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Flux capacitor is the power
May. 3rd, 2007 12:58 pmI guess I'll start this post by mentioning that I finished John Swartzwelder's Double Wonderful a few days ago. I preferred his first book, The Time Machine Did It, but this other one had some good jokes. It's about a town in the Old West that works that become famous, and then endures a lot of weird hardships once it does. While a fun read, it does become somewhat apparent that Swartzwelder's background is as a television writer, not a novelist. There were plenty of parts where I laughed lightly, but thought I'd probably be laughing a lot harder if they were delivered in an audiovisual medium.
On Tuesday, I went out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje, Dorothea, and Patti to see Dirty Dancing, which they'd all seen before, but I hadn't. So I guess I've gained a few more points on the Eighties Cultural Awareness Scale (if such a thing exists). I think my parents actually saw the movie when it was new; in that respect, I mentally associate it with Cocoon and Back to the Future, which I also remember them talking about seeing. I know BttF was actually from two years earlier, so I guess the years of my first decade are kind of blending together.
Speaking of Back to the Future, I recently found this video, where some guy rants about how bad the NES game of that name was. That was actually one of the first games my siblings and I rented, and yeah, it was just as bad as the Angry Nintendo Nerd claims. There have been a LOT of lousy games based on movies, TV, and licensed characters, though. (Hey, remember Bart vs. the Space Mutants?) It's not just that they're bad, but that they often have practically nothing to do with their source material. That's not to say that they all sucked, though; DuckTales, for instance, was a really good game. Actually, I think the Disney/Capcom games were often done pretty well, although they did vary in quality.
As a final note, Amazon tells me that "customers who have expressed interest in music by Weird Al Yankovic have also ordered Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park." Uh...good to know, I guess.
On Tuesday, I went out with
bethje, Dorothea, and Patti to see Dirty Dancing, which they'd all seen before, but I hadn't. So I guess I've gained a few more points on the Eighties Cultural Awareness Scale (if such a thing exists). I think my parents actually saw the movie when it was new; in that respect, I mentally associate it with Cocoon and Back to the Future, which I also remember them talking about seeing. I know BttF was actually from two years earlier, so I guess the years of my first decade are kind of blending together.Speaking of Back to the Future, I recently found this video, where some guy rants about how bad the NES game of that name was. That was actually one of the first games my siblings and I rented, and yeah, it was just as bad as the Angry Nintendo Nerd claims. There have been a LOT of lousy games based on movies, TV, and licensed characters, though. (Hey, remember Bart vs. the Space Mutants?) It's not just that they're bad, but that they often have practically nothing to do with their source material. That's not to say that they all sucked, though; DuckTales, for instance, was a really good game. Actually, I think the Disney/Capcom games were often done pretty well, although they did vary in quality.
As a final note, Amazon tells me that "customers who have expressed interest in music by Weird Al Yankovic have also ordered Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park." Uh...good to know, I guess.
