a toy line and cartoon series from the 80\u2019s<\/u>? for what it was, it rocked. i asked for nothing more. megan fox made it all the better too. oh and the reviews were right about another thing\u2026shia lebeouwhatever rocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
some criticism tho\u2026the robots all looked similar, so it was hard to keep track of who was saying what and kicking the ass of whom. also, given some of the weaponry of the autobots and decepticons, how come they didn\u2019t just go apeshit more often? blackout sure as fuck used his cannons every chance he had. he fucked up an entire military base! for instance, that massive blade that slid out of optimus primes forearm\u2026he highlander\u2019d bonecrushers head clean off with it! where was it during his fight with megatron? starscream was criminally underused too\u2026bah. anyhoo, at least the sequels are guaranteed. i want to see some dinobots yo. and bring in the constructicons vs. omega supreme!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
REMAINDERS<\/b>
the rest of the weekend was surprisingly nice. no freak thunderstorms or anything. i think the sun was even out\u2026wow. i walked around with phil, a new guy from england who had just started last week. we roamed the area near the vondelpark, since he had been looking at apartment listings around that area. we roamed the neighborhoods saturday and sunday. saturday tho, something bad was kicking around my stomach, so we headed back to the house a bit earlier than anticipated. we made some good rounds on sunday tho, and even ate at the local wagamama\u2019s<\/i>\u2026ha. we actually passed by it by accident. it wasnt as good as i last remembered, but still good enough to fill me up. this week should rock too. one of our web guys, tang, is flying in from taiwan this weekend. and before that, im meeting up with a friend of marisa\u2019s here in amsterdam for foodage and drinks. woot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
the weather continues to be really frickin\u2019 weird. itll be freezing and pouring rain in the morning, hot and sunny in the afternoon, then back to pouring and chilly by early evening. amsterdam weather is pms\u2019ing. TRANSFORMERS: THE ASS-KICKINGthe whole studio caught transformers after work on friday\u2026woot! k, before i get to the movie, i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}