I finished watching The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Thursday night. It’s the second movie in the recent Chronicles of Narnia movie trilogy. The premise of the movie was the return of the Pevensies (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) after having been gone for 1,300 years, to find Narnia invaded and changed.
The movie was a little darker than the first movie in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They were both PG movies, but I suppose the violence in this movie was more directed towards people (and not…. evil badgers.) It wasn’t gruesome violence at all, but more than I as probably expecting in a movie aimed at children. Preteens? Maybe. Eh, what do I know anyway?
Overall, the movie was alright, but not the most riveting movie. There was a bit of similarity between this movie and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, but more kiddie. The special effects were decent, but I thought the movie was good for a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Gosh, I’ve seen some promos for some bad lookin’ movies on Sci-Fi Channel in the past few years, but this takes the cake: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. I think it’s even sadder that this movie stars Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah friggin’ Gibson. Yes, that Debbie Gibson.
Ugh, we watched Bride Wars this weekend. It’s one of those chick-flick movies where the entire movie is summarized within the movie trailer. There’s not much I can tell you about the movie that you couldn’t figure it out. I have to say it was utterly cliched, including the girly music that played at key moments.
I have some real complaints about Continental Airlines. I tell ya, it’s always something on Fridays when you are trying to get home. I’ve had some crazy travelling stories in my day, but this one was tiring. We spent a 6.5 hours waiting at the Toronto airport gate, but our flight was repeatedly delayed, due to thunderstorms (we heard) in the Newark NJ area.
Our flights have been handled by one of Continental’s partner carriers named Colgan Air. I’ve experienced a few inaccuracies so far related to their actual status and why they were delayed. Inaccuracies such as “delays related to late arriving aircraft” yet the aircraft has been sitting at the gate in front of us, passengers long since departed, and the gate attendant stating it was a mechanical issue. This time, our flight status was on-time (on the board), yet also delayed over 4 hours (ticket check-in counter.) Even better, I was told that partner carriers are not required to provide updated status timely. Why?
Eventually, the board reported varying times on the departure board, but we later found out that these were just times to receive the next time estimates. Why Colgan Air / Continental couldn’t inform everyone sitting at the gate once, instead of waiting to tell angry passengers only when they came to the gate’s counter. Mindless.
They boarded us at 6:3opm, but then taxied us to a lonely spot, and informed us that we’d be sitting for another hour. We eventually got to Newark around 8:30pm, but I still had to pick up my luggage, take the bus to the economy lot, find my car, get gas, and get home. Oh, and pick up dinner. By the time I got home with the last two pizza slices from the pizza place, it was 11pm.
