for starters, my brain cells are not focused on anything other than putting the final touches on a tiny human. so when I described a certain seed to my husband by saying it "looked like one of those that fall from the...you know....pine cone trees"
right
and because I am anti-cable AND not willing to buy an "internet ready device" (though we do have cable internet, which makes me growl just thinking about it), I am a long time Netflix DVD subscriber. All of this results in 9 months of me occasionally (err...more frequently?) making bad movie choices. Sometimes it's not so much a bad movie as it is strings of one genre that no one needs to watch THAT much of...unless it's vampire movies in which case only my husband is not enthused. I usually spend a little time every once in a while arranging our "queue" like a mixed tape, so there is a nice spread of sci-fi, documentary, drama, action, etc.
but as I said in my first paragraph....pine cone trees.
But sometimes it's just a dumb movie. Like last night. We watched "After Earth" with Will Smith and his son. By the way OMG is it not SO CUTE that his son is named Jaden and daughter is Willow...so, like, their names are taken from their parents names but like, the son isn't named after his dad he's named after his mom and same for the daughter, so they're like, so gender progressive and stuff....sigh.
But I actually like Will Smith. I think he's funny. Men in Black, Hitch....they're funny, cute movies.
Anyway, we both knew it was a silly movie -- one of those "brain dead" movies I occasionally throw out there because my own brain cells really don't have the energy to process too many "Enemy" movies, but when I started describing it to a coworker today it sounded so lame! Which doesn't change my emotional reaction, but it's funny to tell....
The point is/was I'm a completely hopeless sap, but I had to put some background in there to get to WHY I bawled my eyes out. I just had a hard time getting to that point because it became a hilarious act just telling it. Paige's commentary added for effect
(semi spoiler alert--as if anyone would care)
ok so they crash land on earth, and everyone dies in the crash except Will Smith and his son. Will Smith is the bad ass but he's got two broken legs so his son, who's kind-of a wimp because he watched his sister die in an alien attack years before and never spent much time with his dad, he has to go to the tail of the ship which broke off somewhere else over earth.....oh, and there was a deadly alien on board but they're not sure whether it survived the crash or not
of course it survived....seriously, this movie got one star on rotten tomatoes
but that's not the point...what I'm getting to is at one point the kid is caught by a giant bird who puts him in her nest I guess for food, but then the nest is attacked by these tiger-hyena hybrids and the boy fights them off because they're eating the baby birds and after they've killed the tigers he sees the mother bird on the ground and she's sad (and later mad) because all the babies were killed. but the boy has to keep going because he's running out of his special inhalers that allow him to breath earths atmosphere
giant bird....tiger hybrids...special inhalers
yep, anyway later the boy finds himself stuck out in the open when earth is freezing over, because it freezes every night
wait, why does it freeze every night?
probably because humans changed the climate with pollution. i don't know.
oh, okay
so the boy passes out because he's caught out in the cold, and you see something dragging him into some bushes. then he wakes up the next morning, obviously having survived, and crawls out of the brambles. and sees that it the giant bird is draped over the brush.
she had covered it with her body and she froze to death to save him.
and I cried for about 5 minutes. it was all.so.sad.
6 days until our due date. will I make it? haha
the end
**update--informed by hubby that my critique of above mentioned movie may have been a bit harsh**
**and, that he cried too**
**also. I really loved I Am Legend**
:-)
