Saturday, October 23, 2010

Déjà Vu Movie Review Story

Now is time again for something different. This review is more of a story that is really weird and awkward. Also this won’t be edited at all since telling this story is as awkward is it is in itself so please bare with my writing here. So here is the tale of how I saw Déjà Vu starring Denzel Washington (not really important I just thought I make it part of the introduction):

This happened about a year and a half ago when I came home from school around midday. As I was walking home from taking the bus I began to reach into my backpack for my house keys. Before I stuck my hand into the pocket of my backpack I began to realize that I don’t have my house keys at all do I? I looked in my pants pocket, jacket pocket, and every pocket in my backpack and then finalized it: I don’t have my house keys. They are in the house that is right in front of me. And so it begins.

I walk up to my door and lazily thought: Maybe the door was still open. I try and twist the knob and without any surprise it was locked. So next thing I try and see if the windows were open. Again to no surprise they were all locked. If it wasn’t my parents that checked if the windows were locked, it was me. After that I retreated to my backyard in the case of anyone from the neighborhood thought I was some sort of robber. They suspect anybody since they don’t really know who I am anyway. Most of our neighbors never really talk to us.

Well, anyway as I scurry to the back, I then try the back door. Nothing. Either I’m a really terrible robber or our house has perfect homemade security. Take that real robbers. And ADT.

After that I then place my backpack down and sat on it as I begin to think of more ideas on what to do. I then went to go check to see if I accidently left the garage door open. Sadly it wasn’t. I really hope robbers won’t read this and think I left the door open sometimes. I then sat on my backpack again hoping any police that may drive by won’t suspect anything so I thought there may be places to go so that I can wait for one of my family members to come home. I then thought about the theater since at the time I was working at the movie theater as an usher. I could go watch a crappy movie for the day. Sadly I was out of money for the bus and I wasn’t really in the mood for a crappy movie.

So then another idea came into my head. Sometimes when my next door neighbors go out of town they give us their keys so we can feed their dog for them. And usually when we go out of town our neighbors do the same for our cat or pick up the mail for us. It was only about 5 or 6 years ago I’m sure they must still have a copy of one of our keys!

I then get my backpack and venture to my neighbors house and approach the door. I then think, what if they don’t have any keys. What else was I going to do? So I knock on the door and the lady owner that lives there says hi to me and I say hi back and then things become awkward. So I then tell her how we used to exchange house keys way back and asked if she would happen to have another spare. She politely said no and how she wishes she could have a spare just in case if something were to happen. I don’t really know what those things could be or why she would want to so I didn’t think about it and just said: “I’ll look into it.”

I pretty much didn’t know what to do at this point so a little after I said that, she said well why you come inside for a little while. I didn’t have much else to do and because of how nice of the gesture was I just said “Sure, alright,” and went right inside. I greeted the lady’s husband who was also inside and then was shown towards the TV room as I was allowed to watch TV while I wait for someone with keys to get me back to my house. 

So I flip through with something to watch and explain how the TV wasn’t really set right so with my TV knowledge I explained about aspect ratio. I didn’t get anything through to them so I just told them to leave the settings how they were as I set them and they should be fine. My TV lingo needs some adjustment.

So then I ended up on a channel showing Déjà Vu. Apparently my lady neighbor really liked Denzel Washington movies. She then offered me cookies and I was set. (Interesting cookies as they were Cookies with smores.) Still totally awkward to watch a movie with a neighbor you virtually have little or no conversation with ever though.

The movie was great so far. My neighbor would talk about well things about Denzel Washington between commercials and I would just mostly sit and listen and nod as I ate cookies. I don’t really watch a whole lot of Denzel Washington movies either, but apparently she knew all his movies. The movie had a sci-fi time travel thing in the plot.

After a few hours past by my sister had let me know she was home so I said my goodbyes to my neighbors and told them thank you for letting me intrude and watch a movie for the day and for giving me food as well. I then stole some cookies and went on my way.

I walked over to the house and my sister didn’t even know I was there and saw me walking from the neighbors house and asked: “Were you at the neighbors house?” She really didn’t know, so all I can say was: “Yes, yes I was.”

And that’s how I saw Déjà Vu.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Doc, About the Future…

Note: Currently watching Back to the Future and made the post title as Michael J. Fox said it. I am proud of myself.

If you haven’t read the movie news too much, there is a whole lot going on. The most surprising?:

  • Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy in the new Spider-Man reboot. I’m as surprised as you are and just about everyone else. I would think she would be better as MJ. I also noticed a bit of confusion as a couple of websites got it wrong and confirmed her as MJ. She's also natural blonde. I don’t understand the world anymore…
  • Superman has a new director and is indeed one of Christopher Nolan’s top choices to direct the movie. The man in question is Zack Snyder. Now bare in mind even if this news may not be so bad. I mean Chris Nolan is the producer here and may prevent Zack Snyder from doing so many slo-mo scenes. Or at least limit them as in Watchmen. At least the script sounds really promising. Kneel before Zod.
  • This is probably the most interesting news I heard all of today. Apparently Japan is filming their own Paranormal Activity sequel or a “parallel sequel.” I don’t think I have ever heard of this being done. At least not in this fashion. To learn about the whole thing on this you can read about it here.
  • Halo is again, trying to be made into a movie as DreamWorks tries to buy the rights for the project. So it again is not dead. I wonder how many times its tried to be reanimated. Stuart Beattie has also said he would like to help out with the project. Please DreamWorks don’t let him.
  • In Blu-ray partial news: Director Edgar Wright has made his own Scott Pilgrim vs. the World custom Blu-ray set. It is awesome and I really want it to be real. If it was he may have to pay royalties to Nintendo though. We will just have to wait and hope. For now all we get are awesome blurry pics:

  • Will the Hobbit ever be made? Will Peter Jackson direct? Did a greedy society burn down part of the Hobbit set? Will MGM have enough money to make both Hobbit and James Bond 23? Stay tuned as word will come soon what will become of the Hobbit as well as an inevitable documentary will soon be in the works.
  • Panasonic made their own ultra portable laptop apparently which will have Linux (not the official OS yet) and will play MMO games. I don’t know how this will be with the small screen since last time I checked MMO’s are very text heavy (i.e. WoW). If Star Wars: TOR works well on this I may be intrigued to buy this.
  • I was originally going to make this the picture of the day because of how awesome it is. But I Lol’d at this Medal of Honor paradox:

  • I also almost failed to mentioned the new Transformers movie with its subtitle: The Dark of the Moon. Just call it the “Dark Side of the Moon,” to get it over with, and hope Pink Floyd won’t sue.