I just finished (four hours ago - I stopped writing for a bit, forgive me) seeing The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - for the fourth time. That means 12 hours of my life deposited into the same movie!
Before that, today, I watched Rebel Without a Cause. Not bad, but I expected a bit more from all I heard of it. Misfortune. My greatest problem with it is the whole thing happens in a period of 24 hours. All the actions and feelings shown in the movie do not fit in a single day. Maybe it does not fit in a movie. It would make a lot more sense in a book - but then it would not have James Dean, who is the sole reason for which half of its audience watched it.
Yesterday, before watching LotR for the third time, it was Vertigo. Certainly not a very good film, in spite of Hitchcock. No major suspense, many plot holes. But the ending compensates for all of it. Forgive the minimum spoiler, but that is probably the apex of ironic anti-climax.
Tomorrow, if all goes right, I may finally go watch The Two Towers. Absurd, absurd, I still have not.
On another note, I was called today concerning my little work. There was a small problem I did not mention about me not being a corporation (well...) or a declared autonomous "worker", which was solved. Furthermore, the author decided to do something with the book before the revision, so it will only come to me in another ten days. I now have time to work on an entry for the History contest.
Posted by Etienne at January 8, 2003 04:10 AM