So I’ve finally watched ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ this evening, and I
must say I absolutely loved it. This movie had sorta become my personal white whale
for a time there as every single time I had planned to go and watch things
prevented me from seeing the damn thing, either money troubles, or planned
events falling through, or someone needing a hand sucked up all my spare time,
etc, etc. I started feeling like the last kid on the block to have seen the
film, especially when everyone was raving about it or watching it multiple
times.
Now I must state that at first I was completely sceptical,
especially as it was a 3d movie produced by Disney... and a non-Pixar at that.
I’ve not always had the greatest respect for the House of the Mouse, especially
during the Michael Eisner years, but lately they seem to be hitting back with
some fantastic work, although I think with the recent axing of Tron: Uprising
some of my friends might disagree (to which I’ve not seen). When I read the
base premise of ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ it felt like a cash-in on gamers, or a feeble
attempt to be cool and ‘retro’, my pessimism for the sugar coated Disney crap
of years gone left a sour taste in my mouth... that is until I saw the first
trailer. Yes I admit I was amazed that they managed to put in so many game franchised
characters in there, and my respect became more positive... but the sugar
coated ‘we all live happily after all’ ending was looming, and I was still
dubious. Then the reviews from gamers piled in from the states, all raving
about it, and then I started wanting to see it. I had successfully avoided all
spoilers, although the trailers made glimpses has to what the plot would be but
didn’t spoil the movie at all (a first nowadays). It finally came out... and
every single time I tried to watch it, it fell through. It was excruciating not
being to watch it for so damn long, so I finally gave in and thought, “Fuck it,
I’ll wait for Blu-Ray”. Well I finally did, and it was awesome. I’m not going
to review it, I’m just not interested in doing so at this time, but I wanted to
express how I felt watching it.
The one thing aspect I adored about this movie was it was
heavily steeped in gamer culture from decades past, celebrating and referencing
almost every genre created and paying homage to many great classic games and
franchises. I suppose in an age of Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Marvel vs
Capcom, and Sonic & Mario games this seems a tad old fashioned but seeing
so many great characters converge was so fantastic, especially as they essentially
are only antagonistic within the game areas. It’s very reminiscent of the ‘Sheep
dog and Wolf’ Warner Bros cartoons which always start with Sam and Ralph
(co-incidence?) arriving at work, chatting to each other like friends, clocking
on and then finally proceeding to beat each other up before the whistle blows.
I supposed I’ve always loved the gag that this ultimately was just a job for
these guys, and at the end of the day there are no hard feelings. I suppose that’s
how Ralph and Felix’s relationship ultimately is, although it’s easy to
understand just how Ralph might finally become disillusioned after 30 years.
I knew this was probably going to happen, but I sympathised the
hell out of Ralph as I see so much of myself in him. He’s a lonely
misunderstood soul who only wants acceptance, but his nature seems to prevent
this from happening all of the time. I’m a natural klutz who tries very hard to
not break things whenever I do something, because it’s always bound to happen.
I suppose that’s why I’ve always wanted to learn to fix and build things, it’s
a way of undoing some of the damage I may inadvertently cause, which has lead
to a current passion of prop building and costuming. I saw myself so much in
Ralph, especially the parts about him talking about his loneliness... I’m
lonely. If there is one thing I’m catastrophically bad at doing is trying to
find someone, even if it’s just a simple date. I think the impending apocalypse
on Feb 14th is on my mind as well at this point, but it seems that
every girl I meet either a) has a boyfriend, b) is interested in someone else, and/or
c) thinks of me only as a ‘friend’. I didn’t mean to go on this tangent but I
think I need to get this out to some degree as this gets completely
frustrating, especially as I’m completely shy and it takes me a tremendous
amount of courage to ask someone out, but it’s followed by the inevitable
rejection and then the almost crippling depression. Wow, I didn’t want to go
there, but in the spirit of this blog I feel like I have to keep it in (despite
how many times I’ve wanted to delete it). Maybe someday I’ll talk more but I’ll
warn you now the spelling and grammar will be a lot worse as I’ll have downed a
bottle of scotch first.
Wow... what a fucking downer, especially as I absolutely
bloody loved the flick, even though its ending was almost has sugary as the
racing world, it was satisfying... but I think it gave me a cavity. And I’ve
almost forgotten the point I was originally going to make, but I think what I
was going to say was that I think I’m okay with feeling so close to Ralph
because ultimately he’s just a guy that is doing his job and he’s genuinely trying
to do his best for others, even if it means having to sacrifice his own
personal dreams and desires to do so, he’ll do the right thing.
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