Sky High & Deep Impact
Aug. 7th, 2005 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewbearWent to see Sky High with Jim this afternoon. The movie was okay, but not spectacular. The standard Disney moral: "it's what's inside that counts", "stay true to your friends", "it's okay to be different"... You get the idea. I enjoyed spending time with Jim, though.
I was feeling kinda urpy after the movie; I think that the Schlotsky's I had for lunch didn't totally agree with me. So I stayed home and watched Deep Impact on TV tonight. Back when it came out, I remember thinking that it was far better than Armageddon, and I still think that, but I realized why it wasn't as big a hit at the box office. Rather than succumb to the "rah, rah, heroes save the day, nobody gets hurt" mentality that infused Armageddon, it actually addressed and indeed focused on the emotional impact. Heart-rending choices are made. Families are torn asunder. People die. Primary characters die. While the science behind the film is a bit dodgy, the characterizations are very, very real. There is rage, horror, terror, despondency, courage and bravery. And it's all human, not the superhuman, gleaming god-on-a-pedestal heroic courage that we're constantly told is the only kind worth mentioning.
It made me cry, and that's why it's the better movie.
P.S. I had no idea that Elijah Wood was in this movie. He wasn't famous when it came out, after all. Also, why isn't Téa Leone in more stuff?
I was feeling kinda urpy after the movie; I think that the Schlotsky's I had for lunch didn't totally agree with me. So I stayed home and watched Deep Impact on TV tonight. Back when it came out, I remember thinking that it was far better than Armageddon, and I still think that, but I realized why it wasn't as big a hit at the box office. Rather than succumb to the "rah, rah, heroes save the day, nobody gets hurt" mentality that infused Armageddon, it actually addressed and indeed focused on the emotional impact. Heart-rending choices are made. Families are torn asunder. People die. Primary characters die. While the science behind the film is a bit dodgy, the characterizations are very, very real. There is rage, horror, terror, despondency, courage and bravery. And it's all human, not the superhuman, gleaming god-on-a-pedestal heroic courage that we're constantly told is the only kind worth mentioning.
It made me cry, and that's why it's the better movie.
P.S. I had no idea that Elijah Wood was in this movie. He wasn't famous when it came out, after all. Also, why isn't Téa Leone in more stuff?
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Date: 2005-08-08 10:59 am (UTC)