Sunday, October 02, 2005
Okay, okay. A real quick post because I really need to start going to sleep sooner each night.
I had a good quote I wanted to use for the quote of the week. It's from Serenity. Unfortunately, I can't remember it now and it's not on the quote page from IMDB.
I went and saw Serenity on Friday. It was really good. It's a spinoff of Firefly. It was definitely darker than the tv show. I think I like the tv show better because creator Joss Whedon is really good at building emotion and storylines, which he didn't have time for in the movie, but it is really good. Anyway, this movie was worth full price for the movie. In fact, if I had the time this weekend, I'd see it a second time.
I also saw Into the Blue. I heard it described as a movie you watch on mute. That comment makes sense. It has Paul Walker for the girls and Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott for the guys. The whole cast wears little clothing, but that makes sense considering where it's set. The beginning and end of the movie I found to be really good. But there's a good 45 minute or so section where the movie just dragged. There's a whole morality play in the movie where the main characters have to balance their dreams versus their personal ethics. Jessica Alba, who I've been a fan of since a small part in Never Been Kissed and the love interest in Idle Hands. In Idle Hands, as well as the movie Sin City and the tv show Dark Angel, she does really good playing characters that are simultaneous sweet and dark. This time though, her character is too sweet. Too goody-two-shoes. Except for the one moment where she calls another character a crack whore, her character is straight out of a Disney movie, albeit a Disney-via-Victoria's-Secret movie. This movie was worth the full price just for the eye candy and, I guess, because of its attempt to make a real plot out of an action movie. I won't be seeing it again in theatre. I'll probably see it on DVD, but it's likely I'll be fast-forwarding or finding something else to do during the slow part in the middle.
One more note: Steelers had a bye week this week and a Monday night game next week. It's convenient for me that the last two weekends I'm splitting my time between two projects at work, there's no football game on Sunday to distract me.
I had a good quote I wanted to use for the quote of the week. It's from Serenity. Unfortunately, I can't remember it now and it's not on the quote page from IMDB.
I went and saw Serenity on Friday. It was really good. It's a spinoff of Firefly. It was definitely darker than the tv show. I think I like the tv show better because creator Joss Whedon is really good at building emotion and storylines, which he didn't have time for in the movie, but it is really good. Anyway, this movie was worth full price for the movie. In fact, if I had the time this weekend, I'd see it a second time.
I also saw Into the Blue. I heard it described as a movie you watch on mute. That comment makes sense. It has Paul Walker for the girls and Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott for the guys. The whole cast wears little clothing, but that makes sense considering where it's set. The beginning and end of the movie I found to be really good. But there's a good 45 minute or so section where the movie just dragged. There's a whole morality play in the movie where the main characters have to balance their dreams versus their personal ethics. Jessica Alba, who I've been a fan of since a small part in Never Been Kissed and the love interest in Idle Hands. In Idle Hands, as well as the movie Sin City and the tv show Dark Angel, she does really good playing characters that are simultaneous sweet and dark. This time though, her character is too sweet. Too goody-two-shoes. Except for the one moment where she calls another character a crack whore, her character is straight out of a Disney movie, albeit a Disney-via-Victoria's-Secret movie. This movie was worth the full price just for the eye candy and, I guess, because of its attempt to make a real plot out of an action movie. I won't be seeing it again in theatre. I'll probably see it on DVD, but it's likely I'll be fast-forwarding or finding something else to do during the slow part in the middle.
One more note: Steelers had a bye week this week and a Monday night game next week. It's convenient for me that the last two weekends I'm splitting my time between two projects at work, there's no football game on Sunday to distract me.
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