I've been watching Dexter

Dexter is an amazing program on Showtime about a serial killer who kills killers. Dexter works as a forensic blood analysis expert, his job has helped him to find many of his potential victims. His adopted father sensed the fact that Dexter was a natural born killer and helped him to hone his skills so that he would never get caught. His father explains to him that he can't change who he is but maybe he can use who is is for good. Dexter's father, a policeman, continues to mentor Dexter and teaches him to blend in to society. Dexter lives by his father's code, and only kills those whom deserve to die.

Now Dexter struggles to find himself because he lacks emotion and feelings, only when killing his victims can his true side be unleashed. I am about half way through the first season, but I find myself becoming addicted to this show. Every episode is satisfying, for Dexter always seems to make a kill. There is also a deep sub plot involving the "ice truck killer", who found Dexter and is sending messages to him through his own killings. Dexter is intrigued by this "colleague" of his, and wants to play the "ice truck killers" games. I will continue to watch this show.

Michael Clayton...Good

This was a good movie in terms of production and story. The beginning starts with a disturbing but very well acted dialog from Tom Wilkinson, where he realizes that he has been serving a bad company as a lawyer for the past six years. The fact that the company he represents, has lead to the deaths of over 400 people, causes him to mentally snap. This mental breakdown threatens the progress of defense of this company during a class action suit against it. Michael Clayton is the man with connections and is called to clean up the mess. Michael Clayton, played by George Clooney refers to himself as a Janitor because he constantly has to fix bad situations. Along the way Clayton stumbles on the real truth behind the company, with his life threatened and under attack, Clayton struggles to correct fix his own situation.
The whole movie had good camera effects, lighting and interesting dialog. Unfortunately there is no real story to how the bad company killed so many people, so I felt a lack of sympathy for them. While still a good movie, I just wanted to know more about the deaths. This movie has it's high points of action and suspense, and constantly builds keeping you on your toes. Unlike There Will be Blood, the ending leaves you very satisfied. I really recommend this movie.

Smashing Pumpkins-33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9ZbS4KMdg

I really like the way this video matches the music...
Also has really cool fast/stop motion feel to it.

There Will Be Blood....you should go see it!

Last weekend I saw There Will be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Overall this movie was very depressing, the story was filled with the darkness of human natures. I could feel the anger and loneliness for Daniel Day Lewis's character, Daniel Plainview. The story was about an oil man during the early twentieth century.

Daniel Plainview was a hard worker and early on appears to be a good man. He wants to lease land for oil, bringing education, jobs, and irrigation with his oil drilling. He as well as the landowners will benefit financially from his drilling. All seems to go well until a young preacher, Eli Sunday, continues to push his religious beliefs and church onto Daniel. Eli seems to be a greedy minister that believes he is a prophet, he has many followers and claims to be a healer. It should be mentioned, that Eli is self centered and only wished to have more followers. Daniel and Eli seem to be in competition, they are just men that do not get along. There Will Be blood was directed very well. The actors were very convincing, the whole movie felt very authentic. Close ups of the actor's faces as portrayed their emotions. Lighting was well done in this film, one scene that used lighting very well was when the oil sprayed up out of the ground. During this sequence, the day transitioned into darkness as the oil spewed up into the air, foreshadowing the dark turn of events that would continue in the film. The lighting during the oil well fire made it look like hell burning. This hell like lighting symbolized Daniel's obsession of oil that eventually would consume him.

This movie made me feel just depressed, there was nothing really pleasing about the story. Things just got worse as time went on. Even though Daniel Plainview was a bad man, I truly felt sorry for him, he just allowed himself to fill with hate. All Daniel needed was one person to love, and anyone he ever got close to ended up making him hate people even more. There Will be Blood was a genuinely great piece of film. It had everything, acting, scenery, and lighting. The story showed what would happen if you let greed run your life. Although this movie is dark and depressing, I would recommend it, just don't expect to feel good after watching it.

Pink Floyd fans may like this short animation.

Hat's off to the late Syd Barrett.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNWHLPSgBE

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine was a very appropriate movie for this month. The movie is set in New York, during Valentines day. It had romance and comedy, but also a very interesting concept where you could have specific memories erased.

The movie presents a question. Would you erase a relationship from your memory to ease the pain, or is it important to remember both the good and bad to learn from your mistakes? Jim Carey and Kate Winslet play Joel and Clementine, the characters in pursuit of this question. Jim Carey portrays his character very well, but don't expect to see his slapstick comedy. This is a serious role for him, and he nails it. Overall the camera work is very good, some of the scenes are very beautiful and artistic. One such scene is when Joel and Clementine are laying on a frozen lake, there is a very unique crack in the ice that frames them and makes the shot interesting. Much of the movie is from the perspective of Joel in his own mind. Joel's memories of his relationship with Clementine are being erased, and he is running away from the erasing procedure. Old fashioned camera tricks are used to show his mind being erased and it's amazing there are very little CG effects used. Overall this is a satisfying movie, the acting is good, the soundtrack is good, and it really makes you think. This movie can be funny at times, but also very sad. It teaches that you can erase someone from your mind, but getting them out of your heart is different story.

I found this to very funny movie clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bKFJ1l87o

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