In which I've got nothing to say about very little

We have caught a couple films in the past week. Well, ok I've watched a couple, lovely wife only watched one. The one we saw together was Linda, Linda, Linda. It's a Japanese slice of life story about 4 girls that try to get a band together in 3 days. Three of the girls have played together before, but they need a new lead singer due to typical teenage girl angst - the bff's are on the outs at the moment. So they ask the Korean transfer student to fill in. Mostly because she's walking by and they can tweak the ex-singer's nose. So you follow the girls as they try to help the new girl come out of her shell a bit and get the band read for the culture festival.

Lovely wife will tell you that it was only ok and really slow. And while I can't argue the speed of the film (it is most certainly not fast paced. At all.) I did like it. Quite a bit actually. It helped that the song the girls were working on is pretty catchy, but I also found it a fun look at another culture. The movie does a good job of portraying life at that time for those girls. Yup. Good stuff.

The film I watched that lovely wife did not was Pandorum, a nice little sci fi horror flick. I actually think she would have liked it had she given it a shot, but I didn't know enough about it to sell her on it. Other than it was recommended by a friend. It actually was a lot of fun and I liked the ending quite a bit. You do have to pay some attention to it - the plot is a little on the confusing side - but the payoff is totally worth it. It concerns a couple of crew members on a space ship that wake up with little to no information about what's going on with the ship - they just know things Aren't Right. And they of course go downhill from there. Good fun.

There will be some book talk coming up, but I've not really finished anything worth talking about recently.

The letter 'r' and his fiance were over last night and a few games were played. She's relatively new to board games so we played a round of Pitchcar, some Bang! and a little Shipwrecked. It's actually been a little interesting going back through our collection looking for things to help ease a newcomer into the world of hobby gaming. I think maybe we'll try Loot and Bull in a China Shop at some point. Possibly Carcassonne as well. Or we could just jump into Arkham Horror. Heh.