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matrixrefugeeSo, I get into work this afternoon to discover that I didn't have to come in to work today: I'm supposed to go in *tomorrow*/Wednesday. The person who gave me my hours when I called in yesterday must have read the sheet wrong. Unfortunately, that messes me up for going into Lowell tomorrow: I won't be able to hang around as long as I wanted to, and I'll have to postpone some projects, including burning Pazu's "A.I." fan novelization onto audio CD so I can listen to it on my CD player. Hopefully the computer lab will still be open on Thursday: I've got that day off, so perhaps I can nip in then. We'll see...
And as we'd planned over the weekend, Mark came over, bringing along his usual mysterious movie to share... this time it was "Collateral", which I had been wanting to see (Regardless of the fact that I am *hating* Tom Cruise for his utterly rude, unethical and downright bigoted comments about people with depression who need meds to handle it.)
***** out of *****
Whoa... An action movie with genuine drama and philosophical depth without philosophizing. Jamie Fox plays an ordinary LA cab-driver who picks up a fare (Tom Cruise with his hair greyed -- he looked good with it: I'm impressed) who turns out to be a hitman, who then hires him to drive him to various hits throughout the city, including a female prosecutor (Jada Pinkett-Smith) who had been the first fare of the night. The characters are likable and familiar: I've met a lot of cabbies who share Fox's character's horse sense and people-reading abilities. The female prosecutor is a regular gal who's a little saddled by her job, but manages to carry it with poise and strength. Cruise, as Vincent the hitman, is nothing short of chilling: he's practically the Devil himself, managing to stay calm and unruffled no matter how many people he takes down, and always managing to verbally push Fox's buttons whenever he tries to object to what's going on. It's dramatic without being hysterical, and it's violent without glamorizing the violence: the killings are cringe-worthy, not in an "Ew, gross..." way, but more like "That... was a *human being* who just got killed..." Fox, despite playing the hero, is never "The Hero": he's a regular guy who's rolling with the wierd punches that get thrown his way, trying to "adapt, Darwinize, improvise" to this situation from hell.
And as we'd planned over the weekend, Mark came over, bringing along his usual mysterious movie to share... this time it was "Collateral", which I had been wanting to see (Regardless of the fact that I am *hating* Tom Cruise for his utterly rude, unethical and downright bigoted comments about people with depression who need meds to handle it.)
***** out of *****
Whoa... An action movie with genuine drama and philosophical depth without philosophizing. Jamie Fox plays an ordinary LA cab-driver who picks up a fare (Tom Cruise with his hair greyed -- he looked good with it: I'm impressed) who turns out to be a hitman, who then hires him to drive him to various hits throughout the city, including a female prosecutor (Jada Pinkett-Smith) who had been the first fare of the night. The characters are likable and familiar: I've met a lot of cabbies who share Fox's character's horse sense and people-reading abilities. The female prosecutor is a regular gal who's a little saddled by her job, but manages to carry it with poise and strength. Cruise, as Vincent the hitman, is nothing short of chilling: he's practically the Devil himself, managing to stay calm and unruffled no matter how many people he takes down, and always managing to verbally push Fox's buttons whenever he tries to object to what's going on. It's dramatic without being hysterical, and it's violent without glamorizing the violence: the killings are cringe-worthy, not in an "Ew, gross..." way, but more like "That... was a *human being* who just got killed..." Fox, despite playing the hero, is never "The Hero": he's a regular guy who's rolling with the wierd punches that get thrown his way, trying to "adapt, Darwinize, improvise" to this situation from hell.
