Watching the weather forecast last night, I was already sweaty and sticking to the sheets and cursing my finally-dead air conditioner when the cheerful bastard on channel eleven predicted today would be just as vile. I decided to take preventative measures, and acquired an abundance of ice cream and cold beverages including but not limited to things that can be mixed with Skyy.

My preparations did not end there, however - I decided that two hours total on an air conditioned train plus an additional two or three hours in an air conditioned movie theatre would be well worth the ten fucking dollars they’re charging now, and I finally went to see Attack of the Clones. Since - oh yeah - it’s also the Fourth, almost everyone else was out being patriotic and I had the better part of an entire digital theatre to myself, complete with arctic air conditioning and a gigtantic cherry Icee.

Regarding the movie, I’m going to chime in with everyone else and admit that it was definitely leaps and bounds beyond Phantom Menace, but that’s not saying much. Visually it was stunning - I haven’t seen it before so I can’t say whether the digital projection was a huge factor or not - and it wasn’t boring in the way that Phantom Menace was, but the acting was characeristically strained and the dialogue at times actually painful. I enjoyed it, but I’m curious how much of that is due to it being a Star Wars movie and the fact that my expectations were so drastically lowered by Episode I that it would have been harder not to exceed them. It’s exciting to see everything beginning to connect to A New Hope, but I wonder if I’d watched the movie as just a science fiction film in and of itself whether I would have gotten anything out of it at all. I suppose it doesn’t matter, since it is in the context of the other Star Wars episodes, but still. I’m glad I went, though, if only because I can look forward to the next one with at least a modicum of enthusiasm that I couldn’t begin to muster after Phantom Menace.

Tonight? Cold showers, cold drinks, ice cream, and possibly fireworks. I suppose it is a holiday, et cetera.

<qat^2> emma i told you to see bourne identity
<emma> qat i tried to sneak into bourne after clones
<emma> but they asked for my ticket :/
<qat^2> =(
<emma> i pretended i could not find it and then ran away
<qat^2> haha
<qat^2> really?
<emma> well
<emma> there was an escalator
<emma> so i GLIDED AWAY