I’m watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for the umpteenth time because I have HBO and HBO on Demand allows you to select items over, and over, and over and… Well, you get it.
I love the little homage paid to Cloverfield and Bad Boys in the movie, (Posters in Sam’s short used dorm room.) and to Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks (Radio snippet used by BumbleBee communicating with Sam)
Some of the fighting scenes in slightly slowed motion coupled with the majestic music filling the room makes for some great moments in the movie.
Though I don’t know exactly how those… “twins” came into being in the Autobot universe. And agent Simmons.. come on, I can’t help that one!
Still, Transformers 2 is a fun movie.
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Today I rushed home to crank up my television and watch NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying from Bristol on ESPN. This season has been a resounding good time with television coverage and I had forgotten about all the preempting from last season with ABC and ESPN when it came to baseball and such as far as coverage of NASCAR was concerned.
But today I turned into the tube to watch NASCAR qualifying and instead I found myself watching a little league baseball game that still had one inning to go and the score was 10-4. When the opponents made it 10-8, I was cringing. I was stunned that I played up my day for this. THIS? Yes, this.
I was stunned and I stayed stunned for 23 minutes while ESPN continued to cover the exhilaration that was little league baseball. Shades of America’s Funniest Videos! (Fans I mean really, I think the last thing ESPN needs is to be reminding people about past misdeeds… indeed.
Though I went to my backup NASCAR media coverage, called Twitter.
Twenty-three minutes later the qualifying coverage started and ESPN cranked it up from the first qualifier, so I didn’t miss anything. In fact they showed every qualifier and did some fancy editing until they caught up to the live mode. Not sure when/how they did it, but they did. I saw that the first 3 qualifiers came at us 1 per minute so they definitely made up some time there. When Denny Hamlin qualed, then instantly he was coasting down pit road… so there were spots I caught where they were playing catch up. It was smooth.
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