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<\/p>\nThe company I work for gives me 20 days of leave, of which I rarely take. And so, at the end of the year, I do Leave Clearance<\/b> to avoid it going to waste. That means Tuesdays and Thursdays off for the rest of the year! Yay, I get more time for geeks and chicks. And yeah, free movies.<\/p>\n
In retrospect, I wish I could take Fridays off so I could hang out late on Thursday without worry, but the work comes on Friday. I cannot really take two days off in a row because the office would miss me too much, so I take alternate days. The worst part of taking alternate days is that everyday feels like a Monday, coming in after a leisurely day.<\/p>\n
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IMAX is so real, it’s like Boog really pounced on me.<\/p>\n
Open Season has to be seen in IMAX 3D. You’d wanna reach out and pet the bear!<\/p>\n
I then saw Robots on ASTRO, and I greatly regretted not catching it in IMAX 3D. The movie was made<\/b> for IMAX, with all the action sequences.<\/p>\n
How does IMAX work? The glasses are two polarizers, one 90 degrees from the other. Same goes for the two projectors; each is polarized differently. The left polarizer cuts out light from the right projector and vice versa. I tested this with my polarizer; turning it would fade between the two images being projected on screen at the moment.<\/p>\n
On to more funnies.<\/p>\n
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby<\/b> was alright; there were some great intellectual<\/i> moments, but there were more slapstick moments. Still, Will Ferrell plays the arrogant uneducated buffoon best in Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy<\/b>. The intellectual moments I love are classic Homer Simpson humor – “Heh Heh Heh! Lisa! Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos!<\/i>”<\/p>\n
Or, like “How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?<\/i>” Teehee!<\/p>\n
I didn’t expect too much from Talladega, from the trailer, knowing that I would always compare it to Anchorman. Same went for Nacho Libre<\/b>, which had that pointless stoning at the camera brought by that director of Napoleon Dynamite. School Of Rock<\/b> was what got me a fan of Jack Black.<\/p>\n
I finally saw Saw<\/b> on Halloween night. Wow.<\/p>\n
John Tucker Must Die<\/b> was good! John’s brother reminded me a bit too much of Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You<\/b>, with the cynicism and long locks. If forced to make a choice, I’d pick the girl who played Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), though Ashanti was good. They made Jenny McCartney look real old though. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
Also, this (and Talladega Nights) did not have that annoying bluish digital video tone. Colors were natural and vibrant.<\/p>\n
I also managed to catch Frankenstein In Love<\/a> and was entertained. (Go read the blog, that’s entertaining, too.) Once you stop trying to make sense of things, you get some pretty neat one-liners. I didn’t get how Mary George was a ghost and then a nurse… but then, this play had an excuse to be disjointed; after all, it was about Frankenstein and his mishmash of monsters. Some other plays were much less coherent. I didn’t recognize Ari Ratos, as he wasn’t playing a bumbling idiot! U-En Ng wielded yet another hammer, true to his style. Melissa Maureen also looked a lot smaller than I remember. I wanted to stay and apologize for mistaking her superstar friend as a supporting cast<\/a> but my friend had to run.<\/p>\n I think I’m Doctor Frankenstein with digital cameras. Wait till I blog about it. (Or see a sneak preview off somebody’s blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The company I work for gives me 20 days of leave, of which I rarely take. And so, at the end of the year, I do Leave Clearance to avoid it going to waste. That means Tuesdays and Thursdays off for the rest of the year! Yay, I get more time for geeks and chicks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}