The producers of the first Tomb Raider movie squandered the opportunity to truly take advantage of the excitement around the premise of the EIDOS video game: Lara Croft is a sexy female hybrid of Indiana Jones and James Bond. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider over-emphasized the “sex” part of this premise and skimped on the “adventure” part.
Robots from the future send an unstoppable Terminator to kill John Connor, the eventual leader of the resistance against the machines. Humans from the future send a hacked obsolete Terminator (Ah-nuld!) to protect John Connor.
Sound familiar? Yup. Probably because you’ve already seen this movie: Terminator 2. Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines should be called T2: Remix. Take the same story, update it a bit, add a sexy new antagonist and you’ve got yourself a sequel.
Bottom line: It wasn’t horrible. It was predictable, yet entertaining and advanced the Terminator story, but that was about it. A story twist or unexpected occurrence would have been nice.
Jill is posting her food journal on a web log. She lists her diet by meal and includes Weight Watchers POINTS™. Good job, honey!
While surfing for CSS info, I found reference to an online version of 20 Questions. Half the fun is answering the seemingly obscure, irrelevant questions. Most of the time it will figure out the object you are thinking of…
The suffix R.D. is awarded to Registered Dietitians when they complete their schooling. Jill was dreaming of the day she can get business cards that read: Jillian Reyman, R.D. I told her it would be funny if someone named Chef Boy became a registered dietitian…
Chef Boy R.D., purveyor of Spaghetti-O’s!
