Light and Darkness

A History of Violence

Watched A History of Violence tonight. ECK! Movie sucked. Don't pay your money to see it. I expected so much more and was terribly disappointed. The dialogue was stiff and so corny. The scenes were pushed. The actors reminded me of a high school theatre program.  ECK!! ECK!! ECK!!

The best parts of the film. The two scenes when Tom (Viggo Mortenson) and Edie (Maria Bello) have sex. First the 69 on their bed. HOT! And the hardcore fuck on the stairs. Better than some of the porn out there. And the visit to Richie (William Hurt) was ok only because Hurt's reactions were the only sense of acting in the film.

Can I say that Viggo...poor Viggo...had problems with the dialogue. Or maybe the script just SUCKED. But I swear I thought he seemed more like a mentally challenged adult rather than a former mobster. AND when he gets an injury to the foot and runs.....I swear I was watching a man with slight mental retardation.

Eck! Eck! Eck!

Good Movie

I think this will be the last post for today though my brain is getting enormously large with all the shit building up in it and then want and need to just plop it out like some big turd....ok, I'll stop with the poop metaphor.

Yesterday, Em and I went to the movies and saw The Incredibles. Excellent movie. Pixar just tops itself each and every freakin time. My God, you could see every strand on the character's head. The story was good. The characters were so likable...every single one and do I really need to say that Edna was my favorite. Hilarious. But probably one of my favorite bits of the film was the setting. Fabulous ode to the 60s spy movies. FANTASTIC!!! Thinking James Bond the whole time. Just great.

Gotta see. Must see. Need to see again. And is it just me or is it great to see Craig T Nelson doing something?

Still makes me cry

Borrowed a few movies from the library last night. One was Edward Scissorhands because my pie hadn't seen it yet. I love introducing new things to Emmaline. I think people forget that there are things in this world that we take for granted every day that are absolutely new for our children. Something old and mundane can strike a child in such a way that one would think that the child just witnessed the creation of the earth.

Now, I love Edward Scissorhands. Always have. But it's one of the saddest, most horrible movies. There is no happily ever after. Beautiful film. I love it. But really think about what the movie is about: superficial people who jump on the proverbial bandwagon because of the "it" factor only to discard it when it doesn't cater to their superflous, malign lifestyle. Edward ends up where he started, hidden in the mansion. Only he's lonelier because he met people, loved people, and lost people. And under the premise of protecting him from the world and to save him from changing into the grotesque masses below him.

He's alone. He still has scissors for hands. The girl he loves didn't have the courage to defy the lemmings. What did he get?

I like the movie because I loved the main character. I want to embrace him every time and make his life better. BUT IT PISSES ME OFF!!! I cry every friggin time at the outcome.

Yesterday's mad recap

Yesterday was a day of bittersweetness. Saw a couple of movies..more on that in a moment.

My darling Pie had her bicycle stolen. I'm absolutely livid about the whole matter. Em and I had made a run to the store to get snacks for the movie. When we returned (according to Emma), the bicycle was still on the carport. Em said she had to actually go around it to get to the house. I don't recall if it was or not. You know how we get at times. We take things for granted and pay no mind to everyday objects. About an hour later, Em wanted to go for a bike ride. THAT'S when we noticed the disappearance of her bike.

STUPID ASS PERSON STOLE THE BIKE WHEN WE WERE IN THE HOUSE!!!!

Pisses me off! Em has been cursing in her own little 8 year old way. Nothing profane like her role model of a mother. Just bad curses and karma for the poor sod. She'll spit out her venomous remarks and then make an apology for wishing ill. I tell her it's ok to get it out.

Don't worry. I'm not letting her get away with thinking the worse for someone. We talked about all the possible reasons someone would steal her bicycle. Perhaps a child in worse economic condition than us and that has no toys or fun, wanted something to bring happiness to his/her life. Perhaps a child who unknowingly wants attention to parents who give him/her none....and so on.

I'm trying to help her make peace with the whole thing. Amazingly her scenarios of what happened are more optimistic and hilarious than mine. Everything from the storm the other night rolling it down the street where an unknowing  passerby picks up the abandoned bicycle to a child just having a joyride and will bring it back.

I'm angry. I'll get her another bike eventually but it will be some time from now. The meaning behind that bicycle is a looooong story and I just don't want to get into it. I'm just pissed.

ACK!

Reluctantly moving on.....after we discovered the bike was missing, we drove around a bit to look for it. I know. No luck. We headed to the movies after our search.

Was early to say the least. Harry Potter was good. Some things about the movie I'm quite disappointed in. For the fans of the book, this one had more holes in the story than the previous two. If you don't know the tale, then the movie is fine. I liked the artistic, slightly macabre look of the film. Looked darker and that was a plus. Still. Holes.

Now here is where I was bad....With a couple of slick moves, Em and I snuck into another theater and saw The Day After Tomorrow. My child was jazzed that we did it.

Question to all of you: Is all stealing bad? Do you forgive one incident of thievery if it were for a good cause or against thieves themselves compared to judging a thief who steals a bicycle from a child? What sins should be forgiven even if they are sins the same? Do you forgive Jean Valjean in Les Miserables for stealing from a bakery to feed his nephews/nieces who are starving? Is it as bad the Enron folks who stole millions from their investors and employees?

By the way....I loved every minute spent watching that stolen movie.

That just ain't right!

Did anyone else ever notice that Benny Hill was in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Is it just me or is that wrong? He played a toymaker....a German toymaker or Belgium or some eastern European man with a guttural accent. I keep thinking 5'9" Gretel in a tight green dress with white pinafore panties and clevage to her chin is going to jump out of the closet with her hand coquettishly covering her mouth. Then Benny is going to give one of his big eyed grins and pinch her "guten tag" as she bends over to pick up his innocently knocked over toymaking tools. Just ain't right.

By the way, didn't Disney make this movie?