Daily Archives: January 5, 1999

Jan 5 1999

Godzilla

Aweful retelling of the cheesey Japanese classic monster movie.

##Should have been “Godaweful”

What can be learned from the exercise in movie production
masturbation that’s we’re talking about now? The greatness of a movies lies
not with its budget, but rather with its script.

As far as I can tell, it was basically a wannabe “Jurrasic Park” with
inferior direction, acting, writing, effects. Did I say writing

##Ripoffs ‘R’ Us

Here’s a partial list of ripoffs from other movies that I noticed on one
painful viewing:

  1. Raptors. ‘Nuff said
  2. The **thump** telling people that Godzilla is on the way.

    Remember “Jurassic Park”?

  3. The car chase
  4. The hatching. Remember [[Aliens]]?

##Questions

  1. Why was Godzilla asexual? IOW, why would a species that is altered

    by a radioactive exposure be made to switch between sexual reproduction

    and asexual reproduction?

  2. Could somebody have exposed Matthew Broderick to some radiation to

    maybe have given him a personality

  3. Was that car moving at 200 MPH?
  4. Is Steven Spielberg going to sue over the unauthorized use of

    raptors in this production? Nevermind. At least raptors were smart.

  5. could the moving matt lines have been made any more obvious?
  6. Why do mayors always have to be idiotic political tools?
  7. I enjoyed the Blue Oyster Cult song a lot more

Jan 5 1999

Sleepless In Seattle

Will Sam ever find true love again? Annie has something to say about that.

OK. I admit it. I’m a sucker for a good chick-flick now and
then. I love my action movies, and my [[Jackie Chan]] movies, and my “John Woo”
movies, but a good love story that makes me say “aahhh” is wonderful
too. Many people told me that *Sleepless in Seattle* was way to gooshy
to be good, that it was so sweet they got cavities from watching it. But
for me, it was just the right amount of sugar to make a perfect glass of
ice tea.

##I hated it, but loved it

For me, the thing that told me how effective this movie was, was the way
that I literally started yelling at the screen when Sam and Annie
*didn’t* get together at various points during the movie.

This is key because at this point I realized how completely I was drawn
into the world of this movie.

##Did you notice?

Did you notice the way that Annie peeled the apple is exactly the way that
Sam described to Jonah that his mother used to peel them?