With only 55 days till ARMAGEDDON, I have seen DEEP IMPACT and contrary to the forum's belief that I'm gonna knock the crap out of the film, I'm going to write a review of how I think it is a good film. Not a great film, it's far from great, but it is good. At no point did I want to walk out of the theater. At only one point did I laugh at an unintentional laff. But that'll all be in my review, but first I have to describe my day, as is the way I do things around here.
I started off the day with no knowledge that I would be seeing DEEP IMPACT. In fact my plan was to call up Elijah Wood and go see it with him this weekend. I figured that would be a unique experience. To go see a big movie with one of the leads. To watch their own reaction to their own film. But that's when Copernicus changed things. Copernicus decided to offer to take me, along with some other famous space studying dudes to see DEEP IMPACT at the newly constructed TINSELTOWN in South Austin. So I call up Copernicus, who was at that very moment contemplating the very nature of the universe... hey, it's what the man does... and set up this evening.
Then Dad comes in my room with packages. The first was some trailer for a film called BLUE PLANET from Rainbow Studios. Hmpf, probably something lame (I think) In the other package was a book written about Harvey Keitel. Cooool. Then I also got my first paycheck for acting in 9 years, since I worked on BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. Cool, this means I can afford to buy a couple of CDs. Groovy. So that goes on the schedule. Dad takes the discarded envelopes and the loot into the living room to add to the piles.
Meanwhile, I begin trying to update my site, because the server was down the previous night. God I hate that when it happens. Finally it gets fixed, and as I access I find I have new ad banners from Sprint giving out free tickets for Deep Impact, Zorro and Godzilla. Cool. And a Hollywood Stock Exchange ad. Wow, I had no idea. So I call up my server people to find out about the ads and to see how long they'll run. BTW this is how it always is, I don't find out about the ads till I see them on the site.
Then all of a sudden Dad demands that I go into the living room. Turns out the BLUE PLANET trailer is AWESOME!!! So I sit down and watch. Soon, I realize that the trailer was actually described on my site Monday. Wow. Maaaaan, this thing is soooo coool looking. Underwater battles, hundreds of ships exploding, creatures attacking, lasers firing, missiles exploding, people dying. Cooooooooooooooooool. This would look so incredibly nice on the big screen. IF ANYONE KNOWS THE PLANNED RELEASE DATE... PLEEEEEEEEEEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!
Anyway, after rewatching the trailer about 30 times, I go into my room to call people and tell them how cool this is. But noone is home. Bummer.
Next I left to go eat and buy my traditional CDs. You see, whenever I get paid for something like my writing or by me performing I always go out and buy a soundtrack or two. And the rest of the money I turn over to my father to take care of family things like, rent, electricity, gas, food... ya know the essentials. But first I always treat myself to music, the thing that keeps me writing. So we went to a place here in Austin that I love called ENCORE, they rent videos, laserdiscs, computer games, DVDs, etc. They also sell CDs and all the things they rent. I searched through their CDs, what I was looking for were the Compilation CDs of GODZILLA music from all the Godzilla films that have been made. But I couldn't find it. However, I did score the music from YOUNG FRANKENSTIEN and the new super duper CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND cd. (which I'm listening to as I write all this. God I love this music. Feel less like music and more like a being, a tangible occupant of the room I'm in)
Then Dad and I goto TRUDY's where I get a salad that I top with salsa (which has next to zero calories, but about a score of a million on taste buds. Yuuuuuummmmy but not bad for my tummmy...
I then head home to meet up with Copernicus.
Soon Copernicus arrives and we take off for DEEP IMPACT.
We arrive much later than usual for me, and we are at the back of the line. But after standing there for about 5 minutes we are let in. Mannn, excellent seats, dead center, leg room, couldn't ask for better.
Now first let me explain the conversations I was having with Copernicus and his gang of Astro Dudes. It seems that in this world there are circles of joined Astro-Physicist that write film reviews about the plausibility of actions in science fiction films. These guys are addicted to science. They live and breathe gaseous anomalies. And they have heard good things about DEEP IMPACT, about how good the science is. I was countering with the knowledge I had about how I had heard that well, they do basically the same scientific mistakes that ARMAGEDDON makes, but Copernicus and crew blow me off. Stupid Harry what does he know. Hmpf!!!
Well, I showed them. Every point I made, was backed up with the inaccuracies in the film. But ya see, that stuff doesn't bother me. Here's my review....
