Sam Worthington Double Feature - Terminator: Salvation / Avatar

Yesterday (Jan 2) was my father's birthday, so we went over to his sister's house and ate / played ping pong / watched movies on Foxtel. I am very grateful that my cousin didn't manage to get Titanic on. As always, spoilers. I apologise for the weak reviews, I might post a revised version with some more considered critique in the future.

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Terminator: Salvation Blag. They killed him.

It also makes no sense how the humans are alive and stuff.
Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ✩  ✩
Verdict: I hate John Connor.

James Cameron's Avatar has some hot antropamorphic people things. nom nom.

Plot, military sensicles - MIA. Evil corporation/governement and heavy handed preaching? Check!

Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ✩  ✩
Verdict:  (MIA)

Bonus Review: Push
If I were psyic, I would probably find more interesting things to do with my powers...




Rating:      ★ ★ ✩ ✩  ✩
Verdict: Borderline B movie, I hope. Better than Pandorum.

Resolutions

A few days ago I created this post with the note (to myself) "Closure / Decision" in it, which I suppose sums up the typical retrospective/forward looking dichotomy of these end of year posts. So let's run with that. (more to follow)

Jake Gyllenhaal Double Feature - Donnie Darko / Prince Of Persia

Please note: My reviews might contain spoilers and be overly critical. Um sorry about that. Rambles follow.

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Disney's Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is an action movie, with a hint of the free running (evolved platforming) from the video game. The "twist", "romantic" subplot, and OMG SACRIFICE moment were predictable (and resolved with barely a whimper). Also, Jake puts on an annoying accent. There are worse movies to watch. Certainly for a "Video game movie" it does well. Humour doesn't quite match other movies in the genre like "The Mummy".

Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ✩  ✩
Verdict: T'was OK.

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut is a movie about mental illness. I'm not particularity fond of those. It's set in the 80's. Negative on partiality to that particular era. About a teenage boy/arson. Ding ding ding. Trifecta. Parascience. Oh Dear.

Okay. It's no "list of things that James likes stuffed into a movie" but that's to be expected, it covers some vaguely difficult ground, obviously with some insight from the writer/director (which IIRC were the same person).

I'm not going to watch the movie again to try and ascertain the message.

Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ★  ✩
Verdict: T'was OK. Artsy/Indie (styled) movies gets an extra star to impress girls. Will probably end up as a English text at some point.

Bonus Review: Skyline


 "Who are you people and what have you done with the rest of the movie?"

In some ways you just want it to hurry up and kill off all these unlike-able characters (they even pull the pregnant card!) other times you want it to slow down and do some exposition about the antagonist. Then the movie ends and you start to think what a strange opening cinematic this game has, I hope the gameplay is good.

I guess what I'm saying is that this movie has some interesting ideas (alien super power brain transplant invasion!!), suffers from the same lack of scale as war of the "worlds" and failure to establish tension as Paranormal Activity.

Rating:      ★ ✩ ✩ ✩  ✩
Verdict: Quite Bad. Better than Pandorum.

The house before this one...

Immediately prior to moving out to woop woop, the house I lived in had a walk in linen closet. Full of towels, sheets, lightbulbs and security system we never touched by had alarmingly blinky lights. Quite a few times I remember wandering in there to enjoy a little moment of peaceful silence in a small, dark, linen-y room.

I miss that sometimes.

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I pushed the limits, they pushed back. Lesson learned. #melodrama

So no one took any photos of the paintball.

I would post photos of my injuries, but that would just showing off sad.

I tried on my year 12 jacket the other day. It looked terrible.

Anyway, paintball tomorrow. =)

Please Vote!

The federal election: It's today.



http://www.aec.gov.au/election/guide.htm

I've Made a Decision

This project 365 will from now on be 365 days of photos. That means, that if I miss a day, the project will go on just that little bit longer. Which isn't to say that I won't try.



That is all.

Also I'm a chronic revisionist editor. So that's something I should work on.

I think I should start a tech blog, somewhere outside the Blogger ecosystemgoo.

Dream

This morning I had a dream, or perhaps a day dream, I never can quite tell, but I can remember it abnormally well, so I'm going to write about it. (This is also a good distraction from my fail of a project 365)

In this dream, I was in a house with a bunch of other people, some of which were sometimes (it was a dream) cousins. Oh and HAL was there too, but I think the house had morphed into an orbiting house which I had started referring to as a space station. Actually, now that I think of it, the dream didn't start there, but before that is so foggy.

Anyway, obviously HAL has gone insane off camera and we (who?) were now trying to reason with him. I have no idea what HAL's mission would be on a space station, nor do I remember if he actually threatened us / showed any insane behaviour. Someone has this brilliant idea of assembling another HAL to convince the first that he's wrong, but that idea is ignored. Sad face.

Someone (maybe HAL?) opens a window. I'm shocked at how non-violent "decompression" is. Nobody seems to notice. A strange feeling. Slight panic. Leave the room, which has normal doors, which seem to be effective. Repeat.

At one point Keanu Reeves broke in through a skylight, forcing an evacuation of the room, and many rolled eyes.

Throughout I only noticed the lack of air when I remembered that there was supposed to be no air, which was a little inconsistency that was niggling at the back of my head. No wooshing either.

Near the end, I realised that I should get my phone out to record a video log/goodbye, but then I noticed that I had signal! Yay! but then... who to call? I settled on Dad, and got voicemail. Some (implied) time later I was talking to Dad, with an old nokia in my other hand, trying to convince him of something, occasionally the signal would break up. At this stage we break to a commercial with some older chick explaining how she prefers some type map and that she liked the  elephants performing at the tram stop.


Anyway, that's the best I can remember it,

Peace

( it doesn't have to make sense )

 Why did the lecturer give me a lollipop that's only for sale in Vietnam?

At least I got a lollipop. Therefore, Uni > Highschool.

How can I know I want to say it when I don't even know what I want to say?

(this makes me look more deep)


Yes, I will post the last few days, eventually. They were.