you pull 'em down and there's really nothin there
um. so. that was fairly easy. mildly stressful, but its all done now, and i've sort anticlimactically landed back here in shelton. i'm bored, which shouldn't be surprising, its cold in this house, and when it gets dark it gets fucking dark because we're surrounded by woods and mom and dad have switched to energy efficient bulbs which seem to be a bit duller. that's what i hate about coming back home from school - i feel very isolated.
oh, i saw the golden compass, skipped my last class of nonfiction for it. i wasn't disappointed really because i didn't expect much as a his dark materials fan, but i was disappointed generally as a movie-goer. oh my god. it was so poorly edited we couldn't help but laugh. there were scenes that were so incredibly unnecessary, after iorek and iofur (yes, iofur, not ragnar sturlusson or whatever they were calling him) duked it out (in which i was quite happy to see some flying-jaw action, even if there was no blood) i was bored and wanted to leave. btw, why do lyra's kidnappers drop her off at iofur's palace o.O ? how is ms coulter able to smack her own daemon? and how does a huge hulking fucking polar bear manage to sneak up on a whole damn army in the final battle scene? come on, its an open field! i'd think someone would've seen him coming. ugh, anyway, it really was so bad it was funny, and for a while i was scared for the following movies but not so much anymore. if they even end up making them - because so far, golden compass is not making much of a profit and getting pretty bad reviews - the story will be completely different from the books. they can go on all they want about "the magisterium" but there's no way they can gloss over the presence of angels and the metatron and, you know, the whole fall of man parallel without eliminating it completely. which means i probably won't even bother seeing them. but the idea that whole innocent audience may see a bastardized version of will perry still hurts my soul.
there's an article on francis ford coppola's new movie, youth without youth, in vanity fair. i haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but i'm excited. its financed completely out of his own pocket thanks to him now selling his own brand of wine. it makes me sad that directors have to do that to go out on a limb and really do what they want. you can say all you want about the makers of the golden compass wanting to make it marketable, but at the end of the day they ended up with a bad movie that still pissed off a bunch of people and isn't doing well. if you're courting controversy, then do it right, fucking go for it balls out, and make some good art. no one wants a half-assed epic.
oh, i saw the golden compass, skipped my last class of nonfiction for it. i wasn't disappointed really because i didn't expect much as a his dark materials fan, but i was disappointed generally as a movie-goer. oh my god. it was so poorly edited we couldn't help but laugh. there were scenes that were so incredibly unnecessary, after iorek and iofur (yes, iofur, not ragnar sturlusson or whatever they were calling him) duked it out (in which i was quite happy to see some flying-jaw action, even if there was no blood) i was bored and wanted to leave. btw, why do lyra's kidnappers drop her off at iofur's palace o.O ? how is ms coulter able to smack her own daemon? and how does a huge hulking fucking polar bear manage to sneak up on a whole damn army in the final battle scene? come on, its an open field! i'd think someone would've seen him coming. ugh, anyway, it really was so bad it was funny, and for a while i was scared for the following movies but not so much anymore. if they even end up making them - because so far, golden compass is not making much of a profit and getting pretty bad reviews - the story will be completely different from the books. they can go on all they want about "the magisterium" but there's no way they can gloss over the presence of angels and the metatron and, you know, the whole fall of man parallel without eliminating it completely. which means i probably won't even bother seeing them. but the idea that whole innocent audience may see a bastardized version of will perry still hurts my soul.
there's an article on francis ford coppola's new movie, youth without youth, in vanity fair. i haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but i'm excited. its financed completely out of his own pocket thanks to him now selling his own brand of wine. it makes me sad that directors have to do that to go out on a limb and really do what they want. you can say all you want about the makers of the golden compass wanting to make it marketable, but at the end of the day they ended up with a bad movie that still pissed off a bunch of people and isn't doing well. if you're courting controversy, then do it right, fucking go for it balls out, and make some good art. no one wants a half-assed epic.