Rampid Byter

I wanted to like this movie. It had the girl from Juno, and it had a pretty decent cast (minus sarah parker.) I really wanted to like the movie, did I mention that? It turned out the movie was like listening to a musical note that is very flat, and I meant very flat like when my firewall wasn’t sealed correctly driving 65mph with it deflating.

I watched the whole thing while programming for a client I’m working on. I kind of listen to things instead of watch them anymore because I can’t afford to not pay attention to what I’m doing. Anyway, it was a bad movie. It was dry it was not droll in any sense and the conversations in the movie you couldn’t tell whether they were trying to piss you off or just bore you. The title of the professor’s book was called ‘you can’t read’ and I think that would have been a fine title for the movie, but with the correction of ‘you can’t watch.’ I didn’t want to watch, I wish I hadn’t, but I did.

I appreciate things that are prophetic, and I encourage movies to be a little on the border of what I’m used to. I don’t, however, appreciate movies that have no plot. I guess the plot was not to educate yourself because you’ll end up drunkenly kissing your adopted uncle in an incestuous lustful disassociation of emotions. I felt like the two plots were just too far varied to make any sense, the story left me lagging behind where it wanted me to go, and really with the mellow down trodden tempo of the story I could have fallen asleep pooping with more excitement that I had with the run up to the ending. I suppose I can take one thing away from the movie. Don’t do something you’re not even remotely interested in because you think you should, do the things that inspire you to want or do more and be dammed the consequences. I wish I had been more inspired to turn the movie off.

I hate when you say something and you have to take it back. I watched ‘The Dark Knight’ last night and it was fantastic. The scenes were great, the graphics were great, the story was pretty decent, but some of it was hit or miss to me. Overall fantastic movie, and I’ll give it to Heath he was fantastic.

I really hate to say that too. Heath was unrecognizable in his role as the joker, his face was totally different, his acting was completely flawless, and in several scenes he really did make for a completely convincing psychopath. I was amazed, and my initial reaction is to be awe-struck. Go see if it if you’ve not already. Oscars should be passed out to Bale and Heath. Damn they were good.

I for one appreciate the batman saga every since the introduction of Christian Bale to the cast. However, I don’t understand the recent phenomena of people wanting to nominate the now dead actor for an Oscar before the movie even premieres to people. People paying upwards of $140 for a movie ticket to see the movie opening weekend doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Are they paying to see the next installment of the Christian Bale batman movie, or are these people paying to see some dead guys last performance? If so I don’t understand. Doesn’t that kind of under shadow the movies actual character list and the fact that Christian Bale is the star?  I saw this article and I really have to ask myself what is the problem with these people?

http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/dark.knight.tickets.2.774172.html

I mean really? Why does that Heath guy deserve an Oscar already? The movie just came out last night, but they’ve been talking about it for the last few months. The dude accidently OD’d people were not here supporting his family or donating to a good cause. I have a feeling I’m going to go to the movie myself but at least I’m going to see it because I’m not on any Heath bandwagon. I’m a Bale-man myself, and I thought his movies are pretty fantastic.

What can I say about Juno? Well, I can’t really say a whole lot. The name really does say it all. It’s a simple name, not much to it, and it references something either very mystical or very plain. Be it an obtuse city name or the mythical wife of Zeus.  The story starts off with a very, retro, new-age, well it starts off with a kind of cutout introduction to the movie. The soundtrack to the whole movie really can be felt from the song played during the introduction, acoustical, with some random next door neighbor kid with a voice you neither loath nor love. It’s just kind of mellow. The movie is mellow. If you could take an inanimate object, turn it into the embodiment of a movie, well this movie would be a recliner. You can just sit down, feeling tired, put the legs out, feel bold put the leg down. It’s fluffy enough to be comfortable, but firm enough to keep you in the upright posture. It’s just kind of there, and not subject to much of the abuse that the coach gets.

The movie centers around one girl, who sleeps with her best friend and band mate. She becomes pregnant, tells him, and then voyages on deciding eventually to keep the child. Only, she did decide to give it up to adoption, and went on a journey to find the new foster parents. Eventually, through many very long verbally exhaustive scenes of spunky, in your face, but with a low-key sarcastic diatribe we find the newly begotten foster family.

Long story short, foster family falls apart; girl has a mini break down, has an epiphany, and then unloads the new child to the now single soon to be foster mother. The movie continues on its merry little way with the same rhythmic mellow lyrics playing in the background. If you enjoy some witty banter, sarcastic elusions, and a new-age coming of age movie that lacks forced learned lessons this is the movie for you.

Today is the day I find out about the knee. I’m hoping that there is something wrong, and it’s clearly visible so that I can then breathe a sigh of relief knowing the pain is not in my head. I’ve discovered a new ability that previously was not possible with my knee; I can take a hold of it, and pull it up and to the left. It will then shift, pops twice, and will sit in place at its new location. I tried doing the same thing to the opposite knee without much luck, so I know it has to be something, or at least I hope so?

I sat up pretty late last night watching movies, Shooter, Catch & Release, and after those two movies were over I decided that I wasn’t just ready to head to bed yet. It was only 10pm i still had a good two more hours that I could be using. So I dropped over to Hollywood Video (conveniently open till 12am 365 days a year) and rented Idiocracy, and enjoyed a very good movie. That movie was hilarious in some areas, and a frightening look at what could happen given a very slippery slope.

I ended up sitting there until well past 1a.m. not only watching the movie but also writing a screen play based on an idea that struck me the previous morning while getting up to take a shower. I spit balled the concept with a friend, whom also is writing his own screen play, and we quickly found ourselves laughing for well over four hours about the ideas. So to make sure I didn’t lose any of the thought cycles we put into our session brainstorming I started to write last night. I’m only on page six but the concepts are just coming so quickly that the movie started taking place in my head and all I could do was just try to type as quickly as it played out.

I’ve finished the beginning settings, lead up to the problem, and have begun the second phase where the initial negotiations begin. It’s fantastic, and I’ve found myself emotionally invested in these characters. I plan to work on it again tonight at some point after my knee appointment. Lord knows my mind is not with what I’m doing currently, but maybe someday you’ll see my movie.

One missed call: premise is a call comes through and the individual misses it. Once they check their voicemail they hear a sound of their own death.

I think I hear the movie ‘The Ring’ calling and they want their premise back.

I have a suggestion for a new movie called “Send to 10 or die” a thrilling movie based on the premise that an email comes in and the person who receives it must send it to ten people or they will die on the fifth day. It would start off with ‘Bob’ getting a spam mail containing a poem about how he will die in five days. Maybe throw in some grotesque details of what will happen (this can be dynamic for each person don’t have to limit to the same death style) unless he sends the email to ten people. Upon receiving the email from Bob another person say ‘Jim’ will have a mysterious new email text describing how he will die in five days unless he sends the email to ten people. Of course Bob will have sent the email to some dumb woman/guy who will scoff at the email, and of course will die horribly. Maybe Bob knows the person who sent the email and tries to track back the origins of the email by searching back the senders.

That plot is my intellectual property and must be bought off me should the reader of this want to actually produce my movie suggestion.