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Okay, the first thing I need to tell you is this: I've never had motion sickness. Never been carsick, airsick or seasick. And in all of the gory movies I've seen in all my life (which would be, um...A LOT), I've never considered leaving a theatre because things were just too gross, or too intense, or too ANYTHING.

So when I tell you that I very nearly lost my popcorn in the theater, had to go to the bathroom to splash my face with cold water, and "watched" the last half of the movie with my eyes shut and completely covered, it probably should be a bit surprising.

Look, I liked "Blair Witch Project" well enough. It was creepy and fun, and the shaky, 'live action' camera work was broken up with plenty of steady camera work. I had no problem with it. But the shaky camera is unrelenting in this. That, combined with the flashing lights, had me wishing the concession stand sold Tums and Pepto-Bismol. Erk.

Heinous overuse of shaky camera aside, the film itself was fairly interesting, at least until the end. The graphics (when I could see them amid the blur) seemed excellent. But because JJ Abrams was involved, there was no ending. We can extrapolate that the monster was eventually overcome, since someone found the camera in the rubble and labeled it as coming from the area formerly known as Central Park. But we never get a clue about WHAT the creature is or what the hell it's doing in Manhattan, or for that matter, why it seems to have such a hate-on for New Yorkers.

Abrams needs to take a look at what happened to the X-Files in its last couple of years, when the mythology was spinning completely out of control, and questions had been answered with more questions over and over until no one -- Chris Carter least of all -- knew or really cared anymore what it all meant. This is precisely the reason I stopped watching 'Lost'. Questions are all well and good. I like a mystery as much as the next person, and conjecturing about it can be fun. But pushing that envelope too far will ruin the story. And without the story, there's no point. You might as well be watching "America's Surviving Big Model Top Brother Nation".


On a much more pleasant subject, I got a letter from Eric Kripke today. And by "letter", I mean some assistant fed my name and address into a Word mail merge with a canned 'thanks for writing' letter and Kripke signed it. But it's making me gleeful nonetheless, because he didn't have to go to the trouble of having his assistant feed me into the mail merge and send the response out to me with the pre-printed autographed picture of the boys, but he did. And that's just one more reason that Kripke pwns us all.

Date: 2008-01-22 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] berreh.livejournal.com
Why did they let him have Star Trek *weeps*

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