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saw Terminal last night with the usual suspects. It was okay, but certainly not worth the full price tickets or the sleep I lost staying up to see this. First of all, its longer than it needs to be. And second, despite being that long, it still seems like there are things missing from the plot. I mean, the whole part with the food cart driver and the cute stamp lady was ridiculous! It started off okay, but when you really think about it, the way it plays out is really disturbed! If they were gonna totally screw up that plotline, why bother with it? And why is Stanley Tucci's character being such a dick to Tom Hanks? I mean, other than his handling of the Tom Hanks sitch, he does his job, and well. Even in the sitch with the guy with the pills Tucci was following the law, and not really in a stickler asshole kinda way. And then in the end, it disappears for no reason at all. There's no sudden revelation to make him change his attitude. Maybe, you could argue everything from Gupta stopping the plane to all the employees cheeing Tom Hanks on and the cops letting him through struck something with him, but you don't ever see him go through that emotional change in the couple of minutes all this happens. He's literally walking down the hall, determined to get Tom Hanks, then he goes through a door and is all, never mind! WTF?! And he doesn't even end up with Catherine Zeta Jones! And what the hell was the whole line about Napoleon giving Josephine the golden locket with "destiny" inscribed on it. You'd think with her saying that and leaving to go with the other dude so Hanks could get the pass would lead to something, but it doesn't! . Eh, if I were someone else, I'd say, see it at a matinee if you must see it now. But you'd be better off waiting for it to come on HBO. And it is so not a date movie!

Owel, picked up the Transformers game for the PS2 before the movie, which I prolly shouldn't have since I haven't even finished Onimusha 3 yet. But, its the Transformers! I was debating getting this, but what's his name from Penny Arcade (I can never get those two straight) had favorable things to say about it, and they seem to be on the ball when it comes to games. And it did get a good review from X-Play as well. So it might be worthy of the license.

Anyways, both Dodgeball and The Terminal had the Ron Burgandy trailer in front of it. And there's this one song in it that's bugging me because I don't know what it is. I mean, the trailer starts with Enya and ends with Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son", but there's this one song in the middle that they start to play, but then switch to another song (the Kansas one, I think). And its so familiar, its on the tip of my tongue, but I can't figure it out! Hopefully, it'll be easier to figure out than the brassy song, which as many of you know, took me almost a decade to figure out. It was of course, Chuck Mangione's "Feel So Good". Speaking of figuring out songs though, that re-run of VH-1's 100 Greatest Dance songs helped me figure out a couple of other mysteries. There's "Love's Theme" by the Love Unlimited Orchestra, and "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston. The stringy part of "Love's Theme" is the part you hear all the time in the commercials and wedding videos and wot-not, and I only knew Barry White's part in relation to that song. I had encountered a similar problem trying to figure out "Don't Leave Me This Way". I mean, its the chorus that you often hear, so even though its a very popular song, when I was trying to find it, I made the mistake of only listening to the first minute or so off of various disco albums and missing it. But that's two more songs I can cross off my "What's that song?".

Edit: Never mind, a quick google search for "Ron Burgundy", "Enya", and "Kansas" took me to Soundtrack.net, which immediately showed the song as Bread's "If". How could I not have realized that! ojv('Man, its obvious!') And, I realize I keep calling it "Ron Burgundy", but I guess its actually "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". But anyways, useful site.

Heading back from the bathroom here at work, I noticed the HDTV we got from Dish to showcase their HDTV receiver was showing Square Pegs. A little odd choice, in my opinion. I figure if the wanted to really showcase it, they'd be showing like F/X heavy block busters or nature shows, something you can ooh and aah about, not old 80s shows. Though I guess you can ooh and aah about how good it looks, despite being an old show.