Suckage
As usual, not really much to write about this past week. My mood changes a lot these days, and right now it’s not very good. I’m filled with lust, and it feels pointless. If everything goes as planned this upcomming weekend, my mood should be positive again, but I fear it might not. There is this small festival thing called Rock the Boat, surprisingly it takes place on a boat. I am going with Fredrik, Steve, Vidar, Alex, Karen and some unknown guy Steve has managed to convince going. Fredrik, Steve and Vidar are my three closest friends, and the ones I tend to spend most of my time together with. They came to our school in 1997, when we merged with a school that was closing down. So I’ve known them from then. If I’m with someone else, it’s almost always together with one of those three at the same time, like a proxy friend if you will. Alex I have written about before, he lives together with Fredrik, and is someone I’ve been in the same class with for 9 years. Karen has also been in the same class as me for 9 years, but not really someone I’m friends with per se. She’s quite kind and immensely beautiful though, so I’m more than happy to have her with us for that matter.
Tickets are ordered, the problem that could arise stems from the fact that there’s an age limit of 22 on the trip, and none of us are that old. It could certainly ruin the trip big time. But just as I was writing this, I checked the festival page again, and it seems to have been lowered to 20 (!). And now my mood is already better, it seems there shouldn’t be any problems with the trip after all, wee!.
And now for the “small” dump of movie experiences the past week, skip if you will.
Badlands, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek (yuck). It’s based on the true story of Charles Starkweather, a serial killer during the 50s. It was very “blah”, no reason to watch this.
Then I thought I’d finally watch Barry Lyndon, a movie which I’ve been dreading to watch for a long time. I’ve always had this image in my mind that this was going to be a pain to watch, not sure why. Oh my, was I wrong. It was a true delight to watch, from start to finish. It’s about Redmond Barry, an aristocratic Irishman who ends up fleeing from his hometown after having done a duel with a British officer over a woman he loved. He joins the army, from which he also flees, and is labelled a deserter. He is picked up by the Prussian army, and serves his time there as a captive sort of. After all this, he once again aims for wealth, and end up marrying Lady Lyndon, a wealthy young girl who’s husband just died. It goes something like that. And it’s way more fun than it sounds like.
Spun, was quite sucky. It’s some attempt to make a stylish drug movie, but fails horribly.
The Fearless Vampire Killers, Polanski’s take on the whole Dracula thing, made as a comedy, hmm. I was very skeptic to this, and kept being throughout it, untill 40 minutes or so had passed. It had a bit of a slow start, and kinda dry slapstick humour, but it picked itself up quite a bit. Worth watching? Perhaps, but not a must.
Time for some 70s action movie, starring Charles Bronson nonetheless, The Mechanic. Bronson plays a hitman who ends up letting an aspiring kid come and help him with missions. It’s an ok movie, Bronson is always cool to watch.
I decided to download Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and got that version instead of the 1956 original which I had planned to, but oh well. I noticed Leonard Nimoy (the man who plays Spock on the original Star Trek series you infidels) was in it so it was ok. So the story is that aliens are replacing humans, ony by one. With plants. They are taking over Earth with plants. Uah. You fall asleep and some alien plant takes over your body and feeds itself and makes a coccoon with a replica of your body. Quite a silly movie really, and quite boring. Thumbs up for the way too scary gesture the aliens do when they notice a human being among them - they point their finger at them, open their mouth wide open and let out this horrible scream. It actually looks kinda scary and freaky, even if it doesn’t exactly sound like it.
Not sure what to think about Citizen X. On one hand it has a nice story about a russian serial killer which the Soviet Union denied even existed to the people, and on the other hand it’s reeks of a b-movie production (in the bad way). Just ok.
Was also a bit skeptic to the Appleseed remake, luckily I was wrong about that. Wow. No matter how cheesy and overplayed the plot is (robots replaces humans, human rebellion ensues), the graphical aspect of this movie is so stunning. They’ve used a cell shading technique, mixed together with classical animation and normal 3D. And it looks beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this and would gladly recommend it to anybody, despite it’s flaws regarding the plot.
Surprise, surprise. A good movie, with Leonardo DiCaprio in it? Basketball Diaries it is. Not much to say about this really, just that it’s fairly good.
Don’t ever think about watching A Snake of June, it will bore you to death with it’s surreal and goofy story, about a woman who has a stalker and gets turned on about it. What happened next I’m not sure, it’s all a mess really.
Decided to do a Star Trek movie marathon this week, starting from the beginning, and all the way to the newest one. So first I started with Star Trek: The Cage, which isn’t really a movie, but a pilot episode for the original series, but it’s listed on IMDB as a TV movie. But what is this? No William Shatner? Spock is the only character in this movie that ended up in the series, and a good thing that was. Can’t imagine what Star Trek would be like without Shatner (although, in my mind there is only one true Star Trek captain, and that is of course Picard, played by Patrick Stewart). Nothing significent with this episode, but it’s a piece of history so…
I then planned to watch the second episode of the series, also made as a TV movie, but I was not able to get ahold of it. So I started with the first true movie in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Shatner is in place \o/, just like it’s supposed to be. Great movie this is, although a bit amateurish.