erzulia loves you!! day five!!
Feb. 15th, 2008 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duchess_of_pietoday is my jewelry day. i'm wearing some pretty rhinestone hairpins that my mom gave me for christmas, the necklace my friend sharon made for me in korea with the glass beads i bought in japan, and my patina bracelet--that which i bought as a present to myself when i needed it most and only wear on jewelry day or grand occasions, because it is pretty and dainty and fine, and full of pink/purple/lemon/lime rhinestones that would break my heart if any of them were to fall out due to daily wear.
that reminds me, i promised![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bardhorse last year that i would post a picutre of the bracelet and i never did. well. i have a camera now, so i will.
yesterday was luxury day, andkat_food was my luxury. it was SO NICE to see her and talk with her and just hang out. i took the day off and picked her up at the airport, whisking her away to chinatown and a little cafe there where we ate and talked and had a good time. she's so beautiful, it is nice to have my memory refreshed with having her in person. there is not much to tell, since we had secret girly talks, but it was exactly what i needed, and i hope she had a good time. i think she did. chinatown is nice at night, all the lanterns lit up and the shops closed down. then it was a drive out to pasedena at night (to take her to her hotel), and the city skyline and driving up into the mountains in the dark. it was a good day.
wednesday was love day, with our sneak preview of "diary of the dead." i left my camera in the car in case it wasn't allowed, and was very disappointed when we got to the egyptian theatre and george was there in a small crowd, posing for photos with his fans. ah well.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS: DIARY OF THE DEAD
it was bad. gabe and i had a conversation trying to decide if george's movies are degrading into a self-parody mode, and we really couldn't decide. at the Q&A, george talked about the actors, mentioning that they're all unknowns, pulled from the stage...and, sadly, you could tell. it's one thing to have bad actors in a movie that you can edit and direct, but when you do a movie that is shot by hand-held and is supposed to be "real" and a diary of events, a script does nobody any good (it FEELS scripted) and stage acting becomes magnified.
it's a bunch of university film students and their teacher who head out in an RV to their hometowns in PA during "the night it all changed." there's all this overdub of the main girl character--who is REALLY not likable--and this mentality that everything must get on camera and uploaded to the internet to keep people informed and create a record of these strange events.
at one point, they take an injured girl to a deserted hospital and the boy with the camera stays behind in a room with freshly-killed zombies because his camera battery is going low on power and he has to stay plugged in. he hears the others screaming down the hall, but he doesn't know what's going on, because he's tethered to the wall by his camera's powercord.
really.
at this point, i figured, okay, this is supposed to be funny. then the film went on, with equally ridiculous "real people don't act this way" shit, and i realized, oh george. this is AWFUL. not that any of the zombie films are high art, but this one reeks of being made specifically for the purpose of becoming a cult film...a status which should be EARNED, not manufactured.
basically, the whole movie was a setup for as many new-and-exciting ways to kill a zombie that they could come up with, most of which needed CGI to complete, which is sad. really. off the top of my head, there were about, 5 or 6 zombie slayings that the audience cheered because they were so FKN outrageous. yeah, they were fun. but when you build a movie around that, you've got....nothing much.
none of the characters are likable except a deaf amish dude who is a scream. you heard me. a deaf. amish. farmer. i couldn't make that up if i tried.
it doesn't even fit in as a next step in the "dead" line. it's just a piece of crap on its own.
end.
and at the end of the movie, mr. romero was interviewed by another director (you'd know who it was if i told you, but i'm drawing a blank at the moment), and while he was coked out of his mind, george was funny and real and swore like a trucker. i love that man. i love him. even with my thoughts on "diary," "night of the living dead" is one of the best and most poignant horror films ever made...if horror films can be poignant.
that reminds me, i promised
bardhorse last year that i would post a picutre of the bracelet and i never did. well. i have a camera now, so i will.yesterday was luxury day, and
kat_food was my luxury. it was SO NICE to see her and talk with her and just hang out. i took the day off and picked her up at the airport, whisking her away to chinatown and a little cafe there where we ate and talked and had a good time. she's so beautiful, it is nice to have my memory refreshed with having her in person. there is not much to tell, since we had secret girly talks, but it was exactly what i needed, and i hope she had a good time. i think she did. chinatown is nice at night, all the lanterns lit up and the shops closed down. then it was a drive out to pasedena at night (to take her to her hotel), and the city skyline and driving up into the mountains in the dark. it was a good day.wednesday was love day, with our sneak preview of "diary of the dead." i left my camera in the car in case it wasn't allowed, and was very disappointed when we got to the egyptian theatre and george was there in a small crowd, posing for photos with his fans. ah well.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS: DIARY OF THE DEAD
it was bad. gabe and i had a conversation trying to decide if george's movies are degrading into a self-parody mode, and we really couldn't decide. at the Q&A, george talked about the actors, mentioning that they're all unknowns, pulled from the stage...and, sadly, you could tell. it's one thing to have bad actors in a movie that you can edit and direct, but when you do a movie that is shot by hand-held and is supposed to be "real" and a diary of events, a script does nobody any good (it FEELS scripted) and stage acting becomes magnified.
it's a bunch of university film students and their teacher who head out in an RV to their hometowns in PA during "the night it all changed." there's all this overdub of the main girl character--who is REALLY not likable--and this mentality that everything must get on camera and uploaded to the internet to keep people informed and create a record of these strange events.
at one point, they take an injured girl to a deserted hospital and the boy with the camera stays behind in a room with freshly-killed zombies because his camera battery is going low on power and he has to stay plugged in. he hears the others screaming down the hall, but he doesn't know what's going on, because he's tethered to the wall by his camera's powercord.
really.
at this point, i figured, okay, this is supposed to be funny. then the film went on, with equally ridiculous "real people don't act this way" shit, and i realized, oh george. this is AWFUL. not that any of the zombie films are high art, but this one reeks of being made specifically for the purpose of becoming a cult film...a status which should be EARNED, not manufactured.
basically, the whole movie was a setup for as many new-and-exciting ways to kill a zombie that they could come up with, most of which needed CGI to complete, which is sad. really. off the top of my head, there were about, 5 or 6 zombie slayings that the audience cheered because they were so FKN outrageous. yeah, they were fun. but when you build a movie around that, you've got....nothing much.
none of the characters are likable except a deaf amish dude who is a scream. you heard me. a deaf. amish. farmer. i couldn't make that up if i tried.
it doesn't even fit in as a next step in the "dead" line. it's just a piece of crap on its own.
end.
and at the end of the movie, mr. romero was interviewed by another director (you'd know who it was if i told you, but i'm drawing a blank at the moment), and while he was coked out of his mind, george was funny and real and swore like a trucker. i love that man. i love him. even with my thoughts on "diary," "night of the living dead" is one of the best and most poignant horror films ever made...if horror films can be poignant.
