Today we somewhat productive. We finished decorating the apartment for the holidays. I was going to set up my little Christmas tree in my office but it’s much too cluttered in here so we placed it in the dining room on top of the display cabinet. It looks better there anyway.

For the most part my office will be decoration free this year. I really need to utilize my space better; Books and CDs are piling up every which way on the floor. Over by the closet I have a radiator which I never turn on—not even during the winter—so it’s a waste of space. It’d be awesome if I could find a slender table to set up over it, but perhaps that asking too much.

After decorating we ordered pizza from Leona’s and popped in The 6th Day, a mindless little sci-fi/action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger battling a group of renegade clones. First off, we weren’t totally enchanted with the pizza; the sauce was great as one would expect from Leona’s but it just didn’t seem ‘filing’. I don’t know how else to describe it. I mean, it was certainly better than Sarpino’s but it wasn’t as satisfying as Giordano’s. Mind you, we regularly order plain cheese with thin crust—no fancy toppings or anything excessive—so we’re mainly judging the sauce, the cheese, and the crust. A good pizza shouldn’t need anything more than those three basic components.

Again, we weren’t unhappy with our pizza. If anything else our expectations were just a little too high. Yeah, I think we’ll get over it.

Ok, onto the movie. Let me begin by saying 6th Day had some good material but at almost 2 hours it went on for far too long. The last half hour is like torture and forces you to endure just about every action movie cliché executed in the lamest possible fashion; The building were the cloning facility resides explodes at just the right time so our heroes can escape, helicopters go berserk after its remote control mechanism has been damaged, and people shoots at each other with fake looking laser beams that make an annoying ‘woooshhh’ sound. The villain also reveals a not-so-surprising revelation about the Schwarzenegger character that was nonetheless too far fetched for me too except, and the way the movie deliberately mislead the viewer by giving him the shaving cut was just ridiculous, if not totally condescending. After that little twist the film totally lost me. There was chance for redemption. Up until that point though it was fine; Great mind-numbing entertainment and with interesting subject matter reminiscent of Blade Runner and Total Recall. As you can see though, I take getting punked by a second rate action flick a little too seriously.

Current Mood: angry

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