John ([info]i_novander) wrote,
@ 2009-06-28 22:15:00
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Hello. Films. Yes. I like them and I'm going to watch some and I've already seen some.

Like, I've seen The Hangover which is the best comedy so far this year and well worth a watch. And I've seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which manages to make the following things boring: Explosions. Robots. Megan Fox. Though in the last case I was never such a fan. Sure she's good looking but it's just so... I don't know... obvious. Like if you described Sexy to a robot and they made a model human based on those parameters you'd get Megan Fox. I'm sure there's a less complicated simile somewhere but to hell with simplification. I have a lot to say about Transformers but that rant would go on a while. Suffice to say it's not worth the three hours of your life it takes up. And I watched Year One which made me laugh a fair few times but never hysterically, uncontrollably or painfully like The Hangover did.

This week I'm going to watch Blood: The Last Vampire, which should be pretty cool, My Sister's Keeper, which should make me cry and one of those Film Of The Year Fuck The Rest Of You I Liked It contenders, Sunshine Cleaning which has Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, either of which alone would outshine Ms. Fox.

There's a heatwave predicted so maybe everyone will go outside and I'll have the cinema all to myself. That would be nice.

I'm going to stop writing now but I'm not going to post this yet. This post doesn't feel anywhere near finished. It's all just films. No music, no girls, no embarrassing secrets. This is not what livejournal is for // and if this is what I'm here for it's no longer interesting (fall forward to even the score, just a thought to you... there we go, that's music out the way. Shall we move onto girls?)

Tasha - remember Tasha? She was the one I bored you with, writing constantly about at the start of the year - was recently broken up with by Ronnie. From what I hear, he did it by text message thus ending the debate as to which of us is the superior male. Since then she has been talking to me on facebook occasionally. Not often, understand, but often enough to warrant comment. Especially when it's like two in the morning and I've just got home from work and she's all "I'm angry. Guys are shit. My friends are shit." and then apologizes the next morning for her drunken behaviour. You may be worried where this is headed but don't worry, it's not headed there. I am quite lonely, yes, but I am no-one's silver medal. No, this is just me voicing theories that would fit well in books or TV but this is life and I don't know if things actually work that way. Theory the first: she has rediscovered my existence and feels bad for how I was treated and wishes us to be friends. Theory the second: she has just been rejected and seeks attention from someone she knows was once attracted to her. I suspect it's a mix of the two plus other reasons I am not wise enough to deduce. Whatever the reasons I am unsure what she's expecting from this, which marks another failure on my part to understand the basics of how to behave in society.

Yes, this is yet another thing I blame on David Eddings (RIP). I feel bad. The dude was a hero of mine yet I've accused him of ruining my life in my last two posts. Maybe I should make it up to him by reading the Belgariad again. I can't see any cyclical problems caused by that plan.

I am buying a pair of sofas. Hopefully. I shall need to press the issue as time is a factor. But hey guys, furniture. Check me out, all owning a mattress and a sofas and a fridge and everything. Maybe next I will put on a shirt and tie and pretend like I am a grown up. Real life is silly. But I would be a better grown up than some. A woman and her nine year old daughter came up to me on Box office today. "Two for The Hangover." "I'm sorry, that's a 15." "You mean she can't come in, even with me?" I mean what the fuck, you shouldn't even be asking that question. It's about a stag party in Vegas gone awry and you know there's gonna be sex, drugs and violence, you really want to take your nine year old into that? As a side note, I suspect you're that fat because you're so dumb you forgot how to stop eating which would be fine except clearly your child is headed in the same direction and now I realise I'm getting a little too angry over something which doesn't affect me, but you are another symptom of the great dumbfuckery disease plaguing our nation that I have to deal with every day and I swear to God it is taking its toll on my peace of mind.

I used to be such a nice person, I'm sure.




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[info]blackydragon
2009-06-29 06:23 am UTC (link)
but... but... robots beating each other up!! Transformers was awesome!! Better than the first easily, but I thought the first was ace too!

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[info]i_novander
2009-06-29 10:20 pm UTC (link)
You drove me to it. Spoiler warning, guys.

Right, let's start with what was good: the fight in the woods where Optimus Prime dies. They'd slowed down the action so you could actually see what was going on and it looked fucking awesome.

BUT

There were no real set pieces. It was just explosion after explosion after explosion with really bad editing; the cuts between scenes jarred when they tried to show too many things going on at once. This meant the pacing was terrible so it was never clear what was a big climactic moment and what was just another big badda boom. The giant transformer near the end who sucks up all the sand, he looked like he was going to be a big thing but they kept cutting between him and the fifty decepticons stalking LeBeouf and Fox rendering all of it blasé.

The comic relief... in the first film it was surprisingly good, having robots sneak around outside a house so they're not spotted by Shia's parents. In this film it was a pair of slapstick twins, a mother on pot and a little robot that tries to have sex with things, none of which raised even the slightest of smiles. In fact, had the twins looked like humans and not robots you'd have been shocked at the underlying racism.

Megan Fox wears a low cut top and looks at Shia LeBeouf longingly. This describes every scene she was in. There was no depth to her character at all. Is is so much to ask that the female star of a 2009 film not be wholly dependent on the whims, foibles and wishes of the male star?

The script was dire both on a small scale dialogue level and on the larger plot scheme of things. When the cowardly government agent with radically conservative views gets put in charge of such an important government team (appointed by the most liberal president America has ever had - yes, they did mention Obama) one of the soldiers steps forward and says, apropos of nothing, "whatever the decepticons have planned, we know this is only the beginning." because someone thought that was a good line and they had to crowbar it in somewhere. I cringed. I saw other people cringe. It was really badly done.

And at the end, Optimus Prime seems to be speaking to LeBeouf as they stare out to see, but but what he says is clearly aimed at either no-one or at the audience which either sucks, or sucks and breaks the fourth wall and not in an amusing postmodern way.

Jetfire. A lot of people liked Jetfire. I'll let them. The character itself wasn't bad but his reason for being there was. The plot is so retarded that Jetfire needs to teleport them to egypt, away from all the action, so he can spend ten minutes - and ten minutes is a very long time for just dialogue in an action movie - ten minutes explaining what the hell is going on.

And at the end of the mission when they finally recover the Matrix, it turns out only one who has earned it can use it, so why did they hide it? The Fallen wouldn't have killed so many thousands of people trying to find it if he knew he couldn't use it. Keeping it secret was just irresponsible of the Primes.

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[info]ohnefuehlen
2009-06-29 01:28 pm UTC (link)
Fat slurs? is this where we are now?

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[info]i_novander
2009-06-29 10:19 pm UTC (link)
First of all, the fuck with coming off all hostile on this? It's a bad parenting slur. I could care less how fat or how skinny she was, but yes, I do believe an obese nine year old is wrong and that the parent is to blame.

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[info]esoteroticist
2009-06-29 10:46 pm UTC (link)
I am behind you on this.

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[info]esoteroticist
2009-06-29 10:48 pm UTC (link)
Maybe, Tasha doesn't know what she's expecting either. Because she is not likely to understand all her behaviour or what it looks like to other people because that's not how people are. Maybe she's lonely or drunk or likes you a bit but maybe not or maybe she's confused or it's Sunday or she's wearing blue and that puts her in an expansive but not a good mood or god knows. Maybe all of those.

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[info]era_of_darkness
2009-06-30 12:19 pm UTC (link)
"In fact, had the twins looked like humans and not robots you'd have been shocked at the underlying racism."

Actually there were a couple news article thingies on it I saw when I went to check my email. Some people were still shocked at the underlying racism.

Have you seen Up? Or am i going to scroll further down the page and see that you've mentioned it down there? I loved Up. But it's Pixar, so obviously it was great.

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[info]i_novander
2009-06-30 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Up doesn't come out over here until October. We are all very angry about this.

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