When Aliens Attack

I finally made a burger that I would rather make again than go to a burger place. The secret seemed to be jamming up the heat so that the burgers were cooked to my liking in four minutes total. Toppings were mayonnaise, American cheese, and lettuce. Mmm, were they delish.

I ate them while watching Evolution, a comedy starring David "Foxx Mulder" Duchovny that I missed in theaters but finally remembered to netflix. Storywise it was a bit slow in the beginning although there were some great academic jokes and some joking allusions to the source of Duchovny's celebrity. But when it finally picked up it really picked up, and it turned out not to develop along the lines I initially suspected. At some point I grasped that, and realized how it was going to develop, but I still didn't understand what the movie is. It was fairly late – second half, certainly, perhaps well in – before I finally did: it's Ghostbusters, through and through. Quite remarkably so, in fact. And although it is not Ghostbusters's peer, it has the advantage of not being a 30-year-old pop-culture icon.

Dang! I just looked on the DVD sleeve, and learned that it's a 2001 movie! It came out that long ago?! I thought it was 2005 or 2006! I was still in grad school in 2001, finishing my data collection and beginning the write-up! Plus, I've been with Netflix for three years, and it was only a couple of weeks ago that I remembered to add the movie to my queue! Dang!