Thursday, March 15, 2007
the bad father
you may have missed the gracious comment left on my blog a couple of weeks ago. well i am happy to bring it back for all three of you to read. and in case the anonymous chicken shit who wrote it happens to have anything else to say, by all means, the floor is yours.
prick says:
bad father says:
so that's that. the baby is doing good by the way. kim's been a little under the weather since cabo, but she's doing a ton better than when we were actually there. can anyone go to mexico these days without becoming terrible ill? it got scary. aside from that we road some 5 foot tall horses on the beach at sunset, went whale watching, stopped off at the hard rock, ate top notch food each night that was just mediocre, swam, tanned, and the best part, just lying in bed day and night with just the sound of crashing waves. this vacation was no st. thomas, but hell, it was still cabo. gracias kim and her work.
i am currently in the middle of a sopranos season 3 marathon today. and speaking of, kim is in jersey as i speak. i'm pissed off because i did poorly on my telecom systems midterm. before we left for the trip jamie and i did the spring challenge. we did alright i guess. worked our tails off, that's for sure. my econ professor wasn't a judge, but happened to be the guy watching the time for us. anyway, he asked some crappy question that i couldn't even begin to answer. where was my econ guy when i needed him? we were able to avoid it by stumbling our way through another question from one of the judge. either way, we had good reason to be proud of ourselves. national association of rural local exchange carriers (NARLEC) rules! glad that is out of the way though. huge relief.
enough chit chat. on to some movies.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969): a clint eastwood clone helps out a lady. the opening sequence is slightly long, but really cool. tons of buildup. the first half of the film is just introductions to the many subplots, but there seemed to be little connection between any of them. there are some really beautiful shots of landscapes. it's all desert of course, but lovely nonetheless. or just go drive through utah if you want to see it all. there is a lot of silence in the movie. henry fonda played the part of the main character and it was way too much like clint eastwood's older stuff. it felt like fonda's role was written for the great mr. eastwood, but he must have turned it down to sing in paint your wagon and leone just settled for fonda. for me it felt like watching a nosey private eye trying to pull off "the man with no name." the whole movie was too much what clint and sergio were able to pull off five years prior, only without all the style. the music, huge shots, forever long close-ups, and long pauses had all been done. they brought nothing new to the table except a bad clint eastwood knockoff. the plot was not explained very well, i was getting mixed up on characters, and the movie is way too long (2.5+ hours). it's okay but nowhere near the man's stuff.
poor effort, D+
Seraphim Falls (2007): a guy and his posse go on a never ending chase of another guy for reasons unknown, across the post-civil war western u.s. pierce brosnan is really good and is the guy being chased. you really feel for him while these guys hunt him down. the movie jumps right into the character's story, so there is never a chance to actually get to know anyone. it actually took a while before any back story is given about why he is being chased in the first place. i found it somewhat hard to believe that remington steele could outrun (literally just running) these guys on horses for days. the plot is pretty thin. a ton of horses die all throughout the movie so that was a little disturbing. also disturbing is the fact that two brit actors are playing the roles of two u.s. civil war vets in the old west. the movie was pretty cool at the end i guess. the things that these two guys will do to kill the other one is nuts. the picture was a little grainy, adding to the feel of the mid-1800s, however it was maybe a little too much. eh, not bad.
mediocre, C
Gummo (1997): two boys grow up in hickville and make an earning collecting dead cats to sell to the china man. the opening tornado scenes are good. nice narration too. you could sum of the plot as simply dramatic white trash. it is hard to tell if these are actors or if half of it was a documentary. there is a really funny scene where some cowboys kill some queer rabbit. and add xenia, ohio to the cities to never visit. there is some pretty crazy stuff going on there; controversial and way dysfunctional. the boys provide the narration for the movie, but as their older selves. and juxtaposed is documentary-like snippets of the town's extreme hillbilliness. it's all really unique filmmaking i thought. good kid actors. or just the real thing. who knows? on the negative side, the plot was weak and few characters actually did anything. other than that it was, um, unique. interesting, maybe. see it.
fair, B-
prick says:
"HOW IS IT THAT YOU ONLY MENTION YOUR UPCOMING CHILD FOR A FEW SENTENCES IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARAGRAPH, AND RAMBLE ON ABOUT NOTHING FOR THE REST. ARE YOU SURE YOUR READY TO BE A FATHER?"
bad father says:
"because by the time i had written it, we had already known that we were having a baby for weeks. our initial excitement had passed by this time. the other stuff i mentioned happened to be going on that second.
and me not going into detail about our unborn child on a blog that maybe five people in the world read, has no correlation whatsoever about whether or not i'm ready to be a father. check your logic next time you question me. and who knows if i'm ready to be a father. who knows if kim is ready to be a mom. who knows if anyone is when that time comes. doesn't change anything though. i'm still going to be a father and will do the best that i can. thanks for the support though.
and if you are going to comment or talk to someone online, most people don't use all caps. this is just one of the more common rules of etiquette when writing online. good day. "
so that's that. the baby is doing good by the way. kim's been a little under the weather since cabo, but she's doing a ton better than when we were actually there. can anyone go to mexico these days without becoming terrible ill? it got scary. aside from that we road some 5 foot tall horses on the beach at sunset, went whale watching, stopped off at the hard rock, ate top notch food each night that was just mediocre, swam, tanned, and the best part, just lying in bed day and night with just the sound of crashing waves. this vacation was no st. thomas, but hell, it was still cabo. gracias kim and her work.
i am currently in the middle of a sopranos season 3 marathon today. and speaking of, kim is in jersey as i speak. i'm pissed off because i did poorly on my telecom systems midterm. before we left for the trip jamie and i did the spring challenge. we did alright i guess. worked our tails off, that's for sure. my econ professor wasn't a judge, but happened to be the guy watching the time for us. anyway, he asked some crappy question that i couldn't even begin to answer. where was my econ guy when i needed him? we were able to avoid it by stumbling our way through another question from one of the judge. either way, we had good reason to be proud of ourselves. national association of rural local exchange carriers (NARLEC) rules! glad that is out of the way though. huge relief.
enough chit chat. on to some movies.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969): a clint eastwood clone helps out a lady. the opening sequence is slightly long, but really cool. tons of buildup. the first half of the film is just introductions to the many subplots, but there seemed to be little connection between any of them. there are some really beautiful shots of landscapes. it's all desert of course, but lovely nonetheless. or just go drive through utah if you want to see it all. there is a lot of silence in the movie. henry fonda played the part of the main character and it was way too much like clint eastwood's older stuff. it felt like fonda's role was written for the great mr. eastwood, but he must have turned it down to sing in paint your wagon and leone just settled for fonda. for me it felt like watching a nosey private eye trying to pull off "the man with no name." the whole movie was too much what clint and sergio were able to pull off five years prior, only without all the style. the music, huge shots, forever long close-ups, and long pauses had all been done. they brought nothing new to the table except a bad clint eastwood knockoff. the plot was not explained very well, i was getting mixed up on characters, and the movie is way too long (2.5+ hours). it's okay but nowhere near the man's stuff.
poor effort, D+
Seraphim Falls (2007): a guy and his posse go on a never ending chase of another guy for reasons unknown, across the post-civil war western u.s. pierce brosnan is really good and is the guy being chased. you really feel for him while these guys hunt him down. the movie jumps right into the character's story, so there is never a chance to actually get to know anyone. it actually took a while before any back story is given about why he is being chased in the first place. i found it somewhat hard to believe that remington steele could outrun (literally just running) these guys on horses for days. the plot is pretty thin. a ton of horses die all throughout the movie so that was a little disturbing. also disturbing is the fact that two brit actors are playing the roles of two u.s. civil war vets in the old west. the movie was pretty cool at the end i guess. the things that these two guys will do to kill the other one is nuts. the picture was a little grainy, adding to the feel of the mid-1800s, however it was maybe a little too much. eh, not bad.
mediocre, C
Gummo (1997): two boys grow up in hickville and make an earning collecting dead cats to sell to the china man. the opening tornado scenes are good. nice narration too. you could sum of the plot as simply dramatic white trash. it is hard to tell if these are actors or if half of it was a documentary. there is a really funny scene where some cowboys kill some queer rabbit. and add xenia, ohio to the cities to never visit. there is some pretty crazy stuff going on there; controversial and way dysfunctional. the boys provide the narration for the movie, but as their older selves. and juxtaposed is documentary-like snippets of the town's extreme hillbilliness. it's all really unique filmmaking i thought. good kid actors. or just the real thing. who knows? on the negative side, the plot was weak and few characters actually did anything. other than that it was, um, unique. interesting, maybe. see it.
fair, B-
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