Got up around 8ish and got on my way to Eastern Market to get some fresh veggies for the week. Along the way, I stopped by the bank for cash, got to the market did my shopping, even stopped by DeVries & Co. for some yummy cheeses. After that, is was back to the bank. I needed quarters to do laundry and when I stopped by the bank the first time it was still closed. SO...now I'm home and I make what only an anorexic would call breakfast and was off again. By 10am I was sitting comfortably waiting for Snow White and the Huntsman to start. I must say, I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. It definitely had some issues, but on a whole I truly did like it. Will I go out and buy it? No idea, but I am happy I saw it in the theatre...
Right after that, I was able to get right into a showing of Prometheus...
SPOILER ALERT
Prometheus: This movie left me with an overwhelming sense of...meh. I will explain....
First: The human technology was too clean, too cutting edge compared to that of Alien which takes place years later...and while this isn't a prequel in the technical sense, this movie did take place in the same universe, so a certain chronology should be followed.
Second: Never did I get a sense of immediacy. I never really felt that anything was at stake. This may have been too Hitchcockian in that we never knew what the antagonist was, let alone see glimpses of it. That left me wondering what the big deal was. I had an idea of what they could have been up against but for this particular chapter in the Alien universe, sure they all might die, but so what?
Third: I didn't care for any of the characters except a little for Vickers, Charlize Theron. She was the only one that had the possibility for any depth outside David who is supposed to be devoid of any.
Fourth: I dub this the 'Die Hard Sequel Curse'...and this harkens back to my immediacy concern. In Die Hard, you got a real sense that John McClane absolutely positively had to do every single thing he did and you were with him every step of the way...not so much in any of the others...You got a similar feeling for Ripley in Alien and Aliens...I won't give any of the other following movies in that franchise a wasted breath of my precious air.
Fifth: And this is my own personal bias...what a crock of shit that our 'makers' were doing EXACTLY what the Weyland Corporation is doing...looking for and developing bioweapons...so we're all just exactly the same...if that's the so true, if we are so similar, then WHY? WHY LOOK ANY FURTHER? At that point I felt I was being force fed a message of how everything is futile...blah blah blah...
On the positive side...it was well made (except for the 2 minute major surgery machine) and the effects and music were very well done...but that's a total Liz Lemon to Jenna compliment (sorry if the reference escapes you, been on a 30 Rock kick lately).
What I did like was that the alien ship they crashed was not the one from the original Alien movie, and that these 'bioweapons' they made seemed to be a little different, or evolved, on a case by case basis. So the ship that cashed on LV 426 had different cargo possibly meant for a different world.
And, this is a stretch, but it also leads me to believe that the Predators then are a race of mutations from one of these bioweapon cargo ships since their evolutionary traits fall more in line with the toothiness of some of the beasties we say in the movie...That's my attempt to keep everything in this 'universe' together.
That's my take on things...
I give it a C+. I expected more from Ridley Scott.
First: The human technology was too clean, too cutting edge compared to that of Alien which takes place years later...and while this isn't a prequel in the technical sense, this movie did take place in the same universe, so a certain chronology should be followed.
Second: Never did I get a sense of immediacy. I never really felt that anything was at stake. This may have been too Hitchcockian in that we never knew what the antagonist was, let alone see glimpses of it. That left me wondering what the big deal was. I had an idea of what they could have been up against but for this particular chapter in the Alien universe, sure they all might die, but so what?
Third: I didn't care for any of the characters except a little for Vickers, Charlize Theron. She was the only one that had the possibility for any depth outside David who is supposed to be devoid of any.
Fourth: I dub this the 'Die Hard Sequel Curse'...and this harkens back to my immediacy concern. In Die Hard, you got a real sense that John McClane absolutely positively had to do every single thing he did and you were with him every step of the way...not so much in any of the others...You got a similar feeling for Ripley in Alien and Aliens...I won't give any of the other following movies in that franchise a wasted breath of my precious air.
Fifth: And this is my own personal bias...what a crock of shit that our 'makers' were doing EXACTLY what the Weyland Corporation is doing...looking for and developing bioweapons...so we're all just exactly the same...if that's the so true, if we are so similar, then WHY? WHY LOOK ANY FURTHER? At that point I felt I was being force fed a message of how everything is futile...blah blah blah...
On the positive side...it was well made (except for the 2 minute major surgery machine) and the effects and music were very well done...but that's a total Liz Lemon to Jenna compliment (sorry if the reference escapes you, been on a 30 Rock kick lately).
What I did like was that the alien ship they crashed was not the one from the original Alien movie, and that these 'bioweapons' they made seemed to be a little different, or evolved, on a case by case basis. So the ship that cashed on LV 426 had different cargo possibly meant for a different world.
And, this is a stretch, but it also leads me to believe that the Predators then are a race of mutations from one of these bioweapon cargo ships since their evolutionary traits fall more in line with the toothiness of some of the beasties we say in the movie...That's my attempt to keep everything in this 'universe' together.
That's my take on things...
I give it a C+. I expected more from Ridley Scott.
SPOILER ALERT OVER
After Prometheus I had some time to kill and really needed to eat. So I went to Barnes and Noble to see my friend Julie that works there and her and I went to lunch at a burger place that left me with the same underwhelming sense of 'meh' that Prometheus did. Noodles and Co. was right there, but nooooo, I had to go and try something new. Blerg. Regardless, lunch was fine and I was happy for the company. Thanks, Julie! Now back to the cinema...
I misjudged my time and had a full hour until Men in Black 3 started. Thank (insert your own appropriate deity) for games on my iPhone...I broke my diet today and had buttery popcorn and a Mt. Dew. Neither of which I was particularly craving, but I just wanted to see how I'd react to them. Both were as yummy as I remember but also heavier. I had heard about pop being syrupy to those who don't drink it often and after a solid week of not drinking it, I can see where this comes from. So, I had a pop and popcorn, and a burger and fries today. Again, my diet is about not living in excess, and if I do this once a week, compared to the multiple times a day I used to do it, I call that a huge win. What made me happiest about the whole food thing today is that none of what I ate I craved like I used to. That is what made me happiest.
So, MIB 3 was everything it needed to be. It was even touching in a way I was not expecting.
The movie experience summed up something like this: I ended up tearing up in MIB 3 when I thought I would do that in Snow White, and I was as frightened and on edge in Snow White as I expected to be in Prometheus, which was supposed to leave me feeling as complete as MIB 3 did when MIB 3 was the movie I expected the least from today...wow. I kinda like how all that came together. :)
Then, after I got home, I went for a run. It was a tough one today. I cramped up a lot, but I managed an extra quarter mile longer than I had planned on going, so again, win!
This, this is how a Saturday is supposed to be spent.
Just another guy in a red jump-suit...
No comments:
Post a Comment