Pear Harbor had both the good and bad fortune of coming out before 9/11. Good because they didn't have to spend millions of dollars fixing things that would "hurt the American people more" (or some other load of BS that happened to movies like Spiderman and Die Hard when those came out close to the date). Bad because after 9/11, nobody wanted to see a movie about America getting her ass handed to her even if we end up kicking ass in the end.
As I watched the movie (again -- I do like it), I read through trivia and goofs and other nerdy nonsense. Despite the fact that critics didn't care for it, Michael Bay got a lot of letters telling him that he got the mood of before and after the attack. Honestly, I think that's what he was aiming for. Sometimes, a movie isn't all about being a blockbuster (though ever director wishes).
For people who just like action, the first part of the movie is difficult to get through. It's filled with the romantic aspect, forming relationships, and the general care-free lifestyle of people at the time. Once you get to the second half, you hit the war and the fighting and the "manly-ness" of it. Me? I enjoyed both. Give me explosions behind a kiss any day!
There are plenty of inaccuracies throughout the film, but it is not a documentary. Consider the ending when the Doolittle raid occurs. From what I read (and correct me if I'm wrong; I wasn't alive during this time, obviously), nobody died in the air. It all occurred on the ground and with things like malnutrition. Do you really want to watch that in a movie? Or would you rather see the Japanese fighting back and the Americans escaping while kicking some ass? Give me the ass-kicking, please.
That's all my opinion for now. Still trying to decide what to watch for next week.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Request Films
I should have put this up earlier, but better late than never.
Comment here to request future films to watch. Please make sure to let me know which week category they could possibly fall under.
Week 1 - Standard Movies (aka what doesn't belong anywhere else)
Week 2 - Remakes (includes not only film remakes, but historical events remade into film)
Week 3 - Foreign (anything not made in the U.S./created for U.S. audiences; aka foreign to me)
Week 4 - Book adaptations (self explanatory; I will only do Twilight [for my own, personal reasons] if begged)
Thanks, guys!
Comment here to request future films to watch. Please make sure to let me know which week category they could possibly fall under.
Week 1 - Standard Movies (aka what doesn't belong anywhere else)
Week 2 - Remakes (includes not only film remakes, but historical events remade into film)
Week 3 - Foreign (anything not made in the U.S./created for U.S. audiences; aka foreign to me)
Week 4 - Book adaptations (self explanatory; I will only do Twilight [for my own, personal reasons] if begged)
Thanks, guys!
June Week 1
Since I just started this and I had planned on doing my posting on Friday/Saturday, I figured that I might as well just blab on about the latest movie I watched (since that would, generally, be what I most remembered). I don't remember watching anything on television movie-wise since a few days ago, so Netflix it was.
And no, before anyone asks, I am not embarrassed about my movie choices. I watched The Suite Life Movie (staring Cole and Dylan Sprouse).
As far as Disney Channel Original Movies go, this one was not that bad. It was based off of a television series they had (The Suite Life of Zach and Cody followed by The Suite Life on Deck), so the characters were already well known and pretty much lovable. I watch this show, but only because one of my roommates constantly has the television set on the Disney Channel (and we all, at one point in time, worked at Disney; yes, we're nerds). Still, it is enough that I know pretty much every kind of relationship issue that has gone on throughout the series.
This movie focuses on their last spring break before graduation. Cody and Bailey (love interest) had made plans to do a while bunch of science-nerd stuff while on shore. Cody instead decides to take an internship opportunity (we'll ignore the fact that these are rarely, if ever, a week-long thing) at a marine biology center in order to get a scholarship to Yale (where his sweetheart wants to go). Bailey takes it wrong, doesn't hear the whole story, and thus they're again in a fight in the first ten minutes of the movie.
For some reason that was never explained (plot device!), Zach goes along with Cody to the center. He sees a cute girl and goes off to chase her while his brother remains clueless. Zach manages, again, to ruin everything by breaking a sea wall and destroying plenty of things. The most important thing is his brother's scholarship.
At this point in time, the movie is all believable. Why? Because I do live with identical twins (which Zach and Cody are, for those who haven't seen the show) and this is pretty much how they act when they're angry at each other. They ignore, they fight, and then spread blame about. (Girls, if you're reading this, I love you! But it's so true, even if your fights don't last as long.)
After that, Zach finds a way to get Cody back into some form of Yale scholarship and they go into a new research center called Project Gemini where a man is studying twins. They eat a weird fruit and suddenly can feel everything the other feels. Then they eat more and they feel every emotion the other feels. Then they uncover a secret plot that'll take their souls and mash them into one person.
Yeah, I'm not a science person, so I'll go with that.
Bailey eventually finds a letter Cody wrote explaining everything so she goes to try and apologize. They don't find him at the center and oh no! They're in danger, let's go save them! But really, their friends don't do anything -- the twins pretty much save themselves by fighting. AKA, they reject the soul-mashing. That breaks the computers and everything falls apart and it's (oh-so-shockingly) revealed that the biology center doctor and the creepy Gemini doctor are twins and both jealous of each other. Yeah. Didn't see that coming. Especially when they show a creepy guy basically stalking the twins before they get to the Gemini area.
The bad graphics and typical happy ending aside, it isn't a bad movie. I wouldn't buy it, but I might watch it if nothing else were on television. I'm sure no one watching this blog right now has seen it, but movies are movies!
Now just to decide what to do for "foreign week." And I don't just mean "in a different language" for this -- I mean just considered (for myself as an American) a foreign country film. I'm thinking Dear Frankie, but I'm not sure. Lay it on me!
And no, before anyone asks, I am not embarrassed about my movie choices. I watched The Suite Life Movie (staring Cole and Dylan Sprouse).
As far as Disney Channel Original Movies go, this one was not that bad. It was based off of a television series they had (The Suite Life of Zach and Cody followed by The Suite Life on Deck), so the characters were already well known and pretty much lovable. I watch this show, but only because one of my roommates constantly has the television set on the Disney Channel (and we all, at one point in time, worked at Disney; yes, we're nerds). Still, it is enough that I know pretty much every kind of relationship issue that has gone on throughout the series.
This movie focuses on their last spring break before graduation. Cody and Bailey (love interest) had made plans to do a while bunch of science-nerd stuff while on shore. Cody instead decides to take an internship opportunity (we'll ignore the fact that these are rarely, if ever, a week-long thing) at a marine biology center in order to get a scholarship to Yale (where his sweetheart wants to go). Bailey takes it wrong, doesn't hear the whole story, and thus they're again in a fight in the first ten minutes of the movie.
For some reason that was never explained (plot device!), Zach goes along with Cody to the center. He sees a cute girl and goes off to chase her while his brother remains clueless. Zach manages, again, to ruin everything by breaking a sea wall and destroying plenty of things. The most important thing is his brother's scholarship.
At this point in time, the movie is all believable. Why? Because I do live with identical twins (which Zach and Cody are, for those who haven't seen the show) and this is pretty much how they act when they're angry at each other. They ignore, they fight, and then spread blame about. (Girls, if you're reading this, I love you! But it's so true, even if your fights don't last as long.)
After that, Zach finds a way to get Cody back into some form of Yale scholarship and they go into a new research center called Project Gemini where a man is studying twins. They eat a weird fruit and suddenly can feel everything the other feels. Then they eat more and they feel every emotion the other feels. Then they uncover a secret plot that'll take their souls and mash them into one person.
Yeah, I'm not a science person, so I'll go with that.
Bailey eventually finds a letter Cody wrote explaining everything so she goes to try and apologize. They don't find him at the center and oh no! They're in danger, let's go save them! But really, their friends don't do anything -- the twins pretty much save themselves by fighting. AKA, they reject the soul-mashing. That breaks the computers and everything falls apart and it's (oh-so-shockingly) revealed that the biology center doctor and the creepy Gemini doctor are twins and both jealous of each other. Yeah. Didn't see that coming. Especially when they show a creepy guy basically stalking the twins before they get to the Gemini area.
The bad graphics and typical happy ending aside, it isn't a bad movie. I wouldn't buy it, but I might watch it if nothing else were on television. I'm sure no one watching this blog right now has seen it, but movies are movies!
Now just to decide what to do for "foreign week." And I don't just mean "in a different language" for this -- I mean just considered (for myself as an American) a foreign country film. I'm thinking Dear Frankie, but I'm not sure. Lay it on me!
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
First Post
I had an idea after reading The Film Club by David Gilmour to start a film club. Not sure how long this will last, or if it will even get off the ground, but I know that there will be at leas some fun times.
Honestly, I first wanted to start a "book a week" type blog, but I don't read that fast since my spare time is extremely short. So I'll talk about the book I'm reading when I've got spare time, but I'll mainly focus of watching, and sharing, films.
I'm a 23-year-old English major (with horrible spelling) who graduated in 2009. I live in a small, two-bedroom condo with my two roommates and our ten animals. Don't worry, six of those are birds. My four-year-old daughter Kali is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi with more health issues than I care to admit. My roommates each own a cat; Cadmus is a five-year-old runt Maincoon, and Morgan is a year-old large Tuxedo. Chin rounds out our list of animals as a chew-obsessed teddy bear hamster. I'm sure I'll talk about at least one of them at some point.
I currently hold two jobs in my quest for financial stability. I've been at a smoothie stand in my local mall since October 2009. It's where I get most of my reading done. Three days of the week I drive the 30-60 minutes to Walt Disney World, put on my costume, and pretend the child screaming in front of me does not bother me. There are very few nights when I come home, wondering why I enjoy working there so much.
My goal is not to become "popular" (though I won't say no). I just want to talk with fellow people who enjoy being nerdy. I rarely go out and see a movie opening weekend (two jobs does not mean I can afford a $14 movie ticket), but I do make several exceptions.
Can't wait to be nerdy.~
Honestly, I first wanted to start a "book a week" type blog, but I don't read that fast since my spare time is extremely short. So I'll talk about the book I'm reading when I've got spare time, but I'll mainly focus of watching, and sharing, films.
I'm a 23-year-old English major (with horrible spelling) who graduated in 2009. I live in a small, two-bedroom condo with my two roommates and our ten animals. Don't worry, six of those are birds. My four-year-old daughter Kali is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi with more health issues than I care to admit. My roommates each own a cat; Cadmus is a five-year-old runt Maincoon, and Morgan is a year-old large Tuxedo. Chin rounds out our list of animals as a chew-obsessed teddy bear hamster. I'm sure I'll talk about at least one of them at some point.
I currently hold two jobs in my quest for financial stability. I've been at a smoothie stand in my local mall since October 2009. It's where I get most of my reading done. Three days of the week I drive the 30-60 minutes to Walt Disney World, put on my costume, and pretend the child screaming in front of me does not bother me. There are very few nights when I come home, wondering why I enjoy working there so much.
My goal is not to become "popular" (though I won't say no). I just want to talk with fellow people who enjoy being nerdy. I rarely go out and see a movie opening weekend (two jobs does not mean I can afford a $14 movie ticket), but I do make several exceptions.
Can't wait to be nerdy.~
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