I liked this movie a lot. I think the part I liked the most was when Matt Damon’s character, David, asks Harry, “Are you the chairman?” Like it would be that easy. Like Oz would be unveiled in that way. And I loved the 1950’s feel of the men in suits with fedoras. Classy world controllers.
It was a really interesting theory on how the world works. I wonder if the book is better or worse. And to think, even a God or Chairman can’t get it perfect all the time. Even they make mistakes or even sometimes things are outside their ultimate power. I wonder if that’s why things on earth can’t always be completely rationalized or explained. Sometimes shitty things just happen and there’s nothing we can do about them. Like in the movie, David’s mom, they didn’t adjust her, that was chance.
Can chance and plans exist at the same time? Can the chaos of chance fuck with the tidiness of plan? Does what people believe make them so? Do they both exist because people believe in both? And could human kind ever really govern ourselves, live a balanced life, without the presence or the belief in something greater than ourselves? Do we need to believe in something bigger than ourselves to imagine we have free will? That there’s something to rebel against? Hmm, maybe the book would be a really great read.
TPL DVD: I found this movie a nice change. It was sweet and simple and just one of those stories that makes a better movie than a book. Although I can only assume so, because I didn’t read the book. But I’m not all that interested in picking it up either. There really wasn’t anything new or astonishing about it. Just a typical story about friendship and romance. Quite enjoyable.
TPL DVD: I’m definitely glad I didn’t pay money to watch this movie. Parts got a little long and tiring. But I really love how Paul Rudd has moved into comedies and out of the old romantic comedies he was doing before.
I actually thought that Barry would get some kind of gig selling his mice. They were actually pretty fantastic in a really crazy way. I wonder who did all of them, because the attention to detail was amazing. It was heartbreaking to find that he was expressing his loss and sadness through propping up his mice. But at the beginning of the movie I wondered why they all had red hair.
TPL DVD: Thought this was a pretty interesting movie. Sad to think of all these women being taken and sold this way. I couldn’t get over how immature his daughter was though. Her mother and stepfather kept giving her all this stuff and spoiling her, but she wasn’t able to process any of it. I think the part that annoyed me most was that she kept running everywhere. What 17 year old runs everywhere like that?
TPL DVD: This movie was kind of slow and boring. But it was interesting to know that Joan Jett had made I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll famous and also did a cover of Crimson and Clover. So, I thought she had written these songs at first, but now after doing a bit of research, she kind of just covered them. She did a lot of covers.
Kind of sucks what happened to Cherie Currie though. She had some issues and they just seemed to be highlighted by drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Good for Joan Jett for not giving up. She found something that kept her afloat and stuck with it. But other than those insights, I really didn’t like the movie or find her life that interesting. Kind of just another rock ‘n’ roll story.
TPL DVD: I didn’t remember how cheesy the script was for this movie. The only part I really liked was the attack scenes. The shots that they got when the Japanese were flying in are great. It must have been quite overwhelming to see 300 Japanese planes suddenly descend from the skies.
But everything else just felt empty and stereotypical of what you’d think of an American WWII movie. Well at least they showed a little respect to the Japanese and didn’t make them all villains and horrible people. However, they still had racial slurs and put downs. But the Japanese were smart and overcame the barriers their opposition thought protected them, like making the torpedoes float through the shallower water. They were also sneaky and conniving, waiting till right before the attack to show their true colors.
TPL DVD: Not sure how much of this film is true, but it was pretty interesting. I can’t believe they let the bank robbers just go like that, having stolen around 4 million pounds. They sure were living a sweet life afterward. It’s sad that out of a team of 7, 3 of them died. 2 of them didn’t even know what was so precious in the boxes. Government cover ups… and I still think the British is a little unhinged for loving their royalty so devotedly.
First off, James Cameron is just so full of himself. Always needs to be praised. There, that’s out of the way.
I like how this story was inspired by true events, but these events were definitely not true. What makes the story really interesting are the interpersonal relationships and conflicts. Turns out the only event that was really true was that the director was once himself trapped in a flash flooded cave. But I liked how the story unfolded and how in the desperate moments of someone’s life, they can be noble or they can be selfish. The two sides can be in the same person as well, acting very altruistic one moment and on survival mode the next. I was kind of hoping more of the story was true, but it was still pretty entertaining and the underwater shots were so amazing.
I liked though how the father said, just trust your instincts and trust the cave. It doesn’t really care if you survive or not, but that creates a true baseline. There’s nothing much personal about nature. You just have to take your chances and trust your instincts.
