box avoidance
In an attempt to flee the land of boxes that is my home, when I wasn't driving to Idaho...I saw "Premonition" with Sandra Bullock. I have to say I was disappointed. It was one of those quasi-time travel flicks, where you go back and forth in time armed with new knowledge each time of the impending doom that awaits your family, therefore you try to change it, and tragically, another god-awful thing happens.
Anyway, poor Sandra is in a time travel quandry re-living and re-hashing her husband's death and funeral. The thing that really bothered me was that she altered the course of events in one of the sequences that would have resulted in her daughter not being horribly injured, yet as that scenario played out the daughter was horribly injured. Then, I thought it would be a big message about how you should learn to love and appreciate your spouse when they're around, and treasure everyday, yada, yada...this was a little ham-handed with a priest saying "Every day you're alive is a gift"- To which I would have replied- "Yea, that's great and all, but I'm re-living every day the most tragic days of life where my husband dies and my daughter's horribly injured, so the whole 'gift of life' thing is a bit lost on me these days!" However, Sandra just nods knowingly. Somehow Sandra slips out of having to re-live these horrible events, but of course the movie doesn't tell you how.
The other thing that was terribly annoying about this movie outing was the two women who insisted on supplying running commentary the whole way through the movie!
A sample:
"Sandra Bullock looks good- she's over 40"
"No way! she's not 40"
When the husband is about to get smashed into by a tanker truck the women screamed
"GET OUT OF THE CAR! GET OUT OF THE CAR!"
Also, they gave Sandra's character advice
"You better watch out for that skinny 'ho- she's after your man"
"Your husband's hot! Don't let him go on that trip"
They were very sad for Sandra- and they concluded that it wasn't her best film, but the dude who plays her unfortunate husband is super hot, plus she looks "damn good" for her age.
Anyway, poor Sandra is in a time travel quandry re-living and re-hashing her husband's death and funeral. The thing that really bothered me was that she altered the course of events in one of the sequences that would have resulted in her daughter not being horribly injured, yet as that scenario played out the daughter was horribly injured. Then, I thought it would be a big message about how you should learn to love and appreciate your spouse when they're around, and treasure everyday, yada, yada...this was a little ham-handed with a priest saying "Every day you're alive is a gift"- To which I would have replied- "Yea, that's great and all, but I'm re-living every day the most tragic days of life where my husband dies and my daughter's horribly injured, so the whole 'gift of life' thing is a bit lost on me these days!" However, Sandra just nods knowingly. Somehow Sandra slips out of having to re-live these horrible events, but of course the movie doesn't tell you how.
The other thing that was terribly annoying about this movie outing was the two women who insisted on supplying running commentary the whole way through the movie!
A sample:
"Sandra Bullock looks good- she's over 40"
"No way! she's not 40"
When the husband is about to get smashed into by a tanker truck the women screamed
"GET OUT OF THE CAR! GET OUT OF THE CAR!"
Also, they gave Sandra's character advice
"You better watch out for that skinny 'ho- she's after your man"
"Your husband's hot! Don't let him go on that trip"
They were very sad for Sandra- and they concluded that it wasn't her best film, but the dude who plays her unfortunate husband is super hot, plus she looks "damn good" for her age.
posted by moegirl at
7:10 PM
2 Comments:
What the hell? Like at 40 you've got both feet and probably most of your legs in the grave? I think not.
Stupid societal attitudes about age and beauty.
(Oh, and if you want any box-avoidance tips, I'd be glad to offer them up... I'm really good at avoiding work...)
By
Coffee-Drinking Woman, At
7:43 PM
You've gotten so mellow in your maturity. Days past, you'd have made those two women pay, which would have earned you a standing ovation by the others in the theater.
By
Diana, At
5:49 PM
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