Kind of a wasted weekend

[cornerofmadness]

It rained out the fireworks every night not that evil_little_dog amd I probably would have went because it meant getting there early and when it's 90+ and 100% humidity who wants to be hanging around outside. Got a little bit written but not nearly enough for the Ripper ficathon. Did get a little on my novel done. It being 80's retro weekend helped since that's when it's set.

Tried to go to see Spiderman2 today. I wasn't too keen on it (especially after all the work I did on the manatee data crapped out and I have to convert 20+ files so the professor can open them) because I figured too many people would STILL be off work and as much as I want to see this movie, I don't want to see it in a packed house but  evil_little_dog thinks it's possible to see it so we try anyhow. My car didn't want to start but since it was on a weird angle and low on gas I didn't think too much of it other than it's never done that before.

We get there. it's sold out for the next two hours and the next showing has like 11 open seats and they're already lined up. No way in hell are we  standing in line for 2 hours for this. We go back to the car. It still sputters to a start and we're on a flat surface. Hmmm, evil suggests my battery might be going bad. I'm thinking yeah it's 5 years old with 90,000+ miles on it so we head to Sears for a new battery. They have express service. Somehow they think 2 hours is express. What a waste of my day. Should have just paid for the battery (but it took 1 1/2 of those hours to confirm it WAS the battery) and walked across the street to the crappy theatre and saw Shrek 2 or something.

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Comments

[catlove.livejournal.com]

Oh kids! Nooo!!! Lucky for us, kids usually go to the dubbed versions of the film and teenagers and grown ups go to the ones with subtitles. I prefer to listen to their original voices and all that jazz. Plus I get to listen to the terms in English, which is helpful for fandom since I read the books in Spanish.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered about that (was asking an Italian friend how it worked in Rome for a Buffy story). Actually I like to get the subtitled ones and listen to the original voices too when I watch foreign films.

But kids...brrr. scary.

[catlove.livejournal.com]

These days, most of the series are broadcast through cable channels (Fox, AXN, Sony, Warner, etc) and they have subtitles. When Buffy first started, however, it was dubbed. And the series or movies that are shown on the local TV channels (open channels) are dubbed (by law, everything must be in the country's language).

At movie theatres most of the stuff is subtitled though, unless they are children films, in which case are always dubbed (and those who can also attract older audiences also have a subtitled version -like Shrek, Ice Age or Harry Potter, for example).

I shut up now. ;)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No, it's good to know. Never know when I'll set a story there or have a character growing up there you get what I'm saying. Here everything is in English of course but we do have a spanish language option on most shows and captioning for the hearing impaired. (which I'm beginning to think I'll need if they don't tone down the darn background music. Smallville I'm looking at you)