Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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Ever noticed that Ewan McGregor seems to radiate a kind of glee in every movie, as if he can't believe his own good fortune to be right here, right now, doing this!! ?
Except for the Star Wars movies where, while doing a pretty good Alec Guiness, he seems to be radiating a "What the fuck did I get myself into with this shite?" vibe.
Except for the Star Wars movies
Have I talked here about my theory of AotC? I'm convinced it was really 2 movies -- a passable action adventure flick starring Ewan, and a horrendous romantic film starring Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen.
I heart Big Fish.
Hayden Christiansen had more sexual chemistry with R2D2 than with Natalie Portman.
That whole movie was ADASTW.(Arrived Dead and Stayed That Way) I'm glad I didn't pay.
Anakin R2D2 slash would be disturbing. I don't want to think about it.
Despite the fact that I am, I don't want to.
I'm torn about seeing the 3rd one at all, paying, not paying, NetFlixing, whatever. I think the time spent may well be more than it's worth to me.
Anakin R2D2 slash would be disturbing. I don't want to think about it.
R2D2: "beep boop bleepity bloop"
Anakin: [strokes R2D2's sockets pensively] "I think I knew. I think I've known all along..."
Is that a dataport or are you happy to see me?
So since I saw Darkness Falls last night, I watched Freddy vs. Jason today. The fun thing about On Demand is I have easy access to all these movies I wouldn't go out of my way to watch.
Now, I actually haven't seen many of the Freddy and Jason movies. Maybe the first Nightmare on Elm Street, edited, and the tail end of Jason Takes Manhattan, also probably edited. So I missed all the numerous references to the previous films, I'm sure. But whatever, dude. The fun is having both of them in the same movie.
The concept is actually kind of interesting: Freddy can't come back because he's been forgotten, so he resurrects Jason (why Jason? Well...why not?) to do some killin' on his behalf and bring the fear back to the people of Elm Street. There's a "versus" in the title, though, so obviously he has to take him out eventually. It's like that Simpsons episode where they bring in the birds to take out the lizards and the monkeys to take out the birds and whatnot.
Coming off a day of reading No Man's Land, in whose early pages the similar concept is applied to Batman ("If we don't say his name, he's not real"), I thought there might be something intellectually stimulating about the film, but really, who was I kidding? It's all blood and gore and sex and drugs, dude. You better believe it.
The movie does a bizarre job of making the audience sympathize with Jason. Even after we see him slaughter a dozen people. Which, while odd, gives us someone to root for in the Big Fight. I'm not sure that's such a good idea, though. It might have been more fun if we didn't have someone to root for. Is this problem evident in Alien vs. Predator ?
People to look for:
There's probably more tension than there was in Darkness Falls, so that's good, right? Definitely more blood and guts and ridiculosity.
And if you just want to know who wins, the answer is Jason . I guess.
The AvP billboard near krav with the running vote totals live from the internet went dark yesterday. I guess someone won.