fresh as vegas weather

[originally posted on myspace on January 12, 2010]

No, I had never seen the movie Titanic.

Nope. Not ever.

I saw a trailer for it in theaters and laughed at how awful it looked and never saw it. Never had any desire to see it. Ever.

I told this to L.C. at work, last Friday, when all computers/internets were down. I decided to bluff, say we'd rent it at the library and watch it that afternoon, if the computers weren't back up by then (me assuming that the library would not have it and/or the internet would be restored by the afternoon). They had a copy (and I was silently hoping for restoration of the internet...which, several hours later, did happen).

I thought I had escaped, until yesterday, when L.C. gave me the DVD (I even made her check it out, since I didn't want that on my library record). Today, she asked if I watched it yet. Hrrm.

Ok, I'll at least try it (the first disc, out of the three total). Keep an open mind. Whatnot. I only made it through the first one (possibly to watch the rest, actually to skep the second and watch the last disc, maybe tomorrow).

(so this is purely the first disc - from the opeining to the fancy pants dinner "Jack" gets invited to and the after party below he takes "Rose" to, with Irish jig music)

It was not horrible. It was not terribly good, either. It was definitely pretty to look at (and that was L.C.'s key selling point as to why I should watch it). The dialogue was horrible. Poorly written and stilted and unrealistic. I really didn't see any 'romance' buidling between Jack and Rose (though, yes, I am a girl and I got a little 'eeep' when she came down the stairs and dressed up and he was all dressed up and took her hand and...eeps!). And I can totally see how Jack (dressed up) totally resembles Chase Crawford (sp?). BUT...

In the opening scene(s), on the boat...the Snoop Operator guy (with the long hair and scruffy beard) annoyed me to no end. What a terrible waste of a character. And every sentence started or ended with "Boss" (see, we are trying to establish that whashisface is this guy's superior, or boss, so let's have him say it about twenty times in ten minutes!). Though, I might start calling my boss that..."Good morning, Boss, how's it going?"

Also, I hate the cliche of rich man vs. poor man in a romantic storyline. More specifically....nice/sweet hearted/romantic/worldly yet poor man versus smarmy/evil/stupid/rich man. Oh, which one will she choose?? It's Reality Bites all over again.

Which lead me to think 'a 13 year old would love this.' And it's true. Their repeated attendance to see this movie (or, actually, to see Leo) helped it tremendously. And they are the ones who are making Twilight a success. And every other teenage girl brain centric movie of each decade (too tired to list right now). 13 year old girls and the adult women who think like them.

Escapism, fantasty, giving your brain a break for 120 minutes? Sure, yes, absolutely. Movies should be (and blockbusters tend to be)...I guess I just want something different...something with characters with some depth...like the poor/good hearted/romantically/artistic boy turning out to be bad...or the creepy/rich/stupid/condescending rich boy to turn out alright...because no one is so black and white, so cut and dry.

end thought...sleep now...