I know this is a day early, but I probably won’t post tomorrow so I’ll say it now. Tomorrow (Monday, July 21st, etc), go over and wish Marisa happy birthday. I also know of someone who's first Xanga anniversary is coming up (Hint: look to your left)...
Speaking of which, Marisa wins this week, and goes down in Hump Day Trivia history as the first person to get all my questions right. Thank you everyone else who participated and/or showed support for it. It looks like there’s life left in Hump Day Trivia, after all. That said, I’m feeling lazy right now so just look at the answers that Marisa left in her comment if you’re really curious what they were.
True to my word, I now have a separate site for my quiz results, and the link is here. Note the two quizzes on the “footer” of that page are made by yours truly and I would appreciate you taking them. Okay, I’ll sometimes still post quiz results here, if I think the quiz is particularly interesting (I haven’t decided what I’m going to do with questionnaires yet, though for the most part they’ll stay at Tigersquizzes.
Now then…
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It seemed to be a boat-themed day yesterday, but it wasn’t my idea (it was my mom’s, and now she’s sick of boats and she’s trying to convince everyone that it was someone else’s idea). First off, we went to the Tall Ships Festival. The Tall Ships Festival was pretty much what it sounded like, featuring mostly historical recreations of 18th and 19th century ships (although there was at least one naval vessel there that’s still in use by the Indian Navy). It was held at International Park on the Maumee River on the East Side of Toledo. Some of the ships only offered day sails, but most of them were offering tours, though the lines were really long for most of them. There were about 10 or 12 ships offering tours, but we only went on three of them: The Pride of Baltimore II (which was a recreation of a ship from the War of 1812); the Willis B. Boyer (which is actually a retired lake freighter that is permanently docked at International Park but which they decided to include in the festival anyways); and a recreation of the HMS Bounty (actually, the Bounty we were on was the actual ship used in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando). I thought they were pretty cool, especially the Bounty, but my parents didn’t seem too impressed (which is probably why we only toured three ships). I took some pictures and I’ll post them on my Yahoo photo site once I get them developed.
After looking at the last ship we toured, we went home (duh). I had this urge to dig out Airport Tycoon, which I had gotten years back but my computer back then was too slow to play it, and install it on my Dell, which I did. I can actually play it now. Okay, this went against the “boat theme,” but I don’t have Sea Harbor Tycoon or anything like that, so sue me.
What follows is basically a review, and as you should all know by now, I tend to write really long reviews, so consider yourself warned.
Anyways, to continue the boat theme, my mom decided we should all go see Pirates of the Caribbean. I hadn’t really figured out my level of interest in seeing that movie. On the one hand, I never frequented pirate movies that much, so I wasn’t interested in that respect. On the other hand, I have this odd fascination with swashbuckler/sword fighting movies (not THAT kind of fascination, you dirty-minded people). It’s my guilty pleasure, I guess, so the movie seemed somewhat appealing in that vein. However, my parents don’t know about the swashbuckler-guilty-pleasure-thing, and I’d rather they not know any time soon. Nevertheless, I decided to go with them to the movie. My verdict is that it’s actually pretty cool. There’s plenty of action and a lot of the special effects shots are almost seamless (such as in the fight scene near the end, which I loved).
When I heard that the female lead only had one fight scene, I was kinda bummed, but she ended up being more kick-ass than I thought she would (BTW, does anyone know of any good sword fighter movies with kick-ass females?). As for the male lead, the only other movie I’ve seen Orlando Bloom in was the first Lord of the Rings movie, and I basically kept making fun of Marisa whenever she swooned at him. He still seemed like someone I would tease Marisa about in Pirates of the Caribbean, just in a different way, but his acting wasn’t that bad, albeit a bit cheesy at times. However, it’s not too surprising that he was very much upstaged by someone else. During the very lengthy phone conversation that I had with Marisa last week, she said I had to see Pirates of the Caribbean because she thought Johnny Depp (who plays Jack Sparrow, the “protagonist” pirate) looked hot in it. I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree with you on his looks, Marisa, but that was one great character, probably one of the most amusing characters I've seen in a long time. You could tell Johnny Depp was having a blast playing him, too, which I think added to the likeability. Geoffrey Rush was good as well (Though he sure did a long stint with Disney. First a voice in Finding Nemo and now this) in his role as the antagonist pirate. If I were to use the rating system from my website (which I’ll try to work on soon), I would give Pirates of the Caribbean a 3 (out of 5).
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