Trust the Varia!

On Monday night, Beth and I watched the rest of the Simpsons Season 2 DVD set. Now we just have to get the next two seasons (I think the fourth came out today, actually) and the Futurama sets. Too bad they cost a lot of money.

Yesterday, I played a little bit of Mario vs. Donkey Kong at Kmart. I got through most of the first world, but one level had all of these little Marios following the main Mario around, and I couldn't really figure out what to do. After that, I had a buffet lunch at Pizza Hut again. There were a lot of annoying kids there, who seemed to be around high school age, and thought it was hilarious to belch loudly in public. Other than that, though, it was an enjoyable lunch.

Recently, Beth showed me this. It sounds like a bad idea to me, not only because of the low quality of previous videogame-based movies, but also because the Metroid games aren't exactly that strong on plot and characters. I mean, Super Mario Bros. had the potential to be a decent movie, although it wasn't one. I've never actually seen that movie, but from what I've heard, not only was it generally bad, but it also had very little to do with the actual games. King Koopa was a human, the Goombas were weird lizard-men, Yoshi was some kind of Jurassic Park-style dinosaur, and everybody kept saying, "Trust the fungus!" But, really, what would even happen in a Metroid movie? Samus Aran jumping around and shooting at alien monsters is fine for a game, but is it anything that someone would want to watch for two hours on the big screen? Oh, well. It's not like the movie has even been made yet, so my complaints are probably for naught. Without pointless complaints, though, this journal would be nothing.

I need to get my dad a Father's Day present.