For breakfast I had 4 pieces of bacon, a peanut butter and jam sandwich and fruit tea. I think I might be malnourished.
My science fiction short story was liked, but no one had any real constructive criticism. Later in the day though, I thought about some more plot - so that's good.
I ate with Bjorn and Alice at the cafeteria (although it was vegetables, I think that any cafeteria food can't be much healthier than my breakfast).
My American Literature class was pretty great. Not many people showed up but Sabine presented Kushner's "Angels in America" (1993). She introduced it and then she and another student (whose name I can't remember) read out two scenes. It was really great to see. The three girls at the one end of the discussion seemed to just stare at the air in front of them, but I really liked it. I asked Sabine if I could borrow her copies and she said that I could. I've nearly finished Part 1.
After class I went for coffee with Bjorn. He still talks about his failed relationship.
I had a big break then, from coffee to when I was meeting Randi and Joe. I spent most of it reading Angels In America. Then we met at Potsdamer Platz to see "Cloverfield" (2008). It was alright. In cinema, there seems to be a fine line between showing too much of the monster and not enough. I think that "Cloverfield" doesn't have enough clear viewings of the monster. But it does have some good ones, and the digital animation is well done and looks real enough, however it is hard to be impressed by digital media and also hard to suspend my disbelief and pretend a skyscraper sized monster is real. It's told from a hand held perspective similar to "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) and I think the earliest film to do this style; the earliest film to be a story told from recovered footage of a personal camera, is "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980). However those films are pretty different as far as subject matter goes. My Dr. Pepper exploded when I opened it and spilled over into my lap and the four surrounding people during the movie.
I spoke mostly in German to Aletta and Gabriel when I got home.
Mack's letter came so that was a real great way to end my day.
This is a clipping from the newspaper, about how people still admire this Romanian leader;
2 comments:
dude, your crazy. Cloverfield isn't about the monster, it's about the panic in the city. If anything I think the monster was shown too much. I would've prefered to just see mangled blurry shots and when they showed the clear shot on the tv news i was pretty dissapointed. i was glad they didnt' build up the hype of seeing it clearly the whole movie and then showing it ala signs though. doing that has been a let down since jim henson's creature shop has been abandoned for CGI. No matter how good Computer animation gets, it's no replacement for a little BGI: Brain generated imagination... I'm watching Hellraiser right now and it's so much sweeter becasue of the lack of computer generated special effects. Sometimes CGI works, but it is almost always immediately dated. Remember how sweet Jurassic Park and Jumanji's computer images looked? watch them again now and I guarantee you'll be disspointed. Glad my letter came though.
Mack, you're right about the panic, there were definitely some 9/11 moments. It's hard to judge the movie on panic, because the audience gets stuck with such a small group of 4 - 3 people. And I totally know what you mean about CGI vs. BGI. I think that's what's cool about The Nightmare on Elm Street. And yes, Jumanji looks worse and worse as years pass. Jurassic Park is different though. A lot of the dinosaurs are digital but they actually made a big robot T-rex and the Triceratops too. I think the T-rex is still so cool, better than the Jaws shark.
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