Monday, July 22, 2019

Stranger Things Season 3, Bolt 24, The Lion King & Apollo 11

I do not have much to say about the opening part of this past week-unless people really want to hear about me going to a home improvement store to purchase new lights for my bathroom-so I'll instead mention a few random things until I get to the first day that had any real interesting events. I finally got around to watching Season 3 of Stranger Things; I did not love the first two seasons like most did but it was still enjoyable so I was hoping for more of the same here. To unleash yet another unpopular opinion, I hated Season 3! It had some cool moments but overall it was hardly any fun as I did not care for the main story, any of the side stories, all the commercialization, and wow did they ever ruin one of the main characters... I hated them rather quickly and I started to groan whenever they appeared. I am glad most love the new season-if only I could have felt the same way.

Via Amazon as a deal offered a few days before Prime Day, I purchased Bolt 24, which is a new drink from Gatorade that is like that BODYARMOR drink that's been out for a few days now. It was a 12 pack of three different flavors and all of them taste good. Now, onto Thursday. I went to the Melbourne area as I hadn't been there in ages and I went to a few places there, including a restaurant known as Pizza Gallery & Grill. The service could have been better and I don't want to be mean to the random middle-aged intoxicated woman sitting by me (but yikes were they LOUD) yet at least the pizza was good and the art on the walls was nice. Because an AMC was in the area and I have the A-List app that allows me to see a bunch of films if I wanted to, I checked out The Lion King remake.

Now, this was the first of those pointless Disney remakes that I've seen; I know they all make an obscene amount of money so they'll keep on doing that for a long while but what I've heard from film fans (who admittedly can be rather snobby sometimes... or often) they are lazy and total retreads. Yet I saw the original theatrically-and again in 2017-& the visuals got high marks so this is why I viewed this on a giant screen in 3D. It did look and sound real nice, but overall the original movie did things way better and the remake wasn't too good at all.

Friday and Sunday I have no activities to talk about, except that I did watch some programs about the Apollo 11 mission, with the big anniversary at all. Shoutout to the apparent 400,000 people (!) said to be responsible for that mission being a success. Saturday was at least different. I went to a Barnes & Noble but did not buy anything there. I then returned to what is now known as Icon Park and I ate at Tin Roof, sort of. That place (I don't know if the roof is rusted) has been around for a few years and just recently took over the adjacent lot after the restaurant that was there went kaput; they call it Green Room... I have no idea why, as nothing about it is green. Plus, that is the name of an independent thriller from a few years ago where the titular place was a rural club for a Neo-Nazi gang! Again, the good food did make up for lackluster service.

There are plans for the upcoming week... it's just determining on what days I will do those things.

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