nekare

So, I finished Wanted last night. Overall, I'm not all that pleased. The plot is: This loser of a guy, pushover Wesley Gibson, discovers his father was one of the supervillians that defeated all superheroes fifteen years ago and erased the memories of the caped times from the regular folks. His father's just been murdered, and it's his choice to step on into his place or continue living a boring and stifling life.

So the idea is wicked cool - the bad guys have won, and they've taken over the world. The execution, though, left much to be desired. Look, I've never minded violence in comics because for some reason it fits the medium fairly well, but this one took it to the extreme and to the point where it was ridiculous and gratuitous and it's all 'goregoregoregore' all the time. The characters, while interesting, are impossible to relate too, and the main character, Wesley, (based phisically on Eminem) starts as an unsympathetic guy at most and ends as a completely hatable man. Good plot, clumsy storytelling and an over-the-top quality that's not even ironic or liberating - it's just gruesome. Dunno. All I've read from Mark Millar is his work in Ultimate X-Men and to some extent Ultimate Spider-Man and that was fairly good, if not genious. *shrug* I'm still watching the movie becuause duh James McAvoy, but in all honesty, I don't think I'll mind it if it's just a looooose interpretation. The characters were too annoying to want to see them in the big screen.

I browse through a lot of cooking blogs almost daily (even if I haven't had the chance to bake anything for weeks, oh my), and I've always been mystified by something: Do people honestly just have soup on winter? o_O Maybe it's just a me thing, but my mom makes soup almost daily, especially what we call 'sopa de pasta' (you know, letter soup, non-canned actually decent spaggethi 0s, conchitas, bolitas; the drill) because I dig it big time and that was all she could get me to eat as a child. So it might be the height of summer and we'll be eating soup. And it'll be warm, because my dad likes his soups to be BOILING and he sneakily goes and warms it extra time.

Am I really the only one to do this? ;____; I love soups. In any kind of form, I love them dearly and when I was little I would wonder why, oh why Mafalda didn't like them, lol.