Isn’t it romantic?

broderic on February 15, 2007

Well, it’s St. Valentine’s day. Here’s to all the fools taking their significant other out to town, dinner, and a movie. If only I could. *sigh*

Yet, when romance is involved, I get my thrill from the cinematic projector. And one of the more romantic of movies that I love is It’s a Wonderful Life. Wha?

Most people see this movie as the ultimate sentimental Christmas holiday movie. How can it be romantic?

Easy. It’s filled with scenes that’ll make you feel love.

Remember the scene with the young Mary Hatch whispering in George’s bad ear, “George Bailey, I’ll love you until the day I die.” Try that on a girl. She’ll appreciate it.

Remember the scene of the recently graduated Mary Hatch bored at the graduation dance. She listens the guy talking to her, but she doesn’t seem to hear him. Then she catches a glimpse of George Bailey coming her way and she lights up. “Well, hello.” That’s electrifying.

Remember the scene where George and Mary throw rocks at the old house. “What did you wish for, Mary?” The coy look she gives him. “Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight? And dance by the light of the moon.” You’ll chase after girls that give you that sly run around.


Remember the scene on the phone. “Tell him it’s a chance of a lifetime.” Yes. It is. To love and be loved. “Now you listen to me. I don’t want any plastics and I don’t want any ground floors. And I don’t want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.” And she wants to be there with him. The raw emotion of the that scene.

I could go on, but you get the picture. There are many of them in it. So on this day of romance, pop in your DVD of It’s a Wonderful Life. Replace the Christmas holiday feelings with romantic thoughts thanks to George and Mary’s romance.

Pleine de Poisson

broderic on February 14, 2007

French Kiss

Kate: Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever?
Luc: I loved my mother.
Kate: No, everyone loves their mother. Even people who say they hate their mothers love their mothers. My question is, one man for one woman?
Luc: It is not a very interesting question. It is the question of a little girl who still believes in fairy tales.

Labels

broderic on February 11, 2007

Hanging in my room used to be a advert ripped from TransWorld Skateboard Magazine. It was about labels and how they are meant to define you. Yet as a skater you were supposed to transcend them and be above being labeled. Why am I joining the megachurch of labels? There’s a few that I have created. I am still on the old blogger template so I don’t know how to add them to my blog as normal links. Just rummage through my archive and you will see them added to the posts that I could label.

Missing movies post

broderic on February 11, 2007

Movie watching continues apace. I really wanted to write some deep insightful reviews of these three, but can never get them started.

Catch and Release. It was a Jennifer Garner weekend that was. This movie is a supposed romantic drama-dy, and such it disappointed on both the romantic end, the dramatic end, and the comedic end. You saw all the funny parts in the trailer. The drama was used as an explanation to the marketers as to how the movie really didn’t have too much laughs. The romance! The romance? I just didn’t get. Your fiance dies and you want fall for the one person who’s a cad? Please. In a comment at Margeaux’s, I believe the film to be too sappy, because it embraces the love story in the end. If it ended with them not making up and her out on her own it would’ve felt real. As for that, it felt like another marketing decision and the director/writer should’ve know to stick to her convictions of the story and not have them hook up again. It would’ve been a smarter, mature movie that way.

2 of 5 stars.

Because I Said So. Someone should’ve asked her to keep her mouth shut. What is happening to Diane Keaton? And what is happening to Mandy Moore? Keaton is Annie Hall, but that character is feeling a bit sad in her old age. Moore is in another bad movie. Whatever? I should not have seen this one.Capitol Swell has a better review. Let’s just say Mandy Moore needs to read more better scripts.

2 of 5 stars.

The Messengers is a j-horror film in the middle of Nebraska. Yes. That sounds incongruous and the movie was. It was filled with worn out j-horror images. Things you’ve seen in other movies. J-horror is becoming extremely tired like the slasher horror genre before it. They need to make creepier films built to scare the bejeebus out of you when you get home. After watching this, I was scared but soon forgot why by the next morning.

2 of 5 stars.

Adventures From My Netflix Queue: Suspicion

broderic on February 11, 2007


Suspicion won Joan Fontaine an Academy Award for Best Actress. It is said that she received it because of missing out on it the year before for Rebecca. While I certainly liked the Rebecca, Suspicion was good. If flawed.

Flawed?

Yes. The ending didn’t particular suit the film. Everything leading up to it said, “Murder!” But we get some curt explanation, some hilarious mistaken motives, and a really fun, action at the end. All is wrapped us neat and tidy to fit in with the Hollywood production code. This was one movie where the original ending (see the extras) would have made this movie more satisfying.


This is also Cary Grant’s first movie with the master director. And he plays it like a cad with a dark and mysterious past. Yet, Grant seems to me too bright. For me, he doesn’t have the dark, rightening, murderous persona beneath his gentlemanly persona like I believe James Stewart to possess. Still he is one of Hitchcock’s iconic leading men. I still prefer Stewart, but Grant is good because he is playful and makes Hitchcock a more sly and sinister storyteller. Who believes these men to be all-star, all Americans knows not of the dark and ugly evil lurking in all men?

My Hitchcock obsession continues.

4 of 5 stars.

Get to know me

broderic on February 11, 2007


Who’s that crazy guy in the picture? That’s a nephew! It seems the folks at Washington Post set about interviewing people to get us to know the world. Watch it. He’s a little precocious.

I wonder whom he is talking about at the end?

You can also download the video from their iTunes link.

NSLookup Issues

broderic on February 7, 2007

Homework 3 is giving me some problems.

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nslookup -type=PTR 254.169.in-addr.arpa
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Server: 172.16.0.254
Address: 172.16.0.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.maths.leeds.ac.uk
Address: 129.11.36.6