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I just saw The Town tonight (see what I did there with the subject line? eh? good, right? No, I know, it’s terrible,) and it was really good. I wasn’t sure I’d like it, because, well, I’m not so much into movies with a lot of violence and car chases and whatnot, but….wow! Way to go Ben Affleck. Also, I have to give props to Miss Boobs Legsly (hey hey fug nation!) because she was great. As someone who has worked as a make-up artist, I can wholeheartedly say that the make-up in this film was excellent. FX make-up can sometimes be terrible and become distracting. One of the things I will never forget is being in class at Make Up Designory having our teachers constantly remind us that, if people are noticing the make up, it’s probably not a good thing. I will say, that on occasion, the music felt out of place, but overall, a great film. I was impressed.
Before the movie my friend and I did some shopping at the Americana and The Glendale Galleria, and we decided to get pretzels to tide us over before the movie. I got a regular pretzel, no salt, with cheese sauce and a small cherry coke.
I definitely shouldn’t have gotten that popcorn, or the second soda (I hadn’t had a soda in a really long time before today,) at them movies. My stomach is not pleased with me, and I should be in bed because I’ve got to be up at 6am for our first long run tomorrow. We’re doing 7 miles in the morning. We’re starting early because apparently, Los Angeles didn’t get the memo that it is now fall, and it’s going to be an amazingly hot weekend. Yay!
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I saw Wall-E today for the second time, and it was every bit as amazing as it was the first time around. It’s interesting because most of the people who have seen it loved it. I do however, know of two people who walked out because they thought it was “boring.” I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie before, and since I loved Wall-E as much as I did, it just blows my mind that people would not only think it was boring, but would get up and leave the theater.
I also read an article where the author claims Wall-E is an unrealistic vision of our future, and that it is merely promoting false stereotypes of the obese. This to me shows that the author clearly missed the point. I never got the idea that the movie was saying that obese people are weak-willed and lazy. I understood that we, as a collective, are lazy and had become weak-willed due to years of conditioning. This view isn’t that difficult for me to believe. We are already clearly programed from a young age, taught from television, and radio and billboards to submit to our need to consume. It really doesn’t seem that far off that we could, over years (they were on that ship in Wall-E for 700 years) become complacent, easily manipulated and well, even more lazy then we already are.
Again, as I watched the film this time around, I was stuck by the many complexities of the story. It isn’t just about what we’ve done to our planet, the entire underlying story is about love, and our connections with others. The ways that sometimes, all it takes is for someone, or something, to shake us up a bit, remove our blinders and let us see what’s in front of us for what it is. Beautiful. I think some of the most touching moments in the movie are when you start to see the humans reaching out for one another, the touching of hands that startles people at first. Then of course, the moment when, hands clasped with Eve, Wall-E remembers who he is, who she is, and the entire theater heaves a collective sigh of relief.
So, once again, bravo to Andrew Stanton and the team at Pixar for yet another amazing journey.
I, for one, can’t wait until Wall-E comes out on DVD so I can watch it in the comfort of my own home any time I want.
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