Goldblum's Line in Lost World

 In the Lost World when we first see the stegosaurus', Goldblum says something to the degree of it starts out ooo and ahh then there is the running and the screaming.  Which does end up happening in this movie.  Save for the screaming, does this not describe Spielberg to a T.  Did the less is more in all of his movies, it ended up working well for him then in Close Encounters, Jaws, ET, etc.  But Lost World??  The first Jurassic Park had the convenience of being setup as a theme park first.  It was safe, the animals were behind cages.  They were off in the jungle through the wires, not dangerous.  It works well in that situation not in a situation where, as Hammond had only described mere minutes earlier, that the animals were all over the fucking place with that geothermal map.  They hit that island boom I want raptors jumping out of the bushes, T-Rex eating them, and chasing killing a bunch of people, it is Chaos.  It is what Malcom sadly predicted.  But Spielberg tried to rely on steady as she go formula and kind of ruined what could have been a crazy experience.  Then tried to make it up too much and we got San Diego. Ridley Scott could have directed it.  Imagine a cross between Black Hawk Down and Jurassic Park.  like  helicopter goes in rescue mission right, you bring a military group but they are shot down and it is just rampaging the whole movie.  Contra style.  And this touches on the third, the third tried to do it this way but mucked up even more.  They were walking all over that island and screaming and yelling.  They should have all been dead within 20 minutes. 

Spiritual Experience During Wings of Desire

Senior year I take this German film class that I ended up absolutely hating.  The teacher is a pretentious bald bastard.  The class is on the other side of fucking campus, and for some reason it felt like it rained every time I went there.  Probably about a half hour walk.  There were your usual characters in a film class, you know the sweaty girl, who wears lederhosen and  does knitting throughout the whole thing.  Answering questions while she is doing it.  Then when she is talking she expects everyone to pay attention to her.  Oh you didn't have that, that's right she was the only chick I ever fucking heard of doing that stupid as hell routine.  The class also sucked because we had a film "lab" where we just watched German movies from different eras.  Which would be great, there are solid German movies, oh except the asshole prof top heavied it with pre 1930 crap with the sound not working half the time for all of them, and the class was on Tuesday's at 8 pm.  Although there was one nice looking girl, she me reminded me of a girl I met that summer.  Didn't say one word to her the whole time though.  One of the movies we had to watch was Wings of Desire, which was remade into the Nic Cage vehicle City of Angels for reference.  It was from the 1980's and I thought it would be decent, German punk rapid, kind of what Run Lola referenced. Slow as fuck.  I was falling asleep throughout.  Most of it was inner monologue, in black white, heavy imagery, shadows, like it was a french student film.  As I'm falling asleep bonking my head all over the place, I slipped into kind of a state between deep sleep and awake, this has happened for a lot of you probably.  Where there is something so real and complete clarity briefly and you are still awake.  As I slink deeper, for about 3-4 seconds the German spoken from the film was making sense and I could understand everything they were saying then I slipped deeper and woke up a couple minutes later.  I only remember the brief German encounter.

 What Happened?

This episode albeit profound in my memory didn't make any sense other than it was messed up in a good way.  Except for about a year later I was looking for apartments in the area.  One was in the country a little bit but across from a lake, it sounded interesting at least.  As it turns out it was owned by this old lady that actually lived downstairs.  It would have been a weird situation, since there was a door from the upstairs to the downstairs that was pretty accessible.  It wasn't built for sound probably, might have been 600 square feet and she was charging $700/month.  The lake ended up being about 200 yards away with no real direct access.  After she showed it to me she invited me downstairs for coffee.  Even though the apartment was a bust she ended up telling me something very profound.  She brought up her belief that our DNA has a memory.  Meaning who knows what kinds of things get passed down from generation to generation, father to son, nightmares, fears, emotions, intuition, soul.  Now I know my family is part German, at least 25%.  what if in this mental haze I was able to refer back to a German gene or relatives memory of some sort and understand it even for a brief period.  Is this what happened?

I still give the movie 3/29

Ah Another Day, Another Abortion of a Movie Poster

It's nice to see so many people asleep at the wheel at marketing and graphics departments of studios these days. Although I am happy/relieved in a way.  These people are in charge of only things like this and not anything that bares any importance on people's day to day lives.  Kind of like when the teacher had all the slower kids play Oregon Trail while the other kids learned fractions. 

How Can You Really Blame Humans for Hating Mutants?

 So I've been addicted to the X-Men animated series once again since it came on Netflix Streaming.  Hands down, it is probably the best cartoon ever made for a kid.  Think of how jacked you were over it, then how much you were for the movie, the video games, the action figures, everything else.  It was just constant action and mutant power use.  Mutant powers taken away, used to kill, etc.  Watch the beginning of the time travel one where Wolverine and Storm are together and Professor X was killed in college (which he is bald in all the way).  Anyway it is all action for almost the first 10 minutes.  Now that I watched these, it just makes the movie sub par.  It had entertaining stories and a whole bunch of action, this program aimated in sweatshops over in asia, and you are saying you couldn't make a live action similar in scope with a big, powerful, hollywood studio?  You add 25 more minutes of action and mutant powers and you gross another 100 million guaranteed. 

But onto the situation that X-men live in.  As everyone knows they live in a world where people are judgmental of mutants, this has people on edge.  Yet if you watch the show, look at everything that happens because of mutants.  You pretty much have a terrorist attack possibility at any given moment in any given location.  You have time traveling mutants spreading plagues, giant mutants with the four horsemen, bridges constantly destroyed, intergalactic wars, and one man rampages.  Obviously if you are a just person you should treat everyone as an individual.  There are good and bad everything.  But then you have to throw in the fact as they point out for a good while in First Class.  This is a step in evolution, and the previous species is going to be wiped out eventually whether violently or not.  If you put a badger in a corner what will they do?

If lets say there were then Super Mutants that became, more like Dark Phoenix, Magneto, all that shit would the xmen try to stop them?  I'd assume so.  What if that evolution happened again, and that is what Magneto is vs. Charles, that there are mutants, and then they breed the super mutants with they have kids, mutants squared.  The mutants are just a blip on the screen of evolution as well. 

How do you not include them?
X-Men 1) Gambit, Beast, Angel,
X-Men 2)  Juggernaut, Sabretooth (he heals right), all above, and more collosus.  Show him fighting the soldiers with wolverine, none of this help them shit, there is probably another mature teenager, have fucking Kitty Pride do that housework. 
X-Men 3) Umm Every fucking mutant ever created.  You want to create a trilogy.  You want to have this huge fucking battle, the last stand right.  No don't worry about the entire marvel/X-men universe at our disposal, lets just have a bunch of mutants that just jump really high and blow smoke. 
X-Men 4) I don't know, can't really remember it enough.
X-Men 5) Cyclops and Jean.  You have an added dynamic of charles and another power psychic.  You could have a tiny thing with the Phoenix, since that ist he stupid thing they decided to do in the Last Stand.  Not to mention that it might explain the beginning of the third one to all the hardcore nerds out there about the opening with magneto and xavier in the beginning.  It could be her memory of the event because you have that in movie, but she might remember it as they look in her older present.  Plus you actually have more of a reason for mystique to go over to the darkside in the end, because she is jealous of this younger, hotter, bustier, sluttier red head spending all this time with Charles reading each others thoughts.  Why not make mystique Rebecca Romjin?  Beast says she won't age.  She is still hot, and lord knows she could use the work.  She was the best mystique.  Also I think it is pretty well established, that Cyclops and Jean are his first students.  What is the point in changing that?  Not to mention you could make cyclops over 30 to actually give more depth to the cast.  Have him played by Steve Nash or some shit.  Why isn't charles older?  I thought he was supposed to be around the same age as magneto, but in this he looks 21.