3:10 to Yuma

Watched this movie with my brother today, it was good and I enjoyed his company. Russell Crowe was gorgeous in it – as usual.

In one scene he kills a man with a fork to the neck just because the guy was taunting him with a song about hanging him…oh, and had dared to ride his horse. He killed this man without remorse, with no sad look on his face, but more with satiated glee.

It made me wonder about Hollywood vs Reality. Are there people out there who take such pleasure out of killing someone just because they are irritating? Can someone really be that evil? Hopefully we, society, wouldn’t be rooting for him like we did in the movie.

Do people really kill just because they can? Do they look at someone and think “I could kill them without a second thought” and then do just that? Don’t they ever wonder at what makes them so…sick? Could I kill someone without a second thought? Without it keeping me up at night and haunting me the rest of my life? I don’t think so.

There is no doubt, if one picks up a newspaper, that these kind of people exist. It is scary. Like Russell in the movie – they see what they want and they just take it – and they’ll be damned if anyone tries to stand in their way. In the movie we see him grow a conscience but most killers, in reality, never do.

What makes a killer? Are they genetically pre-dispositioned to murder? Did they choose it along the way? Did they see Ted Bundy and say “I want to be just like him when I grow up?”

Don’t have the answers and am really too tired to care. But watching the movie – and considering how we were all conditioned to care about the criminal even in the old westerns – it makes a person wonder…would we be in the state we are today if the criminals weren’t so romanticized?

I wish

I wish I was a fish -
then I could swim around all day.
It would really be bliss, if I could
be a fish, and that’s all I have to say.

Sci-Fi Movies

Right now “Deep Rising” is playing in the DVD player. It is at the part where the engine guy throws the hand grenade without arming it first. When the soldier yells at him and arms his own grenade before tossing it at the seamonster, the engine guys says “Well, you didn’t tell me to do that” as if he had given the guy time for instructions. The soldier shoots the engine guy in the leg so the monster will go for the injured one and thus the soldier would make a quick getaway. It backfires of course but it always makes me laugh. The engine guy also plays in the first Mummy movie as “Benny” and is just as silly stupid in that one as well.

Watching this reminds me that there is another “Aliens vs Predator” movie coming out this Christmas – we saw the previews today at “3:10 to Yuma” (which was quite good). I am very psyched about it! I love those two series. I always hoped they’d make another Predator movie by itself as well – whoever heard of stopping at just two movies? Can’t be a trilogy if there isn’t any “tril.”

I do have to say, though, that I’m amazed they are making a “Saw 4″. Don’t they know it is old news and they’ve done it to death? Three was already one too many but acceptable for the reasons previously stated. I didn’t see the third one – the second was pretty stupid and I only saw it because my son talked me into it.

Now, “Resident Evil”…that needed a third movie and it is coming out (finally) this next week. I’m looking forward to it. Part of it was filmed right here in Sarasota. Just think, hunky Oded was here in town and forgot to look me up. {sigh}

“Underworld” is another one that needs a third show. I’m not big on this series but if you make two, then you have to make a third to round it off. What would “Star Wars” be without all three movies…both times?

The only movie who could really pull off a fourth movie was Aliens and that one just barely. They could pull a “Star Wars” prequel kind of thing with Aliens as well – I would go see all three if they did. They could actually do a lot of cool things with it – too bad I couldn’t interest my brother into writing a screen play for them.

Not In My House!

Spider on my wall, why are you here? What do you want in here that you couldn’t get outside? Those eight furry legs race around the walls of my den as if they are on a dire mission to get somewhere. I’d attempt to catch you but what if you fell on me? Don’t think I’d handle that too well.

You won’t find any food in here little man – we are a bug free zone…um, except you of course. Don’t suppose you are as nice as Charlotte. I bet you’d bite me if you could. Is that anyway to treat your hostess?

I’m not the only one watching your journey around the room – Simon’s interest is piqued as well. From his stance one can tell that he is hoping your next trip around brings you into pouncing range. As for me, I hope you find your way back out of this room and my condo in general. I don’t want to kill you but I will if I must. This is not a spider-friendly zone – I’m not going to participate in the “catch and release” program.

I love animals but draw the line at insects. I do promise that if I have to de-alive you (doesn’t that sound better then kill?) it will be quick. I won’t give you to Simon who would love to play with you for a few hours. No one can claim that I’m not humane.

Life in the Fast Lane – Or, Ugh, My Last Day Off Already!

Sunday night – my last night off – and all I’m doing is watching t.v. I tried doing more but my blood sugar dropped again for the second time today so I said “screw it” and decided to take it easy. The smell of the freshly painted walls is giving me a headache anyway and I remember why I try to only paint when it is cool enough to have the windows open.

My big incentive of getting the house clean is past so I have no real motivation – my incentive being my brother’s visit (which he was 2 hrs early for!!!). I read his blog earlier and have that song in my head now…don’t remember the title but it was something like “If God was one of us…” Yeah, thats about all I remember other then the music which I could hum if my life seriously depended on it…but what are the chances of that?

I don’t think my brother cared too much for my eggnog…er, eggplant color on the living room walls – I will have to have him up once it is properly accessorized. Course, it could be a different color by then…