I think, while I slept, very small pixies came and glued my eyelids shut. That's the most parsimonious, rational explanation I can come up with at the moment
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You know I've never been much for the vox populi, but I am pleased to see that the best Twlight can manage at imdb is a 5.3, and that Roger Ebert gave it a 2.5, and that the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes is scoring it at 44%. Of course, I'm sure it's still raking in the moolah, hand over fist.
I won't join in the Meyer griping, as I'm still forming my opinion about the Twilight phenomenon (not too formed yet beyond ZOMG SOME OF ITS FANS ARE BEYOND NUTS). I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear. (The only other films I can think of that shot in the Columbia River Gorge are Jake Kasdan's Zero Effect, which is actually not a bad film, and bits of Barry Levinson's Bandits and Richard Donner's Maverick, which were bad films, though, hey, Bandits had red-haired Cate Blanchett, so it had that going for it.) And it meant several million dollars got spent in my 'burg. Of course, this 'burg deserves to appear in better movies. Thus the "torn" part. Weird that this will likely be the most financially successful film ever shot around here.
Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
Yep.
I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear.
Convince Neil to write a novel set in Portland and we might finally get some joy that way. (Though, hey, the Coraline film is set in Oregon (Ashland, to be exact) and it's being made here...)
I'm just being a crass booster for my beautiful state. Thank you for using it in some of your short stories, by the way. (Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
I won't join in the Meyer griping, as I'm still forming my opinion about the Twilight phenomenon (not too formed yet beyond ZOMG SOME OF ITS FANS ARE BEYOND NUTS). I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear. (The only other films I can think of that shot in the Columbia River Gorge are Jake Kasdan's Zero Effect, which is actually not a bad film, and bits of Barry Levinson's Bandits and Richard Donner's Maverick, which were bad films, though, hey, Bandits had red-haired Cate Blanchett, so it had that going for it.) And it meant several million dollars got spent in my 'burg. Of course, this 'burg deserves to appear in better movies. Thus the "torn" part. Weird that this will likely be the most financially successful film ever shot around here.
Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
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Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
Yep.
I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear.
I'm afraid that is a pretty flimsy reason.
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I'm just being a crass booster for my beautiful state. Thank you for using it in some of your short stories, by the way. (Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
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(Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
If not for my fear of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, I would have moved to coastal Oregon. Gorgeous, if somewhat tectonically unstable.
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