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Apocalypse nowish
Jun. 14th, 2008 07:56 pmMan, movies not to watch on back to back nights, especially when you're already in a state of depression and anxiety about the incredibly sorry-ass state of the world: I Am Legend and Cloverfield. Even worse, don't follow up with a chaser of Battlestar Galactica 4th season midpoint finale. (Also, reasons No. 3,481 and 3,482 not to live in NYC.)
I get frustrated that no one seems able to actually take Matheson's incredibly cinematic tale and make a movie that's true to the story. But at the same time, I found Will Smith's loneliness and increasing insanity to be really evocative and haunting. The movie stayed with me, which was unexpected. Even though it's not the movie I want, it was still worth watching, and it's one of the rare horror thrillers I've seen in the past few years to stay with me.
And you know, Cloverfield was fun to a certain degree, but I find that my need to know why always trips me up in enjoying these things. I'm like Gwen in Torchwood's Countrycide ep -- I just have to know WHY. And I want to know why the monster -- was he like Godzilla, created out of nuclear waste and toxins? Was he a project of the military? I must know but the movie didn't tell me! (This isn't only movies, either -- I have to know why people are batshit or stupid, too. You know that thing with the crazy fracking woman who went to Wiscon with the intention of humiliating people, and that whole firestorm last month? I always want to find her and just ask her, "What is WRONG with you?" Because man, I even looked up some of those behaviors in DSM IV and I couldn't really find a category for her, so crazy is her shit, and I feel like I must know how someone could be that deranged and not be in a state-run facility. It just eats at me, the not knowing.)
( And I have one thing to say about the BSG finale )
I get frustrated that no one seems able to actually take Matheson's incredibly cinematic tale and make a movie that's true to the story. But at the same time, I found Will Smith's loneliness and increasing insanity to be really evocative and haunting. The movie stayed with me, which was unexpected. Even though it's not the movie I want, it was still worth watching, and it's one of the rare horror thrillers I've seen in the past few years to stay with me.
And you know, Cloverfield was fun to a certain degree, but I find that my need to know why always trips me up in enjoying these things. I'm like Gwen in Torchwood's Countrycide ep -- I just have to know WHY. And I want to know why the monster -- was he like Godzilla, created out of nuclear waste and toxins? Was he a project of the military? I must know but the movie didn't tell me! (This isn't only movies, either -- I have to know why people are batshit or stupid, too. You know that thing with the crazy fracking woman who went to Wiscon with the intention of humiliating people, and that whole firestorm last month? I always want to find her and just ask her, "What is WRONG with you?" Because man, I even looked up some of those behaviors in DSM IV and I couldn't really find a category for her, so crazy is her shit, and I feel like I must know how someone could be that deranged and not be in a state-run facility. It just eats at me, the not knowing.)
( And I have one thing to say about the BSG finale )
