Management

I don't normally talk about movies on here I think but I just had to come talk about this one. Tommy's been going to bed easy lately and Victor was working late so I decided to watch a movie. (I don't have to wait till Victor's gone to watch a movie, it's just quieter/more peaceful to do it alone) So as I browsed netflix, finding nothing, I came across a Jennifer Aniston movie, "Management". I like Jennifer Aniston. If I could switch bodies with any woman in the history of ever I'd pick her. I usually enjoy her movies.

Well, the movie was horrible. It was long. Sooo long. It was only 1 1/2 hours long but it felt like 3 hours. There's spoilers ahead. It's late and I'm tired. I don't feel like trying to make a non-spoiler review. I'll just say there were a lot of scenes that were too long and had nothing going on in them. The short is it's about a stalker and a woman who lies and uses people.

It's about this woman who's into recycling and charity. She stops at a motel on a business trip. The motel is run by a mom, dad, and son. The son starts pestering her and being pushy and creepy. After knowing him for 2 days and not even being around him more than a few minutes here and there she sleeps with him. He hops on a plane and goes to her workplace to see her. Later he follows her when she moves across the country. He even becomes homeless just so he can hang out in the same town she lives in. He stalks her with binoculars and sets up a bizarre "accident" so he parachutes into the pool of her boyfriend's house. Yes, she has a boyfriend. She didn't at the beginning of the movie but she got one along the way. She doesn't like the boyfriend but he's rich, as she says "he's good to me". Blah blah stuff happens, she winds up pregnant, breaks it off with the boyfriend and goes home to mom jobless, homeless, probably penniless except for eventual child support, and at a bad point in her life. So the guy shows up and of course now that she has nothing she decides that creepy stalker guy, who's offering to support her and the baby, might be the way to go.

Star Wars: Scoundrels

I finished reading Scoundrels, by Timothy Zahn just now. It follows Han Solo just after A New Hope (and right before Allegiance). Han is approached to do a heist, he gets in some other people to help him do it. The team is to break into a mansion and steal some credit chips. It's not a "you absolutely must read this" book but it's still a lot of fun! Just a good fun adventure. I won't give something away but I had my suspicions about something for a while that were finally confirmed in the last sentence of the book. That was part of the fun actually, that I didn't figure it out right away. It started with "hm I wonder... nah, well maybe... no, probably not" and kept going like that until the end. Like I said, it was just fun all around.

While Zahn was writing this (or maybe it was done and just in editing?) I saw a cover picture and the cover of the book had Lando on it! That couldn't be right! At that point in time Lando is mad at Han over something that happened in the Han Solo Trilogy which happens before A New Hope. How could they be together on a job? I was even actually upset and surprised Zahn would do something like this. Well, I shouldn't have been. And I doubt he'll ever see this but if he does I'm sorry! I shouldn't have doubted you. As always, he is the master of Star Wars fiction and handled it nicely. So nicely that I have no complaints at all about it. And you know I love to complain. I also learned a few things, I apparently didn't understand the Yavin Vasilika as well as I thought I did (it's a horribly confusing comic book drawn by someone who can't draw who hasn't got a clue what Han looks like with a plot that's barely canon at best) and that I need to read the Ylesia story because I have to admit I've never done that. It's a short story that was included with one of the NJO, I believe, and is referenced in this book.

I found it neat that Kell Tainer was in the book. I only somewhat remember him from the Wraith Squadron books but it was still a good throw in.

I also enjoyed the short story "Winner Lose All" at the end.

Hunger Games Book 1

I finished reading the first Hunger Games book a few days ago. Not going to bother with a link, I'm going to assume everyone already knows what it is and etc. I enjoyed the movies (I've only seen the first two so far, waiting for netflix to get the 3rd) so I figured I'd enjoy the books. And I did enjoy the book, it was good. It was a quick read and it really sucked me in. However, there's not much to it. It's basically like someone watched the movie and decided to write everything they saw. They almost didn't need a script for the movie because the book is script-like enough. There is a little more to it than the movie but not much. And the scenes in the movie showing stuff happening outside the arena kind of makes up the difference between the indepth stuff in the books and indepth stuff in the movies. The "rest of the story" that didn't make it into the movie were basically just backgrounds and memories. However, I can't wait to read the 2nd book! I haven't started it because I don't have it yet. I only have the first book because I got it at the used book sale. After price checking I have determined to get the 3-pack from amazon and give away the copy of the first book that I currently have. Someone drew all over inside the cover and dog-eared the pages, I hate when people do that to books. Seriously, using a bookmark is not hard! Grab any random scrap of paper, even a candy bar wrapper or anything will do! You don't have to turn down the page corners and cause horrible creasing.