It's really hot out today, so of course I decided to spend the middle of the day outside finishing one of my bookcases. That required sanding it, brushing it with wood conditioner (which opens the wood fibres or something) and then staining it. Tomorrow I'll varnish it.
We wanted to go see a movie afterwards, and decided to see LXG despite all of the bad reviews. They're fully warranted: the plot is utterly incoherent, the CGI effects often cheesy (an early shot of a house in Kenya exploding is obviously just a flame effect superimposed over the picture) and when they try to imitate :title-reference:Lord of the Rings: simply pathetic, Connery is just coasting on his Bond-like shtick for the whole picture, and in the end it's all forgettable. To paraphrase one of Crow's lines: "At least the bad editing covers how poorly it was shot." It's probably a good thing that I haven't read volume 1 of the comic yet; I'd probably have blown a gasket if I knew what had been done to the original.
There are a few -- a very few -- things to like; I enjoyed some of the performances, notably Peta Wilson's feral Mina Harker and Naseeruddin Shah's Nemo; I really wish they could play the same roles in a good production. Barb pointed out the saddest thing about the movie is that it could have be something really good and memorable, but instead ended up being yet more Generic Action Film Product.