Addicted to movies?!
I think human beings tend to live much of their lives in different cycles. Every facet of life can be condensed to a simple cycle, and all these cycles for each part of life overlap to form a whole. Lives seem to move from point A to point B to point C, but in my opinion it just goes back to point A again. Its just that the different parts of you don't march to the same drummer, see, and they'll take their own sweet time to catch up.
But I'm not really in the mood to philosophise today. (Did I spell that correctly? Lazy to check the dictionary, or even to copy and paste the word into Microsoft Word and use it's spellcheck.)
Sidetrack: Incidentally, I just found out that PhD means Doctor of Philosophy. I never knew that. Weird. So how come now every damn thing you can have a degree in has philosophy too, to such a degree that one can get a doctorate in it? And how about those who study philosophy? Do they, after devoting their life to learning, end up becoming Doctors of Philosophy in Philosophy? Maybe I'm just crapping but I'm just surprised, thats all. Sorry, back to the original topic.
My interests run in cycles, I've noticed that. And currently, aided by a new source of dvd movies, I'm interested in movies again!
Many of you should know that years ago, I was a huge movie buff. I watched everything. Then after too much trash like, I dunno, Titanic, I realised that good movies, for example, the Godfather, or Amelie (pardon the lack of accent), or Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, only come along once in a blue moon, or so.
So I started watching movies very sparingly. Like once a month, at the very most.
I continued being disappointed, though. Too much commercialisation in films, I find. While I thoroughly enjoyed the Last Samurai (the fact that I watched it at GV Gold Class, thanks sis!, helped, of course), I nearly puked at the end when they made it seem like Tom Cruise's sellout war veteran turned Japan around. Like, whatever, dude.
So I essentially stopped watching movies, at all. Only treated them as a social kinda thing. And even then, not much, cos, as once again some of you will know, I do not consider watching movies socialising.
I mean, how is sitting quietly in a movie theatre for 2 hours or so socialising? Okay, maybe once in awhile you bend over to whisper a sarcastic comment, or to ask someone to pass to popcorn, but hell, that ain't socialising.
I'm ignoring people like you-know-who-you-are who make out, or worse, have sex in theatres, taking advantage of the fact that its dark and people are concentrating on the screen. By the way, you're wrong. Everybody knows you're having sex and they're quite disgusted by it. Well I suppose the perverts in the crowd will probably get really excited, but if you want to help perverts get off thats your problem.
Anyyyyyyyway. Point is, I'm back to being interested in movies. Not all crap movies, of course, but quite a lot of movies. I watch more than I use to anyway. Today, I watched Peace Hotel (one of my favourite chinese shows EVER. Wong Kar Fai classic.), 13th Warrior and Braveheart. I also watch lots of superpeople type shows, like X-men, Spiderman, Charlie's Angels or Austin Powers. The unpretentious ones anyway. I still love french flicks, can't get enough of them thogh. And I watch lots of Tom Hanks, though not all his shows are good.
Anyone got any good movies to recommend (and hopefully lend) this could-be movie buff? Cheers!
posted by Đirestraits @ 1:04 am
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