Ultraboring

So I have actually been kicking around some ideas about the LL Ideal Queen of Perfection Competition, and I think it’s something that I will go forward with.
Still don’t have it all worked out, but I do think that I’ll drop any overt references to Lois Lane.
I had considered contacting DC Comics to get their permission to use her name and likeness, but I have my doubts that they’d give the okay for something like that (Though they will, apparently, at least according to what I’ve read about it, happily allow the character to be desecrated by turning her into a single mother in the upcoming movie. For the record, I don’t see being a single mother as being a bad thing, it’s just that in this specific instance it strikes me as extremely disrespectful of an iconic character.), so it’s just easier to avoid the direct references.
In any case, the basic idea is pretty straightforward and will be that I will solicit entries in the form of an essay and a photo/video.
There will be some process for narrowing it down to some finalists, and then, I think, it will be put up to a vote, at which point we will have ourselves an Ideal Queen of Perfection.
What is the point of all this? None, really. It’s just something to do, and I’m sure it’ll be good for a laugh. Maybe it’ll even become one of those Internet phenomena that take the world by storm, however temporarily.
In addition to soliciting entries, I’ve been thinking that there are some women out there to whom I’ll extend a nomination, leaving it up to them to decide whether or not the want to be given any further consideration for the office of LL Ideal Queen of Perfection.
As I said in my previous post, I’m open to suggestions for how to go about finding our first Queen, and once I do have things in place I’ll be looking to you to help spread the word and solicit entries.
In regular Threshold news, today was a pretty unremarkable one. For the first part of it, at least.
I did a couple of loads of laundry, discovering that I had apparently worn every shirt and pair of pants that I own since the last time I did the laundry.
For later in the day I had plans to see Ultraviolet with Scott, Jamie, and Casey. That wasn’t until 5:50, but by sometime after 3 I got tired of sitting around the house waiting to go. I’d started working on a picture which I knew was going to take many hours to finish. I didn’t feel like working on it when I’d just have to quit after a couple of hours, so I decided that it should be easily possible for me to go out into the world and kill a couple of hours.
I quickly discovered that I was wrong and that after visiting several stores I still had more than an hour to go before the movie.
I wasn’t the only one who got there early, though. As I was walking out of the parking lot on my way to Burger King to get something to eat/kill some time, I was greeted by Scott, who had just arrived.
After a quick meal we went in, bought our tickets and snacks and went in to the theater to find Jamie and Casey already there.
I didn’t really have that much interest in the movie going into it even though it was based on a comic book – which I’d never heard of prior to the announcement of the movie, and still have never read – and that didn’t change much once the movie actually started.
The dialogue was absolutely terrible and the story was pretty weak. The worst part was the lengthy voice-over exposition at the beginning of the movie. A lot of the exposition could have been gotten out of the way in a less obtrusive fashion throughout the course of the movie.
Still, I wasn’t expecting it to be much more than an hour and a half of Milla Jo-however-the-hell-you-say-her-last-name kicking ass a la The Fifth Element and the Resident Evil movies.
In all honesty, Milla kicking ass in skimpy outfits has become as much of a cliché in sci-fi action movies as “bullet time.”
Even so, it still usually manages to be pretty entertaining.
Not so much this time. A lot of the action was pointless, and there were, as has become a tradition in movies, a lot of those kinds of scenes in which the camera just whips around so that you can’t see what’s actually happening, which the filmmakers hope will lead you to use your imagination to fill in the blanks and conclude that something cool must be happening.
In fact, a couple “action sequences” were in total darkness, leaving it entirely up to your imagination.
(I will say that the very last such scene actually was pretty cool)
Another annoying aspect was this weird soft focus that seemed to be used to cover up shortcomings in make up and choreography.
So, despite a couple kind of cool concepts and action sequences, the movie was pretty much a stinker. I actually considered walking out on it pretty early on but decided to stick it out to the end.
And that was pretty much my day.
Tomorrow I’ll need to go out and do my shopping and whatnot. I’m sure that will be exciting, and I know you’ll be waiting with bated breath to read all about it.