| Today, I saw The X-Files: I Want To Believe. In an objective sense,
it's a decent, watchable if not overly convoluted movie. There are huge
gaps in logic in the film and when a character non-fans won't know
shows up out of the blue, it's got to be off-putting.
But I had a great time. A really great time.
When we watch material, it's never with a blind eye. Our prejudices
aren't shut off. We bring things into the theater that alter how it
looks. Sometimes it taints us against it. Sometimes it slants us in
favor of it. The person we are colors our view.
Today, I watched the film under different circumstances than the first.
It wasn't the only film I saw that day. It wasn't the first film,
though had the scheduling been conducive to such, it likely would've
been. I didn't watch it as a little boy who still saw going to Little
Rock as a rare treat. Hell, I watched it IN Little Rock. It wasn't my
most anticipated film of the year. (That was The Dark Knight. Safe to
say, I was happy there.) It was a minor note.
During the film, I was actively engaged. But afterwards, my thoughts
weren't on the film but the summer of 1998. That summer, I was deeply
depressed. I was coming out of a very dark time in my life. It was hot.
I have memories of days that were happy but tinged with the depression.
Some shite music too.
Am I the same person I was? No but yes. No in that I fought the
depressive period. I'm a decade older. I've gotten my life together.
I'm a college grad. Things have changed for me. Hated dogs with a
passion then, would name a daughter after my chihuahua now.
Yes because I remain an avid superhero fan. Still a Star Wars junkie.
Still a film buff. (I will DIE one.) I still hold a lot of views I held
then. Still have a lot of the same tastes.
People are and aren't fluid. A person who I had a weird connection with
in that era is now the closest ally I have now. (If they think it's
them, they're right.) Life changes.
In an objective sense, so-so. In a subjective sense, purely wonderful. |
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| The Dark Knight=The very best film since Munich.
Hellboy II= A great film getting lost in the shuffle.
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| How does Pixar do it? A film a year and at the least, they're very good!
This isn't very good, it is far beyond that. It's great.
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| This should be watchable at best. It's not. It's actually pretty damned good against all odds. |
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| What Happens in Vegas was pure unadulterated garbage.
Kung Fu Panda was quite entertaining.
New IMAX: great.
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