Comments on: A Hundred Minutes of Standing Still http://www.dadominion.com/2009/04/13/a-hundred-minutes-of-standing-still/ Sharp Wit for a Dull World Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rib http://www.dadominion.com/2009/04/13/a-hundred-minutes-of-standing-still/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Rib Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:06:34 +0000 http://dadominion.com/blog/?p=459#comment-383 Ooops, my bad. That's DECREASING badassedness. And that's pronounced bad ASS id ness. Ooops, my bad. That’s DECREASING badassedness. And that’s pronounced bad ASS id ness.

]]> By: Rib http://www.dadominion.com/2009/04/13/a-hundred-minutes-of-standing-still/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Rib Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:02 +0000 http://dadominion.com/blog/?p=459#comment-384 I haven't seen the original version of this movie and honestly, this one wasn't all that wonderful. It was entertaining. It held my attention for 100 minutes. Mostly because I liked looking at the Smith kid (he looks just like a stripped down, Pre-Bad Boys, Stockard Channing / Six Degreesish, mop-headed version of his dad). The robot was TUFF. When he emerged from the light at the onset of the 'attack', it was like, "Yes! Somebody finna get wrecked!" But he just turned on his humanity-effecting dog whistle. Booo. Hissss. I was surprised that Jennifer Conolly was a co-star, as she reeks of supporting actress. Either that or Lifetime Televison for Women star. Anyway, the kid and the robot. That's where the party's at. Now, I was asked by a friend who has yet to see this movie to list four movies in order of preference: TDESS, Deep Impact, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow. With such a selection, I was sure I was looking for entertainment value and not cinematography or best screenplay. Here are my picks in order of increasing badassedness: #1 ARMAGEDDON - For the pretty girl, explosions, and Bruce Willis' continued sex appeal. And was Owen Wilson in that movie? Wilson and Affleck? Sure, it read like a lobotomized version of Deep Impact, but it had the Aerosmith song to showcase and that's worth something to me. #2 DEEP IMPACT - A growing fetus pressed against my bladder caused me to miss the initial meteor impact when I first saw this in the theatres, but seeing it on video and lacking any hot dudes to hold my attention, Deep Impact effectively provoked me to thought and made me want to do stuff that would cause me to be on that Ark list. Plus it gets points for making me believe that there did lie the possibility of having a black president someday and he could be as cool as Morgan Freeman. Maybe even have freckles. #3 TDESS - One thing I didn't like about this movie is that it downplayed the intensity and desperation I should've felt knowing that robots had come to earth to wipe us out. Keanu kept saying there was nothing I could do to stop it and I believed him. Deep Impact, on the other hand, all of humanity was actively concerned with trying to stop huge chunks of ice from wiping us off the face of the earth and that got my blood pressure up a bit. The robot / locusts kept this movie afloat. #4 The Day After Tomorrow - It was entertaining. I like how Jake Gyllenhaal and the gang narrowly escaped that ravenous pack of wolves. Jinkies!! That's all I have to say about that. I haven’t seen the original version of this movie and honestly, this one wasn’t all that wonderful. It was entertaining. It held my attention for 100 minutes. Mostly because I liked looking at the Smith kid (he looks just like a stripped down, Pre-Bad Boys, Stockard Channing / Six Degreesish, mop-headed version of his dad). The robot was TUFF. When he emerged from the light at the onset of the ‘attack’, it was like, “Yes! Somebody finna get wrecked!” But he just turned on his humanity-effecting dog whistle. Booo. Hissss.

I was surprised that Jennifer Conolly was a co-star, as she reeks of supporting actress. Either that or Lifetime Televison for Women star. Anyway, the kid and the robot. That’s where the party’s at.

Now, I was asked by a friend who has yet to see this movie to list four movies in order of preference: TDESS, Deep Impact, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow. With such a selection, I was sure I was looking for entertainment value and not cinematography or best screenplay. Here are my picks in order of increasing badassedness:

#1 ARMAGEDDON – For the pretty girl, explosions, and Bruce Willis’ continued sex appeal. And was Owen Wilson in that movie? Wilson and Affleck? Sure, it read like a lobotomized version of Deep Impact, but it had the Aerosmith song to showcase and that’s worth something to me.

#2 DEEP IMPACT – A growing fetus pressed against my bladder caused me to miss the initial meteor impact when I first saw this in the theatres, but seeing it on video and lacking any hot dudes to hold my attention, Deep Impact effectively provoked me to thought and made me want to do stuff that would cause me to be on that Ark list. Plus it gets points for making me believe that there did lie the possibility of having a black president someday and he could be as cool as Morgan Freeman. Maybe even have freckles.

#3 TDESS – One thing I didn’t like about this movie is that it downplayed the intensity and desperation I should’ve felt knowing that robots had come to earth to wipe us out. Keanu kept saying there was nothing I could do to stop it and I believed him. Deep Impact, on the other hand, all of humanity was actively concerned with trying to stop huge chunks of ice from wiping us off the face of the earth and that got my blood pressure up a bit. The robot / locusts kept this movie afloat.

#4 The Day After Tomorrow – It was entertaining. I like how Jake Gyllenhaal and the gang narrowly escaped that ravenous pack of wolves. Jinkies!!

That’s all I have to say about that.

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