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annundriel) wrote2005-05-18 12:10 pm
annundriel) wrote2005-05-18 12:10 pm
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Should I be worried about that result? ::shrug:: I need to see the new Star Wars movie, but I think it can wait a week or two.
Last night Natasha and I rented White Noise. Overall, it was disappointing. Not bad, just diappointing. I felt like there wasn't enough development of charaters or their relationships as well as a lack of real development in the plot department. Nothing was ever really elaborated, like why or what or how, etc. I mean, they went into it, but not quite enough I felt. In a way, it reminded me of Dragonfly, which I actually really liked.
Anyway, am now watching Angel season five and it's the ep where Adam Baldwin shows up for the first time. Jayne! He's so great. And really tall.
White Noise
First, because I've been seeing this everywhere and its driving me berserk, I gotta ask: what does the word "meme" mean?
"White Noise". Horrible movie. I also felt really disappointed at the end and I completely agree with you. Not enough devlopment. All around. What made me so sad was they could have written something amazing. The storyline was a great idea. In fact, even the beginning of the movie was good. My problem was that they didn't give explanations. Who were those three figures? What was their history? Why were they doing what they did? How were they able to cross over through the white noise into our reality when others (like his wife) couldn't? If it was because they were strong, why was that? They just left too much unexplained and thats (what I felt) really killed it in the end. I feel like if I want a horror story that doesn't explain everything (that stuff just happens in, just because I want it to) I could write that. Know what I mean? Its too easy to do that. Its a cop-out.
Thats what was so great about "The Ring". Thats why it got to people. It scared them and then it showed you how everything came to be. It all made sense. It was a great story.
Aye. I'm getting carried away sorry. But yeah, those are my thoughts on it.
Re: White Noise
I couldn't remember the exact meaning of "meme," so I looked it up on UrbanDictionary.com (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meme&r=f). Definitions four and five were: "in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog" and "and internet information generator, esp. of random or countless information." I used to always wonder about it, too.
Yes, White Noise was terribly disappointing. I completely agree with you. It could have been really disturbing/frightening/upsetting/thought
provoking...Instead it was just meh. I don't necessarily need to have paranormal stuff explained to me, because where's the fun in losing all of the mystery?, but I like to have at least some of it make sense. They should have better established the three figures. They should have gone into who/what they were, why/how they were doing what they were doing. I kept thinking there would be more with the EVP guy that got killed. They kept showing a picture of him and his son, so I got to thinking, "OK, so maybe he got into this EVP stuff because his son was killed? And maybe those three figures have something to do with it?" I just wanted some plot connection, y'know? (One of the things that made me pause the movie was when the mention the missing woman. My roommate and I were like, "what? what missing woman?") All in all, poorly executed movie.
Don't apologize with the getting carried away. I can't reply to anything without writing a novel. :)
Re: White Noise
Agreed.
They should have gone into who/what they were, why/how they were doing what they were doing.
Agreed.
I just wanted some plot connection, y'know?
Yes, that would have been more than nice.
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