4 May
Do you know what? When I left work yesterday, it was still light out! No really, I swear!
"What on earth is that pink light shining on the buildings? Are they on fire? O, hey, it's the sunset!"
And because I got out so early, I decided to go to the movies at the new AMC on 42nd.
Now, I'm as anti the New 42nd St. as you can get, except for the beautiful new theatres, the Loews and now the AMC 25 across the street. between the two of them you get like 33 films to choose from, and the AMC also has classic, art and foreign films in addition to the more blockbuster-y type ones, and they are both just steps from the van!
The only annoying thing is that to have 25 theatres in one building and to have each of them be a decent size (and they are--no postage stamp screens here!), I had to go up about six escalators to hit theatre 14. If you are going to theatre 25, I can only imagine that you have to leave the lobby half an hour early.
Well, I decided to see Frequency.
From the moment the trailer came out, I have been desperate to see it--as Cynthia and I said to each other, it looked like one of those trailers that give away the whole damn plot, but I bet that there was more, and there was!
Wait, first of all the trailers. I've been meaning to do this for awhile, for my own amusement if nothing else, play the Rate-a-Trailer game. What looks good, what looks like crap, and then when the film comes out I can see how right or wrong I was.
1. The Cell
Here is my opinion on a trailer that shows nothing whatsoever about the story, just shows tons of cool images cut together really fast--it probably has something to hide. Also, Vince Vaughn is in it, and he sucks ass. Likely outcome: a big loser.
2. 15 Minutes
Possibly good, I mean, there's DeNiro, not that he hasn't been great in unworthy films before. The trailer seemed like it might be trying too hard, trying to hide the fact that it's a routine action film, but again, the DeNiro factor. Likely outcome: an okay movie that no-one will remember seeing a month later.
3. Battlefield Earth
This is about the fifth time that I've seen this trailer for the cheesy Dianetics movie, and I can honestly say that it looks like the worst film of the summer. If not the year. So bad that it might be fun, but I'm not counting on it. Starring Barry "My career was going really well there for a minute" Pepper and John "Can't be killed with a stick" Travolta in some sort of a fright mask. I'll bet he was thrilled not to have to drop weight for a movie for once. Likely outcome: send this dog back to the pound. Or at least don't let it breed.
On to the film.
Loved it loved it loved it. Great to see Dennis Quaid in a film worthy of him for once. And the guy playing the son (James Caviezel) was terrific as well--unusual to see a two-lead film where one guy has been a star for twenty years and the other guy is just some asshole and have it feel even, but it did.
It's a lovely twisty-turny plot, and yes, if you think too much you can easily come up with some plot holes, but you don't want to think to much. And it had some of the worst old-age makeup that I have ever seen. The actors appearing in both the 1969 and 1999 sequences seem to have strips of dough pasted to their faces.
But who gives a shit? It's about magic and time-travel and lost fathers and cute guys in fireman gear. What could be better?
Then I came home and watched the end of the Jazz game.
It really does seem that against my will, I have become a Jazz fan, but that game was one to try one's soul. It was Stockton And The Four Stooges On The Court With Him. And even Stockton wasn't playing to his best, he just wasn't a big lumpy asshole, like the rest of his team.
I pointed to Ostertag and said "That guy's a monster."
FRAN
Unfortunately, he has no athletic ability whatsoever.
KYMM
Why is he on the court?
FRAN
Because they pay him an obscene amount of money.
KYMM
Why do they do that when he is just a big piece of shit in a Jazz uniform?
FRAN
Because they were banking on his potential. He was young and unformed, now he's old and unformed.
KYMM
No, he's formed. That's the form. Why can't he guard anyone, he's bigger than anyone else, can't he just stand in front of them?
CYNTHIA
Because all the other guy has to do is lean slightly to one side or the other, and he makes the basket.
As the game wore on, both the coach and Karl Malone were thrown out of the game, and both times Stockton made them shut the hell up and move on, rather than getting suspended. He appears to be the only adult on the team, if not the NBA, and he was clearly fuming as he walked off the court at the end.
KYMM
I'll bet he's going to give the other players a talking to and send them to bed without supper. And he's going to make Malone and the coach stand in the corner and think about what they did.
Jesus, they're tied up and the game is on Friday. I'm going out with Tracing and Colleen on Friday. Maybe they'd like to go to a sports bar?
Today's horoscope:
Become more sensitive to the options you have available. If you examine your life, you'll see more choices and power than you suspect.
One year ago today:
"It has left the alphabet altogether."
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