Another One Down the Rabbit Hole

I saw this film last night that was fucking awesome, called MaLice in Wonderland. It was a very unique take on the old story of Through the Looking Glass. All of your favorite characters were there, sometimes played as parts of a few different characters. It had a very Guy Ritchie feel, but still had it's own flavor, and was quite a visual and audible trip.

Anyway, in the intro credits, I noticed Danny Dyer was listed, and I was like "Hey -- I've been seeing a bunch of stuff about him and UFOs lately". So after the film I looked him up and checked out the UFO Special he did called I Believe in UFOs. I was worried, but overall, I liked it. It amused me.

Why was I worried? Because I kind of love that guy -- I never really knew his name before MaLice, so when I realized it was him, I was kind of excited to see him looking into a topic I'm deeply interested in. I had to keep in mind that unlike a lot of us, he doesn't sit at home all night reading every imaginable article on UFOs and/or Abduction. I cut him a healthy dose of slack, and was very happy to see that when he left Stan's house, he second guessed his initial feeling of the footage being legit (yes, Danny got to spend a few hours with Stan Romanek and saw the footage before it was released to the public). At first he was all kinds of amazed, but after he left and had time to process it all, he said he was skeptical because -- and I paraphrase: "He has an agent... and he is asking for 50,000 for the footage". *heart*

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A (Not-So-Sober) Review of 2010 (The Film)

I was watching the 1984 film 2010 the other night. By the way, whatever happened to Roy Scheider?

Never mind. I guess he died in February of 2008. Way to start off, Deirdre.

Anyway, I was watching 2010 the other night and getting into it a bit, especially with Helen Mirren's screen time. The premise was interesting (well, the premise of both 2001 and 2010), but then about half way through, it got kind of silly. What follows is the story of one woman's struggle to piece together the events that transpired in the film, through a slight haze of Cabernet Sauvignon.

2010 starts off 9 years after 2001, (as you might imagine) and the Americans are considering building a new ship to go check out what happened to the first ship, Discovery One and it's crew. As it turns out the Soviets already have a ship rarin' to go, and they too want to check out Discovery, as well as the giant monolith, but don't know how to fix HAL. A deal is eventually worked out and the Americans are allowed to hitch a ride with the Soviets's aboard the Alexei Leonov, killing two birds with one giant ship.

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