yesterday i saw three movies.

willy wonka
fantastic four
wedding crashers

willy's wonka was so wonderful. it left me feeling very triumphant, and carried such a great message. i also love in movies when they bring attention to something that seems out of place, or to an event that already happens that seems out of place. they did this a few times that i can think of, most notably when all the characters realized that oompa loompas breaking into song is weird. and when willy's wonka shows the puppet burn unit room.

wedding crashers, though a lot cruder and loud, also left me feeling very happy and optimistic afterwards. i laughed probably 60-70 percent of the time and the other 30-40 percent found myself being genuinely moved by the love plot. vince vaughn and owen wilson are so funny. i use to think will farrell was one of the funniest guys, but he really went downhill with kicking and screaming and bewitched. he shows up in wedding crashers, and while still being funny, isn't as funny as vince vaughn or owen wilson. the first 30 minutes is really outrageous and there is this one part in it where they sing shout and it seriously goes on for so long, but it's so funny. they are just such great buddies having a great time. something about those two, along with will farrell and ben stiller, really gives me this optimism.

it is the same type of optimism i see in friends of ours that are following their dreams and doing something that they enjoy and become successful in. two situations i am thinking of are jesse, daniel and mike mccaleb and their battery company; the other is ben gourley. battery is doing really well right now and ben wrote and starred in his own movie. knowing these people on a personal level, and seeing things they are doing working out, really makes me see that dreams are possible. it give me an optimism that if i wanted to do something, that i could do it. that if you truly believe in something and want it, that there can be nothing to hold you down. owen wilson in wedding crashers meets a girl, and though she has been dating someone for three and a half years, pursues her and ends up marrying her; it is because he felt love, and knew he wanted it, and moved towards it. he did not care about anything else or the consequences that would ensue. not even her fuck shit boyfriend who beat him up! he knew what he felt. battery clothing is seeing their potential in that, and ben gourley did as well, spending all day in his room writing a script that he believed in, and knew he could make. willy wonka does that too. that belief that anything is possible when charlie wins the golden ticket. it is such a sad sad feeling seeing him not win the ticket the first two times. even though i knew he was going to win it, i was so sad. but he did not give up, cause he believed in the impossible.

previous entry, next entry, older entries, leave me a sad or funny note here, profile