I couldn't help but notice that I haven't posted in weeks and weeks, nary a post in this new year, and the world has not stopped rotating. The Lord works in mysterious ways?
My boo's dad died at the start of the year and it's been something of an adjustment. The world didn't stop turning for Dennis Marshall either, but it did seem to move a little wobbly. What I liked best about him is that he reminded me of my grandmother. She died around the same time two years ago. Of course they're different people and he's his own snowflake, but in my head, for the brief year that I knew him, I saw a little of her in his eyes and it made me happy. So now that's done.
It's a new year and of course my annual resolution persists: to be a perfect person, which usually equates to losing weight so that I will finally deserve real love, but in addition! Resolutions include:
1. To not be such a bitch.
2. To throw the spinning curvy ball in bowling.
3. To make a list of every new film I see.
4. To build my website,
5. and finally, to get into a graduate school somewhere else in the country and get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do. Who's coming with me?
Here's what I've seen so far.
1. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Something like my 36th Woody Allen film. Soon Erik and I will see them all, and then what?
2. The Addiction
Something about vampires?
3. Revolutionary Road
It's good. It's better the more I think about it. Download it today!
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The more I think about it, the more I fucking hated this movie. I want to write an entire book on how much I hated this movie, on what a preposterous, useless premise it is, what a waste of fucking money and talent, what a recycled piece of Forest Gump shit it is, what a grab bag of recycled characters inhabit it, and on and on and on, but you know, I got stuff to do. Do yourself a favor and don't see it.
Happy late 2009! I love you all. If you know me in real life, help me keep my resolutions and tell me when I'm being a bitch. If not, what a cruel, forever rotating world it is that we can't be together.
Interview with Author Erik Marshall
7 years ago
3 comments:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - isn't this based off the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald? I don't think it could be a rip-off if the story predates the Forrest Gump movie... Unless you meant, so many creative elements ripped it off.
If you didn't mean that, then perhaps Forrest Gump ripped off Fitzgerald's story. I haven't read the thing, nor have I seen the movie, but if you say it's bad, I think I could probably trust you, since your taste is more discerning than most.
It's very loosely based on the Fitzgerald story, and when I say it's like Forrest Gump, I mean it's like Forrest Gump in tone, style, and story arch.
Basic premise: simple man with a lazy southern drawl is born different, but beats the odds and goes out and achieves anyway! Meets a series of fascinating people who get him into adventures, teach him about life and show him how to love. One beautiful woman sees through the gumpy exterior and loves him at various intervals throughout his epic lifetime until they eventually end up together. Told in book end format until we are BAM, in the present day. His life intersects poignantly with several moments throughout history. Instead of a feather blowing through the wind to remind us how beautiful life is, it's a hummingbird.
After the film, Erik and I looked at each other and said "when did David Fincher become Robert Zemekis?" We were wrong though. It's just that the script was written by the guy who wrote the script for Forrest Gump. So that explains it.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
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