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Dangit a second time!
I thought I was on-track for my budget plan this month for putting away some money but then I had to buy cat litter and more pan liners and that (along with renting 2 videos...) pushed me over the limit I'd set. D'oh. Well, I did have that double phone bill to pay this month, half of which was greater than what I spent on the cat litter & videos. So I'm going to call this month a practice run. I need to eat out a little less too.
The videos were a complete waste of money. I got a Desperate Housewives DVD and before you point and laugh, it's about a murder mystery plus everyone has pretty clothes so :P Anyway, it was the wrong one. I'd already seen Discs 1-3 and 5-6 but I'd missed 4. I thought it was 5 I'd missed so I rented that one but it turns out that's one I've already seen. The other video was a sequel to Merlin, that movie with Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short and probably a bunch of other cool people. Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson are both in this sequel. I watched about 15 minutes of it when I came home for lunch today. It's horrible. I thought "if Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson agreed to be in it, it must be OK." Sigh.
It's totally incoherent. Merlin (Sam Neill) is in Camelot with Arthur & the knights and then he goes off to a cave for a mega wizard nap. He'd intended to sleep a few months but winds up sleeping 50 years, for reasons the movie doesn't bother to mention. He comes back to find that the Holy Grail, which protected Camelot, is gone. In a flashback we see some evil king (as evidenced by a flashback of the king having a big party with booze and a belly dancer, because belly dancers are ZOMG!EVIL) whose succession of Arthur pissed off the Grail and it exploded. They show it explode in the flashback, which Merlin sees using his wizard powers. But then some dudes are talking about going out to find the Grail. And from the DVD box, it sounds like the whole movie is about Merlin searching for the Grail. Except it exploded so that doesn't make sense.
Then we have some evil Viking-looking French guy, who's clearly a Villain because he tells a woman she has to join them (who, the French Vikings? I guess) in their efforts to take over Camelot or they'll kill her. She says she'll join them and he kills her anyway. Because he's a VILLAIN, get it? Then the Lady of the Lake (Miranda Richardson) appears, in a special effect a whole lot crappier than the ones in the original Merlin, which was a TV miniseries in 1998. M. Viking asks her whether she disapproves of his killing someone who had, in fact, agreed to support him and she says something vague and stupid and then says they have to destroy Camelot. Hang on, wasn't the Lady of the Lake supposed to be on the Good side in the first movie? Are they confusing her with Queen Mab? I know she, along with Mab and Merlin, represent the Old Ways and the spread of Christianity will eventually wipe them out but whereas Mab actively fought against it, I thought the Lady of the Lake was more into being passive and screwing with people's heads but otherwise pretty much keeping out of it, apart from the whole sword dispensing thing. Instead of inciting a merde-load of Vikings to attack the civilization that her pal Merlin helped build.
And then there's some guy who's clearly supposed to be the Hunky and Irreverent Young Rebel, hanging around with a group of ruffians who look basically the same as the French Vikings except I think they have British accents. And then some other people from Camelot randomly ride by and kill everyone in the group except this one guy, because he cleverly plays dead. Then after they've gone, a PIG shows up and he talks to it for a little while and then decides it can come with him to Camelot. The pig didn't talk but at that point I wouldn't have been surprised if it had.
What the hell, people? Did the pig write the screenplay? Is that why they had to let it be in the movie? Actually, that would explain a whole lot.
So I'm probably going to return that one mostly unwatched.
The videos were a complete waste of money. I got a Desperate Housewives DVD and before you point and laugh, it's about a murder mystery plus everyone has pretty clothes so :P Anyway, it was the wrong one. I'd already seen Discs 1-3 and 5-6 but I'd missed 4. I thought it was 5 I'd missed so I rented that one but it turns out that's one I've already seen. The other video was a sequel to Merlin, that movie with Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short and probably a bunch of other cool people. Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson are both in this sequel. I watched about 15 minutes of it when I came home for lunch today. It's horrible. I thought "if Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson agreed to be in it, it must be OK." Sigh.
It's totally incoherent. Merlin (Sam Neill) is in Camelot with Arthur & the knights and then he goes off to a cave for a mega wizard nap. He'd intended to sleep a few months but winds up sleeping 50 years, for reasons the movie doesn't bother to mention. He comes back to find that the Holy Grail, which protected Camelot, is gone. In a flashback we see some evil king (as evidenced by a flashback of the king having a big party with booze and a belly dancer, because belly dancers are ZOMG!EVIL) whose succession of Arthur pissed off the Grail and it exploded. They show it explode in the flashback, which Merlin sees using his wizard powers. But then some dudes are talking about going out to find the Grail. And from the DVD box, it sounds like the whole movie is about Merlin searching for the Grail. Except it exploded so that doesn't make sense.
Then we have some evil Viking-looking French guy, who's clearly a Villain because he tells a woman she has to join them (who, the French Vikings? I guess) in their efforts to take over Camelot or they'll kill her. She says she'll join them and he kills her anyway. Because he's a VILLAIN, get it? Then the Lady of the Lake (Miranda Richardson) appears, in a special effect a whole lot crappier than the ones in the original Merlin, which was a TV miniseries in 1998. M. Viking asks her whether she disapproves of his killing someone who had, in fact, agreed to support him and she says something vague and stupid and then says they have to destroy Camelot. Hang on, wasn't the Lady of the Lake supposed to be on the Good side in the first movie? Are they confusing her with Queen Mab? I know she, along with Mab and Merlin, represent the Old Ways and the spread of Christianity will eventually wipe them out but whereas Mab actively fought against it, I thought the Lady of the Lake was more into being passive and screwing with people's heads but otherwise pretty much keeping out of it, apart from the whole sword dispensing thing. Instead of inciting a merde-load of Vikings to attack the civilization that her pal Merlin helped build.
And then there's some guy who's clearly supposed to be the Hunky and Irreverent Young Rebel, hanging around with a group of ruffians who look basically the same as the French Vikings except I think they have British accents. And then some other people from Camelot randomly ride by and kill everyone in the group except this one guy, because he cleverly plays dead. Then after they've gone, a PIG shows up and he talks to it for a little while and then decides it can come with him to Camelot. The pig didn't talk but at that point I wouldn't have been surprised if it had.
What the hell, people? Did the pig write the screenplay? Is that why they had to let it be in the movie? Actually, that would explain a whole lot.
So I'm probably going to return that one mostly unwatched.