Can I Get My Money Back???

We went to see the movie Elysium on the BIG SCREEN! $27.00 later plus a huge bag of popcorn and two waters....we could have gone out for a nice meal. Where is Scotia Bank when you need them????

The movie was okay and could have been a rental instead, but sometimes you want to see the effects larger than life. The plot was thin, the effects so so but what really got me was Jodie Foster.

When she started to speak my first thought was that she didn't normally talk like that....did she??? Was she trying out some strange futuristic accent? (even though it was all about Earth not some unknown planet with aliens). As........ in......maybe...acting.

"Jodie - you sound too mid west USA. Can you do an accent?"

"Wha kand of a accent?"

"Oh, I don't care and it doesn't matter anyway because the people who will watch this won't notice......they are all about action. Just make one up."

"Haw 'bout a Lady Diana Spencer, Nelson Mandaaaallaish white South African, with a hint of Tyra Banks....or perhaps Martian????"

"Sure -  why not - it's supposed to be the year 2154. You could have been brought up all around the planet AND outer space. If we don't like it we can overdub later."

As I watched, in one scene she stiffly turns her head onto her shoulder, as if to whisper into her ear piece (so no one around her can hear even though she is all by herself!)  to another bad guy (yes...she is a sort of bad guy)....and I SWEAR what came out of her mouth was NOT what she said.....over dubbed with a completely different comment???

It's not worth watching again to see if this is what is happening....but I found it really, really strange and was more fascinated with watching her mouth than the metal enhanced, Matt Damon, running around pumped up on some drugs while totally irradiated and having only five days to live, pummelling a lot of South Africans....really....like I said - a rental.  Hint: Matt Damon works in a factory....making ....guess what????....ROBOTS.....and THIS is the future???


Things I've learned this week:

If you spend three hours in a Tim Horton's you come out smelling like a fried donut.

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Sometimes loves comes in strange shapes. Sally Colburn had been married to Jack for 50 years when he died of lung cancer in May. She has been missing him and while frying up some onions and potatoes it was more than that that made a tear come to her eye. The last potato in the bag was a heart shape. Explained Sally, "It was a sign from him. He grew up in Alabama and was raised on potatoes." I figure if she keeps it long enough it just may sprout wings.

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A laser that predicts when you are going to die has been invented by scientists.
The beam is painless and can also be used to test for diseases including cancer and dementia. It comes in a wrist watch-style device that analyses tiny cells inside the capillaries to work out how quickly the body will age. Grades, rated from 0, meaning death, to 100, equaling optimum function, are then used by scientists to calculate how long a person has left to live. It has been patented by two professors from Lancaster University.

The device is expected to be available to doctors within the next THREE YEARS and will make these two very, very rich, but when one of the professors tried it on herself she stated "Okay, better make that THREE WEEKS."  ALRIGHT!  I made that last part up.