The Beginning of the End

Aptly named title for tonight's Lost premiere seeing as how it is the beginning of the back half of the series.

Yes, finally after waiting for what seemed like forever, I got to see one of my favorite tv shows come back for its 4th season. And just like almost every episode, this one left me both confused, trying to piece together all the parts to the complicated story I had just seen unfold, and wanting more. I liked it. However, as a season premiere it felt very different from the previous season openers.

And maybe that was because it was different from the previous season openers. First of all, the flashbacks which have been a Lost staple from the very beginning have now been replaced with flashforwards off the island. So that's a pretty big change. Everything just seems so chaotic...whether it be the on-island segments where they are going back and forth between whether they should trust the rescuers, or the off-island flashforwards where the 6(!!!) apparent survivors lives are all messed up. I have a feeling there's going to be a real shortage of fun "happy go lucky" moments from this point on, save for Hurley's slow motion cannonball jump.

I think more than anything, what I wanted from this episode was some answers. And that was an unrealistic wish. Of course we weren't going to get much, and we were going to be given more questions. I guess it had just been so long I was ready for something. There was some good stuff, but sooo many new questions.

I think more than anything, the question I want answered soon is who are the "rescuers"? Maybe that'll get answered next week...

doubt it.

You know what makes me sick

I hate reality tv as much as the next guy, but you know what's especially terrible--the dating/relationship reality shows. Oh my God, I get so sick of seeing them, whether it be from an ad, flipping past the channel when one of them is on, or however I might come across one. They can be hard to avoid. I guess the main reason I think this genre is the most pointless piece of crap on television is because they have no purpose. What is supposed to be the purpose? I assume it is for the famous person to pick one of the contestants to have a relationship with them. Really? Is that a good idea for a show? Especially since you know at the end of the current season there is GOING to be another season. It's inevitable. Or at least the probability looks pretty good judging from the countless seasons of Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, And I Love New York.

I was watching I Love New York once and was just amazed. I was amazed at how people could take it seriously. Because there was this one part when they added some dramatic violin music in, similar to the kind that the show Lost uses....but see, the thing was, the moment wasn't worthy of dramatic violin music. It was laughable really. But at the same time it was frustrating because stuff like that doesn't deserve to be on television. I think by this point, VH1 has lost any credibility they ever had with me. So I'll probably have a biased against anything that is ever on that station from now on.

And what's worse? What's one thing not effected by the writer's strike? Reality television. Because it takes no talent and no creative thinking to produce a reality tv show.

Reality tv sucks!

too sleepy to come up with clever title

Well you know. I've been thinking again...and you know it's bad when I start thinking, right. (That's right--another one of those crappy stream of conciseness posts again.)


I guess what I've been thinking about is the future. You know, one more year of college after this semester, which is flying by at the speed of light as we speak/type. And I try to think how much my life is going to change when it's over. Where will I go? What will I do? But I think more than anything the question that keeps popping into my head is what my everyday life is going to be like after college. Even though I KNOW I need to grow up at some point...I don't see it happening. It's just gone on too long as it is...my routines set, my comfort zones in place. I can't just suddenly change. Sure, I can do half of the adult thing, the job part. I pretty much already do that now. But the other half, whatever that is, I'm afraid might never come for me. That's what I'm afraid of. Because no one wants to grow up, but at the same time, no one wants to be "that old guy" attempting to hang out with younger people.

Maybe it's ok. I'm sure there are plenty of people that aren't "settled down" out there. But do I really want to be one of them? I think I do...but it's hard to say. Do I really have a choice? I think I do, but at this point I'm questioning that.

Anyway, sorry for the rambling clutter, it won't happen again (well...hopefully not for a while at least)

Cloverfield review

I knew coming out of this movie that there were a lot of people posting their bad reviews of this movie, but then again, there seems to be a lot of people that do that for every movie so you can't really be sure of anything from reviews. That's why I never listen to any of them. And I guess in the same regard, you shouldn't listen to mine. But if you would like, here it is.

I liked this movie for one major reason. It was different from anything I had ever seen. Yes, it was the same old tired monster movie, but with a new perspective...first person to be exact. That in itself sold me on this movie. To be able to pull off the illusion that these people were running around New York with an amateur video camera--when in reality they were using all this high tech equipment and sound and such, that's what really blows me away. Sure with post editing and green screens and all that they use nowadays it probably makes the job easier, but it's still impressing to get that feeling that you are there. It was a weird feeling too...a good, suspenseful feeling which I'm sure was the intended one.

I guess that some people didn't like the ending and I have to admit I was left wanting more. But you have to realize that because of that nature of the film the ending couldn't have been more than what it was. Since the entire movie takes place from the tape of a video camera there's no way to have a nice little epilogue that sums everything up and ties up all the loose ends. Besides, that's not J. J. Abrams style anyway. And that's OK by me. Sometimes leaving it open and allowing the imagination to think up what happens next is better than anything they could have written. And speaking of J. J. Abrams style...it just wouldn't have been a J. J. production if it didn't have reversed whispers at the end of the credits (which I stuck around for, took forever)

"It's still alive."

Damn you J. J. Abrams!! I can't wait for Lost much longer!! 11 more days.

Movies

I was watching tv while I eating lunch a little while ago and a commercial came on for a new parody movie of 300. The question I asked myself was, do we really need this movie? Why does 300 need to be parodied? I don't think it does. Not that I think it's not "worthy" or something...I just think its a bad concept.

Not that any of the other parody movies that have come out as of late have looked any better. (I can't say whether they actually were or not since I did not see them, but I passed my judgment based on the commercial.) Point is, they just look terrible. I'm talking about this Meet the Spartans movie, Epic movie, that Dewey Cox movie, The Comebacks which was like a football one, Date Movie, and I think there's a new one called Superheros that looks pretty terrible as well.

There are some good parody movies. Anything done my Mel Brooks, The Naked Gun series, and Shaun of the Dead to name a few--but I guess the more recent ones don't appeal to me because they try too hard to be funny. And there's nothing funny about that.


Speaking of movies, I am going to go see Cloverfield tomorrow at midnight. You might not have heard of it because almost nobody knows what it's about. The trailer for the movie is entirely from the view of a hand-held camcorder someone has at a party. All of the sudden there's an explosion of some kind outside, so everybody runs out to find the Statue of Liberty's head in the middle of the street. Then there's all these other explosions in the distance, but that's about it. It's been directed by J. J. Abrams, co creator of Lost, so of course secrecy is involved which adds to the hype and fun of going to see it. So hopefully that won't let me down. The only other movie I can honesty say I'm looking forward to is Indiana Jones IV which will be out in May. I am confident I will not be disappointed, but you never know.

Anyway, I'm not really a big movie buff or anything, but that's what was on my mind at the moment and I need to fill up this blog page again. So there you go.

Whoops

I was starting a resume tonight and decided I needed a legitimate email address aside from my school one. I went about it the wrong way though and instead of making a new one first, I deleted my old one which happened to be linked to my old blog...so I guess it's gone. Oh well, I was thinking about updating the look of it anyhow, just kinda sucks that I lost the archive.