Today was a pretty lazy and unproductive day. Looking back on it, it
seemed to kind of just pass by without much fanfare. I would like to
say I'm forgetting about something but at the moment nothing is
coming to mind. All I can remember is watching Ted, along with
recorded TV stuff and YouTube videos. Kind of a waste of a day.
I worked tonight at the theater for the first time in awhile. It
felt kind of weird when I first walked in. I spent my night reading
from three books. I also watched The Edge Of Tomorrow. It
had the same basic idea of the story it is based on but it was pretty
much different all around. But they made it work. I liked it. I
wasn't a big fan of the original ending and thankfully they changed
it for the movie. And although I like happy endings, and they gave
it a happy ending, I think it should have ended on a sadder note.
Spoilers here. In the book, the main character has to kill the girl
to get out of the loop. Or kill her in self defense because she
tries to kill him to stop the loop. In the movie, that isn't how the
loop works, but they both end up dying in a last-ditch effort to stop
the loop. And this was okay with me because the both died, not
leaving one person alive to be depressed and ruminate over all the
decisions they could have made differently. And they were heroic
deaths, which don't make things any better in real life, but in a
movie they are a good thing. Then the movie keeps going instead of
ending with their last heroic action, taking out the enemy. Tom
Cruise wakes up again, and the enemy vanquished, but it as if nothing
ever happened. Happy, yes, because they both live, which is what I
wanted in the book, but the movie did it in such a way that I think
both of them sacrificing themselves to save humanity would have made
a better ending than the way they chose to end things.
Against my better judgment I watched a thirty minute chunk of The
Fault In Our Stars and then the ending. I was on the verge of
crying the entire time and tears did leak out at least twice. It is
such an overwhelmingly emotional story. I loved the book even though
it made me cry more times than I can count. I know John Green really
liked the movie and from what I saw they did a really good job of
faithfully adapting it. The casting was also spot-on, at least based
on my vague recollection of the characters. But it is definitely not
a movie I will be going to watch in the theater. I'm not a fan of
crying in public.
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