RAIN

[alfreda89]

My joints were screaming -- and I was supposed to catch the last matinee of X-Men: Wolverine with a friend. We both had buckets of rain falling on us as we left different parts of town -- heavy enough that he said he was glad they hadn't started working on his house roof -- might be more hail damage!

If there had been any counter-clockwise clouds, I would have canceled. Instead, we hit Kobe first for dinner, the X-Men and then Star Trek (I really wasn't that interested in Angels & demons or Terminator.) X-Men, as I suspected, was fun in its own way, and Star Trek was a good repeat and ticked two movies off his list for the weekend. I'll either see Adventureland before the end of the holiday, or put it on the Netflix list. Hope people had fun even in the rain!

The X-Men origins was the best choice because it needed the big screen for full appreciation. I'd also recommend big screen for Star Trek 2009 -- even once.

Comments

Re: Have you read the book?

[ladypoetess.livejournal.com]

That exactly why I didn't read the book, because I heard similar reviews about it. That and I'm not usually one for getting into whatever is the major Hype of the Day. I did like the Twilight books, but for a different reason, and I only read them initially because a good friend prompted me strongly to give them a shot.

Certainly give the movies a try - they're fun mystery/adventure flicks, if nothing else. ^_^

Re: Have you read the book?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I confess that I saw TWILIGHT with a MST3K type voice-over and the movie, according to a friend who read the book and saw the movie, is lousy in comparison. IT suffers (beyond wish fulfillment YA angst) from the same thing they did to Frodo in LOTR:Fellowship (et al) -- all the things that made Frodo so admirable, and the person able to carry the ring, were stripped from the movie. I must assume that all the little things that should have shown our heroine to be resilient, interesting and not afraid of a vampire, were stripped from TWILIGHT the movie.

As I writer, I resent that. And that crap about Arwen becoming human -- actually tossing aside the tragedy of her future choice, because she's not human. She has to either choose to die, or live on forever and never know if there is something in the next world where they could be together again.

I think Tolkien would have liked many things about the movies -- even a few changes that were understandable and well-done, like the signal fires and Arwen carrying Frodo to the ford (more screen time for important characters and a heroine who is hands-on with her magic)-- but he would be upset that the writers of the screenplay took away all the choices from the good guys, many that gave his characters their gentle nobility. Even if the visuals were perfect (and Boromir's part was better written.)

Hummm? An Alfreda89 button? Perhaps. Perhaps I should write about this "taking a character and removing everything we liked about him/her" thing. But I confess that the Benny Hill music with him running up the mountain with her on his back had me ready to fall off the couch laughing.

Eventually I really enjoyed BORED OF THE RINGS (a bit dated, but still a fun parody of the book LOTR). If you can handle the transition, you might try the MST3K type parody (can't remember the name for it) of TWILIGHT.