Wednesday, April 08, 2009

some movie and groggy mornings

its morning, i am terribly drowsy, sleepy, feels like i took half a pound of sleeping pills and i cant focus straight. okay
it wont be a bad thing to say i wasup at 4.45am
for this whole week that will be the trend to grace the nation with 'whats up!' on the air waves. believe you me by friday, i cant focus right. my head is swimmimng with incoherent happenings of the days before mangled together in a sleepy haze, it is not beautiful
worse still am battling the dreaded PMS after effects, so i feel like a rock star on the high about to pass out.
then i watch some as though cult movie yesterday called 'Gabriel' weird mix of 'the crow' and 'Max Payne'. gothic theme, rock music, lotsa rain....i was disappointed by the ending though, they seemed to try to represent the bible theme, fight of Good and Evil, then they kill it properly by making evil prevail, that was disssapointing.
i therefore decided it was one of them cult horrors with a script written by an outback wannabe rock star coz gosh... there was so much rhyme that felt forced even in the proluge. it was a weird movie, though, had nice 'maxtrix' stunts, a good-ish undeveloped story line (oba it got twisted)...it somehow was not 'finished' and the dialogue was lacking a little something...and there was too much (i donno howto call it) but staring evilly, snarling, skulking slowly, evil eyes rolling, etc, such. so anyway tihs guy gabriel is the last of the 7 Arc Angels sent to help restore light ot purgatory that was being ruled by the dark powers, fallen angels but now he must take on human form to do this restoring thing, anyway he comes and finds his buddies a mess, they have given up, turned to drugs, prostitution, work in soup kitchens etc anyway, it statrted to disappooint then, how can angels fall like that? then this Gabriel who we are holding on to keep strong,coz surely he should, sleeps with the Arc Angel who had fallen to prostitution...my dissapointment deepens.
now apparently when he comes to purgartory, he finds a letter from Micheal the Arc Angel telling him they had failed , fallen and were dead. the guy he looked up to was dead, so he thinks.
now reemmber he is killing the angels of the dark only to come face to face with the lead angel of the dark Sammael to find it is Micheal The Arc gone totally baaaad! i was bored!
so he kills him in a final fight as Micheal tries to play; 'Lucifer' games of 'bow down and worship me' etc and micheal saves Gabe's life in his last thaws of death by giving him back life supernaturally (now he stabbed Gabe and Gabe hugged him in a death embrace, so they die together, thats how Micheal gives him back life blablabla)
then the end is my issue,Gabe doesnt feel fit to go back to the Light where he came from and stands at the top of the building he was and falls off it, i am not sure if he is flying or killing himself by dropping off a building all he is saying in his head is mbu 'fallng is the last thing an angel feels and he is listening to the voice in his head, his own..' and i smirked 'wanna be depth with no direction or its me not getting it.'
oh and we see this fallen angle he slept with watching all this from some room.

according to someone else who watched it, LOL!

'OMG it was this bad. Made only worse by the fact that it was a fun idea that went horribly wrong. Who wrote this, a ten year old? The dialog is superfluous to a degree I've never seen before in a film done by professionals. Stating and restating and then re-restating, etc...the obvious until you wanted to jab your ear with a blunt object to offer some relief from the tedious words. I'm not sure how movies like this are made. I'm amazed that in this day and age, a substantial budget can be procured for a script this bad. I mean, didn't anyone read it prior to filming?
I could write a book on how terrible this was. For instance, the opening credit sequence. What were they trying to say? "Look how blue his eyes are" "Look again, there still really really blue." "Guess what? His eyes are still extremely blue."
If you really can't help yourself and feel compelled to watch this, fast forward liberally between the action sequences and skip the dialog. You'll thank me for it.'


anyhow TO EASE UP ON IT,
1. It was Australian. 2. Was made for so little money and a tonne of passion.

so l shall not be too hard on it, it really wasnt that bad but eeh dialogue and other things... anyway you watch it, let me know

8 whatevers:

sleek said...

With a review like that, even the 10-year old who wrote the script wouldn't want to watch the movie...I'll call you when i'm done with the script i'm working in..i'm a super-hero in it

the emrys said...

so anyway, i think i will not be watching the movie anyway

lulu said...

hahahaha funny , sleek, i shall tear down your script and you will have a low self esteem do you really want to try?

emry's please please watch the movie and disprove me, one man's meat is another man's poison

Saved Girl said...

whoah.

Robyn said...

not the kinda movie to watch dear.
i am a lil bit too sensitive when Bible characters are twisted
How are you Lu?

Carsozy said...

Reminds me of fallen the series which I found actually quite enthralling, this one thoug sounds like crap or you made it sound like crap.

Darius Stone said...

Surely Lulu, there has to be a better form of punishment than having to watch such a movie? LOL!

Why do you torture yourself....do you have a dark side to you too?

Ugandan girl said...

I am not watching this...not in this life time...

happy easter