The Review: The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle 4/10

Years ago I read the book The Glass Castle and loved it. I remember seeing a trailer for this and got excited because the cast of Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson. It is on Amazon so I decided to check it out today and was super disappointed with it. I was not comparing it to the book since I can not recall the book completely, just a feeling of “Wow, this lady is way more forgiving of her parents than I would be.” This movie makes it seem even more so and by the end it felt like I was straight up watching a movie and could not even enjoy it anymore and the longer it went, it's over two hours, I was like You know what? I totally could not have seen this and been fine.”

A Concert Rant

Last night Cam and I went to see Florence + The Machine with Kamasi Washington as the opening act at The Hollywood Bowl. Great show. I'd seen Florence once before and she was great and Kamasi has made a new fan out of me. Both groups were full of all kinds of energy, gave 100%, and entertained the hell out of me. What made the night not as fun were the fan at the show. Yeah. I know it sounds weird but let me explain my problem with fans of some musicians and why there are some shows I actively do not attend because I know what their fans are like.

By far the worst fans I've experienced are the ones of Meshell Ndegeocello. Loud, obnoxious, and super inconsiderate of people around them and even the artist herself. Example. She explained that she suffers from photophobia. No, its not a fear of lights. It is sensitivity to them (and also why Bono wears shades all the time). So while she was saying this guess what happened? “We love you Meshell!” followed by cameras flashing in her face. Plus all the screaming during silent parts to get attention. Basically, the way most fans act at shows is never acceptable to me in any setting.

The Peppermint Movie Poster Is Terrible

A couple of weeks ago I saw a poster for this new Jennifer Garner movie Peppermint at the bus stop. I just stared at it because something was bothering me and I couldn't quite put my finger on it until I looked at her fingers. Then her arm. I noticed that one of her arms was damn near a foot shorter than the other. Then I noticed the placement of her head. The broadness of her chest. The whole damn thing started to fall apart. This was a shitty movie poster.

I do not know who made this poster or how much they were paid for it but they did a horrible job. I use Pixlr to edit photos of myself almost everyday. I have done them for friends as well. I do not get paid for it nor would I ask for payment but I'll be damned to happily put out garbage like this. I decided to make a few images of my own for this movie. It is weird because I have seen bad posters before with terrible Photoshop happening but since I have to stare at this one at least for another week I felt the need to do something about this.

It took me about 25 minutes to whip together three images. The first I wanted to use a basic style poster with a city background. The description of the movie does not say where it takes place so I just grabbed a random one online and cropped around her. Used a small light flare to cover the hair frizz and done.

Theater Whore: BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman 6/10

Last night Cam and I went and saw BlacKkKlansman over at the Arclight in Hollywood. We were gonna maybe see Sorry To Bother You together since we both saw it separately an loved it but I wanted to see something new. I kinda wish we had saw STBY again. Not that BlacKkKlansman was terrible because it was not. It is just the more I sit on it the more I realize how much better it could have been as a film and social commentary. There will be a bunch of spoilers for this kinda sort of true story so don't read this if unless you are one of those people. This movie manages to shoot itself in the foot on multiple occasions by trying to do too much, not enough, and Spike Lee adding his special sauce which at this point is almost a parody of itself when done incorrectly.