You know what?
I still don't feel well.
In other news, I was thinking about the Nicholas Cage movie Next recently. Why, you may ask? Is it because I like to torture myself by watching crap?
Well, kind of. It's because Rifftrax has a commentary track for that movie and I watched it a while back. It was one of the better tracks they've had available, mostly because this was actually a bad, bad movie. Rifftrax has this weird habit of making fun of some fairly good movies, and that just doesn't work as well as lampooning a real piece of crap.
But what I was really thinking about was how the premise for that movie was so interesting. The idea of a guy who can see just two minutes into his own future is really quite interesting, and the concept could have been worked into something much cooler than it was. Unfortunately what we got was Nick Cage drooling over Jessica Biel and her somehow managing not to vomit in his mouth.
For some reason it makes me upset to see a cool sci-fi/fantasy gimmicky type premise so wasted. I even tried to go read the Phillip K. Dick story the movie was "based" on, but it's pretty much a completely different story entirely, and full of Dick's trademark (likely) drug-induced weirdness.
Then it makes me think maybe I need to write a story using that gimmick, but then the problem is I'd be ripping off some bad Nick Cage movie to do it! Damn it!
I guess that's what bothers me most. Not only did they ruin that idea, but they made it so I can't try to do it better without looking like a thief. Curses.
Now I'm off to try and sleep, hopefully in order to feel healthy enough for work in the morning.
In other news, I was thinking about the Nicholas Cage movie Next recently. Why, you may ask? Is it because I like to torture myself by watching crap?
Well, kind of. It's because Rifftrax has a commentary track for that movie and I watched it a while back. It was one of the better tracks they've had available, mostly because this was actually a bad, bad movie. Rifftrax has this weird habit of making fun of some fairly good movies, and that just doesn't work as well as lampooning a real piece of crap.
But what I was really thinking about was how the premise for that movie was so interesting. The idea of a guy who can see just two minutes into his own future is really quite interesting, and the concept could have been worked into something much cooler than it was. Unfortunately what we got was Nick Cage drooling over Jessica Biel and her somehow managing not to vomit in his mouth.
For some reason it makes me upset to see a cool sci-fi/fantasy gimmicky type premise so wasted. I even tried to go read the Phillip K. Dick story the movie was "based" on, but it's pretty much a completely different story entirely, and full of Dick's trademark (likely) drug-induced weirdness.
Then it makes me think maybe I need to write a story using that gimmick, but then the problem is I'd be ripping off some bad Nick Cage movie to do it! Damn it!
I guess that's what bothers me most. Not only did they ruin that idea, but they made it so I can't try to do it better without looking like a thief. Curses.
Now I'm off to try and sleep, hopefully in order to feel healthy enough for work in the morning.