"dibs on the mountain guide!" - see? funny, but also, treats her like an object

Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes, by Peter Watts. As usual with Watts, interesting and disturbing, real make-you-think sort of pieces (it's an anthology of short stories). But I wanted more, damn it! Each of the stories seems to me a perfect seed for a bigger story or novel (especially so in the first chapter of Starfish being included, but that just helps my assertion, I think). Weather that's 'alive' and aware in some sense and trying to exterminate humanity? Entropy taking on a faster pace, breaking down the very patterns of things? A scarier, shiver-inducing take on Jasmine from the show Angel (with same name, even)? Of course there was a miss or two maybe (the hate/fractals story) and a humorous one off (hippies + hungry orcas = hilarity) - all in all, worth a read, it's quick and snappy.

Journey to the Center of the Earth, with Brendan Frasier, Josh Hutchinson, and Anita Briem. Oh man. Dumb. But, great for kids. The 3D aspect actually didn't even seem that prevalent for a lot of it, more of an interesting complement to the cinematography than anything, but became more interesting with pop-out-of-screen scares and getting to watch little kids reach playfully for the illusion. Makes me wonder whether 3D might eventually become a standard complement to regular movies, just as an accenting thing, like an extension of HD or something. Anyway, I think this would have been better as a regular, epic kind of movie, I wanted more of the underground environment! I'll also note the female character who starts off (though in skin tight clothing) as more competent and effective than the male characters, though as the narrative becomes more dangerous, she becomes less competent and more reliant on the males, and her clothing becomes progressively less and less, then she gets wet, then is attacked by tentacled plants....heh, I didn't mind it, but at the same time, it seemed blatant undercutting of a female character.

slightly nsfw, actually kind of badass pattycake

the gelatin one is the most interesting and disturbing, to me, if you imagine that as a body