Watched
The Descent on Friday while I worked out. Decent movie, nothing exceptional. It used a few cheap scare tactics, like a flock of birds exploding into flight. Stingers, I think they're called. Or something like that. But overall, it was creepy. It made me think of a d20 Modern adventure: a group of adventurers go into a cave and things go horribly awry. The movie had a fantastic set and the caving scenes itself were gripping.
Saturday night was
Iron Man. Now that one was amazing. Robert Downey, Jr. was fantastic in the role. I love his casual, sort of stuttery acting style, and the movie played to his strengths. I don't know the comic story, so like all the other comic book movies, I base my opinions solely on the movie. Also, if you want another fantastic Robert Downey, Jr. movie, I love
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. That one's just damn funny.
Spent the rest of my weekend playing
Lord Of The Rings Online and
Rock Band 2. RB2 is an improvement over RB1, though not a drastic one. One nice feature: they have a "No Fail" option you can choose, so you'll never fail out of a song. It's a nice feature if you're having friends over who've never played before, and you don't want them to get frustrated when they fail out of their first song. Or small children who just want to play the music.
I paid the $5.00 to import my RB1 songs (all but 3 of the 58 are available), so once everything is unlocked, I'll have about 160 songs to choose from, plus another 20 when their free downloads are available. This week's DLC includes several I'll likely buy, include a couple of The Offspring songs and "Bad To The Bone." I mean, who wouldn't love playing that one at a party?! I've been doing a lot of stuff on Hard difficulty, even on the drums sometimes. And who would've thought the song with the most energy is Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer?"
That song seriously rocked as the audience was screaming out the chorus and cheering. This is saying something coming from me, because on the whole I'd rather hear new music than old. But when I'm playing Rock Band, even the old stuff is a real blast.
And I think we've finally gotten the whole oven situation sorted out. It looks like we'll have one by next weekend. Finding an oven was such an ordeal, you'd think we'd gone on a search for the lost ark of the covenant. But now, finally, we'll have an oven younger than we are.