So when I was a semi-wee one, there was a specific moment that marked the end of the beginning and the start of the next phase.
Thank God I didn’t know it was a portent for a certainty.
Earl Grey, please.
Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 215)
“…i’m the bad guy?”
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
His life consists largely of fear and pain and despair; fortunately and blessfully saved by the love of the only person that truly understands him.
Inspirational Quote: “I need to believe…something extraordinary is possible.”
Grade: A-
Meet The Parents (2000)
More painful than funny. But then again I’m in a pretty sh1t mood.
Grade: B-
The Birds (1963)
I looked outside and saw some birds.
I thought to myself, “If they all attacked en masse it’d be pretty darn creepy”.
Now Alfred Hitchcock, who’s supposed to be so bloody wonderful, padded that out to two hours.
Lost all the tension.
The setup is mediocre and so is a lot of the dialogue, but still, pretty darn creepy.
Grade: C+
B Numberrrr Twooooooo…
Reign Of Error
“My opponent for office just received an endorsement from the Puppy Haters Association. Is that the sort of person you would want to vote for?”
No hate Puppies! 🙁
Zombieland (2009)
It’s a movie-long joke. And like most jokes, it’s good when it’s funny and it’s boring when it tries to get “dramatic”.
Goes from amusing to “please let it end” not even halfway through.
Grade: D+
Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 214)
Do all humans eventually come to the same general conclusions and revelations about life and meaning?
And if so, are we doing a favor or stunting growth by recording them for the future?
The Shape Of Water (2017)
It’s beautifully (and carefully) made.
It wasn’t what I expected, and it wasn’t as good as I thought it might be; I felt like it could be great, that everything established slowly in the beginning would produce more than it did.
But it’s still an achievement, and it’s something worth watching before you read the plot.
Grade: B
In A Bunch
“Intuition is the journey from A to Z without stopping at any other letter along the way. It is knowing without knowing why.”
“Do right by him, he’s a good guy. I wouldn’t be inside if it wasn’t for him.”
“No. No. Long Beach Mike is not your f@cking amigo, man. Long Beach Mike is a f@cking scumbag. He’s selling out his amigos. That’s what kind of a nice guy he f@cking is, alright?”
“Gradually trees became fewer, smaller, and less important. By the time the last fruit-bearing adult palm tree was cut, palms had long since ceased to be of economic significance. That left only smaller and smaller palm saplings to clear each year, along with other bushes and treelets. No one would have noticed the felling of the last small palm.”
“The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
Fancy That…
FAIR USE: CRITICISM – Let’s get to the bottom of that puckering: 4:10-4:12
Get Out (2017)
I don’t get it.
It’s atmospherically weird but the payoff/resolution is like a bad Twilight Zone episode.
Grade: D
Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 213)
“…complete transcendence – beyond words, beyond space-time, beyond self. There are no visions, no sense of self, no thoughts. There are only pure awareness and ecstatic freedom.”
Movie Re-View, 9/8/18
Updated:
Congo
Free Sample
War, eh?
No, banana peel.
Anyways…
Stand up…(continued)…
– If you’re male.
– If you’re female.
– If you’re human.
– If you’re sick of this ad.
– If you’re still sitting.
Exquisite
FAIR USE: CRITICISM – Tedious.
Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 212)
Oh, a clip joint! RUFF!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks
Cloverfield (2008)
One-line review choices:
1) “You gotta be fcken kidding…”
2) Statue-of-Liberty-head-nado.
3) Oh no, there goes Tokyo.
Take your pick.
It’s less than 75 minutes long, unless you like eternal credit scrolls.
There’s a cr@ppy end voiceover bit that was probably included so the movie could bill itself as an hour and a half.
Upped a notch for vague Cthulhu-ness and SPECIAL FX!
Inspirational Quote: “We’ve gotta get out of here…it’s time to leave the electronics store!”
Grade: D-
Die Hard (1988)
What a horrible relic.
You know, at times the competence level ALMOST makes you think you’re watching an actual movie.
Much ado about little.
Grade: D-
So Much For Pathos…
(1:11-1:27)
FAIR USE: CRITICISM – Like it or not, you’ve gotta admire the skill that goes into it.
The Babadook (2014)
Cool book.
Australia: We’re like England, just not as good.
Creepy but extremely predictable; if you don’t expect too much from it you might not be let down.
The Babadook: E.T.’s evil twin brother.
Grade: D+
From NotLD
See where Don Orsillo and Bill Swerski got their start(s) as a reporter and a zombie hunter, respectively.
Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 211)
Subtitle: ‘Perspectives’
Aside bit: Perspectives…you know, that’s the name of the post…oh, yeah…that’s funny…
Meaningful bit: So I’ve realized this a few times at least, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried to capture it here…basically the awesome nature of subjectivity. Everyone goes through their lives – I think, at least – thinking what they think, believing what they believe, feeling what they feel…and everyone thinks that their own beliefs and opinions are “right”, everyone else just “doesn’t quite get it.”
But think about it…every person that has ever lived has had a perception that was at least the tiniest fraction different from every other person that has ever lived.
So don’t be so sure that your perspective is always “the right one.” Because everyone thinks that, and everyone is wrong.
From The Mouth Of Madness
*Softly, with a sad desperation* “I know what I am…”