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[shanmonster]

I had a wonderful weekend. I hung out with knightky and we made fleur de sel toffee, went skating, watched a horrible movie (Mutant, which is amusing if only for its blatant and very silly sexism), and watched Walking Dead. He also retrieved my digital camera from the repair place, and I'm looking forward to getting back into photography. I must first locate the camera cable. Where the hell did it go?

I watched Tron last night, which is a neon-lit turd of a movie. I think it is supposed to have a deep spiritual message of some sort, but it sure as hell doesn't. The first part is a blatant rip-off of the Star Wars franchise. The rest is pseudo-spiritual hoohaw with occasional chase scenes involving uncomfortable-looking rides that fart digital rainbows. Over all, it is very much a movie of style over substance, and it made me wish I were watching The Big Lebowski, instead.

I couldn't help but shake my head that the protagonist's big altruistic kick was to release the mega-corporation's new OS to the public for free on the internet. While that was a laudable act within the movie, I'm amused at the thought of how Disney execs will react to free torrents of their cash cow being all over the intarwebs.

Now it's back to the grind, and so I'm steeling myself for a day of proofreading and an evening of exercise. The night will be wrapped up by a viewing of Black Swan, which looks to be the first good dance movie in forever. I don't know what it is about dance movies, but they are pretty much universally dreadful.

Comments

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

Shan, this needs to be metaquoted:

"I watched Tron last night, which is a neon-lit turd of a movie. I think it is supposed to have a deep spiritual message of some sort, but it sure as hell doesn't. The first part is a blatant rip-off of the Star Wars franchise. The rest is pseudo-spiritual hoohaw with occasional chase scenes involving uncomfortable-looking rides that fart digital rainbows. Over all, it is very much a movie of style over substance, and it made me wish I were watching The Big Lebowski, instead"

May I?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Of course! ;)

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

Done!

http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7486004.html

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Ah, poop. I'm not permitted to look at it, for some reason.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Did you friends-lock it?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Got it. Just had to join to view.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

We're going to see Black Swan this week (if just opened over here in Victoria), not because it's a dance movie, but because I like Aronofsky (well, I loved Pi anyway).

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, so did I.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was that bad. It was trite and fluffy, but I thought it was pretty. As usual, I liked the first one better. =/

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that I didn't like the first one, either.

I didn't even like Star Wars much, and I'm a child of the 70s. I was just more of a Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes kinda of gal.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

William F. Nolan was at KU for a special presentation thing a couple months ago. It was pretty cool. I didn't have a copy of Logan's Run for him to sign, though, which was just fucking stupid of me. Oh well.

[lordjulius.livejournal.com]

That would be an interesting list: good dance movies. Well, there's a distinction between good dance movies and enjoyable dance movies. For example I really liked watching You Got Served but it wasn't a good movie by any stretch.

Billy Elliott
Shall We Dance? (Japanese version)

uhh, I'm out :)

Seems like the key is that the dancing serves as a framework for a beautiful story about people, instead of being the raison d'etre.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed The Company, although I know Robert Altman movies aren't everybody's cuppa tea....

[silverfae.livejournal.com]

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