Really horribly crap-ass bad. BAD.
Category Archives: Watchin’
Big Screen: Leatherheads
Beautifully filmed in lovely golden light. Completely charming. If you haven’t already, you’ll fall for George Clooney all over again. His Girl Friday-type snappy dialogue. Laurel & Hardy-esque physical comedy. Great soundtrack. Really lovely.
Ditto everything my dad said. Highly recommended.
Big Screen: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
So one day someone said to themselves, “Hey! I think I’ll take this little, charming, fun, engaging book (that in many ways is about female friendship)…and I’ll throw in a little World War II (and transfer the American depression onto London) and turn it into a moody, dramatic, cat-fight-full film! It’s just not good enough the way it is!” Seriously bad idea.
Some good acting but in a convoluted messed up plot created solely because… because the book was too lighthearted? Because movie producers are idiots?
Read the book, skip the movie.
Plane: Elizabeth (The Golden Age)
I really did want to see this one in the theater. But it just could NOT hold my attention on the plane. Too slow moving? Or too much variation in loud & soft, had to keep changing the volume on the headphones? I don’t know what the problem was but I kept tuning out.
After that travesty, on the way home I just watched Juno over and over. Sometimes with the sound, sometimes while I listened to other things. It just gets better and better. If you’re on my Christmas list, you can expect to get it in your package.
Plane: Mr. Magorium’s Magic Emporium
This movie’s missing ingredient = A plot.
But Natalie Portman wears super cute outfits in it! So there’s that.
Plane: Lions for Lambs
I can see why this tanked at the box office. It’s really a three-part movie. The part with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep? Pretty much sucked. The part with Robert Redford and the snotty stupid boy in his office? Also pretty much sucked. The part with the two hotties who became soldiers? (This one and this one). Fucking rocked. But sadly they didn’t get that much screen time; certainly not enough to save this movie from the suck pond. p.s. Peter Berg was hot but had even less screen time than they did.
DVD: The Descent.
Well. I may never sleep through the night again. Completely mind-twistingly scary and freaky and gross and OH HOLY SHIT! NO NO NO! RUNNNNN!!! RUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Dad LOVED it. In his top five for last year. I am not quite as much a fan of the horror genre as he, although I do get just as scared (thanks for passing that one down the gene pool, pops). In fact, if you ever want to have a really good time laughing at other people, you should sit between the two of us at a horror film. And wear ear plugs.
Really well done. Strong performances from unknowns. Great great locations, well chosen. Totally creepy-ass filming. I’m getting shivers just thinking about it and it was over a week ago that I watched it. *SKEEVES*
DVD: Becoming Jane
While I know all the Austen fans are up in a flurry over this one, I thought it was charming and well done and really solid performances from both Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. My heart broke right along with hers.
My Dad really liked it too. In fact his constant refrain has been “Years from now, nobody’s going to be rewatching Michael Clayton but this movie is still going to be fresh and enjoyable.” I have to agree.
DVD: Lucky You
Too bad 90% of the dialogue sounds like it comes straight out of “Gambling for Dummies”.
Big Screen: Be Kind, Rewind
Very funny, sweeter than it looks. Some nice friendship, small town, community stuff. Love the tie-in to the jazz stuff: the final movie they make is really great and such fun. The concept of “sweded” is awesome and really all I want to do now is run around with a videocamera making my own versions of everything. A Duff-sweded Matrix? Come on, that would be HILARIOUS. And it was nice to find that Mos Def really doesn’t have to talk in that crazy ass high voice he used in 16 Blocks. Not half as annoying as I thought it’d be. Pleasing, even.