Well, I went to the gym last night, and I forget that sitting on my couch once I get home is a serious tactical error after having gone to the gym. Hard chairs only, with straight, stiff backs if I want to stay awake for more than five minutes.
So I fell asleep before my laptop finished booting. The fireworks in my neighborhood (not organized fireworks, just children and adults with a lighter and a desire to get their hand blown off) woke me up around midnight and I got from couch to bed before I fell asleep again. So now it's morning (and what a glorious morning of sleeping in!) and I'm writing my blogger entry for like, the last three days it seems.
Sarah wants to hear my opinion of A.I. Well, I don't know anyone who's seen it who doesn't think it should have ended about 20 minutes sooner than it did. But I have even more problems with it than that. The message it sent about love was disgusting. What the child robot felt wasn't love, it was a frightening kind of obsession. His 'brother' was psycho, his friends even more-so. Every woman in the movie was depicted in a demeaning way. (Except the one at the very beginning who questions the ethics). Ebert has pointed out in the past that hot air balloons have really never done anything good for a movie, and I have to say he's still not wrong in this case. Lots and lots of characters were just absolutely stupid, too. Who would purposefully buy a child that would never, ever grow up? You'd be seventy, with this eight-year-old following you around asking stupid questions, and you could never ever make it go away. Now there's a design flaw. And who could ever imagine that your grieving wife will be cheered up by a replacement child? And here's a great idea. Let's try to vilify a little boy holding a teddy bear. And speaking of Teddy, he was my favorite character, but they didn't do enough with him. The Jude Law character showed the most character development, and his last words (I am! I was!) were great. Some of the cinematography was cool. The effects were good. But really, I did not like this movie. Their online campaign wasn't bad, but it was too hard to find.
Enough of my griping. My day off is going to be spent getting the characters in my novel into even more trouble (fall back! fall back!) and doing laundry. Because I'm free, to do what I want, any old time.
So I fell asleep before my laptop finished booting. The fireworks in my neighborhood (not organized fireworks, just children and adults with a lighter and a desire to get their hand blown off) woke me up around midnight and I got from couch to bed before I fell asleep again. So now it's morning (and what a glorious morning of sleeping in!) and I'm writing my blogger entry for like, the last three days it seems.
Sarah wants to hear my opinion of A.I. Well, I don't know anyone who's seen it who doesn't think it should have ended about 20 minutes sooner than it did. But I have even more problems with it than that. The message it sent about love was disgusting. What the child robot felt wasn't love, it was a frightening kind of obsession. His 'brother' was psycho, his friends even more-so. Every woman in the movie was depicted in a demeaning way. (Except the one at the very beginning who questions the ethics). Ebert has pointed out in the past that hot air balloons have really never done anything good for a movie, and I have to say he's still not wrong in this case. Lots and lots of characters were just absolutely stupid, too. Who would purposefully buy a child that would never, ever grow up? You'd be seventy, with this eight-year-old following you around asking stupid questions, and you could never ever make it go away. Now there's a design flaw. And who could ever imagine that your grieving wife will be cheered up by a replacement child? And here's a great idea. Let's try to vilify a little boy holding a teddy bear. And speaking of Teddy, he was my favorite character, but they didn't do enough with him. The Jude Law character showed the most character development, and his last words (I am! I was!) were great. Some of the cinematography was cool. The effects were good. But really, I did not like this movie. Their online campaign wasn't bad, but it was too hard to find.
Enough of my griping. My day off is going to be spent getting the characters in my novel into even more trouble (fall back! fall back!) and doing laundry. Because I'm free, to do what I want, any old time.
