Warning Spoilers Ahead! Holy Shit is all I have to say. What a way to mess with my mind until Febuary when season four starts!! FEBUARY!!! The episode was intense, with all types of things going on. I am going to miss Charlie, but he went out unexpectedly. The Jack flashforward parts were really a twist, but well played. I just need to think about it, let it all sink in, and then watch it again in a couple days.
Lame. What a lame season finale.
You should stop reading now if you don’t want to read spoilers.
The entire episode was lame. The final fight with Sylar. Peter is the bomb. Nathan coming to save the day. Talk about cliche after cliche. Uggg. Highly disappointing after such a great ride this season. I really think NBC had no idea the show would turn into a ratings megaton and really overhyped certain episodes, such as the ‘Save the Cheerleader’ campaign earlier in the season. It was a let down.
Hopefully the season finale of Lost can save the day…
So we recently got a puppy who we named Scout and we were a little worried that our cat Niko wouldn’t get a long with him since Niko has really never been around animals since we have had her. Well we brought home Scout and they became best of friends, most like brother and sister. Scout runs around chasing Niko, and Niko will tackle Scout. They even ended up sleep next to each other hours later. Here are some photos.
I’m so happy that they get along! I do have to say the first night having Scout home was rough. Lots of whining when we put him in his crate for the night. He just wouldn’t shut up. I think I got three or four hours of sleep. He seems to be doing a lot better tonight, hopefully it stays that way the rest of the night.
So I got to check out the movie Zodiac by David Fincher this weekend at The Crest a local second run theater in Seattle. The movie is about the Zodiac Killer who terrorized the San Fransisco Bay area through the late 60’s to mid 70’s. The movie really breaks into two sections, with the first act being about the actual crimes and the media publicity and the second half is about the obsession of Robert Graysmith, the comic artist at the San Fransisco Chronicle at the time of the killings, and his attempts to figure out who the Zodiac Killer true identity.
The film is a great departure from David Fincher previous body of work. This was just a crime drama, and not the mind twist that Fincher has previously done with The Game and Seven. The attention to detail in the time period is striking and really has a excellent visual style to it without even noticing it. Many aspects are subtle but greatly effective in making the movie quite tense at moments.
The movie also had an excellent cast including Jake Gyllenhaal as Graysmith, Robert Downey Jr. as Paul Avery the crime reporter at the SF Chronicle, and Mark Ruffalo as Inspector David Toschi. All of them give great performances especially Downey Jr, as he always does. Gyllenhall really plays the part of this noble naive eagle scout perfectly. At times you can see the boyhood curiosity in his eyes through the film, which then turns into a downward spiral of obsession losing everything including his marriage and children.
Probably the one major problem with the movie is the length, at almost 2 hours and 40 minutes. It keeps going and going. While it is full of some amazing insight and information and some great story telling through film, it does drag for about the last 30 minutes. There are some spots that really could have fallen on the editing room floor.
Overall it was a great true crime movies. If you are interested in shows like Dominick Dunne’s Power Privliege and Justice, L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, or Summer of Sam, you might want to check out Zodiac when it comes out on DVD in a couple months.
So Explosions in the Sky were on Conan a couple weeks ago. Check it out.
