"The 'what-ifs?' increase exponentially when your heart is walking around outside of your body wearing Buzz Lightyear light up shoes."
- BlestWithSons
Thursday, May 21, 2009
This is genius.
Seriously, Brant Hansen makes listening to the local CCM station in the morning not only okay, he makes it darn near necessary. :-)
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Comments on "Don't Let People Stop Stopping You from Not Following Your Dreams (Unless You Want them To, I Mean)":
2. nhe
- 05/21/2009 12:06 pm CDT
Having watched Kris Allen (yet another "worship director" like Danny Gokey and Jason Castro) win last night and be forced to sing one of Kara's songs, this is about right.....man it's awful.
The picture at the beginning of this clip looks like its from the movie "Funny Game", which I had the misfortune of seeing a few weeks ago - that guy isn't Brant Hansen is it? Looks exactly like a guy in that movie, and dressed like him too.
4. nhe
- 05/21/2009 1:17 pm CDT
wow........have you heard about that movie?.......it's pretty controversial.......even in that picture, the actor is breaking the 4th wall with the audience - which is what the movie does. It criticizes the viewer for being voyeuristic into into violence.......kind of like the movie "History of Violence", but more bizarre.
6. nhe
- 05/21/2009 1:49 pm CDT
well, its a message movie, no sex, and not over-the-top in violence........it's just intentionally depressing and at the same time joyful about how it makes the viewer depressed....if that makes sense.....remake of a Czeck movie by the same director.........needless to say I won't be seeking any more of his out.
Back to the topic.......I thought American idol was very entertaining last night (except for the lame song that is being parodied well by this video).........Queen, KISS, Rod Stewart, Keith Urban, and others.....our family had fun watching it.......and Kris is a likable winner with a nice indy/folk/acoustic sound.
8. nhe
- 05/21/2009 2:19 pm CDT
yeah, its violent, but in spurts, not in body count.........its 2 hours of mind game torture (threats that eventually are carried out) ......when characters are killed, it's pretty much off screen.......so its not the visual that's disturbing, its the tone and the implications.......actually, having seen the movie (caught it on HBO) the guy in the picture here gives me the creeps.......Naomi Watts and Tim Roth (like them both a lot) do a good job in the film as the tortured couple.
11. Bill
- 05/21/2009 7:04 pm CDT
its 2 hours of mind game torture (threats that eventually are carried out)
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth (like them both a lot) do a good job in the film as the tortured couple.
It sounds absolutely awful.
12. Jared
- 05/21/2009 7:31 pm CDT
It sounded awful to me too. And then I heard that the wife or somebody shoots one of the bad guys but then the other bad guy uses a remote to rewind the movie (!) and bring him back to life so they can ultimately prevail in murdering the family
At that point I was like, "Um, yeah. No thanks."
13. Jared
- 05/21/2009 7:33 pm CDT
And I'm also the guy who hated the ending of "The Mist" where the 'hero' spends 2 hours protecting his son and others from the onslaught of the mist only to take 5 minutes into a new threat to kill his own son at the end... right before help arrives.
Why anybody liked that, I don't know. It was awful. And a violation of the character they'd spent 2 hours establishing.
14. nhe
- 05/21/2009 7:47 pm CDT
yep, that's pretty much it......I didn't say it was "good"........it's one of those intentionally depressing indies........I didn't pay to see it fortunately.
The remote control scene Jared references is a plot device used by the director to supposedly show us how perverse we are for wanting the mom to blow the bad guy away with a shot gun.
15. nhe
- 05/21/2009 8:35 pm CDT
Jared - you and I are lockstep in agreement on "The Midst" - probably my least favorite ending to any film...........and that was Frank Durabont who's other two Stephen King adaptations were Shawshank and Green Mile...........needless to say, my hopes were high going into The Midst - that made it all the more disappointing.
17. Enkurio
- 05/22/2009 6:49 am CDT
Brilliant! I'm not a song writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I must say that a professional song writer could have done a bit better with the lyrics of the AI winning song.
Kara D is probably sitting on some beach right now soaking in the rays pulling in 50K a day from all the teenagers downloading that song because they think Kris Allen is cute. She is the one that is laughing right now.
Meet Luke Skywalker with Vader in the back of the line - nice touch.
18. Raindream
- 05/22/2009 10:50 am CDT
I looked up the movie and have read your comments--chilling, but then I hate horror movies anyway. Jared, what do you think of The Midnight Meat Train? What I read looked horrific, which gave me a good opportunity to beat up on myself for reading about it.
21. Raindream
- 05/22/2009 12:33 pm CDT
So what horror movies have you liked? The ones with zombies? Japanese remakes?
22. Jared
- 05/22/2009 12:47 pm CDT
I like zombie movies, generally. The "Dawn of the Dead" remake was excellent. Fulci's campy "Zombie" is a cult classic.
Atmospheric, supernatural horror films like "The Others" and the first "The Ring."
When the ironic horror films of the 90's first came out, I liked the first two "Scream" films and "Urban Legend."
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