Watchmen, werewolves, and time travel

OK, it's been a little while since my last post so here I go. Not a whole lot has happened, but I did go see Watchmen, a movie I was quite looking forward to and enjoyed immensely. Zach Snyder did a very good job turning the comic into a movie. I especially liked the opening credits, which set 50 years of superhero history to Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are a Changin'. " It worked quite well capturing the complex history of the comic in an interesting way. All the actors were solid (even Malin Akerman, whom a lot of other people apparently didn't like), especially Jackie Earle Haley as Rorshach and the guy who played the Comedian (I'm too lazy to look it up now). The only problem I had was with the ending, which, although it wasn't as ridiculous as the ending to the comic, left a bad taste in my stomach. It seemed overly cruel and not quite understandable vis a vis the way characters acted. But all in all it was a great film, and I'm sure I'll buy it (along with the Tales of the Black Freighter animated movie which is going to come with it) when it comes out on DVD.

Anyways, on Saturday I went to SAGA (the roleplaying club)'s afternoon of "BBQ & Boardgames." I ended up playing a lot of Werewolves, which is a lot like Mafia, only with werewolves instead of mafia members. I'm gonna see if I can get a set of cards to play it. I think that the members of SAGA seem like interesting people, and hopefully I can get into one of the games. For the BBQ part, I ended up eating these weird bean patties (they didn't have any non-pork sausages), which were OK, as I listened to some of the guys arguing who could win against Batman (not even Anti-Batman and an army of Bat-clones, apparently), and whether the Empire got a bad rap in the original Star Wars trilogy (those rebels overthrew the rightful government that was just trying to keep order, damnit!). After that, we went to see Watchmen. That's right, I saw Watchmen again, it was worth it.

So I just got back from Sci Fi Soc, which I hope will also be a fun club. For our first event, we watched Back to the Future, a movie which I had forgotten was so good. Nobody really talked (it's kinda a new club, and I think people were shy), but the other members seem like interesting people. They're holding a party next week, and I hope to go (I just need a costume--I need a bowler hat).

So tomorrow, Eunice is taking us IESers to Willowbank, where we'll be given dinner, see a Maori welcome, and see real kiwis. It'll be nice to see the IESers again--I haven't seen some of them in a while.

Anyways, I'll try to update tomorrow as well. See ya!