The Silver Screen

When this movie had first come out, I heard that it got bad reviews and those I'd spoken to all said that the movie sucked.

Well, I went to the pawn shop today after meeting a friend for coffee to pick up a couple movies, a habit I acquired since pawn shops sell them cheep. I got the "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" and the "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". I absolutely love the latter movie.

How on Earth did it get bad reviews? Are we so used to "realism" in cinema that we have forgotten how to let our imaginations fly free?

This movie wasn't at all about realism per say. It was about imagination that is rarely found these days in, not only movies, but in all of the art forms that make to the stage or big screen. It didn't try to be real and that is what makes it so good in the first place. Also, the story behind it was actually quite engaging. Cheesey, you say? But that's what made it so great. It was cheese done very, very well and it worked, and it would have received better reviews if people hadn't expected "realism".

Why can't we have more movies like Sky Captain that are fun, carefree and lively?

Brain Explosions

So, this solar flare pretty much depicts how my brain feels when the characters of the Writing Project take a unanimous vote, (without inviting me), to turn the project into a five-book series. It was arduous enough with four, but now five!?!?!? Gods above and below! Maybe I will become a serial killer if only to save my brain from such surprises.

Not really. I actually did suspect that this would happen when some of the important characters began their growth spurts on the late end. And this is to be expected when writing intuitively and allowing the characters to find their own ways rather than try to control them.

So, for those of you who may be curious as to what the books will be titled, here goes: Illusion, Presence of Mind, Sanctuary, Communion, Release. All under the series title, False Faces. Also, if any of you are wondering why those titles for a, (loosely defined), SciFi story, then think upon the Eastern forms of spiritual philosophy. Not all is as it seems and what seems to be all is, in fact, nothing while holding within everything.

How very Zen.