Re: Movies
Why do movies suck so hard anymore? I don't think I've actually watched a good and original movie in ages.
*I watched the new take on Beauty and the Beast, Beastly the other night and was really disappointed in it. I thought it looked good in the trailers. Neil Patrick Harris was pretty awesome as the blind tutor guy, though. Mary-Kate Olsen also surprised the hell out of me by being so damn fantastic as the witch that casts the spell. Seriously, I was surprised by that. But these were characters that were in the movie for like 5 minutes. There's a book the movie is based on and I wonder if it might not be better because that's what usually happens. I think maybe I'm setting myself up to dislike movies based on the fairy tale from the start, though. I always just want the curse to not break and the beast to still be the beast and for beauty to love him anyway. That would be the greatest thing ever to happen in a movie (or book) like that.
*Wasn't really interested in The Resident. I didn't even finish it, though I suppose I will at some point. But it was pretty boring to me, then I just felt really bad for JDM's character which I don't think I was really supposed to because he was a creeper. The guy plays some of the strangest characters, considering how he actually seems to be in life. Like, he seems to take roles that are nothing at all like him. Except maybe Denny in Grey's Anatomy because I can totally see him being alright with hanging out in a hospital bed so he can hit on the lady doctors. Heh. Also, Hilary Swank's character sucked. I hated her, she was pathetic and I kinda think I'd be alright with JDM guy whacking her. Haven't seen the end yet, but I'm figuring that doesn't happen.
*I was surprised by how much I did not like Season of the Witch because it looked really cool in the trailers and it had a great opening scene. It had good potential, that's the best I can say about it really. I can't stand Nicholas Cage, but I tolerated him for the sake of what I thought would be a good movie. I was pretty much wrong. He was really great, though, I will give the guy that. I don't even think he's a bad actor, he is a damn fine actor, I just hated National Treasure so fucking much I think it ruined him for me. Also that one where he gets put in the wood statue and sacrificed, that was pretty stupid, too. And Ron Perlman, so much love, that guy rocks so hard. But other than that, it was also really boring in a lot of parts. It felt contrived in the way that movies sometimes do when you think they're just doing this so they can play with their computers and try to be flashy with their animation. That, and I didn't like the story itself, it made no sense.
You've got witch trials at the start of the film, which was a pretty kick ass opening but it made me feel really bad for the witches and not much sympathy for the priest that got his shit fucked up. Then you've got crusaders blazing a trail through the holy land and killing a whole bunch of innocent people. Then said crusaders decide this is not for them and that was actually really cool of them... for like 10 seconds. Then they're back working for the church and taking a witch to some city for trial. At the end, everything kind of does this flip because it turns out that the witch is really some kind of demon and basically the church was right about her completely etc. I DO NOT like this idea. The fucked up idea that it's okay for the church to slaughter innocent people because though we may not know it, those innocent people are really very evil and eventually we will find that out. No. That's stupid and fucked up and the way the plot just flipped course like that made no sense. Then at the end for some reason we get this completely irrelevant voice over of the the girl who was possessed by the demon. What the hell is the POINT of that?
*The Roommate was no better than I actually expected, so I'm not really that disappointed in it. I guess you go into a movie not expecting it to be good anyway and you're not going to be mad about it when it turns out to not be any good. It wasn't horrible, there were parts that were really creepy. The actress that played the nutty roommate was really good at being the nutty obsessive roommate, so kudos. It was, however, just like has been said by pretty much everyone, almost exactly like Single White Female in many ways. It was totally unoriginal and I thought killing the kitten in the drier was really unnecessary and wrong. I would usually be more sympathetic to the villain that's been demonized because of psychological problems she has and her refusal to take her medication. I really would be, but you kill a kitten in a drier and I really don't care if you get stabbed in the back with a box cutter after that. And I really can't stand the actress that plays the protagonist in that movie either, so I was willing to be on the crazy bitch's side at least a little because of that, but no. I draw the line at horribly killing baby animals. I thought Daneel Harris as a lesbian fashion designer was pretty funny, though. Also, Cam Gigandet is really cute and he's never in anything I would usually watch in a million years, so at least there was eye candy.
*I watched the new take on Beauty and the Beast, Beastly the other night and was really disappointed in it. I thought it looked good in the trailers. Neil Patrick Harris was pretty awesome as the blind tutor guy, though. Mary-Kate Olsen also surprised the hell out of me by being so damn fantastic as the witch that casts the spell. Seriously, I was surprised by that. But these were characters that were in the movie for like 5 minutes. There's a book the movie is based on and I wonder if it might not be better because that's what usually happens. I think maybe I'm setting myself up to dislike movies based on the fairy tale from the start, though. I always just want the curse to not break and the beast to still be the beast and for beauty to love him anyway. That would be the greatest thing ever to happen in a movie (or book) like that.
*Wasn't really interested in The Resident. I didn't even finish it, though I suppose I will at some point. But it was pretty boring to me, then I just felt really bad for JDM's character which I don't think I was really supposed to because he was a creeper. The guy plays some of the strangest characters, considering how he actually seems to be in life. Like, he seems to take roles that are nothing at all like him. Except maybe Denny in Grey's Anatomy because I can totally see him being alright with hanging out in a hospital bed so he can hit on the lady doctors. Heh. Also, Hilary Swank's character sucked. I hated her, she was pathetic and I kinda think I'd be alright with JDM guy whacking her. Haven't seen the end yet, but I'm figuring that doesn't happen.
*I was surprised by how much I did not like Season of the Witch because it looked really cool in the trailers and it had a great opening scene. It had good potential, that's the best I can say about it really. I can't stand Nicholas Cage, but I tolerated him for the sake of what I thought would be a good movie. I was pretty much wrong. He was really great, though, I will give the guy that. I don't even think he's a bad actor, he is a damn fine actor, I just hated National Treasure so fucking much I think it ruined him for me. Also that one where he gets put in the wood statue and sacrificed, that was pretty stupid, too. And Ron Perlman, so much love, that guy rocks so hard. But other than that, it was also really boring in a lot of parts. It felt contrived in the way that movies sometimes do when you think they're just doing this so they can play with their computers and try to be flashy with their animation. That, and I didn't like the story itself, it made no sense.
You've got witch trials at the start of the film, which was a pretty kick ass opening but it made me feel really bad for the witches and not much sympathy for the priest that got his shit fucked up. Then you've got crusaders blazing a trail through the holy land and killing a whole bunch of innocent people. Then said crusaders decide this is not for them and that was actually really cool of them... for like 10 seconds. Then they're back working for the church and taking a witch to some city for trial. At the end, everything kind of does this flip because it turns out that the witch is really some kind of demon and basically the church was right about her completely etc. I DO NOT like this idea. The fucked up idea that it's okay for the church to slaughter innocent people because though we may not know it, those innocent people are really very evil and eventually we will find that out. No. That's stupid and fucked up and the way the plot just flipped course like that made no sense. Then at the end for some reason we get this completely irrelevant voice over of the the girl who was possessed by the demon. What the hell is the POINT of that?
*The Roommate was no better than I actually expected, so I'm not really that disappointed in it. I guess you go into a movie not expecting it to be good anyway and you're not going to be mad about it when it turns out to not be any good. It wasn't horrible, there were parts that were really creepy. The actress that played the nutty roommate was really good at being the nutty obsessive roommate, so kudos. It was, however, just like has been said by pretty much everyone, almost exactly like Single White Female in many ways. It was totally unoriginal and I thought killing the kitten in the drier was really unnecessary and wrong. I would usually be more sympathetic to the villain that's been demonized because of psychological problems she has and her refusal to take her medication. I really would be, but you kill a kitten in a drier and I really don't care if you get stabbed in the back with a box cutter after that. And I really can't stand the actress that plays the protagonist in that movie either, so I was willing to be on the crazy bitch's side at least a little because of that, but no. I draw the line at horribly killing baby animals. I thought Daneel Harris as a lesbian fashion designer was pretty funny, though. Also, Cam Gigandet is really cute and he's never in anything I would usually watch in a million years, so at least there was eye candy.