I really wanna see SKY HIGH

Yes, considering that the only commercials I've seen for it have been on Nickelodeon when I'm watching Fairly Oddparents while I'm on the treadmill at the gym (because Fairly Oddparents make the pain go away. Just like brains.), well, I don't suppose most people here are even considering seeing it. After all, it seems to be marketed to the Spy Kids/Cody Banks crowd. Usually the sort of movie that people like us tend to avoid like the plague and pretend that we wouldn't watch if we weren't that age. However, SKY HIGH looks different. Allow me to reiterate:

Kurt Russell as the Dad/Superman figure. Bruce Campbell as the hardass R. Lee Ermey superhero coach. Lynda Carter as the principal. Patrick Warburton as the main villain. And two Kids In The Hall- Kevin MacDonald with a huuuuge brain and Dave Foley as a former sidekick named... wait for it... "Mr. Boy."

This movie must be seen. Must must must. These days, I could really give a thrupenny fuck about a new Johnny Depp movie. THIS HAS ASH, SNAKE PLISSKEN, WONDER WOMAN, THE TICK, THE TALLEST PURPLE, AND... uh, well, DAVE FOLEY!!! Isn't there anyone else psyched about this?!

I suppose I'll have to see it in Seattle. Oh yes, for those who don't already know, I'll be in Seattle 'till the 8th, since I'll be the Best Man at my brother's wedding. I still have to write the damn speech where I'm not bitter that they found true love and stuff ;p

HEFFIE AND DON

I finally saw BENNY AND JOON, and I think I sympathized a way lot more with Benny than with Joon and Sam. I know we're supposed to feel sympathy for the romantic couple, but I sympathized far more with Benny's plight, for I too know what it's like to have your life on hold while you have to do everything for a house-ridden crazy person. And what it's also like to deal with the hateful, crazed ingratitude of said crazy person, who becomes very hostile, defensive, and hurtful if you ever get fed up with him. It came very close to that once again today, as a matter of fact.

I was gonna do some last-minute shopping for Dad today before I left for Seattle, but today, for the first time since I exploded at him, he asked me to buy him tonic water. "I know you don't like going to the liquor store, so could you just pick up whatever you can get at the Safeway?" Since I wasn't in the mood for fight, I said I would. Fine, whatever. Never mind that he seemed to mistake my discomfort with the actual buying of the product rather than where I would buy it from, but whatever. I said I would.

So I go to Safeway and they were completely out of Canada Dry tonic. They had Safeway Brand and Schweppes, but Dad only drinks Canada Dry, so I shrug and say, "oh well, they don't have it," and my heart isn't broken for some reason. I brought the groceries back to Dad and we spent an hour talking and having a pretty good time. Then he asked about the tonic, and his reaction to the news was... ( well, he seemed deeply concered, to say the least. )

But back to BENNY AND JOON, I did like it, sure, but I didn't see it as the utterly charming Depp-fest that many others did, I imagine. Just because I really felt for Aidan Quinn, who in the context of the film came too close to being a bad guy than was strictly fair. And let me add that Juliane Moore's character was a hateful, selfish bitch for how she treated him, and I don't think that was the filmmaker's intention. Anyway, yeah, good film, but not so much fun for me because I know what it's like to have a Joon, and how it plays on the guilt and makes you feel like the bad guy. And it really didn't help that Joon reminded me of Misty sometimes, especially with the bit about the raisins. I think she actually said that speech sometime. Unsettling.