Yes, okay, it was a reading day yesterday, that’s why I didn’t get much done. There are you happy?
That aside, the day was well spent. Dinner included a KFC variety bucket (not their bonless banquet as originally intended) followed by a public screening of High School Musical 3.
OKay, I’m not in its key demographic. But, i’m not afriad to say it, I do like a good musical. This however, stunk compared to the greats. I’ve missed out on the first two, and apparently this is the best of the three. I enjoyed it on a ‘this is awful’ level, and feared that those who genuinely loved it haven’t seen real musicals. It was so crisp and clean, the music was second rate pop candy and didn’t have any ‘wow’ moments that are so wonderful. It just didn’t have any realism, I got nothing from it, and it typifys what is wrong in contemporary films – all style no substance. It looked great, they all sounded eletronically pitch perfect, but it lacked the grime – far better were it to show the reality of a high school. Just like Harry Potter, I would love to see HSM4 go dark.
Apart from this mare of a film (is that even a word?) I’ve immensely enjoyed Martin Scorcsese’s ‘A Personal Journy Through American Movies, where the legend himself explores cinema from the early part of the twentieth century, focusing on the directors of musical, gangster and westerns. Although it may not actually be written by him, he does seem genuinely to love cinema – something that I’m not sure the producer’s of HSM3 share. it is incredibly interesting, bearing in mind I’m used to a european centric history of cinema, most of these films were new to me (bar the Cagney mentions). For 3 hours Martin’s amazing New York tones lead us through some pioneering moments in cinema, and it is wonderful, well worth a look. I’ve only watched 2/3rds of it (it’s three hours long), but I have learnt so much, I’d wished I’d written down some of the names! That is all for today, I promise at some point this will get readable, dare I even say it enjoyable, but right now I am only partaking to keep me writing, and to make sure my brain keeps ticking. Tatty bye!
Day 4: A Reading Day “Diss-count” 2765
Yes, okay, it was a reading day yesterday, that’s why I didn’t get much done. There are you happy?
That aside, the day was well spent. Dinner included a KFC variety bucket (not their bonless banquet as originally intended) followed by a public screening of High School Musical 3.
OKay, I’m not in its key demographic. But, i’m not afriad to say it, I do like a good musical. This however, stunk compared to the greats. I’ve missed out on the first two, and apparently this is the best of the three. I enjoyed it on a ‘this is awful’ level, and feared that those who genuinely loved it haven’t seen real musicals. It was so crisp and clean, the music was second rate pop candy and didn’t have any ‘wow’ moments that are so wonderful. It just didn’t have any realism, I got nothing from it, and it typifys what is wrong in contemporary films – all style no substance. It looked great, they all sounded eletronically pitch perfect, but it lacked the grime – far better were it to show the reality of a high school. Just like Harry Potter, I would love to see HSM4 go dark.
Apart from this mare of a film (is that even a word?) I’ve immensely enjoyed Martin Scorcsese’s ‘A Personal Journy Through American Movies, where the legend himself explores cinema from the early part of the twentieth century, focusing on the directors of musical, gangster and westerns. Although it may not actually be written by him, he does seem genuinely to love cinema – something that I’m not sure the producer’s of HSM3 share. it is incredibly interesting, bearing in mind I’m used to a european centric history of cinema, most of these films were new to me (bar the Cagney mentions). For 3 hours Martin’s amazing New York tones lead us through some pioneering moments in cinema, and it is wonderful, well worth a look. I’ve only watched 2/3rds of it (it’s three hours long), but I have learnt so much, I’d wished I’d written down some of the names!
That is all for today, I promise at some point this will get readable, dare I even say it enjoyable, but right now I am only partaking to keep me writing, and to make sure my brain keeps ticking. Tatty bye!