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movie marathon Tuesday December 21
even as a non-student (hopefully, i still don't say anything certainly until i see those transcript grades, even though everyone thinks i'm being paranoid. wouldn't you be paranoid too? do you realize how much professor fu can f-u me here?) ... wait a second, let's start over. that parenthetical notation went on for way too long.
even as a non-student, i still have pitchpipe work to do. i can't escape it, it's how i pay the bill, "the bill" being my airline mileage credit card that i route all my other bills through. yet, because i'm sick with this nasty viral sore throat and fever, and because i just needed to take a day off, nate and i watched a record three films today, one of them topping out at just under three hours.
preliminary reviews:
- das boot · this film is a long, drawn-out WWII epic about the german u-boats. from the german perspective. good war films are like that, showing the humanity of the soliders themselves. enjoyable, but, just ONCE i want to see a sub movie where the depth charges actually just take a submarine down. it can be an empty submarine, that's fine, but i just am losing faith that the things actually do anything.
i guess what i'm saying is that if japan doesn't pan out, i can call on my boys todd and nate to help me write a war movie about submarines. naomi'd produce it. i envision the initial storyboarding to go something like this:
mark: ok, and then we've got the scene where the captain remains really calm, even though everyone else is freaking out because the submarine keeps taking water.
nate: right. we need something to make him nervous, or at least, make the audience think that "this might be it". the nonchalant nature of the captain is not because he's seasoned, but he's too proud to admit that he dived too soon!
mark: i like it. yeah, let's play up the vulnerability of the captain.
todd: let's bring on some more depth charges!
mark: sweet!
nate: i was just about to suggest that.
maybe we should stick to our day jobs. and maybe submarine movies should get a new theme. please. but i liked it... all THREE HOURS of the director's cut.
- hero · yeah, the one with jet li. i watched this one for the first time back at 705 california with eric and drew, jie stopped by during it too. i think he made some comment about how good it was. it's certainly pretty, but it's not a movie you can watch over and over again. maybe it's the dialogue i can't get into. i did regret not continuing with mandarin, though. in some aspects, i think spoken chinese is probably far easier than japanese.
- starsky and hutch · i know i'm too tall to be tom cruise or ben stiller, but i wouldn't mind being either if i had to be a movie star. i guess more than those two i'd rather be owen wilson, i just don't fit the blonde part. except that owen wilson was in "shanghai noon" with jackie chan. i don't know if i can forgive him for that. on one hand, yes, you can say to your friends later: "i did a movie with jackie chan", but then their follow-up is most certainly going to be "which one?".
if chris tucker can score "rush hour" and "rush hour ii", you can do a lot better than "shanghai noon", mr. wilson. and jackie? well, he can make whatever damn movie he likes about the most ridiculous things, because that's what he's always done, and he does his own stunts. he rules in a way that you never will, owen wilson. but other than that, i'd rather be you than ben stiller. but more than that i'd rather be a taller tom cruise. i'd pass on kelly mcginnis, believe it or not. i don't do blondes. and i don't want to hear any tia carrere jokes either, because i don't think she's that cute.
oh oh! and how can i forget to talk about snoop dogg. any movie with snoop dogg rules. hands down, no questions asked. especially a snoop dogg movie where he starts throwing down about how to golf.
so that wraps up the movie marathon for today. i hope you enjoyed the reviews. i feel less sick. yay.
