Well, this blog got listed on blogshares.com and perhaps dragged Ben’s, Andy’s and Lori’s blogs onto the list as well.
It’s almost exciting.
In other new, school starts monday, and filming gets going again next weekend so we have to get equipment replace next week for all the stuff that got umm… run over.
Is an excellent movie in a number of respects. I can’t go into how color is used without giving away the movie, but it is used to elegantly solve a number of problems that would othewrise arise from the storytelling method and (to me) make it very clear what is happening and also add to the beauty. The cinematography was excellent, especially of the lake that required so much effort for them to film in the 2 hours a day it was reflective.
The plot itself is primarily told as a story by the main character “Nameless Hero” and could be complex at times and is NOT something out of Hollywood. This could pose a problem for the general American audience, as could that it is subtitled and the dialog often moved very fast to read. In general I prefer subtitles over dubbing, however in this movie it made it harder to follow the stunning visuals when I had to look around the heads of people in front of me to read.
I give a 7 out of 9 overall.
I quite disagree. I have work piled up higher than I can see over, yet I am bored. Mostly because I got to sleep late, and was woken up too early by my alarm then a desperate phone call.
Compromised account was being used for warez and putting serious stress on systems, it was dealt with.
But now, I am too tired really to do anything, so I am bored.
In an attempt to solve this, I have created an account on blogshares.com which is something of a fantasy stock trading game involving blogs. I’ve been tempted to do so for ages and always assumed I didn’t have the time. Well, I don’t, but I signed up anyway.
Going to see Hero sometime this evening with Ben and possibly Megan.
Saw Garden State today, and while it was quite good, I have to present a less glowing review than Ben did.
I did not find this to be the defining movie of my generation. I will admit perhaps that this is a technicality since about half of the definitions put me in Generation X as compared to (and yes I looked this up): Millennial Generation, the Millennium Generation, the Net Generation, N-Gen, Generation NeXt or “NeXters,” Generation 2000, Generation Y2K, the Sunshine Generation, the Bittersweet Generation, the Hip-hop Generation, the Digital Generation, the Explorers, generation.com, e-Generation, little x-ers, Generation i (for Internet), the Little Boomers, the Boomlet, Generation Can-do, Generation “WHY?”, the Y-inistas, and the Bridgers. Generally this group is known as Generation Y simply because it follows generation X. This generation is generally considered 1982-present (with exceptions dating to 1979 and an end declared at 1994).
The exceptions going the other way would be those people whose parents were PRE baby-boom (aka alive during WWII) which includes my mother 1941, my father 1940(?) and my step-father 1931(?), and yes, I’m horrible with dates. So, working generationally instead of by dates, I am a baby boomer, I skipped 2 full generations, scary huh? (That said, I consider myself late Gen X culturally)
But, what most of this is here to say is that I identified with almost none of the movie, but it was a good enough movie that I wanted to explain why I am giving it what is likely a worse review than it deserves.
So, the real review, it starts out slow, has some excellent humor, good emotion, and is well filmed, but feels very chopped together without much flow from one segment to another. The movie uses color well, but sometimes abused that by fading between too many colors in the same scene, like an old black and white film would do to add a dash of color by tinting each shot.
The acting was excellent, I can’t really even nitpick anyone much. Natalie Portman showed a serious new range to her ability, but Ian Holm had too much of a Bilbo Baggins expression and stance for my taste. Unfortunately given the popularity of LotR I think he will really have to distance his mannerisms for me to appreciate him in another role.
I purchased my car 2 years ago today, and now it has just shy of 46,000 miles on it. That is of course more than 50% higher useage than AAA assumes as the high end of average (15,000 miles). That is one and a half months (24 hour days, 30 day months) of actual driving time and doesn’t include numerous nights I’ve spent in it while traveling. Computing this out into 40 hour work weeks, that’s 27 weeks or work over two years or roughly (per year) over 1/4 of the average work year.
To say the least, I have become very attatched to my car.
I have been test driving a number of automatics due to my knee, it sometimes makes it very difficult to drive my car… but I think I’m not going to do that.
We pretty well finished filming the steps: one, we have one scene left. We have to get our lights that were destroyed replaced first.
Bunch of production photos to go up, we are working on that now. We’ll also get the website going and get some screencaps also.
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