I just met you.
This is crazy.
Here's my number.
867-5309.
Hugs and Kisses,
- Jenny
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Euro21012
Some Quick thoughts after watching Euro2012:
- Germany looks crazy good!
- Love that Denmark came back and tied Portugal at 2!
- Not loving that Portugal then won 3-2. I blame Jeremy.
- The Euro2012 logo look really stupid.
- Portugal has some good looking fans.
- Events like this make me think that the World Cup should be less than 4 years apart.
- Germany looks crazy good!
- Love that Denmark came back and tied Portugal at 2!
- Not loving that Portugal then won 3-2. I blame Jeremy.
- The Euro2012 logo look really stupid.
- Portugal has some good looking fans.
- Events like this make me think that the World Cup should be less than 4 years apart.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Prometheus
In space no one can hear the SPOILERS!
The setup: Alien beings (Engineers from here on out) come to Earth at the dawn of time and create humans by sacrificing themselves to the intergalactic Kool-aid. Drinking the black goo destroys the Engineer and rearranges its DNA into humans. The Engineers leave and human life starts to take hold.
Cut to the end of the 21st century and humans have discovered several cave paintings that hint at life originating from space. Searching the star charts they find the only system that matches the drawings (apparently primitive man is highly accurate in the realm of cave painting stellar maps) and with the help of the Weyland Corporation and it's trillion dollar spaceship 'Prometheus' they go in search of their creators. It is here where we meet our plucky band of cannon fodder, excuse me scientists.
Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) lead the group in search of the Engineers. I don't want to recap the whole plot, but suffice to say they find the Engineers long dead and a lot of unanswered questions. They of course also find the galactic goo that is the source of all humans and in fact the recipe for our undoing. The goo creates snake like creatures that knock off 2 of our extras (I mean underdeveloped scientists), and is brought on board by David the robot (Michael Fassbender). Created by Weyland (Guy Pearce), David is like the son Weyland never had and has his own agenda. Fassbender is easily the best thing about this movie. He does a great job with the character and even though his motivations are unclear he is really the only one the viewer feels invested in. Not a good sign when the robot is your most fleshed out character.
Shaw is set up as the heroine of the film and Rapace does a decent job with her. It's a rough ride for Shaw (the defacto Ripley) who has to overcome the death of her boyfriend? husband? it's unclear...Dr. Holloway, who was infected with the space Kool-aid by David. However his death does not come before impregnating a barren Shaw with his demon space seed. Miraculous Conception anyone? Determined to remove the 'baby' Shaw resorts to some rather horrific self surgery, and manages to extract a bouncing baby face-hugger in a rather gruesome scene.
Meanwhile David uncovers the last living Engineer who is stored in cryostasis and sets him lose. The Engineer immediately kills everyone around him including decapitating David though he is still functional. The only one to escape his rampage is Shaw, but mostly because the Engineer is preoccupied with taking off in his ship to destroy humans on Earth with tons of the space goo. Shaw makes it back to the surface as the Engineer's ship takes off and warns the captain of the Prometheus (Idris Elba) that he must stop it at all costs. Since they have no weapons on the research ship, they decide to ram the Engineer's ship with the Prometheus, essentially destroying both ships.
The grand finale: The engineer survives the crash and goes after Shaw who is making for an escape 'lifeboat' the Prometheus ejected for her before their suicide collision. She makes it there but so does the Engineer who it ultimately done in by the face-hugger that Shaw 'birthed' although it's now comically 20 feet big for some reason. I guess Space goo is like HGH in overdrive. Shaw leaves the face-hugger to digest the Engineer and is lead to another spacecraft on the planet by David whom she takes with her as he can fly the ship. They go off in search of the home planet of the engineers to find out why they wanted to kill us, their creations, in an obvious setup to the inevitable next film. The movie ends with a shot of an alien emerging from the face-hugger/Engineer pile of fleshy mess, and we get our tie in to the creation of the aliens.
Roll Credits.
Wow...where to start? First off, this film looks amazing. Utterly amazing. The scope is huge. The planet looks dark, vast, massive and scary. The Prometheus feels alive with it's technology and sleek feel. I really loved the world the story took place in. I just wish I liked the story. I get what they were trying to do. It has a very philosophical feel to it. It's 'smarter' than a horror movie about aliens, but it's too smart for it's own good. It's good to ask questions and make the audience think, but the plot devices to get them to the questions have to make sense. It feels like the film got caught up too much in it's own symbolism (of which there is plenty) and not enough in getting us from point A to point B. I can forgive some of this and adapt the 'Just go with it' mentality of movie watching, but what I can't forgive are boring, faceless, useless characters.
This is really where the film falls flat. Nobody is developed very well, save for Shaw and David. There are 17 people in the crew. You know that's going to be close to the body count for the film, after all it is still 'Alien' even though it pretends not to be. However, for any of these deaths to resonate with the viewers, we have to care about these people. We don't. We are never given a reason to. We never even get names for half of them. We barely get character stereotypes. A couple of scientists do, and the 3 main leads, plus the captain, but that's it. 6 people. The other 11 are pointless red-shirts who die quickly without fanfare or even a hint a remorse from the audience, or the other characters for that matter. We don't want to root for them. Hell, we don't even want to root for them to die. We just don't care about them all.
That's how I felt upon leaving the theater...kind of 'eh'. It wasn't a bad film. It wasn't a good film. It was just kind of there. And I really didn't care one way or the other. Also, Charlize Theron is in it.
Final Score: 6/10
The setup: Alien beings (Engineers from here on out) come to Earth at the dawn of time and create humans by sacrificing themselves to the intergalactic Kool-aid. Drinking the black goo destroys the Engineer and rearranges its DNA into humans. The Engineers leave and human life starts to take hold.
Cut to the end of the 21st century and humans have discovered several cave paintings that hint at life originating from space. Searching the star charts they find the only system that matches the drawings (apparently primitive man is highly accurate in the realm of cave painting stellar maps) and with the help of the Weyland Corporation and it's trillion dollar spaceship 'Prometheus' they go in search of their creators. It is here where we meet our plucky band of cannon fodder, excuse me scientists.
Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) lead the group in search of the Engineers. I don't want to recap the whole plot, but suffice to say they find the Engineers long dead and a lot of unanswered questions. They of course also find the galactic goo that is the source of all humans and in fact the recipe for our undoing. The goo creates snake like creatures that knock off 2 of our extras (I mean underdeveloped scientists), and is brought on board by David the robot (Michael Fassbender). Created by Weyland (Guy Pearce), David is like the son Weyland never had and has his own agenda. Fassbender is easily the best thing about this movie. He does a great job with the character and even though his motivations are unclear he is really the only one the viewer feels invested in. Not a good sign when the robot is your most fleshed out character.
Shaw is set up as the heroine of the film and Rapace does a decent job with her. It's a rough ride for Shaw (the defacto Ripley) who has to overcome the death of her boyfriend? husband? it's unclear...Dr. Holloway, who was infected with the space Kool-aid by David. However his death does not come before impregnating a barren Shaw with his demon space seed. Miraculous Conception anyone? Determined to remove the 'baby' Shaw resorts to some rather horrific self surgery, and manages to extract a bouncing baby face-hugger in a rather gruesome scene.
Meanwhile David uncovers the last living Engineer who is stored in cryostasis and sets him lose. The Engineer immediately kills everyone around him including decapitating David though he is still functional. The only one to escape his rampage is Shaw, but mostly because the Engineer is preoccupied with taking off in his ship to destroy humans on Earth with tons of the space goo. Shaw makes it back to the surface as the Engineer's ship takes off and warns the captain of the Prometheus (Idris Elba) that he must stop it at all costs. Since they have no weapons on the research ship, they decide to ram the Engineer's ship with the Prometheus, essentially destroying both ships.
The grand finale: The engineer survives the crash and goes after Shaw who is making for an escape 'lifeboat' the Prometheus ejected for her before their suicide collision. She makes it there but so does the Engineer who it ultimately done in by the face-hugger that Shaw 'birthed' although it's now comically 20 feet big for some reason. I guess Space goo is like HGH in overdrive. Shaw leaves the face-hugger to digest the Engineer and is lead to another spacecraft on the planet by David whom she takes with her as he can fly the ship. They go off in search of the home planet of the engineers to find out why they wanted to kill us, their creations, in an obvious setup to the inevitable next film. The movie ends with a shot of an alien emerging from the face-hugger/Engineer pile of fleshy mess, and we get our tie in to the creation of the aliens.
Roll Credits.
Wow...where to start? First off, this film looks amazing. Utterly amazing. The scope is huge. The planet looks dark, vast, massive and scary. The Prometheus feels alive with it's technology and sleek feel. I really loved the world the story took place in. I just wish I liked the story. I get what they were trying to do. It has a very philosophical feel to it. It's 'smarter' than a horror movie about aliens, but it's too smart for it's own good. It's good to ask questions and make the audience think, but the plot devices to get them to the questions have to make sense. It feels like the film got caught up too much in it's own symbolism (of which there is plenty) and not enough in getting us from point A to point B. I can forgive some of this and adapt the 'Just go with it' mentality of movie watching, but what I can't forgive are boring, faceless, useless characters.
This is really where the film falls flat. Nobody is developed very well, save for Shaw and David. There are 17 people in the crew. You know that's going to be close to the body count for the film, after all it is still 'Alien' even though it pretends not to be. However, for any of these deaths to resonate with the viewers, we have to care about these people. We don't. We are never given a reason to. We never even get names for half of them. We barely get character stereotypes. A couple of scientists do, and the 3 main leads, plus the captain, but that's it. 6 people. The other 11 are pointless red-shirts who die quickly without fanfare or even a hint a remorse from the audience, or the other characters for that matter. We don't want to root for them. Hell, we don't even want to root for them to die. We just don't care about them all.
That's how I felt upon leaving the theater...kind of 'eh'. It wasn't a bad film. It wasn't a good film. It was just kind of there. And I really didn't care one way or the other. Also, Charlize Theron is in it.
Final Score: 6/10
Monday, June 11, 2012
Write Off the top of my Head...
Dear Jim,
A pun?
Really?
That was your best effort there? 'Write Off the Top of my Head' huh? Think you're being cute?
You're not fooling anybody. You picked that because 'Write or Wrong' was already taken didn't you? I hope you are proud of yourself. You now have a blog. Congrats, you are SO special. I hope you know what you are doing. Dozens of people might end up reading this. This could come back to haunt your future political career. Your friends might see this. Don't make us look bad.
Sincerely,
Jim's Inner Monologue.
A pun?
Really?
That was your best effort there? 'Write Off the Top of my Head' huh? Think you're being cute?
You're not fooling anybody. You picked that because 'Write or Wrong' was already taken didn't you? I hope you are proud of yourself. You now have a blog. Congrats, you are SO special. I hope you know what you are doing. Dozens of people might end up reading this. This could come back to haunt your future political career. Your friends might see this. Don't make us look bad.
Sincerely,
Jim's Inner Monologue.
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