two movie-related things...
1. I hope you guys had a GREAT day. I slept all day, ate peanut butter kisses, met my friend to watch a movie, and had dinner at this Japanese pasta place. Wacky.
BUT:
2. Australia: I don't even know WHAT to think about this movie. It was, like, Out Of Africa by Baz Luhrmann i.e., aside from an aristocratic leading lady who eventually grows to love her adopted land and the aboriginal natives upon it, the film included cattle, sparkles, Faramir from LOTR David Wenham and references to Judy Garland! Except. AHAHAHA. HUGH JACKMAN. OMIGOD. SO. FUCKING. HOT. PLZ. Can I just say that Singapore audiences are ridiculously NON-eager to participate in movie experiences? Witness the complete dead-fish-ness in any of the five screenings of Mamma Mia I attended in the month it was playing here... well, when Hugh made a grand old Cary Grant type entrance in a sexy sexy tux in Australia? The ENTIRE CINEMA gasped in awe. YES PLZ. Because Hugh is ridiculously hot. RIDICULOUSLY SO. I approve of the canny film marketers who dumped the Wolverine trailer in amongst the ads for Australia. Mmm, adamantium claws. Growly. Sideburns! ♥ Is it May 2009 yet?
3. I went to HMV after that - it makes me happy (and shallow) that Mamma Mia is tops of the DVD bestseller list for the week. It pwned The Dark Knight (which was #1 last week)! These things shouldn't amuse me, but they do. It's not that I didn't like TDK, I DID - one of the best movies I've seen all year, whereas MM is very much NOT (technically) one of the best movies I've seen this year. But I like it when consumers prove everything Meryl has been saying about how women can and WILL pay for entertainment and QUALITY movies should be more consistently geared in our direction.
4. Work tomorrow. Crappity. And ACTUAL work for once. I have to snap out of this lethargy that has consumed me for the last two-three months. MUST.
BUT:
2. Australia: I don't even know WHAT to think about this movie. It was, like, Out Of Africa by Baz Luhrmann i.e., aside from an aristocratic leading lady who eventually grows to love her adopted land and the aboriginal natives upon it, the film included cattle, sparkles, Faramir from LOTR David Wenham and references to Judy Garland! Except. AHAHAHA. HUGH JACKMAN. OMIGOD. SO. FUCKING. HOT. PLZ. Can I just say that Singapore audiences are ridiculously NON-eager to participate in movie experiences? Witness the complete dead-fish-ness in any of the five screenings of Mamma Mia I attended in the month it was playing here... well, when Hugh made a grand old Cary Grant type entrance in a sexy sexy tux in Australia? The ENTIRE CINEMA gasped in awe. YES PLZ. Because Hugh is ridiculously hot. RIDICULOUSLY SO. I approve of the canny film marketers who dumped the Wolverine trailer in amongst the ads for Australia. Mmm, adamantium claws. Growly. Sideburns! ♥ Is it May 2009 yet?
3. I went to HMV after that - it makes me happy (and shallow) that Mamma Mia is tops of the DVD bestseller list for the week. It pwned The Dark Knight (which was #1 last week)! These things shouldn't amuse me, but they do. It's not that I didn't like TDK, I DID - one of the best movies I've seen all year, whereas MM is very much NOT (technically) one of the best movies I've seen this year. But I like it when consumers prove everything Meryl has been saying about how women can and WILL pay for entertainment and QUALITY movies should be more consistently geared in our direction.
4. Work tomorrow. Crappity. And ACTUAL work for once. I have to snap out of this lethargy that has consumed me for the last two-three months. MUST.