At The Movies

December 5, 2009 | Filed Under Main | 8 Comments

I went to the movies last night to see 2012 – because you really need to see world-wide destruction on a big screen. Unfortunately it wasn’t in IMAX, but I sat up close so it seemed like it. Last week, I also watched “9” which is the animated aftermath of world-wide destruction and I finished reading The Road, which is the non-animated aftermath of world-wide destruction. The movie of that book is out now and I will see it when I get home. Toss in the Terminator movie, the awful Knowing and a slew of zombie films and you can vaguely see a pattern here.

Vaguely I said. Shakespeare said the stage was to be “as a mirror up to Nature”, but that has never been Hollywood’s forte. Hollywood mines a fad until it is but another dead horse beaten into a gutter and left lifeless. Meaning this could just be world-wide destruction’s time in the pit and all will be talking babies and cute puppies next year.

But it does give me pause to see all this carnage in the first full year of our new Depression and our new President. Though the destruction is pure Hollywood, one can’t help but look around at this year’s quota of earthquakes, fires, epidemics, tsunamis, tropical storms and – of course – war and wonder where the escapism in all these films. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big fan of special effects and I thoroughly enjoyed the ones I saw last night. But I also spent some time thinking about what I would pack and how quickly I could do it should, you know, something happen…

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  1. kerry December 5, 2009 6:57 pm

    here’s the leading edge of the new direction:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMewMRKnPw

  2. mburma December 5, 2009 9:59 pm

    I’d say I’m pretty prophetic.
    “Not THE God, but a god.”

  3. Mike December 7, 2009 8:37 am

    A perfect example of why I don’t watch movies. There is no fun anymore, just doom, gloom, and stupidity. For me, I watch Marx Brothers movies on AMC and Bugs Bunny and other cartoons to escape the everyday silliness of life. Except watching Groucho sing “I’m against it” now reminds me of Republicans.

  4. Bowmar Brain December 7, 2009 3:32 pm

    It could be worse — you could be watching Christmas chick flicks being shown on either the Lifetime or Hallmark cable channels. Laurie did that all afternoon yesterday — thank goodness I had the new Larry Bird and Magic Johnson book to read.

  5. mburma December 7, 2009 9:35 pm

    Yeah – I’m not a fan of “feel good” movies either. Frankly, Clint Eastwood makes the best movies these days. Intelligent, honest, good story and a little cranky.

  6. kerry December 9, 2009 5:20 pm

    So, Tom – would you say that your books were the male equivalent of “chick lit”? :)

  7. mburma December 10, 2009 4:30 am

    Hey – that’s a brand new book.

  8. Bowmar Brain December 10, 2009 7:14 am

    Kerry, you’re absolutely right. Laurie reads Debbie Macomber any time I’m watching sports or shows she doesn’t like.