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May. 4th, 2019 10:33 pm1. New tv and console have turned out to be a great success. It's sort of like having my own personal movie screen. The Avenger's Age of Ultron looked amazing on it.
What did I get? ( Read more... ). Feeling very grateful for everything that I have in my life at the moment. (And no that's not just the tv. I'm being general here.)
2. Re-watched Iron Man, The Avengers and The Avenger's Age of Ultron today -- I'd recorded them last weekend. (They look like they are on the movie screen on new tv.). Upon re-watch, I realized something -- the Avengers - Age of Ultron is weirdly the better film. Not great action sequences, but far better character moments and plot structure -- also I appreciated it more after seeing everything that came after it.
Of the three films, Iron Man is by far the best -- mostly due to Jon Favreu's direction, which is clean, and well-paced. It also works well as a stand-a-lone, and it's focal point is very different that most superhero flicks up to that point. Prior to Iron Man -- superheros had secret identities, and were sort of doing it as a hobby or as vigilante's. They also had a clear romance and family focus. And the main struggle was trying to keep their normal life and hobby separate.
Iron Man sort of changed all that. ( spoilers for Iron Man and Age of Ultron )
How one views movies or anything really tends to change with time, or so I've discovered. I know not everyone loves these films, but considering I don't love all the films and television shows out there...I mean come on, I despised some of the flicks that were nominated for awards. Mileage it varies. (shrugs) Although I'm not sure people want to hear that or care. I get it. I do. But it's still terribly annoying when people don't love what I love --and feel the need to inform me of it, which they do. I get that. I do the same.
Whenever they do though, I feel the oddest desire to smack them on the nose, and say, "wake up you fool, can't you see this is really good and that, whatever it is you are squeeing about at the moment which I don't happen to like or be interested, is utter crap. I mean come on. You know I'm right about this. Get with the frigging program!"
But alas, the world would be incredibly boring if we all had the same taste. Also, it's not possible to be right about taste. Or wrong for that matter. There's no such thing as good or bad in regards to taste. Also taste doesn't define who we are since it's not really a stagnant thing anyhow -- or say that much about us really in the scheme of things except what is interesting us at the moment -- for whatever reason, known only to us, and sometimes not even that.
Sometimes I think taste is just well that taste. I'm never going to like brussle sprouts...and am always going to love chocolate apparently. (Well at least I think so.) That really says nothing about me one way or the other, except that I currently despise Brussel Sprouts and Love Chocolate.
What did I get? ( Read more... ). Feeling very grateful for everything that I have in my life at the moment. (And no that's not just the tv. I'm being general here.)
2. Re-watched Iron Man, The Avengers and The Avenger's Age of Ultron today -- I'd recorded them last weekend. (They look like they are on the movie screen on new tv.). Upon re-watch, I realized something -- the Avengers - Age of Ultron is weirdly the better film. Not great action sequences, but far better character moments and plot structure -- also I appreciated it more after seeing everything that came after it.
Of the three films, Iron Man is by far the best -- mostly due to Jon Favreu's direction, which is clean, and well-paced. It also works well as a stand-a-lone, and it's focal point is very different that most superhero flicks up to that point. Prior to Iron Man -- superheros had secret identities, and were sort of doing it as a hobby or as vigilante's. They also had a clear romance and family focus. And the main struggle was trying to keep their normal life and hobby separate.
Iron Man sort of changed all that. ( spoilers for Iron Man and Age of Ultron )
How one views movies or anything really tends to change with time, or so I've discovered. I know not everyone loves these films, but considering I don't love all the films and television shows out there...I mean come on, I despised some of the flicks that were nominated for awards. Mileage it varies. (shrugs) Although I'm not sure people want to hear that or care. I get it. I do. But it's still terribly annoying when people don't love what I love --and feel the need to inform me of it, which they do. I get that. I do the same.
Whenever they do though, I feel the oddest desire to smack them on the nose, and say, "wake up you fool, can't you see this is really good and that, whatever it is you are squeeing about at the moment which I don't happen to like or be interested, is utter crap. I mean come on. You know I'm right about this. Get with the frigging program!"
But alas, the world would be incredibly boring if we all had the same taste. Also, it's not possible to be right about taste. Or wrong for that matter. There's no such thing as good or bad in regards to taste. Also taste doesn't define who we are since it's not really a stagnant thing anyhow -- or say that much about us really in the scheme of things except what is interesting us at the moment -- for whatever reason, known only to us, and sometimes not even that.
Sometimes I think taste is just well that taste. I'm never going to like brussle sprouts...and am always going to love chocolate apparently. (Well at least I think so.) That really says nothing about me one way or the other, except that I currently despise Brussel Sprouts and Love Chocolate.