stardustcboy's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday Thoughts - Where was i going with this? oh yeah, Alien vs. Predator and Catwoman hmmm...it seems that i haven't been doing any "Wednesday Whimsy" entries since i started this new format thing, eh? aw well...i suppose i'm just not feelin' the whimsy...no...actually, i feel the whimsy at random moments and it seems that i can't seem to coordinate these whimsical attacks with any particular day of the week...like wednesday for example. well, i promise i will try and post up more whimsy...i guess part of it too is that i usually want to post a pic as part of the entry, but because i don't have a gold membership anymore i just sort of forego it instead. i sure would like to have my gold membership back...*wink, wink, nudge, nudge* so anyway, yeah, Thursday Thoughts... THURSDAY THOUGHTS - ALIEN VS. PREDATOR AND CATWOMAN so last night, my dear love JeLLy went out and grabbed a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon (hands down the best cheapest beer on the planet) and a few vids from hollywood video. did i mention how much i love my woman? she's the best...though this entry puzzles me for some reason...i mean, was i REALLY that difficult? hm, maybe? but she's right, i WAS testing her. i was sick of being the "perfect boyfriend" with absolutely no reciprocation. where was my "perfect girlfriend"? enter the "Sarah Perko Ideal." you see, nothing ever happened REALLY between Sarah Perko and i...BUT how i wished for so long that something DID. years passed and no longer was Sarah Perko a real person in my mind, instead, she had become an icon, and ideal, a fictional construct of my own mind. the "Sarah Perko Incident" that she speaks of was merely the last step to achieving total harmony with myself, the world and my sweet JeLLy. i realized that the "Sarah Perko Ideal" had been polluting my relationships, moreover, it had skewed my perspective of what it was that i needed in terms of love and a woman. the "Sarah Perko Incident" was nothing more than me at last letting go of the rediculous ideal that had plagued me most of my post-highschool life. it was me letting go of expectation...clearing my mind so that i could look at the world and the woman who had made such an impact in my life with new and unclouded eyes. it had to be done, and once it was i had finally reached a new stage of being. when i had located her in cali, i knew from the beginning how it would turn out. sure there was that small part of me that dreamed it differently, but that was the part i was cutting out...it had become a cancer upon my heart. in the early part of this diary, there are several entries that tell a story. it started with this; and then moved in to this to finally end here. the entire series of entries is an inner journey, everything in it represents something or someone in my life...figuratively and in some senses literally. but that was it. wait...that was a massive tangent. point is that in the end it all turned out pretty much exactly as i had planned. i move in mysterious ways, and oftentimes i surprise myself at how intuitively i seem to follow things. oftentimes i find that things i did years ago, come back again...as though i had planned it that way...but i didn't... *ahem* so yeah, i WAS going to talk about Alien vs. Predator, and Catwoman but i got distracted. Alien vs. Predator this was actually quite an entertaining lil science-fiction flick. it managed to combine the coolness of both the predator and alien films into one big "versus" fun time. i dug the scenes where the alien and the predator duked it out mano y mano. some seriously good times there, and it definitely tapped into the uber-geekitude deep within me. i caught myself squeeling with childlike glee as the predator threw the alien around like some sort of intergalactic WWF match. good times. i also liked the many hidden references to both the alien and predator films of the past. it seemed that the director made a point to sort of unify the films by inserting lil threads throughout. the Weyland coporation, which i'm only assuming is the early beginnings of the massive and intersolar corporate syndicate Weyland-Yutani in the alien films, was a nice lil touch. that's not to say that the film doesn't have its shortcomings. overall, the plot is relatively formulaic and the dialogue generic; but this is all made up for by the hard-core alien and predator kick-ass-i-tude. it's definitely a good renter, and a good fun flick overall. i would recommend it to the alien and predator buffs out there; but would forewarn them to not get too geekazoid on it and pick it apart. rather, enjoy it in all its "versus" glory...definitely better than Freddy vs. Jason. check it! final rating: 8.1 out of 10 Catwoman i wasn't expecting all that much from this film due to its recent nomination for the Raspberry Award. at the same time, due to its nomination, i was expecting a film that was "so bad it was good" and that's what i got. the script is weak at best, dialogue is so utterly banal and juvenile i couldn't help but laugh my ass off and after about 15 minutes i had switched into full on MST3k mode (much to JeLLy's chagrin). so yeah, check this movie out if you want. it's not utterly important and it certainly isn't a profound piece of cinema or directing by any means. it's cliche, formulaic, trite and rediculous...but in a funny and semi-entertaining way. so if you're into that go for it. oh! and halle barry certainly doesn't make up for it. she waxes and wanes between flat under-acting and wacky over-acting...AND she doesn't even show her titties. i would probably rate it more if that were the case...but it's PG-13 (the dumbest rating ever). final score: 5.2 out of 10 there you have it kiddies. i'm gonna' go and start brainstorming tomorrow's Fantasy Friday. i think i may give you all a little bit of hot guy-on-guy action!! so stay tuned! sit on my face 11:43 a.m. - 2005-01-27 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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