Movies and Dreams
Aug. 13th, 2004 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigWent to see AVP today -- that's Alien versus Predator if you didn't know. Not a bad film all in all. I mean, you don't go see it if you want anything other than the movie geeks have been clamoring for ever since they saw a Gigeresque alien skull in Predator 2. It was a nice embellishment to the canon of both franchises, and while the plotline wasn't a surprise it wasn't exactly blatantly obvious from the start. There were some nice touches, like Bishop's little idle "habit" at his desk aboard the icebreaker, and of course the whole thing with Antarctica. (Anyone else remember the line from Alien? "Antarctica Control, this is the Nostromo...." Though it's also a nice tip of the hat to The Thing.) There were some likable characters which, well.... Let's not go there to give away too much. So my recommendation is, as usual, see it in matinee unless you're going with a group of like-minded individuals, in which case an evening showing probably won't disappoint. You may have to clobber someone who does Hudson or Dutch quotes, though.
Oh, I should talk about something I keep intimating about but never actually talk about. Lately I've been having... not recurring dreams, but recurring themes in dreams. Not every night, mind you, just something frequent. I'm back in uniform in one form or another. Usually I find myself back at SUNY Maritime as a student. Sometimes it's back in the Coast Guard. Infrequently it's a completely different uniform, or one I don't recognize. I tend to find myself preparing for a first day back or such, like a first day of classes or first day on the job. Usually this is what happens when I'm dreaming I'm back at Maritime, that I'm starting classes again or forming up for morning formation.
It's kind of odd. Going military again is not exactly my first choice of things to do lately (not that I even really have that option right now anyway) but it's kind of weird that I've been having these dreams with such frequency. Eh. it's probably some psychological thing that'd take me a couple of weeksto figure out!
That's about it for now. Pax!
Oh, I should talk about something I keep intimating about but never actually talk about. Lately I've been having... not recurring dreams, but recurring themes in dreams. Not every night, mind you, just something frequent. I'm back in uniform in one form or another. Usually I find myself back at SUNY Maritime as a student. Sometimes it's back in the Coast Guard. Infrequently it's a completely different uniform, or one I don't recognize. I tend to find myself preparing for a first day back or such, like a first day of classes or first day on the job. Usually this is what happens when I'm dreaming I'm back at Maritime, that I'm starting classes again or forming up for morning formation.
It's kind of odd. Going military again is not exactly my first choice of things to do lately (not that I even really have that option right now anyway) but it's kind of weird that I've been having these dreams with such frequency. Eh. it's probably some psychological thing that'd take me a couple of weeksto figure out!
That's about it for now. Pax!
