kids these days.....

so yesterday at work i was standing within earshot of this grandma and her grandson. he was a little guy, probably 5 or 6, still sitting in the kids race-car shopping carts we have. he goes to his grandma 'grandma...i love you' just out of nowhere.

if i was that grandma i would have felt like a million bucks.

for that brief moment i thought 'you know, fuck what my parents have done to me with their divorce, maybe having kids would really be a great thing'

and then the kid said 'after we're done can we go to toys r us?' and the grandma said 'i dont know, maybe.' and then the kid said 'grandma, can we get ice cream....'

spoiled fuckin kids these days.


currently listening to: keep ringing your bell by kdev. that song....wow. kicks my ass.

the philosophy of time travel

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WOW. something just came to me while i was trying to go to sleep. i retract everything i said.

this movie is based on lies. HOW DOES SAMANTHA HAVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL? donnie never recieved that book outside of the tangent universe!!! not to mention, according to the newspaper clippings from the website for the first film, the family moved shortly after the first film, so she would have never even had the chance to have dr monotauff as a teacher.

fuck, that pisses me off.


currently listening to: foofighters skinandbones
thanks for reading, watch this movie if you want but i no longer recommend giving it a chance, jc.

samantha darko

well im going to try and make sense of this movie via the internet right now for everyone here to see, if you'll be that upset, therell probably be some 'spoilers' in here

many people have been very unfair in their harsh words for this movie, it is not a bad movie at all. BUT it is not a great movie either. i would considerate moderatly good. now i went into this movie wanting to hate it, after 4 minutes i hated it, when that damn unicorn ran through the clowds in sam's mind i wanted to punch my computer screen. but i kept watching. and it grew on me

there were some awful parts besides that one as well, the scene where they were in the movie theatre was really corny, the way memories and images would play on the screen and the lights would dim. that was over the top. but some parts i was impressed with. them not coming out and saying the priest killed the kids was kind of donnie'esque, with the bracelets and what not.

but what didnt put this movie on the level of greatness that is donnie darko is that it was lacking something. some overall cause or motive that would explain why things were happening. what made the first movie so great was that everythign fit together and after you watched it once you were confused but knew the answers were there so you could go and find them. this, the answers arent there. it doesnt explain how sam could time travel, it doesnt explain why she wanted to go home or if she remembered what she did. its not like she had been working on all of this sense donnie died, cause theres a scene where shes trying to comprehend the philosophy of time travel. so somehow things just happened. everything with her, corey (who was gorgeous and i almost fell in love as hard as i did for gretchen), justin, and the boy didnt explain itself well.

another thing that got on my nerves was how donnie's parents were portrayed in this movie. i dont know how they could be seen as assholes who dont care for their kids. i mean rose took sam all the way to cali for that bullshit sparkle motion performance and eddie seemed like the most loving dad you could have. it just got on my nerves in that sense, but i guess a lot can happen in 9 years....

this movie is getting shit cause people want it to be donnie darko and are going into it saying 'it sucks' without giving it a chance. its NOT donnie darko, and it wont end up ever being it. but its a good movie in its own sense. it carries a good story with enough referances to make it a sequel, its just not in the same realm of the original. but, as many people say, the sequel is never as good as the original?