Lika’s Log

I went to see the movie GOLDEN COMPASS this weekend. Loved it. I love that people have such great imagination that it can be put into pictures for me/us to watch, you know that storybook comes to life kind of feeling.

GOLDEN COMPASS is in the genre of Narnia, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter kinda I think. I love the magic of the movie; talking animals and fairiess and cool stuff like that.

So in the movie….it poses the question “What is dust?” Not dust da kine fine dirt, but da “metaphorical” kine - Ok you gotta go watch da movie, or read da book I guess. To me the dust represented ones aura & spirit or the greater power that one believes in, whatever you call THAT of which you believe.

In da movie, everybody has a demon. The demon is not one devil. Demon is what they call their spirit guide or aumakua maybe, somting la dat. The kids demon can change like from bird to cat to racoon or whateva, their’s are changeable. The adults one no can, its just one animal.

I thought thats because the kids are open minded and able to see things from different perspective they aren’t stuck in one frame of mind, black or white, things/thoughts have many colors. But the big people they all set in their ways so thats why their demon just stays as one animal.

So their was the “dominant society” people the Master & all the council and what have you. There were the gypsies, the fairies and the polar bears. I looked at the movie from an ethnic point of view. Or perhaps the haves and the have nots, the us and the them. LOL The gypies where the every day peoples, doing what they gotta do to survive. The fairies were kick ass, they could fly and were great with bows & arrows. The fairies were shooting people makediedead, dang I neva thought of fairies as the war monger types but they were doing their part. The Polar bears were the brawlers. My daughta said they were the Natives because they took away URick da PolaBeas pride, gave him a shitty job and paid him with whiskey so he was a broken down drunken bear till Lyra came along.

Lyra is the name of the maingirl. I suspect there will be a bunch of baby girls named Lyra now. I dunno if dats a good idea to name a local babygrl Lyra, bumbye dey going call her Ly-YA! K-maybe thats just me. LOL

So to me this is one of those everyday modern day old fashion fairy tales. You know good vs evil, the choices you make, the consequences blah blah blah. Anden they live happily ever after….NOT….it ended making you know there’s going to be Part II or some trilogy is gonna happen. I was like “Juss go find yo’Fahdah NOW!” lol

Ok so afta I see da movie I start to read and hear about certain religions think its this that or the other. Yeah yeah yeah. Then I was googling around right, and I come to this message board and it says and I quote “Don’t watch this movie it teaches kids to kill God!”

WHAT?!

Ok then it started to get hilarious because only that one person had that opinion. Maybe its me…. BUT in watching that movie, I did not see any “religious” overtones or undertones, or anything like that. But thats me. How people see God, muchless killing God in that movie is beyond me. Somebody going have to draw me da pic-cha cause I don’t understand that train of thought.

“It teaches kids to kill God?” No, a movie does not do that. The parents maybe, other people yeah, a movie. IF a person has that opinion than don’t go to see it and fo’real don’t take your kids to see it.

I’m thinking I gotta go read the book cause maybe I missed something, “killing God?” where does that comes from? I did not look at the movie as anything “religious” - I just went to see a movie to be entertained and I was. It taught me you can interpet the movie however the hell you want to.

I think you could interepet it more political then religious. The HAVES and the HAVE NOTS, hmmmm. I think, its good vs evil, an everyday theme of life. “Killing God” I’m still baffled by that term. Its like power of suggestion, people telling people this is about “killing God” and so other people - won’t go see it just assuming that persons opinion is FACT. Hellisdatabout?

If one is truely a believer in God then one knows, no movie or story or what have you can or will kill God. There shouldn’t be fear. There should be prayer.

I think God has a sense of humor and he has created creative people to present us with these stories that question our imagination and sense of self. I think he’s laughing at the concept of “killing God.” LOL But hey thats me.

Watch da movie and tell me wotchutink!

I went to see the movie LIONS FOR LAMBS today. It stars Robert Redford, Meryl Streep & Tom Cruise and a bunch of others I can’t remember.

Its a movie that makes you think. You either argree with it or you don’t. You can call it wotever the hell you want because this is America and your are entitled to your opinion(s) and thats a good thing.

The movie is definitely a political statement. I whole heartedly agree with it. To me, all that is being talked about is no different then Viet Nam. The big difference between Nam and now….. media coverage and technology.

You can rant and rave all you want about da movie. The bottom line is Americans are off in a foreign land, dying! There is a war! There are dead people, people loosing limbs, people coming home mental and smart ass asshole are debating political correctedness sh*t weather this movie is liberal, not liberal this that or the other.

Good movie, junk movie, indifferent movie it don’t make no frkng dang difference to the soldier overseas under fire. How does all this political bebate honor dead American soldier? It seems to me sometimes that political debates only honor whoever wins the political debate. The soldier does his duty for his country while politicans debate, jockey for positions and write CYA memos.

I don’t usually read movie reviews. If/when I do, I read it after I see the movie. I googled after I saw the movie. I went to: www.rottentomates.com I guess this is suppose to be a junk movie if you believe movie critics.

I am my own movie critic. I go to see a movie because I want to see a movie. Not because “the powers that be” point me in a particular direction.

In reading some of the comments at rottentomatoes.com I was surprised to read stuff like “so and so really don’t want you to see this movie.” And I’m thinking…..so if there is a lot of negative stuff written about it then people won’t go to see it? They believe who ever the critic is weather its good, bad or indifferent?

There are all kinds of message board and debates about the movie and so yes it makes for interesting postings and all. But its nothing new and profound, everybody thinks they are right. Whats scarey to me is, WE are not learning from our own mistakes. Should we not have learned from our history? Hmmmm easier said then done huh. Ok, I understand that part personally. LOL

Our actions makes a difference. Our mentality. You know act locally, think globally. Vote. Don’t vote. Shuttup. You know what I mean?

I went to see the movie Transfomers today. Loved it. Most movies I see I like. I’m not all that critical about watching a movie you know. Its a movie, I view it for entertainment pleasure and I was entertained. Some people get very technical and passionate about loving or hating a movie. Its a movie.

This is not a little kids movie, its a big kids movie. LOL I was telling my son that and he reminded me, “Mom who was the first generation of Transformer fans?” I’m like “Oh you guys, peoples your age huh?” He was like “DUH?” I remember buying my son the Transformers and he hadn’t even started school yet. I use to could not get it back into da car shape. I could open’um up but I had “issues” putting it back together. My son would be like…..you just go like dis and like dis and he be twisting both hands dis way and that. I would watch him anden try do’um and I junk. LOL

It was a guy movie huh? Rock’um sock’um shoot’em up. The Mom, cracked me up. “Happy Time” I so cracked up she was too funny talking about masterbating. I love when the car would switch songs/music to go with the mood.

Autobots. Deceptacons. Optimus Prime. Cool names.

I haven’t seen this movie but I bought the DVD because my BABYBOY is on one of its special features.

If when you rent or buy the EPIC MOVIE, check out the special features. There is a clip on their entitled DIE LIBRE. It is a spoof on Nacho Libre using lines from some Steve McQueen movie. If you look on the case you’ll see:

Die Libre: Winning short film from the Epic Movie Viral Video Contest.

My son and his friend did this short piece & entered it in the contest and won. These kids have been making their own movies since high school. My son use to come home and show me some of them. I would be checking out where they were at, and IS THAT MY VAN? ARE YOU GUYS IN THE MINES?

Much of the filming back in those days were in Globe, AZ out by the copper mines. Some abandon mines, where they shouldn’t be,. And my VAN? Thats what I would see….. LOL

Anyway you guys gotta check out Die Libre, my baby is on it. I’m so proud of him! Goofy. Watch the clip and guess which lolo I gave birth too. Hint: He’s the bigger one. Too funny.

When my son first showed me this clip, months ago - I was cracking up & said: THATS MY BABYBOY. And he said, “Yes MOM I’m overweight.” And we cracked up laughing. For the record since then he has lost 20 lbs and I haven’t.

This is a Lurkah kind of parody. Well its a guy thing anyway. Check it out & see my Babyboy in action. LOL

OMG I screamed, I laughed anden I laughed some more and screamed some more. Seriously. I was just hiding my face, and scaring myself. It was a good time. My next plane ride I need to be with Samuel L. Jackson, my new hero because they let him carry a taser. Oh, shucks its just a movie. LOL

The movie reviews about this movie are mostly bad. SO! So one should go see it and make their own decision, not have somebody who gets paid to make the decision for you. You know what I mean.

Ok so its LIKE a B-movie. Oh, it is a B-movie. Well A, B, or C its a good scarey fun movie. Its a classic B-movie, one to add to your DVD collection. It’ll mess with your mind, because what if, what if; yeah?

I go to the movies to be entertained, regardless of what movie reviewers say. Its my money, ok it wasn’t but thats besides the point. The point is if I wanna see a movie I go see a movie. My sense of liking or disliking a movie is not da same as da person who “gets paid” to write about da movie. Hell I’m writing about da movie, nobody’s paying me. Weather you go see it or not is up to you? If YOU do go and see it, and IF you know me; den you would know which part of the movie I would screaming and cracking up. There are some hilarious spooky scenes…..fo’realz. Ok, maybe its just me…….*L*

Wanna join da mile high club, go watch this movie first! Wanna fidget with the smoke detector & smoke in the bathroom, go watch this movie first. GUYS this movie will make you think twice about going shishi! heheheh OMG, I gotta rememba no use slippah wen I go on da plane next time. *L*

Hey I caught a boo-boo in da movie. Samuel L. Jackson’s says, get all the bags (from the 1st class section). Yeah well there was only 3 people in 1st class and there were no bags in the overhead. Anyway thats what I tink. Either a faux pah on them or maybe its me.

What cracks me up is dat dis flight starts in Honolulu right. We all know Hawaii no moe snakes (unless stay in da zoo) and if there is snakes they betta kill’um now before it eat all the birds & bird eggs and Hawaii turns into one ada Guam with no birds la dat. Da snakes came from LA. So dey must have shipped da snakes from LA to Honolulu anden threw’um on that commercial flight?

Details I tell you. The point is had frkng SNAKES ON DA PLANE! I bet you this is one movie dey not going show during a flight! But I think they should like for trickotreat night or something. hehehehehehe That would be sooooo NOT RIGHT. *L*