3970: Eyes Down
So while waiting to see if the phone would ring rather than letting it go off while in the car again, I finally watched Holes, after being so impressed with the story after reading it in a fit of insomnia [ugh]. I think it succeeds pretty much BECAUSE Louis Sachar also wrote the script. The actual movie has its own holes [haha]: the overused and quite awful "we didn't bother using a high-speed cam and just slowed down the normal-speed footage to six frames per second" effects, some of the abrupt transitions, and just the nature of the medium meaning it's easy to miss an important plot element by not paying attention.
But it has Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver, AND Henry Winkler! [and*cough*Shiathebeef*ahem] And Patricia Arquette, I guess, maybe you know her, too.
And because I'm stupid, I looked at the Amazon review and... was not really surprised. Apparently, since the story was staged in Texas and the villains were locals/Southerners, this means all Texans/Southerners = evil, thus the movie is irredeemably bad on account of the Texans/Southerners portrayed who were good didn't count. Or, in one case, a kid who watched it didn't understand the whole "a century ago, racism caused a lot of innocent people to die for completely idiotic-by-today's-standards reasons" thing. Or, a little more light-heartedly, people don't understand that product reviews are different from seller feedback.
Disappointed, yes. Surprised, not really.
Still looking for work. I'm a bit loathe to wait much longer beyond end of September to find that magical non-retail, non-insurance, non-sales/customer support, standard office hours desk job that I can get without having to go back to college to "prove" I can do things that will take me twenty minutes to be trained to do. I pretty much only have two more weeks of UI, anyway, so unless people will pay me for art [still working on what specifically I'm trying to do!], still looking like GNC... -_-;
Well, the sun is shining but it don't feel good, don't smile down on this neighborhood...
But it has Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver, AND Henry Winkler! [and*cough*Shiathebeef*ahem] And Patricia Arquette, I guess, maybe you know her, too.
And because I'm stupid, I looked at the Amazon review and... was not really surprised. Apparently, since the story was staged in Texas and the villains were locals/Southerners, this means all Texans/Southerners = evil, thus the movie is irredeemably bad on account of the Texans/Southerners portrayed who were good didn't count. Or, in one case, a kid who watched it didn't understand the whole "a century ago, racism caused a lot of innocent people to die for completely idiotic-by-today's-standards reasons" thing. Or, a little more light-heartedly, people don't understand that product reviews are different from seller feedback.
Disappointed, yes. Surprised, not really.
Still looking for work. I'm a bit loathe to wait much longer beyond end of September to find that magical non-retail, non-insurance, non-sales/customer support, standard office hours desk job that I can get without having to go back to college to "prove" I can do things that will take me twenty minutes to be trained to do. I pretty much only have two more weeks of UI, anyway, so unless people will pay me for art [still working on what specifically I'm trying to do!], still looking like GNC... -_-;
Well, the sun is shining but it don't feel good, don't smile down on this neighborhood...