Blather, movie, grr
Mar. 9th, 2009 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyBless me father, for I have sneezed.
So. My father finally, after 8 years and some change, flipped and told Jackie that if she'd done what most suspect she has, she's toastier than toast. See, Dad and Mumsy went to get their taxes done Saturday and the next thing I know, my day of sleep is being interrupted, AGAIN, by my brother, only now he's going on about how upset Mom is. Um, wha?
First: STOP WAKING ME UP! He who doesn't get up to see his kid off to school without a major fight does not get to wake me up when I'm conked out for the 'night'. I do not exist on your timetables, people. So stop trying to make me!
Second: Back to the drama at hand. Seems when Dad and Mums went to claim Widget their tax guy said someone else had claimed him. o_O It wasn't the boy because the boy isn't stupid. So that leaves a mixup somewhere in the land of SSN's or... Jackie. So, the boy calls Jackie and she says she didn't, but even from across the room I could hear her backpeddling and running right into a wall, especially once the boy snorted, and said in this oddly amused voice, "You do realize that if you did claim him, and I'm not saying you did, but if you did, it's illegal as hell, right? *waits* Because he doesn't live with you? No, no, the summer doesn't count as the entire year. ... No. You didn't even have him the entire summer, so..." Then Dad appeared and calmly told her that he'd put up with her crazy for years but dude, the end is nigh. The end!
And he actually uttered the phrase, "Welcome to the real world." It was funny, if you ignore the fact that now my head hurts all over again.
So, yeah. Then, as the boy was dropping me off at work, he mentioned that Jackie said maybe she should take Thomas back. o_O Yes. Right...before the end of school. Brilliant!
Now we're going to play the tally how many days the boy takes Widge to school in the morning. Ready?
Monday: Nup. Can't be bothered to get out of bed.
After having had the movie since last June, I finally found and watched The Covenant. Considering I'd forgotten everything I knew from the trailers in this time, and my only thing to go on was that Chace Crawford was in the movie and hey, no one had died yet watching the movie, I decided I'd actually get around to watching it.
I... and it... *sigh* First, with the exception of 10,000 BC or whatever, I'm unable to say no to Steven Strait. Not that I've really actually seen anything other than Sky High, but in some alternate reality there is a sequel to that and I choose to live in that reality. :P Anyway. Didn't realize that when I got the movie. Yeah, yeah.
Um, dude. Saw the trailer [aha! My memory wasn't faulty! My entire reason for wanting to watch the movie was because it used Stabbing Westward's Save Yourself in the trailer and it did. Yes.] and they gave away the entire movie. Also? It looks like an entirely different movie was shot. :P I admit I was a bit sleepy during the one extra thing they included, but not during the movie itself. Where'd all the deleted goodness go, huh?
I'm not entirely sure what went wrong. On paper it sounds like my kind of movie. The way it was shot is gorgeous. It does not lack for eye candy. I didn't want to smack the female lead around much and I suspect that had this not felt like it happened over 24 hours, I might've been rooting for her more than I actually did. Maybe that's the issue. It felt rushed. I guess they figured telling me the family background would makeup for not showing why the four dudes were friends, powers aside, and then trying to blow it apart. Something was missing. A chunk of the movie that should have made me care more. And it's bugging me and I can't figure out exactly what would have made it better aside from more time. I demand my pretty, dark, gloomy movies bring me more to the table!
And also not end with an obvious hope for a sequel that ain't ever gonna happen.
I will say that I find it really, really annoying when I can figure out exactly where something is going and how the hell it'll get there and the movie/show/book still expects me to pretend to be surprised. Even more so when apparently the trailer ruined it all anyway.
For this, Covenant, I will find you in the cheap bin and watch you later, telling myself that at least you didn't make me feel like I was going to hurl, which is more than I can say for Black Circle Boys. To sum up: Someone else who managed to see this and remember it, tell me what bugs me about it, kay?
So. My father finally, after 8 years and some change, flipped and told Jackie that if she'd done what most suspect she has, she's toastier than toast. See, Dad and Mumsy went to get their taxes done Saturday and the next thing I know, my day of sleep is being interrupted, AGAIN, by my brother, only now he's going on about how upset Mom is. Um, wha?
First: STOP WAKING ME UP! He who doesn't get up to see his kid off to school without a major fight does not get to wake me up when I'm conked out for the 'night'. I do not exist on your timetables, people. So stop trying to make me!
Second: Back to the drama at hand. Seems when Dad and Mums went to claim Widget their tax guy said someone else had claimed him. o_O It wasn't the boy because the boy isn't stupid. So that leaves a mixup somewhere in the land of SSN's or... Jackie. So, the boy calls Jackie and she says she didn't, but even from across the room I could hear her backpeddling and running right into a wall, especially once the boy snorted, and said in this oddly amused voice, "You do realize that if you did claim him, and I'm not saying you did, but if you did, it's illegal as hell, right? *waits* Because he doesn't live with you? No, no, the summer doesn't count as the entire year. ... No. You didn't even have him the entire summer, so..." Then Dad appeared and calmly told her that he'd put up with her crazy for years but dude, the end is nigh. The end!
And he actually uttered the phrase, "Welcome to the real world." It was funny, if you ignore the fact that now my head hurts all over again.
So, yeah. Then, as the boy was dropping me off at work, he mentioned that Jackie said maybe she should take Thomas back. o_O Yes. Right...before the end of school. Brilliant!
Now we're going to play the tally how many days the boy takes Widge to school in the morning. Ready?
Monday: Nup. Can't be bothered to get out of bed.
After having had the movie since last June, I finally found and watched The Covenant. Considering I'd forgotten everything I knew from the trailers in this time, and my only thing to go on was that Chace Crawford was in the movie and hey, no one had died yet watching the movie, I decided I'd actually get around to watching it.
I... and it... *sigh* First, with the exception of 10,000 BC or whatever, I'm unable to say no to Steven Strait. Not that I've really actually seen anything other than Sky High, but in some alternate reality there is a sequel to that and I choose to live in that reality. :P Anyway. Didn't realize that when I got the movie. Yeah, yeah.
Um, dude. Saw the trailer [aha! My memory wasn't faulty! My entire reason for wanting to watch the movie was because it used Stabbing Westward's Save Yourself in the trailer and it did. Yes.] and they gave away the entire movie. Also? It looks like an entirely different movie was shot. :P I admit I was a bit sleepy during the one extra thing they included, but not during the movie itself. Where'd all the deleted goodness go, huh?
I'm not entirely sure what went wrong. On paper it sounds like my kind of movie. The way it was shot is gorgeous. It does not lack for eye candy. I didn't want to smack the female lead around much and I suspect that had this not felt like it happened over 24 hours, I might've been rooting for her more than I actually did. Maybe that's the issue. It felt rushed. I guess they figured telling me the family background would makeup for not showing why the four dudes were friends, powers aside, and then trying to blow it apart. Something was missing. A chunk of the movie that should have made me care more. And it's bugging me and I can't figure out exactly what would have made it better aside from more time. I demand my pretty, dark, gloomy movies bring me more to the table!
And also not end with an obvious hope for a sequel that ain't ever gonna happen.
I will say that I find it really, really annoying when I can figure out exactly where something is going and how the hell it'll get there and the movie/show/book still expects me to pretend to be surprised. Even more so when apparently the trailer ruined it all anyway.
For this, Covenant, I will find you in the cheap bin and watch you later, telling myself that at least you didn't make me feel like I was going to hurl, which is more than I can say for Black Circle Boys. To sum up: Someone else who managed to see this and remember it, tell me what bugs me about it, kay?
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Convenant
Date: 2009-03-10 02:13 pm (UTC)This...yeah it felt like it was trying to be too many different things. A mystery (that they gave away in the trailer), a frivolous teenybopper friend/romcom movie, a Matrix-y movie about Salem-esque New England, a horror, etc. One problem, I think, is they got too showy. That fight scene at the end went WAY too far. I also think they shouldn't have tried to get the girl's perspective AND the guy's perspective. They tried to make this more girl-friendly when this whole movie screams girl-audience (from the eye candy to the witchcraft). They split their focus completely which made this feel incomplete and sloppy instead of doing what they wanted. I liked it enough to own it, but again, mostly for the eye candy. And I'm glad because now I can say I was lusting after Chace Crawford before anyone else even knew who he was. HEHEHE!
Re: Convenant
Date: 2009-03-10 03:16 pm (UTC)And yeah, not a movie that needed to try and appeal to the girls beyond eyecandy. Dude, they'd go see the damn thing anyway. :P Is why Supernatural is superior. Come for the eyecandy, stay for the horror movie of the week! Which I should totally catch up on now.
Thank you a zillion times over for figuring out the problem because it was bugging me like crazy. And also, score for being able to lord the Chace lust over everyone else! [...but I do wonder, in his other movies, does he get to do anything other than just appear? Cuz, dude, I feel bad for him on Gossip Girl, just standing there waiting for a storyline and then when it appears, it gets co-opted by someone else.]