27 October 2013

The Cat in the Box - Schrodinger's Cat, Aliens, and the End of the World

Well, it seems we're coming into a slightly quiet season. After the summer, all seems down and droopy. So I just want to share some movies I have seen that may be worth your time.

I know it's all been done to shreds, these posts of interesting things to watch but heck, I still want to jump into that pool and share in the frolicks of pretension and superiority.

MOVIES

These past two months has me watching old movies, a splattering of new and new-ish ones. When I mean watch, I mean watch it from beginning to end without fast forwarding. Any movie I see that I have to wikipedia through the plot and jump to the end does not count.

For oldies, I watched 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Boogie Nights. The two really don't have a common thread except of course they were both set in California (San Fernando Valley for Boogie, San Francisco for Snatchers) but both movies in a way, portend change; how we deal with it. I know it is a stretch to say that an alien invasion and a movie about the porn industry are both saying change is inevitable but for me, it does.