Batman Trilogy Snapshot- now spoiler free!

So last night was the book night of the 7 hour (give or take) marathon session of Batman Begins, The Dark Night and the newly released The Dark Knight Rises at the fantastic Sun Theatre in Yarraville. It was a very enjoyable night, very well organised with plenty of drinks, a dinner box and the atmosphere was brilliant (despite the old queen in front of me falling asleep in the FIRST movie and snoring!!!).

But without giving much away in terms of spoilers, I can't say too much about The Dark Knight Rises (sadly I fell asleep for about 20 minute), but I will say it's very enjoyable movie.

As this is just a snapshot of the trilogy I'll keep it short and sweet with detailed reviews to follow over the next week (fingers crossed). Having ever seen any of them, I'm glad I saw it on the big screen. The entire trilogy is an interesting study in both the human condition as well as how fantastic movies can be with great casting, a brilliant director and a story/stories that don't treat the audience like they are mentally defective.

This leads into my next observation about the cinematography. As a whole, the trilogy is very dark in both the storyline as well as the tone, with the majority of the movies taking place in dark lit scenes. However, in The Dark Knight, this is contrasted as Dark Knight starts off in brightly lit scenes before descending into the chaotic dark world that is the Joker.

Heath Ledger. A treasure that went too soon.

Reviews for each movie to come soon.

Post Script- I must ad this last tidbit of information I found online.

Christopher Nolan said that the film's theme deals with "Pain" For Batman Begins, it was on "Fear", while The Dark Knight deals on "Chaos". An extra food for thought for you guys

Snapshot of The Amazing Spiderman (in 3D)

Having seen the Amazing Spider man in 3D today; I have to say my mind isn't made up about this movie.

Honestly- it's an enjoyable movie, great acting by Andrew Garfield et al, and the directing is of good quality, but the bigger question is was a reboot of the Spider Man franchise even necessary, not to mention the "use" of 3D is frankly quite questionable.

I'll go into details a bit later, in the meantime I'm psyching myself up for the Batman movie marathon tomorrow night at the Sun Theatre, Yarraville.

Untill I post again; may you all live long and prosper!

Ted- A Debut That Could

The trouble with hype, success or any variation thereupon is translating it from one medium to the other. Even if the medium is very similar to the original, for some reason the chances of continuing the success is hit or miss. Thankfully we don't have to worry about that with the debut feature film of Seth MacFarlane.

Ted can basically be described as a reverse Peter Pan; about a boy that DID grow up as well as a talking teddy bear that also grew up to become a foul mouthed, bong smoking, drug taking, alcoholic wannabe hipster.

It's hard to describe Ted and give it its kudos as it's a surprisingly well written comedy; a post on The Age website recently even mentioned that a lot of parents are taking their children to it; even as some as 8 (bare in mind that Ted is rated MA15+) so it's obvious the movie is at least somewhat riding on the brand appeal of MacFarlane; who as creator of Family Guy, American Dad! and (somewhat dubiously in my opinion) The Cleveland Show, is responsible for some of the funniest and smartest shows on TV of recent times.

But even with the brand appeal and hype of the MacFarlane brand, Ted stands up as a solid movie that has heaps of laugh out loud moments, as well as a plot that makes sense and doesn't suffer from any "hurry the hell up and get on it with it" moments.

To be honest the biggest "problem"I had with this movie was the casting of Mark Wahlberg as the adult John  Bennett; who as a child wished he had a talking teddy bear. While I can't fault his performance itself, I just didn't see any romantic connection between him and Mila Kunis who played his girlfriend Lori Collins. While they both are brilliant actors; I just didn't find it plausible that these two would be dating. Secondly; what the hell is up with his accent? I know it's supposed to be a Boston accent but for the entire duration of the movie I was wondering if it was meant to be a joke and if it was going to be acknowledge in any way.

Having said that; I could still overlook it and enjoy the movie and apparently so could the sold out session at the Sun Theatre who were consistently laughing out loud for the entire duration of the movie.

Rating 4/5

The Thunder Buddies song!

 

Bombshells

Well, I just received a massive bombshell from my best friend today and I'm still in shock.

They've announced that they're going to be moving up to Gold Coast at the end of August. I knew it was coming, but frankly I have never experienced being shell shocked before in my life. It's a cliche to say that one could feel their jaw drop and find it hard to recover, but I did.

I've given the impression that it's all about me but it isn't. I mean I could lie and say I understand why they are moving but that's both an insult to everyone and most importantly our friendship and frankly that's one thing i will not do. The main thrust really is they need to be happy and if circumstances in this "fair" city of Melbourne isn't conductive of it, then by all means I am happy that they are moving.

It's really hard to say how I feel about it; I am totally happy for them and their partner. I suppose the biggest question this raises is how does one cope with bombshells of any kind? For me, it feels like I've been hit with two in as many days and while I thankfully am nearly over the first one (again, thankfully without the need to hit the prescription drugs so yay go me!!!), this one will be interesting to see how I cope with.

Is there such thing as the best way of coping with bombshells?

Random Thoughts #298

It's Friday and I've finished one week of doing broken shifts at my job on the trams, as well as juggling my other job at Big W and I'm glad it's one week done.

The good thing about this particular deployment is the fact that I have no set shift per se-rather I have been given suggested shift times and a finish date of Friday the 13th. Basically I need to do 5 AM and 5 PM shifts at this godawful  place known as Domain Interchange.

The downside to all this is trying the best to juggle your time and appointments etc. For example; I've now realised that I've double booked myself next Monday so I have to ring up and cancel my haircut (it's getting waaay to shaggy).

But I'll be honest; what I do like about this deployment is seeing if I run into anyone I know and I have. People often say when I chat with them when they are at their work it breaks the monotony down and I can understand it.

In the last 3 days I've seen this one particular guy go through (I have no idea who it is came to think of it) the stop and he always gives me a bit of a way. Lately- with the cold weather- I've been pretending (or not) to be freezing; and he's been pretending to be boiling hot.

Little things like that breaks the time and it makes the day go faster.

Snapshot of Ted

The hot new movie Ted is out on the 5th July 2012 and on a whole it's a brilliant movie.

Laugh out loud moments from beginning to end, Seth MacFarlanes' feature film debut has something for everyone and most importantly it has a plot line.

I'll post about Ted in depth later, but there really is only one thing I can fault with it.

The casting of Marky Mark.

Other then that; if you're on the fence about Ted, get off said fence and etch it. You won't regret it.

Update

So I've been slack and not posting anything. But this will all change.

Have seen a lot of good movies lately- Promethsus, Titanic 3D and Ted for example, and of course the 2012 MQFF.

I've found inspiration lately- thanks to life, and certain individuals who shall remain nameless and faceless- and thus I shall update more often.

Plan is once or twice a week, obviously dependant on any ideas and any movies I've seen lately. If I haven't seen any lately- I'll post something about a movie I like or just random thoughts on movies in general.

Update

So I've bene slack.

No writings of lately or uploads of previous writings etc.

But I've finally think I've found inspiration to start up agian; which is great. Will be a slow process but bring it on I say. Hopefully in the next month more stuff will be coming up