Killin' zombies with a giant plastic lipstick!
Yesterday rocked.
I went to Film Theory and Criticism and received the paper back that I talked about a few entries down. The one about the contemplation of image from movies where I asked for suggestions for movies to used. I used Taxi Driver and it must have been a good example because I got a B+ on the paper. No one reading this could possibly understand how exciting this was, coming from a teacher who last semester in Avant Garde gave me straight C's for all my papers, including the final exam. To get a B+ is quite a feat indeed. The only comment he wrote (aside from "good") for my first paragraph was one on my last paragraph where I talked about the use of slow motion at the end of Taxi Driver. He wrote: "Does this apply for all action movies that use this effect?" I'm not sure how to answer that. I said that the use of slow motion toward the end of the movie showed the images of violence and specifically made a point in the film considering earlier (the subject of my first paragraph), the camera moved away when the main character in the movie was being rejected by a girl. I'm not sure how to explain why Taxi Driver used slow motion to make a point while action movies don't make a point. Oh well, I gots a B+! That's like a retarded A-!
Secondly, I went and saw Gridiron Gang. I wanted to see The Black Dahila, but I heard it's disappointing, so I wasn't in the mood for disappointing. Gridiron Gang is exactly what you'd expect, which is why I was disappointed. I wouldn't have paid money for it, and I'll probably never watch it again, but it delivered exactly what I expected, which was a formula sports movie. Miracle is still the best sports movie ever made about hockey. Ever.
And then, to top off the night, I opened up a Best Buy credit card specifically to buy an XBOX 360 with no interest for six months. I've been converted, like the sweet zombies I've been killing in the XBOX 360 game Dead Rising. The way I figure it, I'm going to buy a Nintendo Wii later on down the road and there are going to be multitudes of games that don't come out for that system but come out for PS3 and XBOX 360. I'd rather spend the $400 on the XBOX 360 than the $600 on the PS3. It was a stupid purchase, I know, and really there's no reason for me to even post about it, but the fact of the matter is, I've been killing zombies with shopping carts and frying pans and chainsaws and most of you haven't, unless you're Stephanie.
I went to Film Theory and Criticism and received the paper back that I talked about a few entries down. The one about the contemplation of image from movies where I asked for suggestions for movies to used. I used Taxi Driver and it must have been a good example because I got a B+ on the paper. No one reading this could possibly understand how exciting this was, coming from a teacher who last semester in Avant Garde gave me straight C's for all my papers, including the final exam. To get a B+ is quite a feat indeed. The only comment he wrote (aside from "good") for my first paragraph was one on my last paragraph where I talked about the use of slow motion at the end of Taxi Driver. He wrote: "Does this apply for all action movies that use this effect?" I'm not sure how to answer that. I said that the use of slow motion toward the end of the movie showed the images of violence and specifically made a point in the film considering earlier (the subject of my first paragraph), the camera moved away when the main character in the movie was being rejected by a girl. I'm not sure how to explain why Taxi Driver used slow motion to make a point while action movies don't make a point. Oh well, I gots a B+! That's like a retarded A-!
Secondly, I went and saw Gridiron Gang. I wanted to see The Black Dahila, but I heard it's disappointing, so I wasn't in the mood for disappointing. Gridiron Gang is exactly what you'd expect, which is why I was disappointed. I wouldn't have paid money for it, and I'll probably never watch it again, but it delivered exactly what I expected, which was a formula sports movie. Miracle is still the best sports movie ever made about hockey. Ever.
And then, to top off the night, I opened up a Best Buy credit card specifically to buy an XBOX 360 with no interest for six months. I've been converted, like the sweet zombies I've been killing in the XBOX 360 game Dead Rising. The way I figure it, I'm going to buy a Nintendo Wii later on down the road and there are going to be multitudes of games that don't come out for that system but come out for PS3 and XBOX 360. I'd rather spend the $400 on the XBOX 360 than the $600 on the PS3. It was a stupid purchase, I know, and really there's no reason for me to even post about it, but the fact of the matter is, I've been killing zombies with shopping carts and frying pans and chainsaws and most of you haven't, unless you're Stephanie.