just me & the kids today. just chillen, nothing in particular, no stress, just hanging out. really rainy day. we went out and saw “chicken little”. basically a long jimmy neutron episode with animals as the characters (the big guy was a dead ringer for carl! what the heck?).
i cannot believe they went for the whole “pop” thing. these movies date themselves badly when they do so (and on a semi related note, i got the vibe that they were licensing out 90’s tunes instead of featuring new music to save some dough)…they also sound like they are trying to be the cool uncle. This is to say, there’s a lot of bad writing in this film, IMO. I thought Disney also brought us The Incredibles & finding Nemo right? They went the dreamworks route with this one…i hate dreamworks attempts at kids films. they’re so awkward…while flicks like Incredibles and Nemo are so unpretensious.
it wasn’t w/o its moments, though. i really dug how they played out the whole “resolution” thing…while on the surface a bit cheesy, there’s a bit of spiritual truth there, and up until the actual “closure”, they did a decent job handling it. a lot of us believers spend a lot of time reminding each other that there’s absolutely *nothing* we can do to earn favor with our King, and this movie actually brings out a little bit of that truth, which was dope.
i did absolutely dig how they handled the whole falling sky thing. definitely something of nightmares (or at least mine) — how those ships worked (trying to say w/o giving it away). that was really fresh.
so i guess in the end i’m most annoyed that they transformed something that could have been a classic into a period piece with its stupid dreamworksisms, i.e. pop culture references…i’m not that much into pop culture, from a “i think it’s so swell” perspective (yes i do know that such a thing exists, and that people refer to it quite a bit–oh look a pulp fiction reference see i can do it too ;) so it was just annoying (i presume it’s supposed to be “oh it’s cute that cartoon animals are making lame pop references”..perhaps with stronger writers it would have worked…oh well.
a fun joint for the kids, but wait ’til the dollar theatre. for comparison…i thought their “the incredibles” was worth every penny of a high priced matinee for a family of 5…and a DVD purchase.
sorry i did not mean to talk so much about this movie.
ended up getting some bw prints at no charge today ‘cos their one hour service took over 3. was kinda annoyed since i was just running in to pick up, and 2.5 hours had already elapsed and they hadn’t even *started* yet.
oh yeah it’s 120 challenge time again…good thing i had some portra 800 for my holga on this severly light-challenged day. took a bunch of crummy shots, actually, wasn’t particularly inspired, but i did know i wanted at least 1 self-portrait since i’ve decided to participate in the whiskerino 2005. FINALLY an excuse to attempt a full beard.
