Hmm. I'm kinda liking some of the new options on the site. Especially nice was hopping on and seeing new friends. The bounce in my step is because of you.
Anyone remember the film The Wizard? It's one of those films from my youth that the sibs and I can always bring up and smile about ("I love the Powerglove: it's so bad." "You've got no class, Woods. No class at all!"). What's strange about the film is that one gets the impression that it was originally meant to tell a different type of story. I mean, as it was produced, it functions largely as an hour and forty minute commercial for Super Mario Bros. 3. Yet lurking beneath the surface of the film, are all of these examinations of fractured families and issues of responsibility. Consider the character of Corey who becomes his half-brother's (Jimmy) keeper because his older brother, Nick (Christian Slater), neglected his responsibility which resulted in the death of Jimmy's twin (Jennifer) which resulted in the divorce of their parents, which, in turn, had the ultimate effect of Jimmy's mother giving up responsibility for him by putting him in a home. There's also a parellel with Haley's home life in which she is abandoned by her parents (we learn her mother has a gambling problem and her father is a trucker who's never home), forcing her to be responsible for herself. The true end of the film is not Jimmy's victory over Lucas in the videogame championships, but in the return of the Woods family situation back to a state similar to before Jennifer died; Sam again accepts responsibility for Jimmy, and his mother seems to have some sort of reconcilliation.
Now, all of that is in the film, but it's buried; it's almost as if that story was written, then the script was purchased by Nintendo and most of the family elements were subdued in favor of the videogame elements. I'm not complaining. Hell, the movie is lots of fun for all its flaws, and it'd probably be quite the painful movie without being tempered by the fun videogame elements. I just think the film has more going on than a lot of people give it credit for.
Or maybe, as my sister loves to tell me, I read way too much into things.
Anyone remember the film The Wizard? It's one of those films from my youth that the sibs and I can always bring up and smile about ("I love the Powerglove: it's so bad." "You've got no class, Woods. No class at all!"). What's strange about the film is that one gets the impression that it was originally meant to tell a different type of story. I mean, as it was produced, it functions largely as an hour and forty minute commercial for Super Mario Bros. 3. Yet lurking beneath the surface of the film, are all of these examinations of fractured families and issues of responsibility. Consider the character of Corey who becomes his half-brother's (Jimmy) keeper because his older brother, Nick (Christian Slater), neglected his responsibility which resulted in the death of Jimmy's twin (Jennifer) which resulted in the divorce of their parents, which, in turn, had the ultimate effect of Jimmy's mother giving up responsibility for him by putting him in a home. There's also a parellel with Haley's home life in which she is abandoned by her parents (we learn her mother has a gambling problem and her father is a trucker who's never home), forcing her to be responsible for herself. The true end of the film is not Jimmy's victory over Lucas in the videogame championships, but in the return of the Woods family situation back to a state similar to before Jennifer died; Sam again accepts responsibility for Jimmy, and his mother seems to have some sort of reconcilliation.
Now, all of that is in the film, but it's buried; it's almost as if that story was written, then the script was purchased by Nintendo and most of the family elements were subdued in favor of the videogame elements. I'm not complaining. Hell, the movie is lots of fun for all its flaws, and it'd probably be quite the painful movie without being tempered by the fun videogame elements. I just think the film has more going on than a lot of people give it credit for.
Or maybe, as my sister loves to tell me, I read way too much into things.
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they had some wicked stuff... the new priest who books the rollins band to play the church? that's my favorite.