first topic: girls.

i rarely ever talk about girls on my blog. most of the time, it's simply because my dating life doesn't ever make me freak out to the point where i need to write about it. well, not anymore at least. i used to freak out about it all the time when i was younger, but now i just kind of don't give a shit. haven't for a couple years.

anyway, i just wanted to point out that girls are freaking insane, and you all make me effing crazy. you take a perfectly good boy, who's all nice and happy and not giving a shit, and make him become a giant idiot. and frankly, i'm not sure whether to thank you or yell at you.

at least i guess you help keep things interesting...

second topic: the life aquatic with steve zissou

okay, as much as i tend to respect the opinion of one of the wittiest chicks i've never met (however, she lives on the west coast. but i'll let it slide...), i have to disagree with her about this movie.

i really enjoyed this flick and am happy that i finally got a chance to see it. the first fifteen minutes or so sucked me in, and, while the pace of the movie slowed considerably after that (i mean, it is a wes anderson movie), i enjoyed it thoroughly.

i mean, i understand that it's not really anything fresh. wes anderson has done this before. this could very well be royal tannenbaums set underwater for half the movie. you know what, though? i liked royal tannenbaums, and i like this movie too.

sometimes it's good to keep things on a level that is comfortable for the viewers (and, granted, sometimes it isn't). i mean, take indiana jones, for example. raiders was awesome. we all know this (and if you don't, get out of here and don't ever come back). then came temple of doom. lucas messed with the formula, as he tends to do, and created something with a totally different feel. now, i'm not saying temple of doom was awful, but it certainly wasn't great. but in the third one, he went back to the well and created a movie similar in style and content to the original. the last crusade, in my humble opinion, is even better than raiders (which i know most of you disagree with, but whatever, get your own blog).

my point is, there's nothing wrong with doing the same thing again and tweaking the formula, especially when it worked pretty well the first time.

i think wes anderson did a great job of taking moments of sorrow, humility, and triumph and creating a film that is charming, funny, and fantastical which can only get better with a second viewing.

thankfully, she does give credit where credit is most certainly due. that being to bill murray (of course) and especially willem dafoe, who was nothing short of brilliant. but that's not to take away from the rest of the usual suspects who we know and love. it is, after all, their talent that is able to make a movie like this work.