Summer Wrap-up

They say you can't know where you are going unless you know where you have been.  I would like to amend that, you can't know where you are and where you are going unless you know where you have been and where you can never go.  Not everyone can be an astronaut, not everyone you love will love you back.  I think this is what I've learned this summer. 


I re-commissioned this blog about a month ago with the intention of writing more and actually saying something meaningful about the things going on in my life and in the world around us.  So far I have failed abysmally. I'm not going to go as far as to say that this is a bad thing since the main reason I have failed to write is because I have been so busy (only the second reason is laziness.)  This summer has consisted mostly of work, class, going out and meeting new people, and camping.  I know this is the short lame version, but the time I have spent away from the internet has been great and far too interesting to encapsulate in one brief wrap up post.  The third reason it has been hard to write is because of twitter.  It's much harder to properly formulate your ideas into topics to write about when you can spew them out 140 characters at a time as they pop into your head.  Writing really feels like home though, being able to form complete sentences and not a single @ or # in sight. 


One topic about the summer that I love and I will go into some depth on is the movies.  This summer offered up an awful selection of "blockbuster" movies.  I actually want to say something about all of the movies so I'm going to break them up into 3 posts, the good, the bad and the mediocre.  I'll include the good in this post since there were so few:


Watchman: Cinematically beautiful in every way.  Music was also amazing.  By far the best comic book movie movie I've ever seen, and the truest film adaptation of a story ever.  People who whine about the changes are losers. 


Star Trek: Loved Sylar as Spock.  It was a great story and a well made movie.  I wouldn't call it ground breaking science fiction. 


The Hangover: Funniest movie of the summer.  Zach Galifianakis was the best.  Definitely offered something other than how this movie was marketed.  Barely deserved an R rating. 


I Love You Man: Funny movie that captures the weirdness of guys hanging around guys. 


Observe and Report: Really a shame this movie came out so close to Paul Blart: Mall cop because it was much funnier and darker.  It was good to see Seth Rogan play a different character, the angry simpleton instead of the smarmy befuddled funny guy. 


Funny People: Kind of hard to watch in parts because of the dying thing and a little long, but it ended up being pretty good.  Definitely not a full on comedy, more of a drama. 


Julie and Julia: Definitely surprised with how good this was.  The Julia Childs half was way better than the whinny blogger girl half.


District 9: This could have been a great science fiction film if it weren't for the overdone political allegory.  It ended up just being a good film.  I wish it had more of an ending. 


That's the most positive stuff I have to say about this film season.  More bad movies and more stories from the summer later.