Thursday, May 5, 2005

Oh, Yeah, I did, Didn't I?

So...is Birdseed meant to be planted?.....and what do you get?
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I was reminded tonight that I did movie reviews....I forgot about that. Well, I've seen 3 lately, and even though I've mentioned them before, I'll talk a bit more about them now.

*Sin City: This was shot beautifully. I don't read comic boo.........errrr, I mean graphic novels, and I certainly never read this one. But, seeing the movie makes it feel like I don't need to. It's so fast paced, much of it narrated in the first person so it doesn't need much in terms of visual storytelling...yet it says everything with its visuals. i.e.: every shot counts. Oh, and it's very violent and has boobies.

*Kung-Fu Hustle: I saw a preview for this before 'House of Flying Daggers' and thought it looked like the oddest thing to come from Japan since sliced breadakami. And it was. It met expectations and proved that for a movie to be good, it CAN have special effects up the wazoo. It's wacky and just plain out fun.

*Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Ok, I had been waiting for this for as long as they said it was being made. Just about the time I got into the radio series and books, I found out the movie was being made. Perfect timing, really. Being a newcomer (it's probably been roughly a year since I was introduced to Douglas Adams), I can't fully critique/diss it........but I enjoyed it. One of the best theater experiences I've had in a long time. Let me recap: Just before the movie, there is a preview....that common green screen saying it's ok for everyone to watch.....but it's no ordinary preview: I've seen this before; I hear 'What A Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong, as the sun glares over the planet Earth. Wait a tick.....I've seen this numerous times on the internet—it's the teaser trailer for 'The Guide.' Wait, are they showing a preview for the very movie I've come to see? I know the trailer by heart: "I see skies of blue, clouds of white.....and I say to myself, 'what a wonderful wor—'BLAMMMMMMM!!!" Pieces of the earth fly towards me....and DON'T PANIC is shown onscreen; then Chicken Little burst through the wall, and I realize it's the cleverest movie teaser I've ever seen. My anal iris did tighten, b/c I was scared I came to see the wrong movie. I did 'PANIC' haahahaha. Anyway........when your movie opens with a chorus of dolphins thanking you for the fish, you know the movie is gonna be good. It got kinda slow for a bit—oddly enough it was the part that wasn't in the book—but it picked up and became a fun movie.

So there you go.
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—edited paragraph about the oddity of a gender-ambiguous Country Gospel Music Singer and relationship to homosexuality and the Bible and stuff that would probably not make sense/be offensive b/c I could not state a point very well—

Just click on this image for the 'person'/singer named Danny Jones and draw your own conclusions.
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There's nothing disgusting about the human body except for the intestines and bits of the bottom.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

sin city was a comic i have like 3 of them somewhere, i always thought it was cool cause the guy said damn a lot