Transformers

I thought this was quite cool, though I predict some people won't like it because it's not very deep.

The trailer made it look like it was all serious, which didn't seem promising. However, it *was* exciting, when a decepticon was mowing down an army base. But most of the time, it had a sense of humour about itself. Giant robots fighting, and humour, what's more to like?

Look at the opening voice over. I don't know whether or not it was *supposed* to be tongue in cheek, but it sure as hell came out that way :)

I was also impressed at the personalities squeezed into non-anthropomorphic machines, that's hard and was done well. And while the macguffins were sometimes silly, the plot pretty much held up.

( spoilers )

Swimming

I went swimming again. This time I managed my mile, without undue effort. (Though the first thing I did when I got out was to walk into a wall :))

It was nearly choppy when it was windy, but it was beautifully azure where it was sunny. Afterward I just lay down with my book for half an hour and was dry.

I jumped in; it is exhilerating.

I still need to improve my technique a lot, I can tell I'm not just slow but a inefficient. Still, not awfully slow on average, the swimming (rather than resting) took only an hour or so.