Blood Suckers Aren’t Supposed to Sparkle
Movies November 29th, 2008
Movies are usually an enjoyable experience for me. I have large amount of attention and can follow along even the most complicated of storylines. I appreciate special affects, great filming, enthralling soundtracks, and outstanding acting. Even if the film were to fail in most of those aspects, I still enjoy watching them. The very act of losing oneself in a movie appeals to me. But before last night, I didn’t believe there could be another movie in existence that would upset me almost as much as Alexander did. I wasn’t interested in seeing it, but a friend had a ringing endorsement of it (this was her second viewing, in fact) so I decided to give it a chance. But damn… I was not sure of what I experienced in Twilight.
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you’re gonna die here
Movies June 5th, 2008
Crazy storm. Power was out at the house when I got back from work. So I decided to go waste time at the mall. Brought my cousin with me (who just graduated from 8th grade the other day and is ready for having some awesome adventures in high school!) I kind of wanted to see a movie, and just decided on the spot when we arrived to go see The Strangers. I haven’t seen a good slasher film in a while (probably since… um… this one). Well, that and I wanted to take my cousin to a scary movie since he is a big baby (freakin LotR was scary for him!) Hopefully I can break him in to be able to enjoy thriller/horror movies. Pretty much throughout the whole time he has his head down, squinting his eyes, and covering his ears. Not that I’d blame him, the movie gets pretty intense. Um… spoiler alert?
No, they aren’t putting on a play for them.
Tags: Horror, Movies, The Strangers
I Was Saving That Bacon!
Movies December 20th, 2007
Just got back from seeing I Am Legend. I am very entertained and satisfied by it! Yeah, it’s not perfect, but I did enjoy it. OK, before I go into a little mini-review, I’d just like to point out that I saw previews for Prince Caspian and The Dark Knight for the first time; I’m totally psyched to see those. 
Now back to my opinions of I Am Legend… spoilers ahead, a-duh.
Tags: I Am Legend, Movies, Will Smith
Was thinking about going to see Enchanted again. I wasn’t too sure if I would enjoy it a second time around, but then I found my favorite scene online… SPOILER ALERT.
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Comics, Movies December 6th, 2007
I heard about the announcement made at Comic-Con, but I hadn’t really tried read too much about it: The film adaptation of one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, Watchmen. I didn’t want to get too excited about it just yet, mostly due to the handling of writer Alan Moore’s other comics-turned-movies, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V For Vendetta. But with the success of 300 and Batman Begins, Warner Bros. was convinced to finally put some serious money into Watchmen.
Watchmen is one serious comic book. Yes, it does have superheroes, but the setting and story is just so grim and depressing at times. This is not a comic book I’d think any kid would like to read. I won’t go into any details of the plot and characters. Instead, I’ll just say: Go read it. Pick it up at the bookstore and read it. I seriously, seriously, SERIOUSLY recommend it. Give it a chance. It is not like your garden variety Spider-Man, Superman, or even Batman stories.
I finally visited the official site and saw some of the production photos. I am totally blown away by what they have so far. It really does look like it’s straight from the comic book. I’m getting really excited about it now. I’m not familiar with the people they casted, but I trust that they made some good choices. And I am really psyched to hear that they’ll be filming the Mars scene. I hope they do a good job on the Doctor Manhattan/Silk Spectre II scene… the dialog from that scene is one of my favorite parts:
"Thermodynamic Miracles… Events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive, meeting, siring this precise son, that exact daughter…
Until your mother loves a man, she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.
To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold, that is the crowning unlikelihood.
The thermodynamic miracle.
Come… dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes… and let’s go home. "
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