Back from another week of training in Denver, CO. That’s all the traveling I’ll do for a while.
Saw Live Free or Die Hard out there. It’s a good action flick, although they overplayed the computer hacker exposition. A note for screenplay writers: skip the expository tech speak. If the point is to make people feel incapable of understanding the technology involved, just have the hacker say they are performing deep magic. If a hacker is plugging an iPod into his PDA in order to access a satelite communications network simply have him say, “I think I can mod this stuff to make a sat-phone.” Everyone will be impressed and you won’t have said, “Oh yeah, hackers have been playing around in satcom for years.” No, we haven’t; we all know this and now we’re insulted that the Apple Guy has been. 4 of 5 pips.
Watched a bunch of flicks from Netflix last week. Beginning with Bandidas, staring Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. A comedy about lady bank robbers, the best part of this movie is Cruz’s trained horse. (Also, no computers.) I was advised to watch it on account of the trained horse, so I was pleased. 3 of 5.
The Maltese Falcon, Bogart. Twisted, suspenseful, breathtaking. The pinacle of Film Noir. Just go watch it. 5 of 5.
Eraserhead by David Lynch. I haven’t decided what this film is about, yet. I’m leaning toward Lynch’s fear of having kids. I should explain. Henry knocked up his girlfriend. When the maybe baby is born they are forced to wed. The E.T. baby never stops crying, especially when Henry’s new wife leaves him and he knocks up the lady next door. All the while, aborted fetuses pile up in the corners of the room. Amazing sound engineering. The story, though… I have no clue. I did like it, though. 4 of 5 pips.
After being gone for a week, my cats smell the same but they think I smell funny. I have cold nose spots all over me.
i tried to like david lynch. Dune is super awesome. but on his own i think he makes it a point for a movie to be IMPOSSIBLE to follow. i dont think that makes it art. bleh.
He doesn’t make them all impossible to follow. The ones that are so difficult I think of as puzzle movies. Mullholland Drive, Lost Highway; not Eraserhead. This one is just so stylized that it’s taking me a while to decide what some of the images meant. Which makes it puzzling, but not a puzzle.
I think you’d agree that he’s made some straightforward films, such as Blue Velvet, Dune, and Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks had weird imagery, again, but the plot wasn’t so impossibly twisted. Unless you only watch the pilot, then nothing makes sense at the end.