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©2005 Jason Cross
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 Monday, September 2, 2002 |
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Mom, Shawn, Misty, Keith, Sebbie, Nate and I went took a family trip to Omaha over the weekend, where we stayed downtown near the Old Market area and spent Sunday at the Henry Doorly Zoo. It had been over 14 years ago when I had last been to the zoo and being disappointed with the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, I was looking forward to the trip.
I mean, come on, Blank Park doesn't even have bears.
It took a good 5 or 6 hours to go through the zoo, and that was talking it fairly fast. We saw the Imax Kilimanjaro movie (note to self, add climbing Kilimanjaro onto life's todo list), visited the air conditioned desert dome, walked through the rainforest area, watched some gorillas, went through the aquarium, and much more stuff as well.
I'll have more later when I get my photos up.
The Fam and I - Click to Enlarge
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Using my theatre connections, I went to see Blue Crush on Friday. I went in with two expectations: surfer girls and cool surfing shots. What I got was a longing to visit Hawaii... but onto the movie.
Not bad, per se, not what I expected, which isn't necessarily a bad thing either, yet as it ended I felt a sense of pointlessness. Like the movie was heading towards a point that it just kind of missed.
The main character, whose name I can't remember though she's played by Kate Bosworth, was in a surfing accident two or three years prior and almost died. As the movie starts, she's gearing up for the "Pipe Masters" which appears to be some sort of surfing competition. Unfortunately, whenever she's getting ready to really go for it, her fear of getting hurt again holds her down.
So you think the movie would be about her overcoming this fear, though she never really does. In the competition she ends up sitting there scared most of the time until the wise pro-surfer in the round against her helps her just once overcome her fear and surf the perfect wave. She doesn't win, she doesn't overcome anything, but to wrap it up nicely a Billabong sponsor (which I guess is the maker of some sorts of surf stuff) wants to talk with her about joining their team. Too bad she'll probably continue freezing up out there. Oh well, I guess that's a problem for the fictional characters.
Despite this part of me liked the movie. Blame the surfer girls and cool surfing shots. |
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Late last week I finally saw Queen of the Damned on DVD. Having read the entire Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles series, I was hoping that it would be good yet fearing that odds are it wouldn't be.
Sadly, I was right in the latter of my judgements.
The movie bothers me with its stupidity in decisions. Vampires are described in the book as having a preternatural beauty and grace, so in the movie they look like heroin-strung addicts. They fill the movie with characters and settings that only make sense if you've read the books, yet they deviate from the books greatly in the history and reasoning of these characters.
Why make a movie that will only have a chance of appealing to the fans, and then screw with it in ways that are sure to annoy these fans?
And Aaliyah is actually in it for only 20 minutes or so. And she's not that good, though I blame the movie, not the late actress.
Queen of the Damned. Stay away from it. If you need a vampire fix, watch Angel. Sundays on WB. |
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