'Destiny'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
If I'm the sort of person that freezes in a conflict and gets bitten by the zombie right away, no one is paying to see my apocalypse story.
What you are in that case is a bit character in a Stephen King novel. We'll get to know you just enough to wonder why we bothered wasting our time reading about you before you die and the plot moves on.
Mostly, though, we'll wonder why we had to read about you picking your nose before you died.
We're not all stranger than fiction. Usually we're too boring for it. Or at least clumsily paced, and unevenly plotted.
I'm stranger than fiction, but I'm clumsily paced and unevenly plotted. Right now I'm in a brief chapter that consists of "She spent some years resting from her adventures, doing simple work, eschewing love and amassing her fortune." Can't wait for the next chapter!
Oh, dear, I think I'm in the hard-working, long-suffering parts that would either be an Oscar-winning drama--probably with Sally Field being stoic and plucky and rural--or glossed over with a montage with noble, heart-stirring music. Maybe I'll get a glorious "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" moment.
I'm in the "She's waiting for something to shake her out of her rut" part of the movie, with a voiceover of me declaiming that 40 isn't "middle-aged," blah blah blah.
But I'd prefer this be a quirkyfun movie where "getting out of my rut" means something new and fun, not a trauma-laden movie where "getting out of my rut" is preceded by the loss of my dearest love. I'll keep him in my rut, thanks ever so.
I like ruts. They're comfortable.
Hmm, maybe I'll petition the Great Script Writer for one of those "Everyone thought they were a mild-mannered couple that just seemed to be getting by, but they had a dark secret that was about to be blown out into the open." Kind of like RED with spoiled cats.
I think I'm in the montage part of the movie that lets the writer establish Wacky Things Happen, Okay?, and sets the groundwork for the Really Big Wacky Things that are about to happen.
I'm tired of being Katherine Heigl in the tight-assed part of the movie. Oh, okay, Katherine Heigl has an accident in the tight-assed. rut-driven part of the movie.
I saw Hope Springs last night and I really liked it a lot. The acting from all three leads was totally wonderful and the script was much deeper and wiser than the stupid trailer implies. It was funny, but in a truthful way. It is all about intimacy and sex and communication and what love really is--so if you like that kinda stuff--go.