Watched “Million Dollar Baby” this evening. Dark, dark, dark. A beautiful work of cinema. The physicality and emotional rawness of the roles really spoke to me. In the end though, when Eastwood’s character finally realizes that there’s no God out there … at least no God who can help with the really difficult crap of life and death here on earth … that moved me. Also, any movie with Clint Eastwood, primarily narrated by Morgan Freeman, and involving a fit woman doing hundreds of sit-ups … it’s all right by me.
Tag: movies
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Doom
My summary of the movie “Doom”.
Movie: “C’mere!”
My higher mental functions: “No! No! Aaaaaaaa!”
Movie: “Yeah! That’s right! Now you!”
My lower mental functions: “Yes! Yes!”
Movie: “You like me?”
MLMF: “Aw hell yeah!”
Movie: “I have to go now … even *I* don’t really like me”That, some awesome Korean spicy tofu soup, and a fire in the fireplace, a happy fdmts make.
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Punisher
You know, The Punisher wasn’t all that bad a movie. Admittedly, I’m not trying to wrap my brain around any of the characters, and I hope to God there isn’t a sequel attempt…but it was what I was in the mood for. The bad guys were bad. One of them was even gay (this is how you know a real bad guy, right? Excuse me…what decade is it again?) The good guy was also pretty bad. The brutality was brutal. Not Jesus-beating brutal, but “throwing through walls and hitting with toilets” brutal. There was a nipple, but it was strip club nipple. There were brief attempts at character development…but they were all quickly and mercifully aborted when more violence came knocking. All in all, a worthwhile viewing…but probably not a good first date flick.
I’m pretty excited for this summer: Alien vs Predator, Chronicles of Riddick, Spider Man II, Dodge Ball (which looks like a nightmare waiting to happen), I robot, Resident Evil Apocalypse, … there will be lots of brain cell killing goodness to go around.
Still no job. House not sold yet, though people have looked at it.