so, we finally got whip it and i totally loved it. i'll have to reread your blog to see why you didn't, but here's my list of reasons i loved it, in no order:
1. that zebra shirt. i looked all over etsy for the perfect zebra shirt about a year ago and ellen page had it all along.
2. andrew wilson. i wonder if he wants to be an actor or just doesn't worry about it.
3. maybe. or whatever her real name is. i've loved her since state of grace or whatever that show she was on before arrested development.
4. they didn't win. i never played anything before ping pong in kazakhstan, but it's hard to win. you have to give so much of yourself and focus so completely, and you have to better than everyone else. and, it's hard to lose because it's heartbreaking.
5. j. lewis's speak about age. maybe it's because i'm 30 and not totally happy with my life, but i love that she didn't start until she was 31 and now she's 36 and still sexy, powerful and going strong. i think that needs to be addressed in movies because not everyone who's 30 is married with kids and totally boring/normal.
6. that e. page let the boy go. i love that he probably didn't cheat on her, but not calling was enough to let him go and she had the strength to let him go, even though he's totally cute. and, the heartbreak brought her closer to her mother.
7. that they wore the same stuff a lot. that's pretty real.
8. that the team went from not caring to caring and succeed when they cared. it's brave to care because you're putting yourself out there and can get really hurt. razor always cared and i loved it when the team decided to join him.
9. it was funny. i laughed out loud. i can't totally remember why, but i know it happened.
so, there they are, i'm going to read your post.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
taste of iran
a few weeks ago i watched "a taste of cherry." it's an iranian movie by a director who has a new movie starring juliet binoche at cannes. or will have it at cannes. i have no idea anymore about when movie festivals are. anyway, this cherry one recieved top prize at cannes in 1997, so that's a recommendation.
the color palette of "a taste of cherry" was this:
almost zero green or red. even the sky was dusty and orangey/yellow.
there's a main character and you find little out about him except that he wants to die, he doesn't want to talk about why, he's dug himself a grave on a hillside near tehran, he plans to climb into the grave and take waaaay too many sleeping pills and die. he is driving around the countryside near tehran hoping to hire someone to bury his body, or, if his plan fails, to help him climb out of the grave.
he picks up three men. the tone is hard to read. i dont' have a lot of experience with middleeasterners or with middleeastern culture, it seems things are more forward and less polite, but maybe it was the translation.
so he picks up a young soldier from kurdistan who won't do it because he's nervous about the morals of society. then, after fighting with a construction worker about having an omelette or tea together, he picks up a young cleric-to-be from afghanistan who won't do it because of god. last he picks up a taxidermist from turkey who will do it, but you find that out only after the taxidermist tells a long story about how a berry from a mulberry tree made him believe life can be worth living when he was a suicidal man in his youth. although predictable, this story was not cheesy because of the "cliche for a reason" clause. mr suicidal drops mr taxidermy off at the natural history musuem after showing him the grave and showing him where his payment will be. he says, call my name twice and if i don't answer, throw dirt on me. then he leaves. but after driving for a few minutes, he turns around again and runs back to the museum to say, call my name six times! so it seems like he might have bought the mulberry song.
you don't see him take any pills but you do see an great shot of him in his apartment, it's one of those shots where the camera doesn't move and the one person in the shot moves all over the space and it's very interesting. he drives to the grave and gets in. it starts to rain and thunder, and that's it, you never know what happens. i fell asleep before he got in the grave so i had to rewind.
it was an okay movie.
the color palette of "a taste of cherry" was this:
almost zero green or red. even the sky was dusty and orangey/yellow.
there's a main character and you find little out about him except that he wants to die, he doesn't want to talk about why, he's dug himself a grave on a hillside near tehran, he plans to climb into the grave and take waaaay too many sleeping pills and die. he is driving around the countryside near tehran hoping to hire someone to bury his body, or, if his plan fails, to help him climb out of the grave.
he picks up three men. the tone is hard to read. i dont' have a lot of experience with middleeasterners or with middleeastern culture, it seems things are more forward and less polite, but maybe it was the translation.
so he picks up a young soldier from kurdistan who won't do it because he's nervous about the morals of society. then, after fighting with a construction worker about having an omelette or tea together, he picks up a young cleric-to-be from afghanistan who won't do it because of god. last he picks up a taxidermist from turkey who will do it, but you find that out only after the taxidermist tells a long story about how a berry from a mulberry tree made him believe life can be worth living when he was a suicidal man in his youth. although predictable, this story was not cheesy because of the "cliche for a reason" clause. mr suicidal drops mr taxidermy off at the natural history musuem after showing him the grave and showing him where his payment will be. he says, call my name twice and if i don't answer, throw dirt on me. then he leaves. but after driving for a few minutes, he turns around again and runs back to the museum to say, call my name six times! so it seems like he might have bought the mulberry song.
you don't see him take any pills but you do see an great shot of him in his apartment, it's one of those shots where the camera doesn't move and the one person in the shot moves all over the space and it's very interesting. he drives to the grave and gets in. it starts to rain and thunder, and that's it, you never know what happens. i fell asleep before he got in the grave so i had to rewind.
it was an okay movie.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
i never picked up on the christian shepherd thing before
I hated the Lost finale. I am kind of sorry I watched it, although I don't think I could've avoided it. That was a flagship show for me. I hated the easy ending. I didn't like the religious stuff. There was such cool sci-fi stuff and weird, far-fetched myth stuff all over the series and then they tossed it aside to plug jesus or white lights or the afterlife? not just disappointing but also creepy. on the other hand, 30 rock was pretty funny. matt damon looks old.
the famous people are out there
there are some great celebrities in the x-files.
-a young, skinny jack black is in one about a boy who can conjure lightning and kill people, and that boy is played by giovanni ribisi. jack black works in a video arcade. giovanni ribisi is creepy, bitter and jack black's best friend. nothing works out and people die, but it made the 90s seems simpler and cool. like, video arcades weren't quaint, they just existed. the xfiles is making me nostalgic.
-a fake-goofy-toothed luke wilson is in one about a vampire. he has really goofy fake teeth and he's kind of a hick. there's a vampire in town and mulder has stabbed him so he has to report to the bureau because of the violence or whatever. as usual, he and scully completely disagree about the existence of the weird, which in this case is the vampire. there's a pizza delivery boy played by the red-headed kid in the sandlot. now that was a movie with a big dog and lots of vomit. anyway, scully and mulder tell their own versions of the story. in mulder's version, scully is bratty, demanding and condescending while in his he is calm and understanding and submissive. in scully's version, mulder is like a psyched little kid and she is exhausted. it's funny.
-fake cher. there's a monster in town. oh, the guy who plays j peterman on seinfeld is in this one too. it's black and white. the monster impregnants women. he really loves cher. he looks a little like eric roberts in mask, but scary, so he thinks cher is so awesome for being a better parent than his parents. at the end, the monster is at a cher concert but you only see her from the back and it all looks pretty fake.
-i wish i could remember more, but i can't right now.
-a young, skinny jack black is in one about a boy who can conjure lightning and kill people, and that boy is played by giovanni ribisi. jack black works in a video arcade. giovanni ribisi is creepy, bitter and jack black's best friend. nothing works out and people die, but it made the 90s seems simpler and cool. like, video arcades weren't quaint, they just existed. the xfiles is making me nostalgic.
-a fake-goofy-toothed luke wilson is in one about a vampire. he has really goofy fake teeth and he's kind of a hick. there's a vampire in town and mulder has stabbed him so he has to report to the bureau because of the violence or whatever. as usual, he and scully completely disagree about the existence of the weird, which in this case is the vampire. there's a pizza delivery boy played by the red-headed kid in the sandlot. now that was a movie with a big dog and lots of vomit. anyway, scully and mulder tell their own versions of the story. in mulder's version, scully is bratty, demanding and condescending while in his he is calm and understanding and submissive. in scully's version, mulder is like a psyched little kid and she is exhausted. it's funny.
-fake cher. there's a monster in town. oh, the guy who plays j peterman on seinfeld is in this one too. it's black and white. the monster impregnants women. he really loves cher. he looks a little like eric roberts in mask, but scary, so he thinks cher is so awesome for being a better parent than his parents. at the end, the monster is at a cher concert but you only see her from the back and it all looks pretty fake.
-i wish i could remember more, but i can't right now.
the most boring spy animals in the world
sam rockwell. penelope cruz. zach galifinackis (?). will arnett. jon favreau. steve buscemi. etc etc. that is the cast of g-force, the one about the fbi agent guinea pigs. granted, i watched it after a beach day and also after eating 5 delicious chinese donuts. was i wrong to think zach g. and a bunch of cgi rodents would be hilarious? i was. the funniest thing i remember before i fell asleep 20 minutes in was zach g. frantically asking the guinea pigs if his suit makes him look fat. that was funny. penelope cruz as a sexy, exotic guinea pig was weird. and tracy morgan was poorly used. that's got to be some kind of comedy crime, right?
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
party!
so, you can watch the second season of party down on netflix as it comes out! i'm going to watch some right now. there are big billboards for the show and i do whatever big ads tell me to do.
Monday, May 3, 2010
buffy the tear jerker
I don't know if you saw the cloud writing in the sky about a week ago, but I finished BtVS. I can honestly say that this show is amazing and the most feminist thing I have maybe ever seen? Besides Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, maybe. What are some other through and through, true blue, feminist movies or tv shows?
Well, the thing about the slayer is that she has all this power, like superhuman strength and just knowing things like a genius general or whatever but the catch is that there's only one slayer. Actually, there are two in the show because Buffy dies in the first season but then comes back to life. In the two seconds or whatever that she's dead, another girl gets all the slayer power but doesn't lose it when Buffy wakes up. There's this whole thing where Buffy goes back to ancient ancient like mudhut times and talks to the dudes who trained the original slayer and they offer her power but she rejects it because she says they only created the slayer for their own protection and didn't help the slayer enough or treat her like a human or something. But then it turns out that in addition to the dudes there was also some goddess cult watching the slayer from afar and they had forged some amazing ax/stake/scyth weapon for the slayer and buffy finds it just in time. which is all great. but the thing is that all these girls who are potential slayers, because there's a million of them all over the world just waiting to be activated, have been showing up at her house for protection from some eyeless badmonks who are knocking them off one by one, so she has this little army that she's been training to fight the impending apocalypse thing. and her best friend is a witch and she does this witch thing where she takes the slayer power and the scythe and transfers the slayer strength and power and whatnot to every girl in the whole world and buffy gives this speech, it's a voiceover you hear, "every girl who can be a slayer, will be slayer! every girl who can stand up, will stand up!" over this montage of a girl standing up to an abusive boyfriend, or like a little girl playing some sport or whatever with a fierce little look on her little face. and then the slayer-be army totally kicks ass and it's great and buffy's done this awesome democratic thing by sharing her power but it also works out for her cos now she's not the only one.
anyway, that was likely as incoherent as as it was long.
the point is, even thinking about that part makes me cry.
i love buffy the vampire slayer.
Well, the thing about the slayer is that she has all this power, like superhuman strength and just knowing things like a genius general or whatever but the catch is that there's only one slayer. Actually, there are two in the show because Buffy dies in the first season but then comes back to life. In the two seconds or whatever that she's dead, another girl gets all the slayer power but doesn't lose it when Buffy wakes up. There's this whole thing where Buffy goes back to ancient ancient like mudhut times and talks to the dudes who trained the original slayer and they offer her power but she rejects it because she says they only created the slayer for their own protection and didn't help the slayer enough or treat her like a human or something. But then it turns out that in addition to the dudes there was also some goddess cult watching the slayer from afar and they had forged some amazing ax/stake/scyth weapon for the slayer and buffy finds it just in time. which is all great. but the thing is that all these girls who are potential slayers, because there's a million of them all over the world just waiting to be activated, have been showing up at her house for protection from some eyeless badmonks who are knocking them off one by one, so she has this little army that she's been training to fight the impending apocalypse thing. and her best friend is a witch and she does this witch thing where she takes the slayer power and the scythe and transfers the slayer strength and power and whatnot to every girl in the whole world and buffy gives this speech, it's a voiceover you hear, "every girl who can be a slayer, will be slayer! every girl who can stand up, will stand up!" over this montage of a girl standing up to an abusive boyfriend, or like a little girl playing some sport or whatever with a fierce little look on her little face. and then the slayer-be army totally kicks ass and it's great and buffy's done this awesome democratic thing by sharing her power but it also works out for her cos now she's not the only one.
anyway, that was likely as incoherent as as it was long.
the point is, even thinking about that part makes me cry.
i love buffy the vampire slayer.
the truth is out there
the xfiles is pretty gory, scary and gross. it's jumpy and repetitive and no one ever makes out. scully is cute, she looks like a 90s barbara stanwyck in a pants suit. and mulder, that actor has a great, squarish fbi face. mulder is always, it's aliens! and scully is always, what? but when other agents tease on mulder she sticks up for him. that's nice. so they're based in dc but they travel all over the country investigating cases. in ep 22 or 21 or 23 of the first season, they go to buffalo. i totally remember watching this episode because it might've been around the time i realized that the xfiles probably didn't travel to whatever town they were saying was the setting, they probably just used any nearby town. in the 80s, i believed that the connors were a real family, like i thought all tv was reality tv. anyway, it's pretty silly. so there was this cop who got murdered 9 years ago in chinatown and all of a sudden this 9 year old girl witnesses the strange deaths of his partners, and the reason for that is that she is the reincarnation of him and they are getting revenge using telekinesis or whatever on these other italian cops who murdered the murdered cop because he was gonna snitch on them for stealing money from a drug bust. there's some creepy origami and some not-terrible special effects. i find it all pretty tasteful. and yes, there are a lot of italian people in buffalo but no, buffalo doesn't have a chinatown. i love the xfiles.
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