Evan Almighty

A few years ago I saw Bruce Almighty and was mostly unimpressed. I thought some parts were funny, but overall Jim Carrey came across as a jerk. Of course, Morgan Freeman made the movie what it was. He is almost always a man of total class and style.

So when Evan Almighty came out, I was skeptical about seeing it, especially because Steve Carrel can be such a weirdo. However, I was fairly impressed. I thought Steve Carrel did an awesome job. Even in scenes where I might have tried to be seriously unimpressed and unamused, I found Carrel amusing.

One of the best parts of the movie was the animals in general. There were so many different types of animals and they had some of them doing such cool things. The ones I liked best were the baboons. As stated earlier on this blog page, baboons scare the crap out of me. The baboons in the movie were entrepreneurial, taking some ark matters into their own hands. Amusing. Also, the animal trainers got them to drink out of glass mugs. I'm partially ashamed that I thought that was hilarious. Only partially.

The best thing overall was the message that God gives us opportunities to make our lives better. I have always believed that God does little to control what happens on earth nowadays, but I have also always believed that God gives us help through certain points in our lives by giving us opportunities to better ourselves.

I enjoyed this movie much more than I thought I could, and I support the message whole-heartedly.

I wanted this photo to look so cool with the flowers and the moped and the old man with the dog, but I think the sign about shuttle buses really ruins it.

One of many gateways at the Coliseum.

Italian laundry looks a lot like any one else's laundry.

NaNo book -- what to do

So November went pretty well with the completion of my second NaNoWriMo book. I was fairly excited to have created an entire novel. And I thought, apparently naively, that the summer would be a great time to take care of the revision.

Well, here's summer, and the revision is as follows...

Nothing at all.

I am trying to figure out what the basic message of the book is, and that seems to be the hardest part. So if I don't know what the point of the story is, how can I possibly make it better? Naturally, the first step would be to find the point of the story.

So I have this boy Simon who has an incident in his past that is hidden from the reader until about two-thirds through the book. The incident links with the disappearance of his best friend Troy. Now I know how those two things go together and I know how Simon is linked to them both, and I mostly know Simon's motive in each of them, but I'm not sure what that says about Simon. WHich means that overall I'm not sure what the point is. The point can't be that sometimes we're in bad situations and have to make the best of them by protecting ourselves. That's sad and lonely. I don't want a theme like that.

But Simon's point seems to be that he is sad and lonely. He wants so much for Callie to like him and he wants so much to be like Troy. So if his point is that he is sad and lonely, should he be the main character who "wins" in the end? I'm not sure.

Also, the title Cry Wolf doesn't work anymore. I have no idea what to call it now.