So I figure everyone was all about the new Harry Potter movie... I saw it on opening night and ya, it was good. Wasn't jaw dropping awesome or anything, mind you I did enjoy it.
I made the mistake, without choice mind you of watching and reading X-men as a kid and lo n behold they eventually made big time movies. I enjoyed them and hated them all at once and when First Class finally came out I had reached a healthy medium and enjoyed it without a single cringing moment. Seems books n movies don't bring out the best in me and I become the biggest picky critic on earth. So I refused to read Harry Potter because I knew it would become a biggie and I wouldn't be able to sit in the theaters and watch it without picking it all apart, thank gods its all done now, I can finally read them all and enjoy the story for what it really is.
Movies tend to take you down the story with an iron grip and force you to accept the visualization presented with little left to spark up on your own. Books however detailed for some reason, at least for me, always have left the doorway for visualizing wide open. They are much more personal and I tend to like it that way. Then when you talk to other people who have read it as well you have something to throw back n forth... that's not to say you can't with movies.... its just you have a hard unchanging fact you all saw and there is no questioning what color blue the fur was, What accent you placed on his tongue.. it was all laid out for you.
As far as movies go... I saw green lantern, it was good and in my opinion had the cinematography of the last Potter film been the same they would easily be of the same quality film. Same depth, same everything.... but you didn't see a friggen massive line out the ass for that one opening night. Now I in no way think Green Lantern was better or worse than HP but... they are all being pumped out at the same speeds these days.
I'm 26.. that's hardly old.. but jesus Casablanca would come out and stay out as the only movie to see for at least a damn week or more before another option came out. You couldn't literally go see a movie a day for almost a week and a half... Take some time people good lord.... Make some quality versus mind numbing fast paced quickies. They aren't even witty any more.... its the same rehashed retro I was a kid once now I have a budget and no ideas hey let's relive the past but barely do it justice bullshit.
Get Low... Biutiful. What the fuck people... did anyone even see these? I know... I'm on SG the pinnacle of film critiques right..
There are so many decent movies still being made and they get shoved under the door so quickly we find them months even years after they existed.... That is sad to me. I'm victim to it too... By all means tell me a film favorite to watch and I will gladly if not viewed already watch it and give it the audience it so deserves.
Went to that Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris... not the world's greatest flick this year, but it was alot better than Transfumblers 3 : The Micheal Bay Explosion.
myself and my friend were the youngest and easily 2-3 decades younger than the rest of the audience members... all whopping 13 of us.... the hell is wrong with people these days?
Old soul in a slightly younger body I guess.... even though I have a Marvel throw over my sheets my 2yr old daughter gets a massive kick outta raids in WoW... ahahaa. she's adorable. That's what I really look forward to... sitting up with her late at night after homework is done and watching a movie and then later that week shootin the shit with her on what she thought about it, or the last book she read. Chop chop lil one got a stack of hardcovers n DVDs waitin on ya.
I made the mistake, without choice mind you of watching and reading X-men as a kid and lo n behold they eventually made big time movies. I enjoyed them and hated them all at once and when First Class finally came out I had reached a healthy medium and enjoyed it without a single cringing moment. Seems books n movies don't bring out the best in me and I become the biggest picky critic on earth. So I refused to read Harry Potter because I knew it would become a biggie and I wouldn't be able to sit in the theaters and watch it without picking it all apart, thank gods its all done now, I can finally read them all and enjoy the story for what it really is.
Movies tend to take you down the story with an iron grip and force you to accept the visualization presented with little left to spark up on your own. Books however detailed for some reason, at least for me, always have left the doorway for visualizing wide open. They are much more personal and I tend to like it that way. Then when you talk to other people who have read it as well you have something to throw back n forth... that's not to say you can't with movies.... its just you have a hard unchanging fact you all saw and there is no questioning what color blue the fur was, What accent you placed on his tongue.. it was all laid out for you.
As far as movies go... I saw green lantern, it was good and in my opinion had the cinematography of the last Potter film been the same they would easily be of the same quality film. Same depth, same everything.... but you didn't see a friggen massive line out the ass for that one opening night. Now I in no way think Green Lantern was better or worse than HP but... they are all being pumped out at the same speeds these days.
I'm 26.. that's hardly old.. but jesus Casablanca would come out and stay out as the only movie to see for at least a damn week or more before another option came out. You couldn't literally go see a movie a day for almost a week and a half... Take some time people good lord.... Make some quality versus mind numbing fast paced quickies. They aren't even witty any more.... its the same rehashed retro I was a kid once now I have a budget and no ideas hey let's relive the past but barely do it justice bullshit.
Get Low... Biutiful. What the fuck people... did anyone even see these? I know... I'm on SG the pinnacle of film critiques right..
There are so many decent movies still being made and they get shoved under the door so quickly we find them months even years after they existed.... That is sad to me. I'm victim to it too... By all means tell me a film favorite to watch and I will gladly if not viewed already watch it and give it the audience it so deserves.
Went to that Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris... not the world's greatest flick this year, but it was alot better than Transfumblers 3 : The Micheal Bay Explosion.
myself and my friend were the youngest and easily 2-3 decades younger than the rest of the audience members... all whopping 13 of us.... the hell is wrong with people these days?
Old soul in a slightly younger body I guess.... even though I have a Marvel throw over my sheets my 2yr old daughter gets a massive kick outta raids in WoW... ahahaa. she's adorable. That's what I really look forward to... sitting up with her late at night after homework is done and watching a movie and then later that week shootin the shit with her on what she thought about it, or the last book she read. Chop chop lil one got a stack of hardcovers n DVDs waitin on ya.