Friday, October 08, 2004
Welcome to the slush pile...
Well, the Slush God (http://www.tuginternet.com/jja/journal/) keeps posting about having time on his hands at work, so off goes another little story in the mail to him....
Just doing my part to keep him from growing too bored at work.
It's looking to be a writing-intensive weekend, and I'm looking forward to it!
--
We watched Walking Tall (the 2004 remake with The Rock) and Spartan (starring Val Kilmer and written and directed by David Mamet). WT was eh-eh - really, it's a wysiwyg kind of movie, so if wys is what you're in the mood for, it's OK, although the pace seemed slow, especially at the beginning, for a 78-minute movie.
Spartan was interesting and gives you more to talk about. I've long had an interest in special forces / black ops action-adventure stories, so this was a good fit for me. Val Kilmer plays a guy who typically operates quite deep undercover, and he finds himself in a bit of a pickle in this movie. There are all sorts of plot twists and turns that you have to try and follow as the character is also figuring them out. In some ways, I was reminded of The Recruit. I think you could make an interesting movie if you took the best parts of Spartan and mixed them with the best parts of The Recruit.
Just doing my part to keep him from growing too bored at work.
It's looking to be a writing-intensive weekend, and I'm looking forward to it!
--
We watched Walking Tall (the 2004 remake with The Rock) and Spartan (starring Val Kilmer and written and directed by David Mamet). WT was eh-eh - really, it's a wysiwyg kind of movie, so if wys is what you're in the mood for, it's OK, although the pace seemed slow, especially at the beginning, for a 78-minute movie.
Spartan was interesting and gives you more to talk about. I've long had an interest in special forces / black ops action-adventure stories, so this was a good fit for me. Val Kilmer plays a guy who typically operates quite deep undercover, and he finds himself in a bit of a pickle in this movie. There are all sorts of plot twists and turns that you have to try and follow as the character is also figuring them out. In some ways, I was reminded of The Recruit. I think you could make an interesting movie if you took the best parts of Spartan and mixed them with the best parts of The Recruit.
