Um, well, yeah. See, um…. Yeah. What do I say about this movie? Firstly, I think it’s one of those movies that gains Hype Momentum, whereby some people give it rave reviews and others simply follow so that they, too, seem like know-it-all cool movie peeps. The reviews on this particular film have been almost out of this world. Yahoo! Movies loved it. Rotten Tomatoes loved it.

I, however, did not like it so much. I didn’t hate it, but I surely wished I had saved $20 for something else. I’m not going to give the thing away, just in case you want to waste your money to see it, but I’ll go over the basics. Firstly, to me it seems like it wants to be part Modern-Day Never Ending Story, part Schindler’s List, and part “Cute girl makes us all go ‘awww…’” Thing for me is, first and foremost I hate, HATE movies that sell cute. I think it’s cheap. Secondly, the film can’t seem to make up its mind whether it’s going to be a movie that’s fiction-based reality or reality-based fiction. It never quite decides and I think the movie suffers, and forces us to suffer, too.

It had promise. I think they need to either cut the “cute” out, or cut the adult out. I mean, half children’s fairy tale told in an adult film sort of stinks. With the language, this certainly isn’t geared towards kids. But it’s much to kiddy for adults, though.

And where the fuck is the flying dog, anyways?



Sprinkles = SEVERE STORM
Only in Southern California does two hour’s worth of heavy drizzle somehow constitute a severe storm. No really, I’m not exaggerating here. I got up, the ground was wet. It then proceeded to drizzle heavily (which means it was less than a light rain, for reference). OK, then it’s off to hear my mother speak of it: “Oh yeah, it’s really pouring out right now.” No, not really. I was just out in it; it’s a heavy drizzle at best.

Then it’s off to hear my friend Daniel tell it: “Yeah, it’s coming down pretty good. Real wet outside.” Wet, yes, but that’s because it’s now been a heavy drizzle for the last 3 hours. Really coming down? Not so much.

At least this time it actually rained. A few weeks back, they predicted rain for the next 3 days in the five day forecast for – I kid you not – at least 5 days. Never saw a drop. So we’re getting somewhere; we’re making progress. Hopefully with the next SEVERE STORM, there will be enough water that people will feel that there’s really no need to water the plants. In the rain. During a SEVERE STORM ALERT.

Oh well. At least it was something.

Peace.

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