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[xp_dust]

I have found a strange thing.

Angel has showed me the commercial for a movie, the Spiderman Three. And there is a man in the movie who will turn to sand and fight. He is the Sand Man I think? He is like me, but I will not fight. But I will turn to sand, sometimes.

I think I will like to see this movie. I will like to see if he is like me really. I know it is only a movie, but it is strange still.

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It's often interesting how movies or books occasionally seem to mirror the unusual aspects of our lives. I remember being rather discomfited watching the Star Wars prequels for that very reason.

[x-dust.livejournal.com]

You are talking of Anikin Sky Walker, yes? It is a strange thing, like a coincidence, I think. But it will be neat if you will have a light saber, too. But not for using on children.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of other creepy similarities, but yes, it's coincidence. And if you have ever seen me try and play any sport that requires swinging a stick, mallet, or racket, you'd understand why the concept of me having a fixed-coherence plasma blade is a very, very bad idea.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

You could've stopped that at "If you've ever seen my try and play any sport."

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Except that I rule at basketball, bowling, and foosball. I tend to be rather horrible at anything else.

Correction, I am fair-to-middling at the ping-pong.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, how is it that YOU rule at bowling and I suck like a Hoover? What's up with that?

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

...Dude. Could you MAKE a light saber?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

...that's one of those directions I'd like to not get my brain stuck on, thanks.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're no fun.

[xp_daytripper]

Movies and books don't always reflect how something actually is - like magic and the Harry Potter stuff, for example - but they can give you an interesting look at how things like magic, mutants, powers, villains and heroes are thought of, what perceptions people have out there, why they might react a certain way to someone turning into sand or having a metal leg and arm. It can be sort of insulting, seeing people's stupid beliefs about something you are/can do, but if you work past that, it's actually kind of productive.

[x-dust.livejournal.com]

I think it means we are very lucky. They will make movies because they cannot do these things, but we can. I do not think they are meaning for to insult, but they do not know more, and they do not know the things we know. Even me, I do not know things about being a mutant, but I am trying to learn them.

And there is also a Spider Man, and a man who will fly on a skate board. These things are interesting to me, but even if they are not real. I will like to see the movie for to be entertained.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Surf board. Skateboards are the ones with wheels.

Have you seen the first two Spider-Man movies yet? I think the DVD's are still in the rec room, and not put away in the movie archiving thinger. They're pretty good.

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

We should have an ironic superhero movie marathon!

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude. That's a genius idea. We totally should. Friday? We can get pizza - I think the local place can cover everything from "I need a pizza that's about 90% meat and 10% organic cheese and crust." to "Shrimp Pizza for the Catholics" and "Quit with that meat/dairy mixing." and "Vegetarian/Vegan." And they like us. (I know these things. If they didn't like us, they wouldn't keep delivering here.)

Heck. They do pineapple/ham, which okay, it's not Mondo's Holy Spam, but it's actually good stuff.

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

Oohh, that'd be awesome! And I _love_ Shrimp Pizza for the Catholics. *grins* It's tasty and has such a nice ring to the name.

[x-mondo.livejournal.com]

For a Movie Night I will put up with the shameful lack of Spam on my pizza.

Wonder if I can get corn on mine?

[x-dust.livejournal.com]

I have not seen the two movies yet. You think they are good for watching? I will like to do this. Maybe it will make me understand the Spiderman Three better. But maybe not... it is very confusing, I think.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

It'll help. The first movie basically tells how he got to be Spider-Man, and I think there's stuff in the third one that you should see the second one to understand. I think.

What do you like on your pizza? (See what I said to Angel below?)

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

At the very least, the movie will be very, very pretty visually. (What? It totally will.) And we'll get good previews.

[xp_daytripper]

I used to have a big problem with Harry Potter, because it felt like it took something very important and difficult to me - the magic - and made it into a game, a fairy tale for kids. But then eventually I realised what you said, that it was because they didn't know better. I mean, what does a suburbian mum from Bristol know about demons and blood sacrifices and the threefold rule and how a spirit summoning feels like someone poured kerosene on your head and set it on fire? Nothing, and even if she did know, she wouldn't put it in a kid's book. In the end, like you said, it's just entertainment, and they'll do what entertains. Which are stories about magic boarding schools and blokes who climb up skyscrapers in their longjohns.

This'll shock anyone who knows me, but I finally read the first three Potter books when I was living down in New Orleans. Stopped at the third, not because I was insulted by the portrayal of magic, blah blah, but because I just didn't like them. Harry's a whining pain in the butt and I've never been one for English boarding school jolly hockey sticks stories even when they were being done by Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl. But that's okay, because not everyone has to like something. I'm just basing my opinion on something a lot less wanky than I used to. ;)

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

*gasp* I may fall over in shock. You actually -read- Harry Potter?

And that icon still cracks me up. When did you steal my bad glasses for that picture?

[xp_daytripper]

I did. The English teacher I had at the adult college I finished my high school equivalency at pretty much pointed out that I had a pretty skewed view of things and I should try it again. And considering I wasn't a witch then, well, didn't have a lot of leg to stand on. Got to the end of book three, wrote a ten-page paper on why Potter sucked, with research and all, and got out of reading the rest.

And got an "A" on my paper. *grins* First time for something that wasn't a language or Shakespeare.

I can't remember. Mark and I were fooling around at one point over Christmas with dress ups - we'd been eating the brownies, I think - and yeah, stole one of Pete's suits. I have no idea where the glasses came from. But I like it as my "geek" icon.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

We should organize a field trip outing to see this movie, from the sounds of it.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

Field trip!

Does referring to such an event as an "outing" lessen the chance that something will go horribly wrong?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

At least two of my co-workers would tell you that words have a great deal of power.

Myself, I am not certain. But I do know that fate has a wicked sense of humor.