Special Moves

Monday March 7, 2005 - 3:00AM EDT

I pulled one of my classic slacker move by going to see a movie tonight instead of working on a website. It wasn't that slacker, because I did do decent amount of website work during the day and did get the copying of files done for another website. I just need to escape reality, because I fucking hate my pathetic life.

I saw The Jacket which was good. I liked it a lot and I think most would find it a solid offering. I've read some movie review that keep referencing The Butterfly Effect for some odd reason. I don't know why, because that trashy movie didn't originate the type of movie The Jacket is. Also there are still those that want to question plot loopholes in movies that deal with time travel. If these idiots would figure out that anytime you deal with time travel in a movie there are going to be endless questions and plot holes because time travel intrinsicly doesn't make any sense from our standard logic. I never hear anyone trying to rip the Terminator movies for all the time travel inconsitences. Time travel in movies is a vessel, a backdrop, a setting for which the rest of the movie is carried, it allows the writer to get away with things one couldn't normally, don't question it. But you can't rely on it to tell the whole story or the movie will suck ass. Even movies that deal directly with time travel (ie: Back to the Future, The Time Machine, etc...) aren't really about time travel but have strong supporting themes to carry the movie (or else the movie sucks ass). Botton line is you can't make a movie about time travel without it really being about something else, so enough of the questioning. The good part about The Jacket was that it didn't try to explain too much about the time travel thing (or else you'd get really confused). It used it to effectively move the plot. The acting was good and although it was no deep character study you cared about the people you were supposed to. It was an enjoyable movie, that may turn off certain people. But those looking for a decent thriller will be satisfied. Adrian Broody is a good actor and shows it once again here. With Keira Knightley always playing these shiny young girls it was a change of pace to see her in a really dark role (King Arthur doesn't count, that was an small world adventure flick with a fairly weak character. Which is ironic because her character is supposed to be a strong willed fighting woman). She definately made the transition well, as she was believable as Jackie. When I saw her on screen for the first time I thought "there is no way she is going to pull this off," but she does a nice job. The makeup, the lighting and the fact they kept her smiles to a bare minimum also helped. I really liked the movie. I like movies where it is one man vs. everything or everybody else. The small movie with just a few characters and not a lot of exagerated scenery. The setting is ordinary and you get inside the head of the main character. You feel what they are feeling. Ghost Dog is another one of those movies I like. That movie has very sparse dialogue in places, I like that.