I cannot believe this exists. Yet it does, and it totally rocks.

It's a documentary about viral videos, and in particular the Winnebago Man, the "star" of a popular video of outtakes heavy with swear-words and frustrations that most people thought were hilariously funny. The filmmaker actually went out of his way to seek the Winnebago Man (Jack Rebney, who is now an 80-some year old man living as a hermit in a cabin) and try to find out more about him, get his story on film.

And it actually happened! After 20+ years of seclusion Mr. Rebney actually agreed to cooperate for the documentary, even came out to film festivals where it's now showing (and getting great reviews, at that). What intrigues me the most about the film is that it's not just about the funny side of the Winnebago Man video, but also a sad story about the man himself and how his life was affected by being the subject of that video, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redeem himself through the very same medium that damned him.

It's absolutely brilliant, and I intend to watch this movie as soon as I can get my hands on it. :) I suppose I feel sympathy for the man, despite having laughed at his old video, because solitude and shame are things I understand all too well.

Inglourious Basterds was... an awesome, awesome movie. The only problem was that it also triggered my anxiety a lot (I mean what's not anxiety-inducing about Jew hunts in Nazi-occupied France, eeeeeeek *shivers*) I wish I could have turned off my anxiety reflexes cause if not for that, and the really annoyingly noisy couple on my left side, I would have enjoyed the experience thoroughly.

While the movie handled really grim and violent topics it didn't take itself too incredibly seriously. I guess dark humor is the right name for it. Though I didn't really feel the movie did a disservice to the terrors of the Holocaust (in fact the end, or near end of the movie could even be considered cathartic for that!) Of course I don't have family who suffered through it so I wouldn't be the one to truly judge.

Brad Pitt's character was a great deal of comic relief (I think that accent had to be bad on purpose) but his character isn't even the main focus for most of the movie itself. Well he's a big name actor, so it makes sense his face gets plastered on all the ads and reviews though!

(This is the first of... possibly several posts I'm trying to catch up with. RPoL takes so much of my writing energy that it's hard to write here!)

I went and saw this movie with Jon not once, but twice in the theaters recently. That said, it is one of my favorite, possibly MOST favorite book to movie conversions of the Harry Potter series.

I am really looking forward to the two parts of Deathly Hallows. I can only imagine that they will be very dark, very bleak and powerful movies. I suppose that excites me because I'm a morbid person to begin with, even though I did enjoy all the humor of Half-Blood Prince!

However, I would imagine that non-fans would be bored by the 6th movie (there weren't a ton of action scenes, many more dialogue scenes and even scenes where few if any words were spoken.) And fans would be upset that certain parts of the books were cut.

I just felt kinda bad about my site for a while because I couldn't get the server upgrade I wanted, so the migration nver actually happened. :( Apparently it isn't available yet, and someone else had misinformed me. Meh. I mean, I COULD get it if I went and moved my site to a new web host, but... I'm not keen on moving from where I've been a customer since 2001. It'd have to take some pretty bad service.

I may eventually consider it, though, but it'd have to be after a lot of research and with some free time for me to move things properly. I don't envision myself having much free time for months, if not years, so I am going to stick with what I've got unless slow website loading starts to bug me again. Eventually I should be able to get my upgrade!

Yesterday I went out for once, and actually stayed out for half the day without any terrible anxiety. Since I'm rather tired right now (I struggled at writing a RPoL post all through the night... sigh) I'll just summarize quickly for now.

We bought the PS3 Genesis game collection. Jon wanted it 'cause he's a dork. :D It's the best collection I've seen of Genesis (and some Master System) games yet. Has all the Phantasy Stars, Shining Force 1 and 2, all the Streets of Rage games, Sonic games (of course), etc.

I also preordered Sims 3, which is coming out June 2nd. SO CLOSE! I can hardly wait!

Then we went to see Terminator Salvation. Which I actually enjoyed. I've heard it wasn't so popular, but I stopped paying attention to what others think a long time ago. The movie suited my tastes. I liked the look into the war with the machines, the Terminator and vehicle designs, and particularly the character of Marcus. There were also a couple moments where I was totally thinking "+3 stunt!" heh!

We did some walking, then settled down at a restaurant that's open late at night and had a nice meal. All in all a good day... but now I should stop depriving myself of sleep and try this RPoL post later. :P