Went and saw Pixar's 'Up' this past weekend. I wanted to see the new Terminator, but my partner was fixated on the feel-good message of a cartoon old man and fat child. The story was actually pretty genuine in the beginning, particularly when the man and woman found out they couldn't have children, and therefore decided to focus their dreams on moving to 'Paradise Falls' in South America, a childhood dream.
They never make it and the wife dies, a little life lesson to us all, isn't it? There will always be time and money for the boring shit, work, braces, dr's, roofing, cars, but no money for adventure. Sad.
The man is now quite old and cantankerous. He whales on a construction manager and is therefore 'sentenced' to an old folks home, the ominous Shady Oaks. He is a former balloon salesman, so he gets a great idea--strap 1000's of baloons and float to Paradise Falls, with a fat boyscout clinging to the porch accidentally.
The kid fucks things up all the time and is a fat whiner, which alternately amused and irritated me. Kids always screw shit up, apparently.
The movie got kind of boring and kiddish near the end, and leaned heavily on the patriarchial shit like daddy issues relating to 'not being there for son' and boy scouts. Sigh.
The old man is pretty good though, and has a giant ridiculous head. I am still not sure if this was better than the new Terminator though. HMMM...Have to see it.
Of course it's better! The guys head is frickin' huge! And who wants to see a Terminator without Arnold?
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