On Saturday after the food bank I took my haul home and then headed
back out to No Frills. I bought three bags of black grapes. I splurged on a
pint of Canadian greenhouse small strawberries. I got a bottle of mouthwash and
three containers of Greek yogourt.
One of the cashiers at No Frills has an exceptionally beautiful face.
I’ve seen her there many times but for the first time she asked how I was.
When I got home I worked on my journal.
For lunch I had a toasted cheese bun with turkey, three-year-old cheese
and mustard.
In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy.
In this story Sapphire goes to Chicago to visit relatives, leaving Kingfish
alone in New York. He sees her off at the station and before she boards the
train he gives her a parcel. She thinks it’s a gift but he’s packed up his
laundry for her to do in Chicago. Later when Kingfish is sitting around in his
office a woman named Lucy Benson walks in looking for a specific New York City
tour. He is about to give her directions but when he finds out that she would
be paying $10 a day he suddenly has his own tour guide company. He offers her a
walking tour and she's okay with that but he's thinking his feet wouldn’t be
able to stand it. He tries to figure out a way to get Andy to give her the tour
without having to pay him. He convinces Andy that he recently went down to the
unemployment office and got a job as an FBI agent. He enlists Andy to also
serve his country and says that Lucy Benson is a European spy and he has to
pretend he’s taking her on a walking tour of New York. After a couple of days
however Andy has Lucy arrested after he sees her taking pictures of a
battleship. Lucy sues both Kingfish and Andy. They agree to settle out of court
but Kingfish tells Andy to tell Lucy that he’s gone to South America with all
their money. Kingfish goes home and finds that Sapphire has returned from
Chicago and she tells Kingfish that when she got back she ran into a cousin she
hasn’t seen in years and she’ll be staying with them for a while. She
introduces him to Lucy Benson.
I worked on writing my Food Bank Adventure for the rest of the
afternoon.
I had turkey, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce and a beer for dinner
while watching Aquaman. The Aquaman comic was a rip-off of Marvel’s Submariner
from 1939 but the movie takes the theft even further and makes Arthur Curry
more of a rogue character like Namor. They are both Atlantean and human hybrids
and royalty on their mother’s sides. Namor's father was a sea captain while
Arthur’s was a lighthouse keeper.
This story begins with Nicole Kidman or Atlanna washing up on the beach
and Tom Curry the lighthouse keeper nursing her back to health. They become
lovers and have a baby. The Atlantean soldiers come for her because she refused
to submit to an arranged marriage down under. Not Australia but the other down
under. She fights them off but decides to go back anyway. As Arthur becomes a
boy, Atlanna doesn’t keep in touch but somehow he gets a mentor in Willem Dafoe
or Nuidis. Nuidis trains him and keeps telling him that someday he’ll meet his
mother but finally confesses that his mother was executed. Arthur learns he can
breathe under water and has a telepathic link with all sea creatures. He grows
up to be a protector of the seas. He stops some pirates from stealing a sub.
After sinking the sub he leaves the lead pirate trapped in the flooding ship.
The pirate’s son Kane can’t save his father and has to escape. He vows to take
revenge on Aquaman. Meanwhile we see that there are a bunch of undersea
kingdoms and when they is an attack from a Russian sub. Most of the kingdoms
form an alliance to declare war against the surface under the leadership of
Orm, who wants to unite all the kingdoms and become the Oceanmaster. Orm is
also the half brother of Arthur Curry. Orm’s fiancé Princess Mera wants to stop
the war and so she seeks Arthur’s help. He doesn’t want to go but after she
saves Tom's life he comes along but is captured in Atlantis. He challenges Orm
to combat but when Orm breaks Arthur's mother's trident Mera helps him escape.
Arthur and Mera go to the Sahara where they find under the sand the remnants of
an ancient city. Mera tries to activate an ancient hologram to tell them where
to find the sacred trident of Atlan but it won’t work without water. Mera uses
her water controlling powers to draw water from Arthur’s forehead and activate
the hologram. One of the only two good moments in the movie is here when Arthur
says he could have just peed on the device. They go to Sicily where they find
the location of the trident. But the still vengeful Kane has gotten Atlantean
tech from Orm and he’s now Black Manta with enhanced mechanical strength and a
helmet that shoots lasers from the eyes. He also has several of Orm’s soldiers
helping him. But some sub sea people can’t breathe air. One apparently has to
be “high born" to do that. So the other good moment in the film happens
after Manta and the soldiers attack in Sicily. Mera and a soldier have crashed
through the roof of a house and he is attacking her but she breaks open his
helmet so he can’t breathe. He rushes to stick his head in the toilet in order
to survive. Arthur and Mera head for the coordinates of the trident and get
sucked down a wormhole to the centre of the Earth where there is a lost ocean
world and they find Arthur’s mother alive. Arthur learns that the trident is
there and only the one true king can release it. Sound familiar? It’s also very
sexist. So Arthur gets the golden plastic looking trident and they all go back
to Atlantis. Orm’s armies, seeing that Arthur has the trident, don't want to
follow Orm anymore. Also Nicole Kidman shows up and convinces Orm not to fight.
Nicole goes back to the lighthouse keeper and Aquaman becomes king with Mera
his queen.
This movie was spectacularly lame. There were impressive special
effects but that alone is not enough. Atlantis looked a little too cartoonishly
pretty. At one point Mera wore a royal gown that had a collar that looked like
it was made out of seashell shaped party balloons. The movie was a cross
between King Arthur, Star Wars, Spongebob Trident Pants and My Little Sea Pony.
Mera was played by the attractive Amber Heard but I’ve seen better
acting from porn stars. The movie might as well have been a porno since Jason
Momoa was stiff all the way through. His Aquaman had two emotions: angry and
amused.
Nicole Kidman’s acting was fine but Willem Dafoe just decided to
da-phone it in.
The most ridiculous thing in the film was an octopus playing drums.
I give it an F at 30%.
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