Dancing in the rain. Not.

[keire_ke]

The Friday strike - let's face it, it's pretty pointless. They don't care. There's not going to be a massive flood away from LJ, little will change for existing users and new ones will likely join anyway. The plus in the accounts doesn't make that much of a difference. I also have no plans to desert LJ in the foreseeable future either.

I went and saw Step Up 2 The Streets and have this to say: never mind the plot was trite and pointless. Never mind everyone had the dimensionality of a cardboard cutout. Never mind the heroine had awesome chemistry with everyone but the hero (to name the top three: the hero's brother, the nerd, her best friend). Never mind the dialogue and well, everything was pushing it, with a huge tow truck.

Okay, to name on of the many things that bothered me: what exactly was so wrong about them dancing in the tube car? Unless it was about the graffiti, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. Period. Unless dancing publicly constitutes a crime in Baltimore.

Which is a shame, because it could have been really cool. Well, cooler than it is, which isn't hard. All they had to do is switch the love interest to the school director (because hello, the issues! The dancing!) and the movie would jump up a notch of three. Point of fact, the whole "romance" was unnecessary, period, unlike the first movie, where it drove the show. They had enough to build the movie on, but of course the really interesting things were summed up with a sentence.

Comments

[macavitykitsune.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree about the strike - it doesn't affect many people - although the interests page cut had me up in arms, they seem to have reinstated that. I don't like what just went down. Still, I don't think that's cause enough to leave. Yet.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice the interest page thing. What happened?

As long as they don't start making rules about keeping the LJs PG rated and start banning fanfic/yaoi/whatever, I won't. LJ's entirely too convenient.

[macavitykitsune.livejournal.com]

Heh. They censored the main interests page to cut out yaoi, sex, guys, girls, boys, porn, hardcore, bondage, pain, depression.....and fanfiction.

HOLY $T^#$)^T$_@!$! was pretty much my reaction to that. But they've reinstated it after the hullabaloo that went up about it. And there was this seriously nasty interview with one of the owners where he called lj users "idiots". And a few other things besides. That was pretty much it, yeah.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was stupid. Half of LJ population is here for the fanfiction. And p0rn.

I read that interview. Yeah, the guy needs a serious attitude check, but a strike won't fix anything.

[helensheep.livejournal.com]

Does it really make a difference if I don't post any content and don't renew my paid account? They probably make a mint off advertising anyway.

That said, I /really/ don't like the attitude of some of the higher ups in LJ.

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

I will renew it, next year, provided they don't do anything that affects the reasons I use LJ, like banning fanstuff and/or yaoi. I like LJ and these changes don't affect me at all. Plus, it's not such a big deal, the ads on plus accounts are not too bothersome anyway.

I do agree this Russian guy needs an attitude check, but hey, he's Russian. They have trouble with this "capitalism is about pleasing the customer" thing. :)