Off The Wall, Or Up Against It

I'm serious. Think about it.   We say "Oh, I'm in Heaven!" whenever we experience and/or appreciate something delightful.   We say "They put me through Hell" when we've had a hard time with something or someone.   And we think it's just an expression, but it's really not. It's literally true.   What is Heaven but something joyous?   What is Hell but something horrible?   The feeling you get the first time you really look deeply into your child's eyes and see that they recognize you. That's Heaven.   That time you and your best friend made each other laugh so hard you couldn't stand up, so hard the tears rolled down your cheeks and you couldn't stop and it hurt so good.   That's Heaven.   I'm sure you have more. I do. Plenty. The more I think about it, the more I find.   Everyone has these moments. These are the times you slip into Heaven.   I'm not going to bother with ...

I have to say that as Pandemics go, Part I was quite a roller-coaster ride.   Started off a bit slow, all the action a little distant, but then it got up close and personal pretty fast. The panic buying scenes were a bit over the top, I mean, would anyone REALLY buy all that TP? And this was only one of the instances I can think of where they stretched reality into the absurd. Parts of it were so cliched! Totally predictable and such an anti-climax when what you already knew would happen finally happened.   I think that was a problem in editing. Also the camera work left something to be desired. A lot of scenes were, to be frank, amatuerishly shot.   And the cast members' acting abilities were widely varied. Far too many bad actors. I mean, what idiot would cast that foppish loser as a President of the US?   This I again found to be just beyond the acceptably believable.    We also saw some really outstanding, performances, however, most notably in ...