happy not-so-fantastic fourth
we spontaneously celebrated july 4th on june 30th when we went up to visit friends in the mountains and stayed for a fantastic fireworks display at nederland, co, a quaint little, hippie, mountain town where they keep a frozen dead guy in a tuff shed and have a festival for him every spring (seriously, google it!”frozen dead guy days” + nederland, co, oughta do it).
i haven’t been to an official fireworks display outside of disney in oh, like 12 years because it terrifies kylie, aka chicken little. but there have been a lot of innovations in fireworks, or pyro-techincs, i guess. like the ones that after the initial explosion and all the oooohs & aaahs, re-ignite, change colors, and shoot off in all different directions – very cool! and kylie was hangin’ out at the cabin after a long day of climbing on rocks and having her picture taken so she was fine.
then on the 3rd we went to the drive in and saw “live free or die hard.” and i gotta tell ya, i have missed me some McClane! it is very entertaining as long as you don’t start down the road of “oh come on, nobody could survive that,” every time he emerges from the rubble like the terminator. that’s why it’s called DIE HARD, so either buy in or don’t bother. it was fun to watch!
then we stayed for the funnel cakes fantastic 4 and the silver surfer dude (i assure you the funnel cakes were the highlight). it was fantastically bad – and i don’t mean that in a good way. it wasn’t good bad, it was bad bad! it was really, really, bad!!! i could go into at least a few of the many reasons why it was so very, very, very bad (jessica alba’s weird skin/hair color combination, the really corny one-liners that just fell flat, the horrible dialog, the lame ass plot, the bad acting, btw, who is this guy playing mr. fantastic? omg, he sucks so bad it becomes distracting from the rest of the sucking thats going on) but it was so bad it really isn’t worth discussing why it was so bad. so that’s all i’m gonna say about that.
yes, i could’ve gone to see the transformers w/ evan almighty instead, and you would think that would have been the better choice, but (a) i needed to go pick up my car at the body shop anyway (and i’m getting closer to blogging about my car, the decepticon. – that reminds me, i gotta call the dealer and see if i can take it BACK there again too) and that was much closer to the other drive in; and (2) as i mentioned the plan is to see The Transformers inside on a big screen when the crowds have thinned. so i suffered thru the fantastic four and comforted myself with funnel cake.
no real plans for the 4th except maybe a trip to Springfield, stay tuned…
Posted: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
Categories: Movies, Random Crap.
Tags: Colorado, drive-in, kylie.
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