[YMS] Hey guys, more reviews coming soon
but if you want to know if movies in theaters are good;
I just saw Life of Pi.
So I went to the theater and asked for some water, because my throats really sore
and ya know, I wanted free water
(mumbled) I don't have money.
So I was like "can ya get me a fuckin regular cup of water instead of this fuckin small thing?"
And he's like "nope. Its company policy. We can't do that."
I'm like "can I have four? In a tray?"
He was like "yep." And then I was like "There's room for more, just put two more in there."
So this is what it looked like.
So we see the movie in 3-D and uhh, it starts out and its fucking horrendous.
Worst acting ever.
Ever. The character of the writer
I honestly could believe Pi's stories more that I could believe that was a real actor.
I had to look him up after, apparently hes been in like Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
I don't know who the hell he played.
Apparently he was in Prometheus. I was like "what the fuck is that characters name?"
Anyway, this guy is the
Oh my god! Wooden acting, horrendous horrible horrible horrible.
And then the initial incident happens in the story that's being explained by Pi who's also like
(moans negatively) acting near the beginning gets better toward the end.
So the initial incident happens and suddenly i'm no longer almost falling asleep.
I'm into it. And the movie, i-it's so rare for a movie to start out so weak and then get better.
Most of the time its the other way around, has like a great opening scene.
This one the opening scene wasn't bad, just shots of animals.
Whatever. Had some, ya know, good tone setting music
but its defiantly a visual feast.
I looked at all the movies in theaters and even though, uhh, there were a couple I had some interest in seeing
I thought "I want to see this one because I want to see it in theaters."
The other ones I could wait until they're out on Blu-ray and it really wouldn't make a lick of difference.
But this is defiantly the type of movie that you want to see in like a high quality theater with 3-D.
It really really raised the bar for, uhh, computer generated models for animals.
Apparently around 90 percent of the tiger was computer generated.
Shay didn't even believe me when I said that it was CG.
He was like "No! Its a tiger and then they composted it into the shot."
But no, apparently 90 percent of it is CG.
You can tell that its computer generated in a way, but this is the first time where
I know that somethings computer generated and it still has a presence.
I still felt threatened at points.
They really give a lot of detail into, uhh, I guess the emotion of the tiger, the expressions, the body language.
Everything was very very realistic about it but the whole story, the whole concept was very very unrealistic
which was kind of the point.
So it was beneficial to have, uhh, Pi explaining this story narrating.
I'm fucking glad that at some
a-a-a decent amount,
there was a decent amount of the movie without him narrating because that would have just ruined the whole fucking thing.
And honestly the first half hour, forty minuets almost ruined the whole fucking thing for me too cuz that was horrendous.
It was horrendous!
I'd never, I was prepared to walk out.
I was almost asleep, i'd been awake for so long and I was just like
"fucking kill me."
It was horrible.
Umm. It really made up for itself.
though, was it worth it to sit through that bullshit for a long time in order to see the rest of the movie happen?
Totally.
totally totally totally worth it.
It might have been eligible for making my top of 2012 list, had the first part of this movie not been there.
And another thing that kinda takes away from it is that they sort of life room for interpretation of symbolism in the film.
Until the very end of the movie where the writer character just flat out says it.
He says it to your face.
Hes talking to fucking M. Night Shyamalan look alike, and he just explains it right there.
Hes like "so this is this by the way and this is this. correct?"
But you know hes just speaking to the audience.
Just in case you don't get it.
Ya know it would have seemed like it would have been much more intelligent had he not just blatantly said it just in case.
Ya know, that would have made the movie so much better if he didn't say it
and if you let people figure it out for themselves and not just pretend as if your audience is stupid.
Which, ya know, they may or may not be.
But overall I enjoyed it. Seven out of ten.
Very reluctantly because honestly, honestly fuckin first forty minuets
or at least it felt like forty minuets, i'm not sure how long it actually was.
Fucking horrible!
I can not explain to you, they had this like dinner table conversation and its just like
hes like pondering about his religion as a child and just the sheer dialog of of, uh,
his parents when they're sort of like trying to nurture his contemplation about religion is just so
self-self-self-indulgent is the word I want to use.
Its so self-indulgent because you can, i-its from a writers perspective but
not from a characters perspective and its really obvious.
Especially in the way that they word it that its like,
you know that line was intended for an audience and not for the characters in the room.
That bugged the hell out of me and honestly as soon as those characters were gone from the story,
as soon as there was a lot less dialog and it became more of a story of this fuckin dude on a boat with a tiger!
How cool is that!
Um they, i-it, you watch their relationship develop.
Yea I know, their relationship.
but its, I defiantly enjoyed it. Its worth it.
See it, I guess in 3-D. That probably helped with the visual effects too.
Its eye-candy. A lot of it is like faux pretend artsy but in a way that,
because its some made up bullshit story and they explain it as such, its okay.
seven out of ten.
Thank you.
and for those of you wondering how my knee is doing, its doing a lot better.
I'm walking around just fine. I haven't used my crutches in a while,
but now my other leg just fucking fucked up!
Yeah that's my butt.
umm, yeah.
its-its its hard to do this in a mirrored image.
I tried to go to the bathroom in the theater and I wiped out.
It wasn't very packed so I didn't embarrass myself in front of a lot of people.
This is sticking out a lot I should probably ice it.
Apparently i'm a huge fuckin klutz.
Goodbye!