Movies

I glanced at the movie page in The Star this morning. Two movies caught my eye.

1. Eragon - being a sucker for book-hype, I must admit I've read the book. It's ok, but that's about it. However being a complusive book-series-finisher (aka someone-who-still-reads-Robert-Jordan-out-of-sheer-stubbornness) I will probably read the rest of the trilogy. But that doesn't mean I'll enjoy it!

I don't have a huge problem with the way it's written but the plot, omg, the plot! 'Young farm boy lives with uncle's family. Discovers amazing powers but discovery is tempered by sorrow as uncle et al are killed by Evil Empire. Boy is trained by wise elder in the ways of the legendary Jedi, oops, Dragon Riders, as he prepares to join the rebels and take on the Evil Empire.' Can you say Star Wars (Ep Iv), with dragons and elves? Or perhaps imagine film from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings being spliced together... and you'd get this odd hybrid.

Anyway, on to the movie. The special effects were created by none other than Industrial Light and Magic, ie the Star Wars guys. Can you say coincidence?

Admittedly Star Wars was hardly breaking new ground with its storyline. The theme of the orphan coming into his rightful inheritance and freeing his people from evil can be found in many fantasy/ science fiction epics. But Eragon's homage of Star Wars is really blatant.

But I'll probably watch the movie anyway. Someday.

2. Colic - a Thai horror movie. Apparently this is a movie about a baby that cries incessantly. Now that to me, being a new parent, is really frightening.

It's tagline is :
co.lic [kol-ik] n. Severe abdominal pain marked by chronic irritability and crying caused by overfeeding, "wind" in the stomach or disturbance by a vengeful spirit.

I never read that description in any of the baby books. Funny that.

I will probably never watch this movie. But with my luck it'll be the only movie that KLM will show on our flight back to Amsterdam. Business class? Yeah right. But that's another story.