Lunch Time...

[athersgeo]

• Tidying:
  
  
  
  • Clean laundry away
  
  
  • Bedroom, incl. change bedding
  
  
  • Filing
  
  
  • Mind, Body, Spirit
  
  
  • Computer desk, incl. underneath it! - still need to go through what's under the desk but the top's clear again
  
  
  • Clean bathroom
  
  
  • Cat litter tray
  
  
  • Gym stuff
  
  
  • Any misc. possessions lying around elsewhere in the house
  
  
  • Wash car and remove the leaves from the back seat [don't ask]
  
  
  • Declutter CD collection
  
  
  
  


• OU:
  
  
  
  • Block 5
  
  
  • Re-read The Odyssey and make notes
  
  
  
  


• Writing:
  
  
  
  • Finish and post "Finding a Friend"
  
  
  • Finish and post "Common Ground"
  
  
  • A Chinese Adventure - Finish current chapter
  
  
  • Write the untitled First Impression vignette AND find it a title! - It's titled; it's going to be "School's Out" (thanks to freespirt127)
  
  
  
  


• Other:
  
  
  
  • Cook dinner
  
  
  • Watch some of the borrowed DVDs - Cutting Edge 2
  
  
  • Package up and post the two waiting parcels
  
  
  • Collect up dry cleaning and put it in for cleaning
  
  
  • Go to the gym at least once
  
  
  • Get newspapers, deoderant and bits and pieces at Tesco
  
  
  
  

That's better. After lunch, the plan's going to be either writing or, if this headache doesn't subside, possibly vegging on my sofa and watching some B5. In fact, vegging does sound inordinately good...

In the meantime, though; I did get to watch The Cutting Edge 2 this morning so...


There's something about ice skating movies that both makes them utterly predictable and at the same time thoroughly good entertainment, and the Cutting Edge 2 is just that. It's as predictable as GMT but it manages to be entertaining - up until they started hammering away about which Olympics it is they're competing at...at which point, the film lost me completely.

See, I can do basic math. The original Cutting Edge finale took place at the 1992 Olympics. This Cutting Edge finales at the most recent Winter Olympics (which was this year) in Torino. The central character, Jackie, is the daughter of the two central characters from the first. Doesn't sound like a problem, except that it is a huge problem. She *should* be 14 in this movie. At the oldest.

And she's not. She's aged around about early 20s.

And that bugged the heck out of me because that lack of internal logic really did rob the film of something for me. If they'd just pushed it further forward just a little; had her wanting to compete at Vancouver (which is in 2010), the whole thing would have been far, far better. But, of course, Vancouver's not nearly so romantic as Torino...

*sigh*

That apart, my real complaint with the film is that even by ice skating movies, there's no originality in this one. It rips off pretty much every major scene from the first movie and although there's half-hearted attempts to make things different...they might as well have recycled the script while they were at it.

All of which means that while I enjoyed it, it could have seriously been done better.