Thursday, Jul 6 2006 | 23:57:05
Team-Building Outing
The place I work at has three departments -- Market Research, Programming, and Administration. Inside the programming department, there are four team. I'm part of the Data Collection team, of course.
For the longest time, our team has debated on a team-building activity. I was always partial to paintball, laser tag, or bowling; but there was always a person or two who didn't want to do that. We finally settled on dinner and a movie. In particular, grabbing food at a West Ed food court, then watching Superman Returns in the IMAX theatre. Not the ideal team building activity...cram food down our throat, then sit in a movie theatre for close to three hours. But it was all on the company dime, so it was OK.
Highlights of the outing include me ordering way too much food from Tokyo Express, and having a coworker finish off a half-eaten piece of tempura and the final few bites from my Teriyaki Chicken bowl. Me challenging everyone to a game of Dance Dance Revolution at the arcade (nobody accepted, out of primal fear). Another coworker downing a 32-oz coke, then trying to sit still through a 157 minute movie, plus previews.
Superman Returns was OK. It focused less on action and more on the angst-ridden life of Superman. Brandon Routh as Superman looked way too young, especially when you consider that in the plot, Superman supposedly did a ton of stuff, then went away for five years, then came back. Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane made old-school-Lois Margot Kidder look anorexic.
The biggest flaw, though, is that Lex Luthor looked too young and wasn't maniacal enough. I really hope the Batman Begins sequel doesn't make this mistake with Joker, like they did with the '89 Batman movie. I mean, these two villians are supposed to be WILD, CRAZY, MURDEROUS MANIACS!
Parts of the movie were in 3D, which called for special, polarized glasses. It was kinda cool, but the edges on the 3D images was really, really sharp...it made things look too focused. And the slighest tilt of your head made the picture 'echo'.
An OK night, I guess. I still think we should have done something afterwards, but everyone was tired. Next time.
For the longest time, our team has debated on a team-building activity. I was always partial to paintball, laser tag, or bowling; but there was always a person or two who didn't want to do that. We finally settled on dinner and a movie. In particular, grabbing food at a West Ed food court, then watching Superman Returns in the IMAX theatre. Not the ideal team building activity...cram food down our throat, then sit in a movie theatre for close to three hours. But it was all on the company dime, so it was OK.
Highlights of the outing include me ordering way too much food from Tokyo Express, and having a coworker finish off a half-eaten piece of tempura and the final few bites from my Teriyaki Chicken bowl. Me challenging everyone to a game of Dance Dance Revolution at the arcade (nobody accepted, out of primal fear). Another coworker downing a 32-oz coke, then trying to sit still through a 157 minute movie, plus previews.
Superman Returns was OK. It focused less on action and more on the angst-ridden life of Superman. Brandon Routh as Superman looked way too young, especially when you consider that in the plot, Superman supposedly did a ton of stuff, then went away for five years, then came back. Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane made old-school-Lois Margot Kidder look anorexic.
The biggest flaw, though, is that Lex Luthor looked too young and wasn't maniacal enough. I really hope the Batman Begins sequel doesn't make this mistake with Joker, like they did with the '89 Batman movie. I mean, these two villians are supposed to be WILD, CRAZY, MURDEROUS MANIACS!
Parts of the movie were in 3D, which called for special, polarized glasses. It was kinda cool, but the edges on the 3D images was really, really sharp...it made things look too focused. And the slighest tilt of your head made the picture 'echo'.
An OK night, I guess. I still think we should have done something afterwards, but everyone was tired. Next time.
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