The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Monday, March 9, 2009

It's Monday!?!?!

How is this possible? I watched a mediocre musical at the school this weekend, viewed a very mediocre film called Harry and Max (puhleez,) and got thrown by a green-broke three year old. Oh and it rained a lot too.

Other than that the weekend was uneventful. Oh, wait, not true. I also spent Friday with friends that was fun.

Bryce Johnson is a cute straight boy who somehow keeps getting cast as a gay boy doing wrong. In Nip/Tuck he was a married solider who went to Mcnamara/Troy to get some war scars repaired, and wound up having sex with one of the dr's. And in Harry and Max, he was cast as a boyband brother who has incestuous sex with his brother. at first he doesn't want a repeat performance, but then he changes his mind...I think. The movie was such a damn mess I couldn't really tell.

I mean if a film is about incest it really has to be about that. It's something of an attention grabber. Yet this film persisted in being about as many things as the director/writer could think of. It was about boy bands and their pitfalls, it was about bad family relationships, it was about brotherly bonds and crossing lines. It was about sexual confusion. It was about familial relationships, and relationships with women...oh and men, I forgot about the older guy Max was sleeping with on the sly, whom Harry seduces. It was about...well you see what I mean. At over an hour into the proceedings we were introduced to a new character who made an appearance that was all of 2 minutes long and we never saw her again! How do you explain that?

It was reminiscent of the incident last week in which this straight guy at work informed me that some of his best friends are gay. I just stood there with my jaw on the floor. And the longer this mess of a movie went on the closer to the floor my jaw got. Munch (the director) might want to stick to directing, this foray into writing...not so great.

Big week. Midterms today and Thursday. Which I should write btw, I've already decided the questions, but they need to be on paper I guess. Big project at work every day. No day off from any of the jobs, and somewhere in there I have to pay bills and do the checkbook. hehe, we'll see about that.

Have a nice week I can't promise I'll be around but I'll try.



See, there was every reason to pay attention to this movie, but the script made it damn near impossible. How do you make a guy this cute unwatchable?