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[trinityvixen]

It bothered my family all last week, and now it's finally gotten to me--The Phantom of the Opera music is now stuck in my head. We watched the movie version upstate, and, well, yours truly got lots of reaction to her opinions, so maybe this is the movie's vengeance, letting me hum random bits of ditties.

Well, fuck you, movie Phantom. Christine Daae was fugly, Raoul made a wonderful girl--you know, if you overlooked the muttonchops, Donna Reed wig, and absolutely awful acting, and the Phantom had about as much facial scarring as I do (granted, that isn't saying much, seeing as I lost that battle with a searing-hot cast iron skillet in a freak blacksmithing accident, but true, just the same). If I want to be sung at, I'll take the CDs, thank you. You and your Hollywood harlotry can go suck on the movie Phantom fandom (gah, say that five times fast, why don't you?). Seriously, they destroyed the story in trying to make it make sense. Honestly, if the Phantom has to actually cause the accidents onscreen, you're not trying hard enough.

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In other movie news, I rented Strange Days from Netflix. It's got a good premise, but the story falls apart in chunks and pieces, crumbling to bits along the way. Ways it could have been improved:
A) Let Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett be naked. No, there doesn't have to be a reason, they are just both really hot.
B) Never let Juliette Lewis sing. Ever. Period.
C) If you put Vincent D'Onofrio, William Fichtner, Tom Sizemore, and Michael Wincott together in the same movie, it is sleaze-character actor overload. Please remove at least two.

I liked the idea of re-living other people's memories--yet another question of what makes reality, done really well here as people aren't merely living other realities, but other real realities, complete with adrenaline rushes associated therewith. There are some disturbing possibilities that most other films don't go into--making a recorded memory of a rape and murder, for instance--which really puts the dangers of such technology to a better forefront than the 'us vs them' contrivances of sci-fi cinema.

But come on, Ralph Fiennes as a sleaze-bag? He does dirty, he does psycho, he does sociopath, but as a con-man drug hustler? Please. Oh, and the soundtrack sucked.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, I was not slandering Strange Days. I merely said it didn't impress me a whole bunch. The camera looking through the actor's eyes was interesting, technically, but a lot of the memories weren't all that interesting. Actually, the only part that really moved me was the rape squid because it raised all the hackles, especially when the killer jacked the victim into what he was feeling. It was the only video that squicked me as much as that should have.

The concept wasn't bad either, what I had trouble with was the confused plot lines. The rapper murder being entirely coincedental to Iris' murder? Wha-ha? The main question was who would rape and murder Iris, and yet it ended on the corrupt cops? Drawn out too long, too, which is a shame, because it was an idea whose time had come (evidenced by the three movies that came out four years later--eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, and, of course, The Matrix--that all toyed with the same idea of memory/sensory authority versus contrived experience and false constructs).

And, if you notice, I did like Angela Basset. Hell, I watched Supernova for her and James Spader. Go and watch Supernova and tell me that's not love for my gal.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

*giggles*
Hugs....okay
I guess.
and thank you
i dont know anybody else who saw the 13th Floor....i loved that movie, loved loved loved the costumes and sets....
I <3 you...again....still...whatever....your stil "the almighty mayo".

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I loved The Thirteenth Floor. Craig Bierko is really good in it, Vincent D'Onofrio managed to be a little less creepy than usual, and I liked the idea of artificial characters becoming self aware and rejecting the people who inhabit them.

I am still the mayo, yo. (Psst, happy early birthday!)

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

*grins* yeah!! Although i will have to say i know a heck of alot more actors then I do....do you just read IMDB like most people read the Times or something? Most of the time I am usually just like "you know that creepy guy that was in both blah blah and blah blah"...Thus you will always be the mayo.


I am turning 26 this year :)
I told my best friend that, and he agreed so it MUST be true
*grins*
this makes me happy
I think i am just going to celebrate my 26th ever year from now on :)

and thank you *HUGS*!!!!!

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

...when the killer jacked the victim into what he was feeling.

Ok it's been a while since I've seen it, but I thought it was the other way around. I've seen the topic of vampiric empathy come up occasional in sci-fi, but so rarely had I seen it as well done as in Strange Days (well if I'm remembering it correctly that is). I do recall Max have the sociopathic traits necessary to pull of vampiric empathy (but then again in a cyberpunk like setting such as Strange Days, who doesn't), though his approach to it was more of a addiction model than a comprehension model.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think the killer was jacked into the victim such that there was mutual feedback. He fed her what he felt while raping her, which terrified her more, which got him off more. I think that was it. It was a bit fuzzily defined.