Ok, let’s try again!
I have to turn off my music in order to write… hang on…
We went to see Dungeons and Dragons last night. I’ll get to a review of sorts in a minute, but first I want to tell you what happened on our way to the movie.
Cath calls at six and asks if I want to do something. I’m like, sure. I have to be at our aunt’s house at seven to pick her up. So I get ready and get in my car. Now, my car has belt trouble. That means it squeals like a pig when you start it up, and when you press the gas pedal, and when you press the brake, and when you… well, it does it a lot.
So I started the car, and was amazed to hear… nothing. I was like, cool. Maybe it’s cause I haven’t driven it in a week. I head out, and I’m not going to go into how horrible the drive to my aunt’s was (rainy, dark, no streetlights, two lane very busy road…), but I thought my headlights looked kinda dim. But I figured it was just me. And my heater wasn’t working. And my windows started to fog, so I had to roll down the windows. In 30 degree rainy weather. Yes, fun.
So anyway, halfway there all these lights on the dash come on. I’m like, “ARGH!” But my dash lights have always been weird, so I figure they’re just messed up and coming on for the heck of it. Cause the car’s driving fine. Except for the heater.
I get to my aunt’s and stop the car. Then we’re ready to go, so I start it again. It starts fine. I know you can see where this is leading, but I’ll keep going. We went to O’Charleys to eat, mostly because Cath’s sister, my cousin Rach was going to be there with her friends before their Starlight Dance. And we wanted to see their dresses. So we ate at OCharleys and saw the dresses, and then we left. Car started fine. It got fogged up REALLY bad, so we had to drive around the parking lot waiting on it to go away until we could leave. Once it did, we drove down a ways towards the mall. We got stopped at a red light, and we were just sitting there yacking as usual, when Cath pointed out how slow my windshield wipers were going. We laughed at them because they looked really stupid. Then the light changed… and my car started to die. The lights were going out, and it didn’t want to go anywhere.
I managed to turn right out of the heavy traffic, and then somehow made it into a bank’s parking lot. Cath freaked out during this part, cause I was trying to turn left into the parking lot, and the car really wasn’t going. But I got enough momentum to get into the parking lot, and then into some parking spaces.
I called home – no one. I called my parents’ cell phones – no answer. We weren’t worried (rather, we were acting pretty stupid), because there was tons of people we could call. I called Ash’s house, since she lives near there, and told her what happened. Her dad came down to rescue us. I figured it was the battery again… he put the jumper cables on and told us to follow him home… we got a few feet and it died again. Andy said it was the alternator. The alternator had died, and the car had just been sucking the battery for energy. So we left the car there and he took us back to their house and we hung around til my parents got there. My parents then actually went to the movie with us, and then Cath spent the night. We had fun, despite everything.
All right, and now the movie…
Hmmm. Now, you see, my parents are D&D players. They played a LOT when I was younger – like, almost every weekend. We’d go over to my cousin’s house and us kids would play while they played D&D. My parents were very disappointed with the movie, and I wasn’t all that impressed either.
Ok, where to begin… I thought everybody looked weird. Ridley (or Rilly or Billy or Willy… I couldn’t tell) was funny looking. That stupid mage girl was funny looking. The empress was funny looking. The elf girl was funny looking. The Wayans brother was annoying. The empress was trying to be Queen Amidala but didn’t really pull it off. At all. And her toughness act was… riiight. It was like, “I’m not scared of you. I just wet my pants, but I’m not scared of you!”
The elf girl… her armor. Oh my god. Why would someone where that? She’s a tracker, and she’s wearing bright silver armor that looks like THAT? It’s not even scuffed! Geez!
EVERYONE overacted, except Jeremy Irons. LOL Every line was like… man, I can’t do it in writing. But you get the point. I think.
ANYway, my other thing was the music. Way, way overdone. Also… large brawl in the thieves guild. The guys are fighting. The girl is crawling on the ground, and the bad guy grabs her and drags her out. That was pretty much all she did. The elf girl got a little fighting, but not much. It’s not fair, I tell you. Why can’t the girls kick some butt too? Well, my parents are fixing to leave without me, so I better finish getting ready.