Mark visit(s)
Jul. 27th, 2006 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeAs of this morning, my buddy Mark headed back to Ohio to a summer conference at the University of Steubenville, where he's been attending college. He came over Tuesday night, and we went out to see M. Night Shyamalan(sp???)'s "Lady in the Water", which I'd been wanting to see.
***1/2 out of *****
Okay. So it wasn't "The Sixth Sense", and it was a bit marred by too much explanation, but I loved the story and I loved the wonderful eccentric characters who appeared in it. And the image of an apartment building inhabited by eccentrics is something that frequently shows up in my own writing, so I felt right at home with it. The scrant, the grass-covered wolf/hyena-thing lurking in the shadows was one of the more original movie monsters I've seen/heard of. I have to admit, I think M. Night would profit if he collaborated with someone on a film: it might help him shoulder the burden of film-making. Not that he's losing his touch.
Or it might have been one of those cases -- as in the live-action Aeon Flux, where the studio decided the movie needed more explaining. ::Hands the Warner Brothers execs a copy of David Gerrold's Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Fantasy and Science Fiction, points to the passages on "Murray the explainer".
I'd given Mark a couple of G.K. Chesterton books I had that I realised I had duplicates of (I've been reorganizing my bookshelves lately), but by some fluke, he forgot to take them with him. So, he stopped by last night to pick them up and say one last goodbye.
And tonight, I'm going to a going-away party for one of the gals at work, since she's moving to Georgia in a few days. Lots of comings and goings...
***1/2 out of *****
Okay. So it wasn't "The Sixth Sense", and it was a bit marred by too much explanation, but I loved the story and I loved the wonderful eccentric characters who appeared in it. And the image of an apartment building inhabited by eccentrics is something that frequently shows up in my own writing, so I felt right at home with it. The scrant, the grass-covered wolf/hyena-thing lurking in the shadows was one of the more original movie monsters I've seen/heard of. I have to admit, I think M. Night would profit if he collaborated with someone on a film: it might help him shoulder the burden of film-making. Not that he's losing his touch.
Or it might have been one of those cases -- as in the live-action Aeon Flux, where the studio decided the movie needed more explaining. ::Hands the Warner Brothers execs a copy of David Gerrold's Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Fantasy and Science Fiction, points to the passages on "Murray the explainer".
I'd given Mark a couple of G.K. Chesterton books I had that I realised I had duplicates of (I've been reorganizing my bookshelves lately), but by some fluke, he forgot to take them with him. So, he stopped by last night to pick them up and say one last goodbye.
And tonight, I'm going to a going-away party for one of the gals at work, since she's moving to Georgia in a few days. Lots of comings and goings...