Chad
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Richland High School
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Texas A&M
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Christ, My beautiful wife (Steph), XBox, Gadgets of any kind, My Jeep (Bender)
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Movies, movies
July 10 2005
I saw a couple of movies this weekend. We hadn't been to the movies in a while and we had some free time, so we went.
Friday night we saw War of the Worlds. It was one of the most intense movies I've ever seen in my life.The closest movie experience I can think of to compare this to is when I saw Apollo 13 in the theatre. I sat literally at the edge of my seat the entire time in that movie. WotW wasn't quite like that, but it did have all my insides tightened up. The special effects were pretty amazing, too. I do have two complaints about the movie. First, I must be getting old and crotchety or something, but the language bothers me. To me it would be just as good a story without all the dirty words. Second, the ending was horrible. If you haven't seen it yet, you might not want to read the rest of this paragraph. Ok, so everythings intense. Things keep going from bad to worse. He kills some guy. Aliens are spraying blood all over the place. None of our weapons are working against them. We're basically about to be exterminated, and there's nothing we can do. Then abruptly five or ten minutes before the end of the movie, the micro-organisms come to our rescue. Hey look, the birds are landing on the tripods which means that the amoebas have done what our tanks, fighter jets, and rocket launchers couldn't, and have miraculously destroyed their shields! The end. I haven't read or heard the original story before, but I'm assuming that they had to end it that way because that's pretty much how the original ends. Ok, then why didn't someone finish reading the script and say, "Wow, that ending is dumb. We probably shouldn't make this into a movie." Or what's so bad about changing the ending to make a better movie. It's not like Hollywood has any problems doing that on other movies. I know I sound a little harsh. As a whole I liked the movie, but the ending just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Movie number two...Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I have to say that I liked this movie. It was especially good at matinee price (yet another clue that I'm getting old...early bird specials). Sure it was unbelievable that they could've lived through the last shootout scene, but that's one of the qualities of a good action movie. There was a little language, but not near as much as WotW. I'm also going to go on record and say that I liked the "on-screen chemistry" of Brad and Angelina. It's definitely not one of my favorite movies, but I was entertained. That's all I ask. Feel free to tell me what bad taste I have in movies, or make fun of me for actually using the phrase "on-screen chemistry".
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Friday night we saw War of the Worlds. It was one of the most intense movies I've ever seen in my life.The closest movie experience I can think of to compare this to is when I saw Apollo 13 in the theatre. I sat literally at the edge of my seat the entire time in that movie. WotW wasn't quite like that, but it did have all my insides tightened up. The special effects were pretty amazing, too. I do have two complaints about the movie. First, I must be getting old and crotchety or something, but the language bothers me. To me it would be just as good a story without all the dirty words. Second, the ending was horrible. If you haven't seen it yet, you might not want to read the rest of this paragraph. Ok, so everythings intense. Things keep going from bad to worse. He kills some guy. Aliens are spraying blood all over the place. None of our weapons are working against them. We're basically about to be exterminated, and there's nothing we can do. Then abruptly five or ten minutes before the end of the movie, the micro-organisms come to our rescue. Hey look, the birds are landing on the tripods which means that the amoebas have done what our tanks, fighter jets, and rocket launchers couldn't, and have miraculously destroyed their shields! The end. I haven't read or heard the original story before, but I'm assuming that they had to end it that way because that's pretty much how the original ends. Ok, then why didn't someone finish reading the script and say, "Wow, that ending is dumb. We probably shouldn't make this into a movie." Or what's so bad about changing the ending to make a better movie. It's not like Hollywood has any problems doing that on other movies. I know I sound a little harsh. As a whole I liked the movie, but the ending just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Movie number two...Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I have to say that I liked this movie. It was especially good at matinee price (yet another clue that I'm getting old...early bird specials). Sure it was unbelievable that they could've lived through the last shootout scene, but that's one of the qualities of a good action movie. There was a little language, but not near as much as WotW. I'm also going to go on record and say that I liked the "on-screen chemistry" of Brad and Angelina. It's definitely not one of my favorite movies, but I was entertained. That's all I ask. Feel free to tell me what bad taste I have in movies, or make fun of me for actually using the phrase "on-screen chemistry".
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