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[moon_custafer]

My temp job finally ended last week, so I've got (unknown) time till I get a new assignment, so for now I work on (a)getting my craft-show stuff ready and (b)convincing the temp agency that my last 2-3 paychecks that were lost in the mail. They switched over to direct deposit last week, so my I've got most recent wages, but for some reason they seem unable to check their own records, determine which checks have never been cashed and cancel those checks, then either deposit the amount to my account or (if they must) reissue the checks for me to come and pick up myself. Argh. They're a decent enough employer, except when something like this crops up, whereupon they seem to become all confused and unable to deal with it or explain it to me.

Meanwhile green_trilobite and I saw John Carter (of Mars, damn you) this afternoon. I'm still mulling it over but the short version is that I enjoyed it, any reviewer who claims it's too incoherent to follow wasn't watching closely enough, and it's probably the first adventure film since The Scorpion King in which no character annoyed me in the least.

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[owlfish]

John Carter was fun! Sure, the filmmakers' vagueness with respect to what time of day it was itched a bit, as did the two moons always having the same visual relationship to each other - but that just made it high-quality B-movie fare and given what it is, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm glad I saw it.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I have to confess, I didn't pay much attention to time of day myself. I did like that Carter teleported from the American South-West, so initially the Barsoomian landscape must've looked to him like "somewhere else in the same desert" -- until he tried to walk.