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[fileg]

I was looking for the old post I had made about the smell of my muses, and I could not resist poking the haiku generator.... hmmmm now who could this message be for?

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	fileg
Your haiku:	elf in my brain so i took a peek - i'm glad i encountered it
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Created by Grahame

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I quite liked Flight Plan - though more Bean would not have come amiss. Jim liked the credits at the end best (it's an engineer thing) and only briefly broke in to tell me what was wrong with the plane design.

He's quite famous in the family for those moments. (My favorite being in Romancing The Stone, when they fall through the jungle into the plane - and everyone in the theater gasps or squeals - and Jim exclaims: "Good lord, a DC-3!")



in a way, the very casting of Bean as the pilot was a brilliant red herring - people are so used to him being the bad guy, it helps them jump to that conclusion with very little prodding.

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[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

My dad is very interested in airplanes. He'd probably have said something similar about the DC-3. So, to me, that's very cute and funny. Glad you liked the movie. I've seen an ad for it--one. That's more than I get for a lot of movies. I don't go see them because I have anxiety disorder. I have to wait until later if I want to see a movie, when I can go and there's almost nobody in the theatre. I've seen two movies in eight years. (Return of the King and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. My sister wanted to see that one. I'd have waited for video.)

With so many actors from 'Rings' out there, it's almost inevitable that they have new things out at the same time. Seen several ads for Viggo's new movie. That looks weird.

[fileg.livejournal.com]

I like movies, I just don't like any of the theaters here. Actually, what I don't like is people (at least not in large groups) Chris could do three or four theater movies a day easily, though. We did the Trilogy Tuesday for RotK - (I'm sure you were glad to miss that! But it did turn out to be great)

I'm usually happy to wait for dvd, especially since we can usually buy the movie for what it would cost us to go out, and then I have the screen caps! Yay!

Jim and I have a local theater that has date night on Tuesdays - 4.50 for the movie, and if you go to the late show, I have never had more than 10 people in the theater with us. Works out well.


The theater on Sunday was filled (as it always is at that time) with Senior Citizens asking questions about missed dialog and having loud conversations. Gah.

We'll be doing an opening day for Serenity on Friday, but we're aiming for the earliest show, so it should not be crowded.

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

My best friend and her husband had such a horrible experience in the theatre when they saw "The Two Towers" that they didn't go for RotK. People were talking and complaining about how long it was. They didn't know who the characters were, and so on. Besides which, her husband is six foot six inches tall, and it's physically uncomfortable for him in most public places. They had to sit too close to the screen and things like that--then people complain because he's sitting in front of them. Even with tiered seating, it's awkward.

The date night thing sounds like a good idea. It gets people to the theatre on a usually not-busy night and is way cheap, too. Too right about it being cheapter to wait for it to come out on video/DVD. With two of you, it will be cheaper to wait almost every time.

[juno-magic.livejournal.com]

LJ haikus are always fun.

And I had to "steal" that smelly muses meme! That's really original! I also absolutely adore the way you described them and the icons you have for them.

Thank you for sharing!

[fileg.livejournal.com]

That meme was really fun. I would love to encounter something similar.

You can probably tell, what was hardest for me was stopping. Most of the people I saw do it wrote a single line.

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Jim just gets better and better.^_~

So you didn't violently object to the resolution in Flight Plan? Reception has been mixed but, as always, no one has a bad word for Sean.

(You did see the new old pics, right?)

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Gah - I am a day behind from being out yesterday, and I had not seen these! Must send them to annaliese!



Jim's actual degree is in aeronautical engineering (though as things worked out, I don't think he ever worked on any planes.) Any historical movies with machines are open to evaluation - he especially hates it when tanks from the wrong side get used in movies.


Flight Plan is not a great thriller or an overly complex story. It works for me because it delivers enough to be engaging. Sean is wonderful, caught in a tight spot.

The ending is the least satisfying part, but I wasn't really looking for versimilitude - cathartic was better for me this week.

[notarysojac.livejournal.com]

I actually did work on aircraft design - if you use the term loosely.

- When I was interning at Langley, VA I designed a pod to house a camera under one of NASA's Canberras. If I recall, it was to film the wing's flexure under load, but I cannot recall what the purpose of the project was... I also layed out static conditions to simulate flight loads on another Canberra's wings. The static load was to be applied to the grounded bomber's wing with sandbags. Appropriate technology, eh wot?

- While at Grumman I did some design work on the BEAR test rocket (so it's not quite an aircraft... sue me.) BEAR was a project to test fire a neutral particle beam in the upper atmosphere. It was a proof-of-principle for one component of Rubberbutt Regan's Star Wars boondoggle.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

My brother is just the same. *sigh*

[fileg.livejournal.com]

is he an engineer too, or is it just that boy thing?


I must admit, I am just as bad at historicals. No one wanted to sit with me at braveheart.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Bro began as an engineer and a physicist but went on to other things. I suppose I should say that he began by playing with the hinges on cinema seats. :D

He enjoys watching programmes like 'Extreme Rides' so that he can figure out where things will (almost inevitably) go wrong. I'm bad at historicals, too. Scoffing would be a polite word for what I do.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't notice a DC-3?

[fileg.livejournal.com]

It depends where, I guess....

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

Wonder what Jim's like when you see a film like Castaway, where it all hinges on the plane going down?

And is Peter Skaarsgard related to Stellen Skaarsgard, or is Skaarsgard the equivalent of Smith?

[fileg.livejournal.com]

We have not seen castaway, but he wasn't bad about Lost - he's ok with suspension of disbelief.

I don't think they are related, but I don't think so. maybe Lee will know, he's my film guru....

[fileg.livejournal.com]

oooh, I remember one! He clutches his head like a stunned monkey when people bring the killer bees on board in their carry-on luggage.....

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