barely fatal

I had an exceptionally pleasant weekend I’d like to say. I got everything done quickly that had to be done, met friends and had loads fun with them, and I even slept quite well on Saturday (this becoming somewhat of a problem lately – I yet have to find the ultimate solution to that). It’s gonna be while before I get my new contacts, but the single day that I wore test lenses made many people say how different I looked without glasses. Well, yeah

Movie-wise I sticked to trash, since the rental service sent me nothing but. On Friday I started with Ghost Rider (starring Nicolas Cage), and I must say: Stay away from it. There are people who like Nic and some who hate him, I’m sitting somewhat in between. But his acting was the only good thing to say about the movie, and once he turns into the Ghost Rider even that is lost since he’s all CGI. Stay. Away.

The second movie was genuine trash: Tarantino’s Death Proof, one part of the Grindhouse double feature. It’s way better trash than Ghost Rider but that’s easy to do. In the first part of the movie, everything is meant to look like a badly made 70ies action flick, including mis-cuts and extra grain and so on. In the second half, it all turns to normal though, in contradiction to the plot which does a 180 as well. I won’t say that I understood everything (because I didn’t, call me stupid), but on the bottom of things, if you only look at the entertainment value without the artsy components, I’d rate this movie only an average. But I never have been a big Tarantino fan to begin with.

I’m in a very good mood. I feel change coming soon, positive change. Maybe that’s just the weather?