Went to watch Corpse Bride yesterday night, about time I must say. The movie is pure Burton sweetness. An awesome mix of macabre poetry and naive romance. The plot is nothing really deep probably best put as simplistically elaborated yet complex in a childish kind of way, and that is the true beauty of it. The animation is clearly in a league of it’s own, but what really makes the movie stand out is the atmosphere, the mood so typical to Burton.

Without a doubt it takes inspiration in Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Everything flows together so nicely it’s almost insane. From the characters designs to the dark world of the living (as opposed to the ‘underworld’ which is bright and colourful) every little thing screams ‘attention to details’.

It may not be the most intellectual movie out there and if you criticise it for not being more than a innocent tale so wonderfully animated then I think you missed the whole point. Much like a warm July night with clear sky, stars and a full moon, sometimes beauty does not need to be more than what it is.

I saw Lord of War last weekend. It is not as bad as I thought it would be. The movie starts as pompous as the trailer but eventually at some point in it they make an effort to induce some moral dilemma to Cage’s character. The movie is good. Maybe not as good as Suzie puts it: “the best movie so far this year”, I would rather give that title to Crash at this point (I will choose hope over a bullet any time), but it’s definitely one of the best movie of the year. Hopefully it will make people think.

My Hula Girl and me did some shopping Sunday, she bough a brand new Panasonic 27 inches TV and I bough her a 35 gallon fish tank for her birth day. She seemed excited to complete the latest decoration tweaks to the living room, all she needs now is a table, a TV shelf and a couch.

The Corpse Bride is opening this week I just can’t fucking wait.

Listening: Sublime – Bad Fish / Eric Clapton – Cocaine / System Of A Down – Toxicity
Playing: Advance Wars Dual Strike / Dungeon Siege 2

Lord Of War opening up today. I don’t know how you feel about it, but when I first saw the preview this summer I though I would vomit. I felt fucked and pissed. I haven’t seen the movie yet, I plan to give it a shot and I hope I got a wrong opinion of it, but from what I saw on the trailer it looked like one fucking arrogant and opportunistic movie to me.

It seems to be a cheap attempt to capitalise on the twisted relationship we have with guns, money and power. A movie that depict the main character as a cool, rich and successful businessman, beside the fact he’s a world wide weapon dealer, and he builds riches fucking other people lives. A movie that glamorise criminality and praise violence in which the main message seems to be that “Exploiting people misery is the way to go”.

What kind of bullshit is that. This guy ain’t a fucking rock star he’s the world top gunrunner. Do I need to be feed up that crap? Maybe it’s just me but weapons ain’t cool, misery ain’t cool, powerful abusive pigs who make other people bend so they can screw them up the ass ain’t cool, being raped ain’t cool. God damn call me a fucking overreacting alfalfa sprouts eater or John Lennon hippie bitch if you want but I have enough of this shit. The vulgarisation of violence, greed and human stupidity is pissing me off, no matter how sexy the package may look, no matter at which angle I look at it in the end I still see violence, greed and stupidity.

I’ll watch it this weekend. Hopefully I got it all wrong.

1) I saw War of the World last weekend. Not much to say about it. Visually it’s impressive, a nice ride but that’s about it. So many holes in the story it make it looks like the Tripods blasted the script the same way they zapped New Jersey in the movie. Spielberg is getting old, alienated and boring. We should shoot the fucker in the back of the head before he decide to do a remake of Mac & Me.

2) Slow day at the office. Not many people around. Girls’ starting to take their vacation, the 2006 collection is done; our catalogues are done too. Everyone is taking it easy until September. I am going on vacation in 2 weeks I can’t wait. It will be sweetness. Give us back the hammock!

Listening: Transplants – Killafornia / System of a Down – Lost in Hollywood / Citizen Cope – Bullet and a target
Playing: World of Warcraft / Forgotten Realms: Demon Sword / Metroide Prime