Change of pace:
I'm announcing that I shall be converting this personal blog into a food and lifestyle blog focusing on finding wheelchair-accessible restaurants that serve great food. I won't be able to post often; however, when I do, it'll be for something really worthwhile or to provide useful information to serve the needs of other people with disabilities like me. :)
Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Spoiler-free movie review of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire:" As this is America's no. 1 movie at the moment, I imagine a lot of you are curious to know if it is worth seeing... Well, it all depends on what you're looking for, really. Are you in the mood for the same type of fun, zany entertainment you got back in 1984 with the original? If so, you will be greatly disappointed. There are many callbacks and easter eggs that pay fan service, but the tone of this movie is VERY different. This is actually a much darker, more somber movie... more like a modern horror movie, actually. There aren't many funny moments, even with the inclusion of some stellar comedic actors such as Paul Rudd, Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani. Some portions of the movie are downright creepy, so those of you with young kids with whom you might want to share your love for the original should probably avoid watching this with them altogether. It's not all bad, however, as the story does move along nicely, the young actors are actually really good, and it is diverting enough. I suppose it all really depends on how you manage your expectations. If you go into this movie expecting to enjoy it as much as the original, you should understand right now that you won't. However, if all you want is a diverting movie with ghosts and some friendly old faces you used to love along with a few promising new ones, then this might just be the movie for you. I rate this movie 3.5 out of 5 stars.
#justmyopinion
the chair you always said you liked
sits, cold and unwarmed
in the darkening april night
as empty as when
it first came into my life
now that you have left it
for the very last time.
it’s funny how eloquent a silence can be
or how you fill my room still
even as you no longer step inside
and even as i no longer remember
whether your tears made a sound
or why my heart had to hide
each time you sobbed a heartfelt plea
to have me hold you in the dying light.
my arms could not move, you see
as full of futile feeling as
there is now emptiness in the night,
even as the moon spoke words of moonlight at
a world that had long ceased to open its eyes.
and every aching word you sought
to thaw away from me, as the winter slowly
melted its ice
would not flow so smoothly down
those jagged crags of rock that formed
the mask i wore outside.
somewhere, in the distant sky
a single whispered "sorry" dies
alight on the cowardly wings
of sorrow and regret, and i
took the bridge between the worlds
of "you" and "you and i"
and walked away long before
that whispered word could reach
your lonely, broken, weather-beaten door.
April 3, 2008
