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First of all, my body is starting to wear down. There's really only so much time you can spend in a dark theater - hours every day, day after day, night after night, still go to work, living on quick food and Starbucks... before you start getting sick. I'm hoping I can hold through tomorrow evening, the end of Cinequest. Yesterday was not a good day for movies. The short "Bunny" was bad. Basically it was about a spoiled rotten little girl who screamed the entire time because she lost her stuffed rabbit, and her stupid stupid mother who drove around all night looking for it. I'm sorry but Kid, you're bunny's GONE, it's GONE it's DEAD you're not getting your damn bunny back, now shut the hell up and go to sleep. The full length featuer, "Zooey", was good. About a prostitue who's not only hooked on heroine, but she's married and her husband drives her to work. Heh. And a true story. So you know there was no good ending to that. But though it was a disturbing story, the movie was good. Not great, as the actors were not the best. I mean, they were good, but the girl who played Zooey wasn't up to what needed to be done here. But we all liked it. The next short, Project Huxley, was great at the beginning and end... but then the entire middle chunk was the puppet monkey dressed for Shakespeare and doing Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech. Okay, that? was boring. With a capital B. And the next movie, The Ape, good god give me back those two hours of my life. Many people walked out during the film, but I'm a sucker and kept hoping the movie would be saved somehow... but then I fell asleep... and when I woke up they were doing the same damn scene... and it went on forever.... and the movie never ended.... On top of that, there was an assistant, some fat old RUDE lady, who was berating one of the Cinequest volunteers about making sure everything was done right, and there better be a projectionist in the house (and DUH, yeah lady, it's a THEATER see, and there's a projectionist RIGHT THERE) and then kept yelling RUDELY at her about making sure the sound was right blah blah blah and you know what? She was yelling at a volunteer. In front of the audience. This volunteer lady didn't have to be here all 12 days, but she was, every single night, with no pay, just helping out. As for the RUDE LADY, that movie would have been better if the sound had been turned all the way down so we could just fall asleep. Right now we're on our way to see "Edmond" with William H. Macy, followed by meeting Willian H. Macy, and then three hours of the 48 hour film project. Posted by Pischina at March 11, 2006 1:38 PMComments
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