Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

"I don't know why he saved my life"

There are some lines that have permanently entered into my vernacular and this is one of them.

"If you could only see what I've seen through your eyes."

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

"If you could only see what I've seen through your eyes."

"More human than human."

"I want more life, f*cker."

[Not Afraid]

We watched Good Night and Good Luck last night. I regret that I didn't see this on the big screen. What a beautiful film and so poignent! Wonderfully casted, perfect flow, seamless cuts between the old and the new, and what a soundtrack! I can't wait to watch it again.

[Gemini Cricket]

We also watched 'Battlestar Galactica - the Mini-series' on DVD as well. It's the new fangled Starbucks is a girl series.
Having not seen any of the show on TV, I really enjoyed it. Although, I knew who the replecant silon person was. I read it in an interview somewhere.
I loved the way they tied in the old series with the new. The space battle scenes were amazing.

It's interesting that this mini-series was far more entertaining to me than the Star Wars prequels. And 'Battlestar Gallactica' was a SW rip off in the 70's. Amazing.

My only gripe with this series and with many movies in general is what I call the Goodlooking Means Credible syndrome. The character of Apollo (aka Lee... whatever) is presented to us in this mini series as just being good looking and the son of the boss. That's basically all we were given as an audience as a reason to like his character. I say that that's not enough for me. It needs to be proven in the audience's eyes. (This is all my opinion here, I'm just thinking outloud... in a post...) Lots of movies nowadays do this. Throw a bunch of goodlooking folk in a film and people will like them no matter what. *Buzz!* Wrong. Apollo does prove himself to be a cool guy later, but they should have shown us instead of just saying, 'Look! Handsome white boy = You likey.' Nope.

All in all, that's the only thing I had a problem with in this mini-flick. I like Mary Stands with Fist as the Prez and Olmos as Adama. I was thinking that Apollo didn't look latino... but oh, well.

And I love the taiko drum score. Nice touch.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

We also watched 'Battlestar Galactica - the Mini-series' on DVD as well. It's the new fangled Starbucks is a girl series.
Having not seen any of the show on TV, I really enjoyed it. Although, I knew who the replecant silon person was. I read it in an interview somewhere.
I loved the way they tied in the old series with the new. The space battle scenes were amazing.

It's interesting that this mini-series was far more entertaining to me than the Star Wars prequels. And 'Battlestar Gallactica' was a SW rip off in the 70's. Amazing.

My only gripe with this series and with many movies in general is what I call the Goodlooking Means Credible syndrome. The character of Apollo (aka Lee... whatever) is presented to us in this mini series as just being good looking and the son of the boss. That's basically all we were given as an audience as a reason to like his character. I say that that's not enough for me. It needs to be proven in the audience's eyes. (This is all my opinion here, I'm just thinking outloud... in a post...) Lots of movies nowadays do this. Throw a bunch of goodlooking folk in a film and people will like them no matter what. *Buzz!* Wrong. Apollo does prove himself to be a cool guy later, but they should have shown us instead of just saying, 'Look! Handsome white boy = You likey.' Nope.

All in all, that's the only thing I had a problem with in this mini-flick. I like Mary Stands with Fist as the Prez and Olmos as Adama. I was thinking that Apollo didn't look latino... but oh, well.

And I love the taiko drum score. Nice touch.

I LOVE this show. I'm waiting for the second half of the second season to come out on DVD. Impatiently, I might add.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I LOVE this show. I'm waiting for the second half of the second season to come out on DVD. Impatiently, I might add.

I started to really love it after I got over the fact that Starbuck was now a girl. It really took the gayness away from the Apollo/Starbuck pairing. Oh well. There's a little lesbian in Starbuck methinks.

[mousepod]

Heather really likes the new Battlestar Galactica. We've only watched the mini-series and 6 or 7 episodes of series one so far. While I can appreciate it, I find the show to be relentless and depressing. So far, it's all been about running away and counting the survivors. Ouch.

I'm willing to give it a shot - but I can't watch more than 2 episodes in a sitting (and even that's pushing it).

[mousepod]

Back to movies - I just saw The Pervert's Guide to Cinema - written and starring Slavoj Zizek and directed by Sophie Fiennes. Utterly amazing.

I feel like I'm late to the party on Zizek. I looked him up last night on wikipedia and amazon and he seems to have published many things that I need to read. Anybody here heard of him before?

[Gemini Cricket]

I can't join in on the quoting of 'Bladerunner'. It's against office policy to fall asleep at my desk.
Just kidding...

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I can't join in on the quoting of 'Bladerunner'. It's against office policy to fall asleep at my desk.
Just kidding...

WAKE UP! TIME TO DIE!

(sorry... couldn't resist)