since i’m so SEVERELY jet-lagged and probably won’t fall asleep for another 5 hours, i feel the need to blog.
on my flight back from japan i got to watch all the movies i wanted but didn’t cause i didn’t care to see any of them that much by myself. please know that i am totally fine seeing flicks solo if i want to see it badly enough without fellowship (transformers is a perfect example)… heh, i just kinda wanted to brag about how i can do things by myself.
i saw slumdog millionaire … i thought it was over-rated and predictable. still a good movie that i enjoyed, a pretty solid movie actually, but it really wasn’t that great. perhaps it was all they hype that disappointed me. but i think a lot of people feel that they have to say what a great movie it was because they’ll appear “uncultured” and stupid if they didn’t; cause you know, minorities star in it and it’s kinda indie. 3 and a half stars.
twilight … wtf??? i watched the first 20 min and decided it was just another bratty, spoiled teenager movie. one star.
i also watched the curious case of benjamin button. meh. fitzgerald was one of my favorite authors in hs and college … i’ve read almost all of his books and short story works, and bb was one that always stuck out to me (but i always that that they should have made a modern version of a diamond as big as the ritz into a movie, but whateva). it was obvious and loud … not nearly as witty and sharp as the text. but you know, hollywood. two and a half stars.
just when i though that all hope for a really good movie was lost, i accidentally played changeling by clint eastwood. amazing. i was giddy with excitement the whole time. it was grungy and disturbing, hopeful and full of tasteful scenes. after watching it, i finally became one of the billions that typed “angelina jolie” into google.
the part i liked best was that christianity was portrayed in such a wonderful way. i’m not shy in admitting i hate the tumor that has become the western church on Christ’s body, and that i really dislike being called a “christian”. i am not ashamed of Christ but … eh, i regress, ask me about it if you wanna hear my thoughts (Biblical, personal, and otherwise) about church, but this movie made me proud to be a follower of Christ.
the rev gustav briegleb was a passionate hound of justice – using a swear word even to express his outrage and fervor! ha! he advocated, got the law on his side, and fought for someone who had lost their rights as a human, a Beloved. i wept during the movie.
sure, it was just hollywood. sure, things were over-dramatized. and sure, probably most of it was fabricated in a small, dank writing room. but it made me really happy to see a movie about followers of Jesus standing up to the powers that be, forsaking their reputations for the sake of justice, and playing the games that we have to if societal change is going to come about … and even if the movie really wasn’t about that, it was to me. four stars.
there’s only draw back . . . i would have to play a Chinese person. i got nothing against my Chinese brothers and sisters . . . but i am not Chinese, but get mistaken for it quite often. my cousin just found out that i’m actually Japanese-Korean american, and not Japanese-Chinese american . . . doh. my rather militant roommate says i might be selling out by silently promoting that all asians look the same by auditioning . . . a dilemma. ughhhhh . . . why couldn’t the decepticons attack a peaceful town of Japanese and Koreans who’ve reconciled their cultural and historical differences, where their children don’t have to struggle with their identity like i have to???? is that to much to ask????
