sat. 11/18: a fun day
so, today was pretty much nonstop fun.
today, yes today: at around 2am chris and i were on aim watching the ever-so-awesome promo trailer of 300 which was shown this year at san diego's comiccon festival, and i promise you - that this movie will own. based on another one of frank miller's graphic novels, and directed by Zack Snyder, director of the dawn of the dead remake.
300 promo trailer
anyway, we decided late at night that we wanna see this "gravedancers" movie that is one of these "horrorfest" over the weekend movie deals.
we go over to howison field first, at 1pm, or around that timeframe - we see that there are guys playing soccer, took up the whole field. so we just kicked around the ball a lil' bit on the sidelines and observed the game. whenever the half time - we'd use the goals. around 3-ish pm we roll over to the movie theatre, while listening to jack black saying "fuckin' cockeas!" bwahah, that never left my head today, i probably said that word over 50 times. "cockeas!" we buy the tix, and have like an hour and a half to chill before the movie. so since the mall is right there...we just go and walk in the mall. never seen so many people at the mall - usually we just go in the middle of the week so that explains why.
we go to books-a-million cuz that's like our little place we hang out. it's weird isn't it? of all the places in the mall, it's a book place - i love it.
so we just skim thru some of the graphic novel of 300 - lookin for the particular helmet POV shot pic in there, which i have no doubt will be in the final movie. speaking of which, there are so many frame-for-frame shots in the movie of 300 (that we have seen in the trailer) that are straight outta the graphic novel. no surprise, cos i read that snyder was going for that sin city approach rodriguez did.
so it's 3:45pm, and i tell we need to roll to the movie theatre. we roll - and get inside. take our seats - first of all i have to say that this felt like more of an outrageous tales of the crypt or masters of horror episode than a friggin' movie in itself. absolute comedy, we laughed more than we were scared. but these days pretty much nothing scares me in a movie: it's more of a cringe since such an outrageous amount of "torture" or "disgust" horror movies get released. the true horror films were made back in the 70's and 80's...the likes of John Carpenter's the thing or William Friedkin's the exorcist now those movies left a mark, and they're timeless horror classics.
anyway, what i'm saying is, this wasn't worth the 8.50 i paid, but alas i had a great time crackin up w/ chris, oh man i haven't laughed like that in a movie theatre since probably 2004.
after we come out, i suggest we sneak in to see another flick...we walk 'n walk and decide we wanna see borat...and yes, we did see borat.
i didn't laugh as much as i did w/ gravedancers..but it's for a whole another reason. it was more of a fun interesting experience for me, observing the "actual" americans. especially in the first few minutes where he's in the metro, that showed pretty much what i already knew. i love the movie, and it's definitely true what sacha baron cohen said in an interview i read; the joke is on the PEOPLE who think that what they see and hear in that movie is real truth about both the country, and the people borat represents. a lot of scenes made me either shocked, or awed (where my mouth was literally opened while i stared at the screen)
after the film was finished, chris drove me home, i ate a sandwich, listened to some plump dj's, played countrer strike source that i preloaded last night, and now i'm finishing up writing this as i listen to the last song of dj krush's "kemuri" on his mixtape code4109
today, yes today: at around 2am chris and i were on aim watching the ever-so-awesome promo trailer of 300 which was shown this year at san diego's comiccon festival, and i promise you - that this movie will own. based on another one of frank miller's graphic novels, and directed by Zack Snyder, director of the dawn of the dead remake.
300 promo trailer
anyway, we decided late at night that we wanna see this "gravedancers" movie that is one of these "horrorfest" over the weekend movie deals.
we go over to howison field first, at 1pm, or around that timeframe - we see that there are guys playing soccer, took up the whole field. so we just kicked around the ball a lil' bit on the sidelines and observed the game. whenever the half time - we'd use the goals. around 3-ish pm we roll over to the movie theatre, while listening to jack black saying "fuckin' cockeas!" bwahah, that never left my head today, i probably said that word over 50 times. "cockeas!" we buy the tix, and have like an hour and a half to chill before the movie. so since the mall is right there...we just go and walk in the mall. never seen so many people at the mall - usually we just go in the middle of the week so that explains why.
we go to books-a-million cuz that's like our little place we hang out. it's weird isn't it? of all the places in the mall, it's a book place - i love it.
so we just skim thru some of the graphic novel of 300 - lookin for the particular helmet POV shot pic in there, which i have no doubt will be in the final movie. speaking of which, there are so many frame-for-frame shots in the movie of 300 (that we have seen in the trailer) that are straight outta the graphic novel. no surprise, cos i read that snyder was going for that sin city approach rodriguez did.
so it's 3:45pm, and i tell we need to roll to the movie theatre. we roll - and get inside. take our seats - first of all i have to say that this felt like more of an outrageous tales of the crypt or masters of horror episode than a friggin' movie in itself. absolute comedy, we laughed more than we were scared. but these days pretty much nothing scares me in a movie: it's more of a cringe since such an outrageous amount of "torture" or "disgust" horror movies get released. the true horror films were made back in the 70's and 80's...the likes of John Carpenter's the thing or William Friedkin's the exorcist now those movies left a mark, and they're timeless horror classics.
anyway, what i'm saying is, this wasn't worth the 8.50 i paid, but alas i had a great time crackin up w/ chris, oh man i haven't laughed like that in a movie theatre since probably 2004.
after we come out, i suggest we sneak in to see another flick...we walk 'n walk and decide we wanna see borat...and yes, we did see borat.
i didn't laugh as much as i did w/ gravedancers..but it's for a whole another reason. it was more of a fun interesting experience for me, observing the "actual" americans. especially in the first few minutes where he's in the metro, that showed pretty much what i already knew. i love the movie, and it's definitely true what sacha baron cohen said in an interview i read; the joke is on the PEOPLE who think that what they see and hear in that movie is real truth about both the country, and the people borat represents. a lot of scenes made me either shocked, or awed (where my mouth was literally opened while i stared at the screen)
after the film was finished, chris drove me home, i ate a sandwich, listened to some plump dj's, played countrer strike source that i preloaded last night, and now i'm finishing up writing this as i listen to the last song of dj krush's "kemuri" on his mixtape code4109
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