I know that I said I probably wouldn't get in a movie today, but watching one today is awesome because it means I'm exactly 1/8 of the way done! Also, with this movie, I get to finish a different task: this is the final one of this year's 10 Best Picture nominees to watch. The next post will be my ranking of the 10 Best Picture nominees, followed by my favorite 10 of the year.
I'm going to "liveblog" this one, because I won't have a lot of time to finish a writeup when it's done. You know what this means...
**SPOILER ALERT** I'll be honest... I just may ruin it for you if you haven't seen it and you want to be surprised by every turn when and if you do see it. You've been warned.
Onward!
First things first: you can pretty much tell it's a Danny Boyle movie right off the bat because of his crazy music choices. A.R. Rahman, his music director from Slumdog Millionaire and Simon Beaufoy, his screenwriter, are also credited on this film. Obviously one of those why-ruin-a-bad-thing collaborations.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: James Franco needs to shave off that sorry excuse for a moustache. He's not a bad-looking guy, really, but it does him no favors whatsoever.
Aron Ralston meets up a couple of chicks, rom-com style, one of whom is Joan of Arcadia. Weird, but we're moving on.
Okay, so... we're like 15 minutes into this movie and James Franco isn't trapped yet. I didn't think there was anything other than that in this movie. (Okay, not really.)
Oop, there we are! He's stuck now. And, actually, it's kind of funny when it first happens. He just kind of stares at it.
I've been talking to several people on the tennis website recently about...
Product Placement- Capital One card. What's in your wallet? Old condom, perhaps? Three crumpled up singles?
...movies with primarily one setting. (Not sorry for the last digression.) We'll see how this measures up against my very high standards.
Oh, he dropped the knife he was using to hammer at the rock. Now there's an ant crawling on it. Matt (my brother, with whom I'm watching the movie) said that the ant is going to help him get out because he can commune with nature. LOL.
He got it back with a stick with a curve at the end, using his foot. Awesome.
Dude, you can do it... only 95 hours left! Oh, wait, this isn't a "wait out the clock situation". Am I entirely certain I actually know what this is about? ;)
Hey, I have a headlamp that looks really similar to that one, with like, three LCDs. Matt tells me they're LEDs. What the hell is LCD, then? Moving on.
Awww, he's been at one with nature ever since he was little and his dad took him to the rocks and...*yawn*
24 hours down. He's started recording himself.
"Descending Bluejohn" That sounds dirty.
Good thing he didn't tell anyone where he was going. You know, or leave an itinerary or something.
He's running out of water. I wonder if he resorts to urine anytime soon. Not that I want to see that or anything, you know, but isn't that like in any survivalist's handbook?
Oh, see, just how like in Slumdog where all his memories forged all the answers to all the questions in his brain, so, too, is Aron making connections between the past and present, like how his contact lens reminds him of when he didn't pick up the phone when his mom was calling him.
Bet he wishes he took that Gatorade, now, huh? No, I'm not being flippant... it's pretty obvious in that scene.
Oh, he just pissed. First time we saw that. Hah, he just said he saved some, from before, and that it smells bad. Big surprise.
Gah, he's trying to saw with this dull knife and not even breaking the skin. I could barely watch. Now I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to deal with it when it actually comes to pass.
Dude, you just spilled the last of what little water you had! That suuuuuucks.
Ants again. Maybe Matt's right. Maybe the actual story is that he tells them to go get help. And that's the actual way he gets out of this.
Fleur Delacour?!
Mother Nature declares "No more thinking about Fleur Delacour touching your schlong! Here's a rainstorm you get to deal with now! MWAHAHA!" See people: sex is bad and the work of the devil and if you have premarital sex, you will die. What you all didn't know was that this movie's initial title was: 127 Hours of Sin: A Morality Tale.
And the weird thing is: he actually drowns. Not how I thought this was going to end. Kidding.
Oh, a hallucination. We figured that, when he crawled out of the cave with two arms.
He's coming to grips with his individuality. LOL. I find this exasperating and hilarious. I am probably in the minority on this. And before you all get pissed, I would always be hoping he gets out of the cave. I'm not evil, for goodness sakes.
Just had a thought: I bet Bear Grylls would have gotten out by now and had a barbecue for all his friends. Let's go, Aron Ralston.
Shit, he just totally plunged that knife into his forearm!
And finally we have urine consumption. It's about damn time. Bear probably would have given up on the water a long time ago and just tried to aim his stream at his mouth. On another note, I just drank some of my bottled water and thought, meanly, "Wow, how easy was that?"
Wouldn't this movie be awesome if it turned into The Descent?! LOL.
Lizzy Caplan is his sister. Sweeet. We love you, Janis Ian.
You know, the human body is surprisingly resilient and will stay alive a lot longer than you think it will.
GAH! His arm just broke. Groooooss.
The surgery has started. Ew. Matt just made me LOL: "Actually, he was stuck down there for 300 hours; it just took him 127 to cut off his arm."
He's free! Of course, now he needs to make his way out. That kinda sucks, it's like "You win! But to earn your prize, he have to find your way out of this labyrinth." Just don't touch the Portkey that takes you to the cemetery where Voldemort is waiting to kill you.
(My mind often goes off on strange tangents...)
He's doing a strange little jig, which is nice and all, but he should probably be using that strength to get to civilization. Ew, don't drink that water; it's probably all dysentery.
Okay, definitely got a little teary when the helicopter came. I blame the presence of other people and the music and the good camerawork. Oh, and the story, too, I guess.
I liked this actually a lot more than I thought I was going to. Well played, Danny Boyle. Well played. And yes, James Franco deserves his Oscar nomination.
Score: 8.5/10
I usually don't provide commentary for my scores (other than what I've already written), but I will include that this could, after some rumination, be a 9 or a 9.5 movie. It could also be an 8. So I'm going with how I felt as I watched, which is a solid 8.5
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