It’s been a while since I’ve posted. School happened. I’ve done two film projects since last time. The lesson? Directing is stressful. I much prefer editing. Probably because I’m OCD and editing lets you be as freakin’ OCD as you want. (There is no such thing as overediting. Riiiight.) And my Internet was still having issues, though today we were told it was fixed for good. Until it breaks again, of course.
Also…I have seen…movies. LIKE:
- Red – nice little comic bit on old CIA retirees being chased by a new, younger squad of CIA employees. I was delightfully surprised at Brian Cox’s appearance and character, and seem to only remember there being a BA scene of Bruce Willis exiting a moving car and one John Malkovitch being obsessed with a pink pig. Kind of off the wall humor, which probably was a factor in why it didn’t pull in a ginormous amount of money. It wasn’t spectacular persay, but I still enjoyed it.
- Megamind – the recent animated flick by Dreamworks. Once again, not the greatest thing in existence, but I still laughed my tail off and enjoyed it. Megamind is a humorous, adorable character. Metroman I found questionable, I thought the plot might have been a bit difficult for really little kids to follow, and for some reason I vaguely remember thinking it would make a good live action movie. If the villain didn’t have a bulbous blue head, of course.
- …and that’s probably it, really.
- OH NO WAIT. Green Lantern trailer. – my reaction? Disappointment. This article goes on about how it looks as though the movie will be breaking the trend of superhero movies employing a sense of “realism.” Eh. Fantastic Four was a bit of stretch in my opinion, but I can still stomach it without flinching too terribly. This? I’d be concerned people won’t buy it. I’m thinking it might get slammed by critics for not having that realism audiences are used to. I personally feel let down because the posters look so damn serious and stoic. (It’s almost like Green Lantern observed The Dark Knight and ran in the opposite direction.) We will see this summer how it will fare, but based on that single trailer, I no longer am so excited to see it.
Yes I did reread and finish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and do intend to have a discussion on the book and movie. Soon. I swear. Before my opinions leak out my ears due to my brain being overstuffed with stuff for finals.
Now, for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P1… I will say upfront I intend to see this more than once. From the first viewing last night, I was not impressed. But then again, I was initially not pleased with the Half Blood Prince movie either, but it has since become practically my favorite of the bunch. My main complaint with this movie is that they had so much time by splitting the book in two and yet they still make everything extremely fast paced and stretch out silly or unimportant moments (when compared to the book and the overall story). I need to see it again in a not Imax theater to properly judge the visual elements, as we were so close I had to crane my neck a bit up to see the whole screen and it looked as though all the characters were leaning away from me they were so huge.
In short, I am still being forced to wait for the second half, which I knew would be the better of the two. I knew, and some how I tricked myself into thinking this movie would be fantastically the best thing to grace the earth ever.
I gotta quit getting excited for movies.
Hopefully over November and December there will be more posts, although I cannot say that they will come on any sort of schedule. Happy Friday, and go see the Deathly Hallows!
