Episode III:
Hello All;
Ah, spring is finally here. Don’t forget to turn your clocks forward! Daylight Savings ends early this year and oh my, what it could mean for your computer! (As the news says.) Just means you enjoy WOS a whole hour earlier or later. Whatever, I’m cool with that. So, let’s dive right in shall we?
:[ For all of you Teepee Groupies who inundated me with questions about what it’s like to be an Indian, "Welcome to the Club!"
The Rez-ifying of America has begun! Now, all we have to do is close the borders now, oh, wait...
Of course our local FOX News 32 couches an opinion poll thusly: "Do you think that the National ID Card will be an effective tool for fighting terrorism?" I mean, how can you really answer that? How many of you knew about this?
:[ The Lost Tomb of Jesus - Part II: I missed this! I was looking forward to seeing this and the evidence they presented. I like the idea that Jesus was a married man and father, it makes his sacrifice for humanity that much more human.
:[ Bridge to Terabithia: I liked this a lot better than I should have. Once again, I’m a big sap. Disney going against policy SPOILER: and depicting a child’s death. I was sort of disappointed with the trailers thinking they were pushing the Narnia comparison thing but it is not like that. I remember seeing an earlier version on PBS in the 80's. (Annette O’Toole played the hot Art Teacher. Yowza!) That version played it straight.
I found I liked this one better because it showed what the kids were going to and it was indeed a better place than their own lives. The little sister rocked. (All little sisters do.) And the ending had me guwping like a fool. I recommend it.
But I know most, if not all of you, hate cloying cute kids. You like the mean-spirited stuff like Sarah Silverman Program and the Next Best Hair-Designing Pop Model Dentist, right?. (Whoa, just got judgmental of your @$$ just then. Sorry.) What else have I seen this year? Not much.
The other movies I have seen so far this year I can count on my hand:
-Curse of the Golden Flower
-Rocky Balboa (Yeah I saw it, what's it to you?)
-Ghost Rider (Less said the better)
:[ Curse of the Golden Flower DVD: I just love Chow Yun-Fat so much in this. He plays a right bastard. How can you keep chewing your dumpling while your son slits his throat? I hope the Three Kingdoms movie gives him more to do. I would actually like to see CYF as Cao Cao now because of this movie. (No. It’s not pronounced "cow-cow", it’s "t’sow-t’sow". So get it right!) It really should have won the best costume design award. DVD is out March 27.
:[ The Prestige DVD: A Re-Review!: I had it completely wrong! I like this film a lot more now! I was attributing more honorable characteristics to Bale’s Borden character and it threw me off. I really like this movie and I hope to write or make a movie now that shows you one thing and gives you another. I really would like that. I recommend that you see this right away!
:[ The Pussy Cat Dolls Show - We are basically raising up mediocrity. We aspire to nothing. We praise people who garnered no substantial achievement as the experts and the protean form of success that we should aspire to. We teach our young women to succeed you need to be mean and dress like a prostitute, our young men, that if you are bully enough, all these meaningless material trappings can be your with little or no effort. What a world.
:[ The Heineken Commercials - Nothing sells beer like sex and phallic symbolism. How non-manly do you have to be to have these types of commercials convince that buying their crap makes you a sexual stud muffin?
(How about that beer bottle in bed with a bottle opener? Hah! Suddenly, bottles of beer have better sex lives than 98% of the male population. The less said about the beer bottle booty, the better.) You know what’s funnier? That my word processor actually had the correct spelling of Heineken in the spell check!
:[ During the space race the US spent millions of dollars on a pen that could write in zero gravity. You know how the Russians solved that problem? They used pencils.
:[ M. Night’s next script is entitled The Happening. 20th Century Fox has optioned this next script about the survival of a cataclysmic event. From the early script reviews it is good and scary.
I know there is a lot of M. Night Hate out there but I could never really understand that. Everyone complains about the same thing, that he’s pretentious. He is a great movie maker and he makes the films that we all want to make and yet they appeal to everyone. Or else, why such an interest and success?
Yet, the film cinema-istas only want films that appeal primarily to themselves. Which is why they back the foreign, obscurity and the black and white nonsensical films. (Nothing pretentious about that!) So that they can perch themselves on the avant-garde tip and out of the Hollywood mainstream and point and laugh and call the others garbage. (Oops, being judgmental again.)
:[ Three Kingdoms UPDATE/The Prestige:
I am not going through Volume Four as fast. I am so close to the death of Kongming that I am forcing myself to put down the book so I will not have to read that part. I love it when I do that with a good book. You start putting it down, not wanting it to end. But I have found by re-reading Three Kingdoms, (now three times in row) that you can pick up those books again and start from the beginning.
I am not going through Volume Four as fast. I am so close to the death of Kongming that I am forcing myself to put down the book so I will not have to read that part. I love it when I do that with a good book. You start putting it down, not wanting it to end. But I have found by re-reading Three Kingdoms, (now three times in row) that you can pick up those books again and start from the beginning.
I also picked up Christopher Priest’s "The Prestige" on which the movie is based. While Nolan makes the literary metaphors visual ones, as Priest states, the book has provided me with more insight into the characters, which led to my re-discovering the secrets of the movie. I really want to write a story like this now. But about a Northern Arapaho man.
I finally caved in and got the paperback edition of "It’s Superman!" by Tom Dehaven. Another recommendation.
:[ Lastly, my world is ended. (The only crush my wife allowed/tolerated.)
That will do it for this month. Again, let me know how you are doing and what you think. Good comments on the ease of use now that I converted to Blogism. I will be updating my Presidential Campaign Page soon, so look out for that. If you have ironical strategory ideas for that, let me know. Stay tuned for more coming up in April.
Until next time; "Are you watching closely?"
