Reworking

I've said this before and completely failed at it, but I'm going to try and rework the blog this weekend, and most likely all I'll do is break it, so if it looks broken for the next few weeks, it's because I'm under the hood.

RIP: Philip José Farmer

January 26, 1918 - February 25, 2008

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January 2009 Round-Up

January 2009 Round-Up

I’m tracking everything I watch, read and write in 2009. Here’s the January Round-Up.

Words Written: 7522
Projects Worked on: 4
Scripts Read: 10
Movies Watched: 14
TV Shows Watched (episodes): 64
Books Read: 1
Comics read (issues): 9

Pleasure Reading:

Born Standing Up Book Steve Martin
Hexed Comic 1
The Boys Comic 20
The Boys Comic 21
The Boys Comic 22
The Boys Comic 23
The Authority Comic 1
The Authority Comic 2
The Authority Comic 3
The Authority Comic 4

Movies:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Across The Universe
The Visitor
City of Ember
Kung-Fu Panda
The Wrestler
Appaloosa
Doubt
Grand Torino
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Taken
RocknRolla

TV:

TITLE SEASON EP
Wallander 1X2
Survivors 1X4
Sanctuary 1X11
Stargate Atlantis 5X19
Wallander 1X3
Leverage 1X5
Sanctuary 1X12
Sanctuary 1 X 13
Survivors 1 X 5
Nip/Tuck 5 X 15
Survivors 1 X 6
Leverage 1 X 6
Cruaoe 1 X 4
My Name is Earl 4 X 14
30 Rock 3 X 7
House of Saddam 3
House of Saddam 4
Batman:TBATB 1 X 5
Batman:TBATB 1 X 4
Batman:TBATB 1 X 6
Stargate:Atlantis 5 X 20
Robin Hood 2 X 8
Wonderfalls 1 X 1
Wonderfalls 1 X 2
Wonderfalls 1 X 3
Wonderfalls 1 X 4
Wonderfalls 1 X 5
Wonderfalls 1 X 6
Nip/Tuck 5 X 16
Wonderfalls 1 X 7
30 Rock 3 X 8
Supernatural 4 X 11
Battlestar Galactica 4 X 11
My Name is Earl 4 X 15
Legend of The Seeker 1 X 8
Legend of The Seeker 1 X 9
24 7 X 1
24 7 X 2
Big Love 3 X 1
24 7 X 3
Fringe 1 X 11
Lost 5 X 1
Lost 5 X 2
My Name is Earl 4 X 16
30 Rock 3 X 9
Burn Notice 2 X 10
Supernatural 4 X 12
The Clone Wars 1 X 14
Batman:TBATB 1 X 7
Batman:TBATB 1 X 8
Battlestar Galactica 4 X 12
Legend of the Seeker 1 X 10
24 7 X 4
24 7 X 5
Big Love 1 X 2
Leverage 1 X 7
Leverage 1 X 8
Fringe 1 X 12
Lost 5 X 3
Burn Notice 2 X 11
Nip/Tuck 5 X 17
Battlestar Galactica 4 X 13
Supernatural 4 X 13

Taken

It's just an action film, but TAKEN hits me in a very visceral way. At its heart it is everything that would drive a man or woman to kill. It is in essence that fever dream that, at least for me is supposition unless talking about my brother or my parents, drives our belief that we are stronger than our nightmares. It's that thing we wish we were when harm comes to those we love, and an underlying actual dream of who I wish I could be if such an event occurred. Above par I say, but then again I could be drunk again, wishing I was something that I am not. So hurray for Liam Neeson's character, who for a moment, went from political pawn to Super Hero; from failed Father to doomed protector. Yeah, I dreamed I was him once, and had no justifiable reason to believe so.

What’s nice about the plot points that don’t pay off is that the Father has only one thing on his mind. He is getting his daughter back, at any cost. So, when we are introduced to characters whose story lines abruptly end, the ones that survive meeting him, it’s fine. He has no further use for them so why should we. Everyone is a pawn to him, to be moved or adjusted in any way necessary to win the game. There is also something nice about choosing Liam Neeson for this role. He isn’t a well known action star and he’s actually older than who you think might be cast in this part. It uses pretty basic plot tropes to set-up the story, which opens quickly, and there are some people that believe it’s anti French. Of course two French men made it, but that never stops the naysayers. The truth is it is anti sex slave trading, and anti kidnap, and anti “the world really is a safe place,” but it could have taken place almost anywhere, and sad to say, even in the US.
So, I say go and see it, or wait for it on DVD. You’ll have a good time. Why must all heroes be bound to a morality more complex than their own.

Yes, I used a semi-colon.

G.

p.s. No, I still haven’t seen DEATH SENTENCE yet, but I’ve seen STRAW DOGS many times.

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