Movie Time

Wolverine (2009): It met my lowest expectations. It earned it's PG-13 rating harder than any Disney movie could. That what this movie was, marvel combined w/ Disney. It wasn't a horrible movie, the action sequences were OK, the actors performed OK, the special effects were decent, but that is the problem. It could of had so much potential w/ what it had to start with. The problem was the fucking script. Horrible dialog and story. No Spoilers but they pretty much decided to make shit up on the go and somehow felt that the more they threw in the better it would be. Well they figured that wrong. I think that the director just didn't know what he was working with also. Not that he was a bad director, just that he misread what the character of wolverine is (rated R at least) and how to present his story. Well there's a sequel coming. Probably will see it and again hope for an improvement, but prepared for failure.

Youth Without Youth (2007): This movie was awesome. It's based on a novella by Romanian writer Mircea Eliade and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. I was watching after having some onh and it just sucked me in. Plot: Old humanities professor decides to commit suicide. On the way he gets hit by lightning (something I've always wondered about) and mutates into the man of the future (less cheesy than it sound). He gains incredible memory, de-ages to 35, and is able to absorb knowledge directly from books oh and limited telekinesis. He also stops aging and so begins to take up his life's work again. Locating and discovering the origins of language, culture and consciousness. Something i can really relate to. He experiences his adventure starting in 1940 at the beginning of the war. He gets hit on by beautiful women and ends w/ one that suffered another lightning strike and now becomes possessed by people form the past starting with a Buddhist scholar from ancient India and moving backwards. This gives him the opportunity to complete his research. He is also partially insane, talking to himself and having metaphysical discussions with his double that appears in mirrors. There is always a price for everything.

The 7th Voyage of Sindbad (1958): The effects are claymation, the main actors are white, and everything else about the movie looks cheesy but it kicks ass. Crazy action, romance, morals... everything a good movie needs. It exceeded my lowest expectations. :-)