(not necessarily in any kind of order)
1. Visited the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, in the Texas School Book Depository. I thought it was an excellent museum, with good integration of video footage of various aspects of JFK's assassination with the museum exhibits. It is really weird to stand in the place Lee Harvey Oswald stood.
2. Fun with Rafia's WACKY GPS system. It often lies.
3. Engaging in shenanigans with Rafia's colleagues.
4. Southfork Ranch, where Dallas was filmed (outside scenes anyway). Oddly enough, we went there on my insistence. EPIC photos were taken there.
5. Ft. Worth Zoo: many active and adorable animals lived here including black bears, a white tiger, lion cubs, cheetahs, meerkats, otters, and more.
6. Kimball Art Museum: A nice art museum, with terrible signs for parking. But a nice museum.
7. Free IMAX videos including "Sea Monsters" and "Extreme". I preferred "Sea Monsters" while Rafia preferred "Extreme"
8. Movies watched: X Files I Want To Believe which I have decided was a dream and thus will pretend didn't really happen, Hamlet 2 which was mostly funny, and Wall-E, which I loved, but wept throughout.
9. Photo Shoots of Rocky, Uniqua, DJ Pinja, Bearning Love, Renee, and a nameless blue reindeer
10. Delicious foods were eaten, possibly to the point of gluttony.
11. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was wonderful.
12. Riverwalk in San Antonio was sort of cool, if you like that sort of thing. I sort of do. Love San Antonio, and the Southwest, overall.
13. Much, much more!!!
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Mothman Prophecies
I am breaking some rule of blogging by having no focus for my blog (travel? work? random stuff? movie reviews?) but I have a need to report on the movie I watched last night. It was called The Mothman Prophecies and Richard Gere and Laura Linney starred.
Perhaps I chose this movie from Netflix to raise my geek profile; internet quizzes point to me being a pure nerd rather than geek. I remember reading a story about the Mothman legend in sixth grade language arts, and it always haunted me. Thus, I rented this movie hoping to learn more about the legend's origins. I have a genuine interest in unexplained phenomena and the cultural explanations for these. However, this movie was an X Files wannabe. If Mulder and Scully were in it, it would have been fine. Gere and Linney had no chemistry and failed miserably (not that they were trying to emulate the X Files, just an obvious comparison in my opinion). It had great atmospheric music and cinematography and production values. But you never had any sort of idea of what the Mothman was or why anything was happening. It needed more shots of a man in a giant moth costume, in my opinion. I will give it credit for the last 25 minutes were genuinely gripping but the rest of this movie just had a bunch of confused people walking around.
The real Mothman legend came from Point Pleasant West Virginia, where reports of a mothman preceded a bridge collapse in which 46 people died. They have a statue of the Mothman in their downtown, so I may go visit it someday. They also have the world's only Mothman Museum. Road trip.
Perhaps I chose this movie from Netflix to raise my geek profile; internet quizzes point to me being a pure nerd rather than geek. I remember reading a story about the Mothman legend in sixth grade language arts, and it always haunted me. Thus, I rented this movie hoping to learn more about the legend's origins. I have a genuine interest in unexplained phenomena and the cultural explanations for these. However, this movie was an X Files wannabe. If Mulder and Scully were in it, it would have been fine. Gere and Linney had no chemistry and failed miserably (not that they were trying to emulate the X Files, just an obvious comparison in my opinion). It had great atmospheric music and cinematography and production values. But you never had any sort of idea of what the Mothman was or why anything was happening. It needed more shots of a man in a giant moth costume, in my opinion. I will give it credit for the last 25 minutes were genuinely gripping but the rest of this movie just had a bunch of confused people walking around.
The real Mothman legend came from Point Pleasant West Virginia, where reports of a mothman preceded a bridge collapse in which 46 people died. They have a statue of the Mothman in their downtown, so I may go visit it someday. They also have the world's only Mothman Museum. Road trip.
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