March 9th, 2007 by Atomictumor
OK, so yesterday there were issues (this is a ’slice of life’ post, so be warned).
MastaG had been promised a trip to the Ghost Rider movie. Due to circumstances beyond our control, despite the best efforts of everybody involved, the trip didn’t happen. He was not happy about this.
Neither was I, because he came home that day with a report card chock full of As and Bs, and he got As on the projects he’d been stressing so hard over for the past week or to (by stressing, I mean worrying and procrastinating. He takes after his daddy).
Now, I don’t want to watch Ghost Rider. I always thought the idea of a flaming guy on a motorcycle was kinda lame, and I don’t like Nicholas Cage’s particular style of acting. However, 10 year olds are 10 year olds, and he had it set in his head.
This is what I want to watch…
Oh hell yes. We dine in hell indeed, and it’ll probably be spagetti-0s, but dammit, they’ll be warm.
So, this is the thing. The other day, I kinda told ol’MastaG that if he’ll just be cool about not seeing the movie last night, I’ll take him to Ghost Rider, AND take him with me to see 300 on Saturday.
I think this is probably one of the goriest movies ever made, so I think I might take him in the guise of it being a ‘history lesson’. Because, hell, Thermopylae has life lessons for everybody, right?
Indeed.
Lessons like going around without a shirt on, and smiting people. Thats what made this great country what it is.
You can’t put a price on a lesson like that, and if I have to take one for the team, and be viewed the most reckless father in the world for taking a 10 yr old to a gory assed movie, well, I do it for America.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I once accidentally took an 11 year old girl to see Cold Mountain. Civil War -learning experience, right? Well it had a kind of scary rape scene that I wasn’t forewarned about or expected. I hid her eyes and covered her ears (for what good that did with Surround Sound.)
She’s ok. The traumatic aftermath I expected her to suffer didn’t happen.
Just sayin’.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
This is website verite. WE don’t need a fancy preview button!
March 9th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Good Job to MastaG on his report card! I was excited about seeing Ghost Rider but it really wasn’t as action packed as the previews made it look - I can say that without giving away any plot points. He may find that it doesn’t meet his (built up) expectations either. Especially when compared to 300.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Thats why, if this goes down, he’ll see Ghost Rider first.
Yeah, I said meh to the preview the first time I saw it. NOw, there was a preview for Spiderman 3 that actually showed Venom, and G was beside himself.
I was too, technically…
March 9th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
last summer someone gave us a copy of gremlins and my 8 year old daughter had nightmares for weeks simply from my description of the movie - she never even saw it. i had to give the movie away and promise to never make her watch it. she’s fragile, G’s tough - he’s like a little punky man guised as a 10 year old. he can handle it.
what a dang fun weekend!
March 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Very excited ’bout the 300 around here. It’s been our family plan for the month since my son showed us the trailer online months ago. We bought our tickets (10! what with b/f and g/fs going too) online. Its tonight at 9:50…I can’t wait!!!
Vickie
March 9th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Im happy for masterg on his project. He is a smart kid. The movie thing sorta worries me but, you know what your child can handle and what he cant. HUG HUG
March 9th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Chris and I are super psyched for 300! We are going to see it tomorrow. Take some hard drinks with you when seeing Ghost Rider.
March 10th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Warning: Do not go to see the 300 at the really nice new theatre in the bad part of town on a Friday night and have the power go out 5 minutes before the show starts. And if you do, run out the door when the usher dude says you all have to leave BEFORE they have to call police have to be called to have the rowdy, scary, f*yelling, big guys removed. I hope your show goes better and I hope we can get into a show some time tomorrow that is not sold out.
Vickie
March 10th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Sorry to hear Ghostrider’s a bit weak. My partner’s daughter is a set carpenter and worked on it in Melbourne, Australia. She said that the sets were great but a lot of money wasted by the director not knowing what he wanted… like after a caravan was all ready to film, he decided to get it cut in half and extend it out more??? The list goes on.
Congratulations for your brainy son’s efforts.. Well done Masta G….
March 10th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Both movies have gotten really rotten reviews, but I doubt a ten year old will be that critical.
March 10th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Read the cnn review, if you haven’t already: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/09/review.300/
“…Perhaps it’s this remove from reality that allows the filmmakers to revel in an orgy of violence with impunity. The battle, which dominates the movie, is a nonstop slaughterhouse with the ferocious Spartans lopping and chopping their way through their innumerable foes (including rampaging rhinos and elephants, scuttled off the cliffs to their doom).
War receives the kind of gloss you’d find in, well, a video game. (Indeed, the actors have little to do besides assume picturesque positions and chew the virtual scenery.) When the audience cheers one particularly aesthetic decapitation it’s because it’s not quite the same thing as watching an Iraqi execution video. And to be fair to Snyder (who also made the “Dawn of the Dead” remake), he does have a flair for dismemberment.
Nevertheless, it’s not so much the body count or even the blood lust that’s disturbing. It’s that the film, with its macho militarism, seems out of step in a war-weary time…”
March 10th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
and evidently its blood and guts is toned done from what’s in the original comic book.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
It really wasn’t as gory as I was expecting from Frank Miller and Zach whatshishame.
MastaG displayed a remarkable wisdom by telling me he didn’t want to go. We had found a good ratings site (which link escapes me, but measured the sex/violence/profanity of the movie), and I had told him what it rated.
He played with some friends at Netmom’s house.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Ghost rider: I swear the main actor looks like that guy from Friends: every time I saw the commercial I expected to see a flaming monkey on his shoulder. O.o
March 10th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
300 looks like a touching date movie to me.
tg
March 11th, 2007 at 12:33 am
I watched 300 Friday, that movie was great aside from a few annoyances… the blood slatter and slow motion was a bit overplayed. I also haven’t seen a film recently in theaters that has so tastefully worked in such a range of barebreasts - cups A to D were represented. Can’t wait for it to
hit the P2Pcome out on DVDMarch 11th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Yeah to G for the great report card AND for not going to the movie.
(only in the sense that the boy really seems to be self aware about what he can and cannot handle. That’s extremely rare in adolexcents.)
March 12th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I LOVED 300. Ghost Rider….. not so much. Congrats to G on the grades!