Mighty Joe Young











12-30-98 Today I went to see Mighty Joe Young with my Dad and Joe of course ... I know the movie was cheesy but you know what I really enjoyed it and I even cried when I thought the big ape was dead.
We went to culvers after the movie and that was equaly nice... we were thinking of going to Olive Garden and I know they have better food but there is alot to be said for just a burger and fries ... everything tasted real good and I am nice and full ... but my mom made stew and green Jellow with celery and cherries and walnuts and man I have been hungry for both of those for months.. and I know she went through alot to make them for me. so I might sneak a little even though I have really had enough to eat ... maybe this is why I am fat :) I can be a glutton :) hehe well ever since Christmas I have been eating like a pig but that will stop once I run out of left overs and we go back to our old ridiculous habit of eating one meal a day ....
The ape in the movie looked great that was one of the things that made it so enjoyable I think it was a pupet instead of computer generated and that just makes such a difference ... I mean for lizard scales and the like nothing can beat a computers touch here and there but for fur or soft flesh that dosn't have reflections and morphing capibility I think the physical limitations of pupetry and the inherant anatomical structure a pupet must have lends so much to a film .... of course you can take that the wrong direction and have electric switches and airsacks that seem just as lifeless .... but I think i would prefer that to computer effects used in inappropriate ways . My foot is asleep .... yikes...