I'm starting a movie watching club, since I love movies. The first movie on my list is a foreign movie called "Vision". I had seen a trailer for this movie earlier in the year and it is now available on Netflix so I'm deciding to watch it. I have embedded the trailer and after I have watched it I plan to write a review.
As of now I'm working on 2 different blogs, but I'm thinking it's about time for this one to become more politically minded, but not necessarily political, maybe more streamlined. I won't abandon this blog and do a complete overhaul but I think it's time for me to start talking about things that really matter to me. Stay tuned and watch for the new tone of blog, also check out my other blog.
So I've been essentially using my blog as a form of just free-flow, no real narrative, until recently. Now I have come to think of blogging as a form of story telling each entry like that of a chapter, progressing the story on and on. In fast I'm loving it, and I've been writing more and more than I ever have I just love the idea. There is no real deadline and I can see myself wanting to complete it just to tell the next story. It's like I've been waiting so long to be able to put together this cohesive story and now I finally can.
I've posted a new picture to my Photo Blog tab on this page and I've also been diligently working on my wordpress blog, this is just a quick update on the things I've been doing.
This blog is many things but it is not personal, it is like a an open book. Well I have started another blog and this one I wish to express my time in the US Military, more importantly it's about my time joining the national guard and my experiences while I was a member, I should note that that blog is strictly on word press which I think is a superior blog format. I will update here but that blog is more of a narrative and I wish that you guys, my followers and my reads will read that other one and enjoy it. Please read here and read there as they will both be updated periodically. So far I have 2 blogs on the other with more to come.
I just added a new page to this blog, if you haven't noticed yet. It will be just for photographs that I've taken that's it. I'm planning on making another page to this blog which will be a sort of animated vlog, look for that page soon, it might take a while I need to find a good site/program to build animation. Also please note the Read More... link on the bottom of certain posts, you'll see that it leads you to more of the related post.
After hearing that the new 007 film was back on track to be released in 2012, I decided to re-watch the last few Bond films, beginning with GoldenEye. And I noticed one serious flaw in all the movies except one, that flaw is the Bond Girls. To be put simply they were all just really attractive females without anything to really do but quip one liners and look hot. But that all changed with Eva Green's portrail of Vesper Lynd. Here is a clip from Casino Royale that solidifies her as the ultimate Bond girl, she is simply amazing and breathtaking in this scene.
The reason this differs from the original is simply because it feels almost like seeing a different movie. I loved that this hews closer to the graphic novel and feels almost as though you're watch Frank Miller's comics come to life. I loved Brittany Murphy in these stories and I adored the small aesthetic steps Rodriguez used to add his own flavor into an already established and loved graphic novel series, sadly he hasn't done anything good since.
From the intro, to the character growth, to the acting, directing and the script I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Where the first one seemed to lack and come off a little pretentious this one makes up with an amazing story, and even more amazing special effects. This movie is brilliant and beautiful, Bryan Singer really outdid himself with this film, the subdued performances from the leads was the very definition of ensemble acting, everyone complimented one another's style and gravitas. Far superior to the original and even more thought provoking, seeing Singer use "Mutants" as a symbol for the persecutions of many minorities (homosexuality, black, hispanic, Jewish, etc.) was both smart and well played. This is one of the best sequels to a film I've ever seen, in fact the only other sequel that lives up to and exceeds it's predecessor is...
This is the pinnacle of what a Batman film should be, and not just a Batman film but also a sequel. This film, this masterpiece is not without it's flaws, but it almost makes Batman a secondary character. You're forced into the psyches of two mentally unstable people, Oswald Cobblepot and Selena Kyle, played impeccably by Michelle Pfiffer and Danny Devito. Whereas the first film was the Bruce Wayne/Batman introduction film you're left with a villain that is more comical than menacing, more caricature than character. Breathing new life into their characters Pfiffer and Devito became their characters and to this day I have no way of seeing how these characters can ever be recreated. Take notes Ms. Hathaway, you have a huge burden not to suck as Selena Kyle in Nolan's next Batman film.
Oh where do I even start with this film. This is a pure masterpiece, to me this is every bit as good as it's original source. The subtleties in the directing, the total believability in the actors and the complicated and complex story makes this one of the best adaptations to date. Watching this film was pure bliss and left me with this sense of wonder, not knowing that this was a graphic novel beforehand only made it that much better. It stands on it's own and also as a companion to it's source.
Why do we as American's glorify violence? We slow down on freeways to look at accidents and watch the evening news just to count the fatalities and if we even read news papers anymore we'd collect the clippings and set up scrap books and portfolios all depicting death. I recently had the opportunity to watch the lastest in the Saw film series (Saw VII or Saw 3D, whichever you choose to call it) and I realized that that movie was almost 2 hours of horrific death and death. Did I enjoy it? No I didn't enjoy one minute of it, it was just one grotesque brutality after another. Where have our American sensibilities gone? Once upon a time we we shocked and outraged by deaths and murders and now we collect them like stamps and trading cards.
that solidifies her as the ultimate Bond girl, she is simply amazing and breathtaking in this scene.
(Unrated Editions)
