Thursday, April 24, 2008

Donnie Darko, Yes, Southland Tales, NO

So today in church, they gave us a lesson about how we should be journal writers and my boyfriend was like, hey, you should save your blogs, they’re like your journal. Sounds fine right? Then I started thinking about how I’m putting my journal on the web, for the public... Wow. Remember when you were like fifth grade age and you wouldn’t let anyone touch your journal and you locked it? I think it’s funny that when we’re young we keep all that stuff bottled up and won’t let anyone get near it, and when we’re older, we post it all over the net. Nice one guys, nice.

But, if this were my journal, I’d have to be like... uh.. So today, I got out of bed and woke up, went to school, came home and did homework, went to work, came home, spent a little time with the guy, went to sleep. Yeah, real interesting. Today was kind of interesting though. I woke my guy up when I got out of bed at 630 this morning. Oops... Then I went to breakfast with one of my best friend Josh who was visiting from 2 hours North. It was fun, kind of weird though... About six months ago, he confessed his love for me, and ever since then, for SOME reason, things have been a bit more awkward. After breakfast though, we went home and watched Battle Star Galactica episodes before lunch time. Lunch entailed heading back home, saying adieu to Josh, and trying to find out what was making my guy so grumpy. Then church, for two of the three hours, and then... Well, dinner was pizza, and now we’ve reached the present.

This past weekend we watched a movie, called Southland Tales... It has the Rock in it, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sean William Scott, and Mandy Moore, and... yeah, some no-names. But it was by the same guy who did Donnie Darko, which my guy and I both LOVE. This one... great plot in a lot of ways, but the whole sex filled porn star ridden aspects took away from what could have been as good as Donnie Darko. I was saddened. I mean, I like sex, I really do. We all do right? (If you don’t, see a doctor). But I’d rather be the one doing the sex than watching people talk about it and do it on television. Call me weird, but...

Another weird movie is Fear X. So bizarre, a bit too artistic for me, but I really liked it. This guy’s wife is murdered in the parking lot outside the mall he works at, and it’s about him obsessing about her killer, and trying to find him by watching security tapes over and over again. It’s bizarre for sure, because he catches on in a way, and yeah... Watch it, then kill me later for making you watch such a freaky film. I like the freaky ones though. They’re interesting, minus Southland Tales... That’s just dumb. Don’t try to combine political satire and Star Trek in one. Okay, it wasn’t really Star Trek, but there were tears in space time, and time travel. Both which by themselves could be the start to a really good movie.

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