"A word to the wise from Pennywise"

All the talk about It made me decide to reread the book.

Now I want to see James Bond embroidering.

In Roger Moore's opening scene in Ffolkes, he was knitting. 'S as close as I can get. Couldn't find a screencap, though.

Oh, BTW, did see The Raven. No anachronisms that set me off. A bit gorier than strictly necessary, but not too-too much so. Well worth the bargain theater price.

Beau and I saw Prometheus and our reaction was considerably less positive than Sean's. Beau disliked it more than I did. I think my reaction is: "it was okay." Beau (who has a phd in Literature) is running around the house exclaiming "where is the plot?"

I am now going into the spoiler arena of the post. I thought the first 30-40 minutes of the movie was really great. Loved the cinematography, the set up (except for how the 2 scientists discussed the mission. Are you going to tell me these folks signed up for a several year mission and didn't have this talk BEFORE hand? WTF. Not credible.)

And then we get to the planet. This is about where the movie starts to falter. Made worse by the latter 30 minutes of the film. I have a real problem with characters being really really stupid and such stupidity advances the plot. Of course that happened here. I don't recall anyone being STUPID in "Aliens." There was an understandable naïvete, but not flat out stupidity. The characters seeing the reptile like creature and APPROACHING it is just out of the realm of "something only an 8-year-old would do." Come ON. And this one guy is the biologist? He should be ashamed of himself.

The last part of the film was just straight up action movie overload. Let's have self-surgery. Let's have explosions. Let's have a mid-air airship crash. Let's have our remaining heroes run away from the crash as it lands on top of them. Let's have the progenitor try to kill our hero again. Then let him be killed.

The end made me fucking groan out loud. Was that really necessary? Really? The aliens (from the earlier flicks) morph into whatever they inhabit. See: cat. Did we really need this one-to-one "oh look. a baby alien." Really?

I know that curiosity is a theme of the film (and an ending relates to this). If I discovered the tomb of a group of people who were out to kill me. I would not give one fuck how they died or to try to find them. Go fuck yourselves and I'm glad you were killed with your own weapons. Fuck you. It's abuse to try to find them and see what we did wrong.

Since they died 2000+ years ago (right?), who knows if they still live? Maybe they fucked up real bad and deployed these weapons around the universe and fucked everything up. They should have killed themselves. Not us.

In sum, I think the movie is really entertaining. I am not sure I think it is good. I will not be seeing it again in the theaters like I did "Avengers."

It comes to my attention that some of you may not be aware of the National Theatre Live broadcast to cinemas (list here) of the Frankenstein that sold out and won all the awards.

I just saw both of them! They were amazing. Miller is excellent, but Cumberbatch just blew me away, and that would be true even if I had no idea who he was. Katie and I were comparing the two versions and gleefully noting how different the characters were when played by different actors, even though the script and the dialog is exactly the same. I feel like the experience isn't complete unless you can see them both. Not that anyone should turn down a chance to see just one.

I've never seen Ruffalo in anything before. I thought he was the best movie-Banner so far. I don't see what's weird about him. Playing an angry man who knows that his anger can destroy cities, acting like there's a nuclear bomb on a hair-trigger in your back pocket seems totally normal. Also, he's cute.

I might go see Snow White and/or Prometheus this weekend. But lately, all movies are suffering from 'but I could just go see Avengers again" syndrome. Katie and I went to see Avengers in between the Frankensteins.

And yes, FTR, I did fly to Seattle to see the Frankensteins with my friend Katie. I flew cross-country to see two movies. And they were WORTH IT.

Zen, your Frankenstein experience is exactly mine. If they do ever release a DVD, I assume that there will be a ton of compare/contrast papers written in theatre programs. I do think it was brilliant casting and directing to embrace the differences between the two actors, rather than try to make them the same.

And yes, FTR, I did fly to Seattle to see the Frankensteins with my friend Katie. I flew cross-country to see two movies. And they were WORTH IT.

Fuck, yeah! Did you see that there's a recording of the music available?

Did you see that there's a recording of the music available?

No, I didn't know that!

Katie said NT has no plans to release them on DVD and would probably have to re-negotiate contracts to do so. But if it's popular enough (and isn't it? geez) they might think it worthwhile to do so.