I watched the “final cut” of Bade Runner tonight. It’s been a while since I saw the original version and I have to say, I didn’t see all that much difference. It was brighter, that was really the only thin that stood out. Also, I thought that the line “It’s too bad she won’t live; but then again, who does?” was delivered outside Dekker’s apartment, but according to Wikipedia, it wasn’t.
This is somewhat dissapointing: http://princessbridegame.com/
Interesting maybe, but likely just a cheap knockoff. Possibly awesome?
Today I saw two movies. I saw two because the first one was less than satisfying. First, “I Am Legend,” it started off ok with a short news clip foreshadowing the future, then it cuts two 3 years later where everyone on earth is either dead or a bloodthirsty mutant and Will Smith is an immune scientist trying to fix everything. The first half was good, with some nice aerial shots of NYC completely deserted (except for the deer and lions) and overgrown. Then, the mutants are introduced with a suspenseful scene in a dark apartment building. Throughout it all you see flashbacks of the panic just before the end. It was in one of these flashbacks that the movie took a sharp downhill dive. Smith is saying goodbye to his wife and daughter who are boarding a helicopter and his wife then starts praying for God (no not god, we all know which one) to keep him safe. [SPOILERS FOLLOW] Later, he is rescued by a woman who heard the message that he’s been broadcasting and she tells him that it was God that told her to come meet him (no it wasn’t coincidence), thankfully Smith calls her on this bullshit because by now he’s lost the faith. However, later he discovers the cure (while under siege by mutants) and decides that the only way he can make sure that the woman and a boy (who may be her son?) make it out alive is to blow himself up with a hand grenade, when she asks why he tells her God told him to…bullshit. The woman and the boy make it to a camp of patriotic survivors (in an SUV that my dad pointed out to be absolutely spotless). Overall disappointing end. Because of my dissatisfaction, I decided to rent “28 Weeks Later.” I had seen “28 Days Later” not too long ago, which was very good, and hoped this one would be as good. It was. It starts out with an asshole leaving his wife behind to be eaten by zombies. Later, when the infection is all gone, his children come back to England (from some refugee camp) and discover their mother, still alive, in their old house. She has what appears to be a codominant gene which apparently makes her an immune carrier. The idiot father then goes to talk to her in quarantine (before they discover she’s infected), kisses her, becomes infected, goes mad and kills her (graphically). Then goes on a rampage, which leads the American soldiers to go on a rampage killing anything that could be infected (everyone). One defect sniper decides that he can’t take, it ignores his orders, and attempts to rescue a few survivors (including the two children, which the medical officer believes hold a possible cure). Later, an attempted helicopter pickup goes wrong when the pilot refuses to take all of the survivors with him. Instead he goes after a horde of infected chasing his fellow soldier (the sniper), cutting them to bits with his heli’s rotors (graphically…wow, was that an arm?). Eventually, the only ones left are the two kids and the med officer all in a car being attacked by an apache heli, they decide to escape into the subway (are you shitting me?). They trip on some dead people and get separated. The med is then killed by none other than the father (he just doesn’t give up). The father bites the son and the daughter kills him, turns out that the boy is also immune. They get picked up by the helicopter and fly off. [28 days later] Infected are running out into the light and down some steps, the Eiffel Tower in the background. All in all, much better. However, it was missing that English charm that counter balanced the bleakness in the first one.
I forgot to write about this last night. My parents and I went to see Across the Universe. It was actually really good, especially since I had no idea what to expect. It reminded me of Tommy. The one thing I found odd (other than the other odd stuff) was that they didn’t actually have “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” in the movie, it was played during the credits…uh, what the fuck? I would have thought they would put it in there, I mean, most of the other characters had the song they were named for, but when they played “All You Need is Love” I thought “Wait, ‘All You Need is Love’ is the last song, what happened to ‘LSD’?” By last song I mean that “All You Need is Love” is the last song on the Magical Mystery Tour album, which made me wonder if MMT is also their last album…the Internet does not want to give me an answer (I’m too lazy to look hard).
So, I just watched “28 Days Later.” That’s some scary shit, at least the scary bits are, but it was also very evident that it was a British film. Even though it’s a serious film, there are still some funny bits. For example, at one point an “infected” is chasing this guy around a big mansion and a couple guys walk in the door, catching some people trying to escape; just as they ask what the fuck’s going on, a guy runs by screaming being chased by the “infected.” Now I wish I still had that cricket bat.
So, I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tonight…again. Not such a great idea because this time around I realized how cheesy it really is, but who gives a fuck, Indiana Jones kicks ass. Also, at one point Indy throws a Nazi out of a zeppelin window and when all of the passengers looked at him in surprise he says: “No ticket.” I wonder if that’s where Kevin Smith got the line he used in Dogma; he does just about the same thing with either Bartleby or Loki and then when he notices a man watching, he shrugs and says the same line.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/scotty_role/
Not that I’m necessarily a trekkie (not that I don’t like the…umm, whatever Star Trek has become, just haven’t watched much of the original series), but Simon Pegg as Scotty? Fuck yeah!
Just watched “Clerks II,” finally, and man, it was fucking brilliant/awesome. I thought it was great how at the end, there’s a woman taking out all of the milk, trying to find the right one, just like in the first one (I think). Silent Bob was pretty good too; even though he didn’t say anything enlightening, the fact that he cussed out Jay made up for it.