Painting and Tropical Thunder

It was an easy night tonight since Cheryl and I worked into the late hours yesterday. I finished painting the 10 seats and touching up the two left over from the weekend. I had to make room on my table so I could fit them all on for drying. Tomorrow morning is going to be a bunch of fun when we have to box up and ship 12 seats! ( hope they all fit in the car!) I had time to work on a new beetle tonight and I really like the way it turned out. I still want to see if I can make the abdomen a little more round. And tonight Cheryl and I watched Tropical Thunder. I had heard good things about this movie, and the premise sounded funny. But then a couple of red flags. One: It was immediately available on netflix, despite being a recent release. Two: it only got three stars. The last movie we saw that had three stars but was talked up was a total FLOP! Well, Tropic Thunder delivered the bomb! Sure there were "moments" but Come ON! slow SLOW SLOW! RUN! they are right behind you ! RUN! BLOW THE BRIDGE!!! why are you MONOLOGUING???? IT'S NOT FUNNY, RUN! The entire movie was good at poking fun at the "over the top" action movies, but then continues to deliver the unbelievable over the top movie! WHAT? I want my two hours back! When I find myself yelling at the TV because the movie has shifted to " the Hollywood land" I know it is bad. Thumbs down here, save your money or time and don't watch. I have not liked Ben Stiller in anything since Happy Gilmore. and even then it was because it was a bit part. At least in Last Action Hero, When the Hollywood action star get beamed out of the movies and into real life, he gets hurt, the cars don't explode, and you can actually lose at "chicken"! The real actors should have been crying for their mommies like Robin Leach in "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!" but no! They hit the "Real"camp with unlimited "blanks" and pull it off. But that is ok! In the "real" drug lord camp, the drug lords must have had unlimited blank rounds TOO! Cause NO ONE GETS SHOT, and no one runs out of ammo. Millions of rounds and none find their mark. I was in the Army, M16's have a 30 round clip and it goes fast on burst ( burst fires three rounds per squeeze, they don't fire automatic, sorry Hollywood, get your tech stuff right.)