Recent cinematic adventures.
Jul. 25th, 2005 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleCharlie and the Chocolate Factory is hilarious. We went with a group of ten (which turned out to be only nine--my guess is that the tenth didn't come because she's allergic to chocolate), and we all liked it. Jay was more skeptical than anyone else. He really didn't like the way they gave Willy Wonka a backstory, which actually was the worst part of the movie. It slows way down when they go to visit Dr. Wonka, but it's not enough to keep the movie from being great.
When I first saw trailers for Wedding Crashers, it looked completely dumb. Then there were some other trailers, and it actually looked like a movie. And then we bought tickets at the kiosk, which warned us that it was rated R and we'd have to show ID.
The R rating makes a big difference. It's very, very funny, and there's a lot of sex, including a hand job at the dinner table.
The only bad thing about the movie is Will Ferrell. I hate him (although I loved Bewitched), and his character was exactly the same character he always plays.
The Island is the first Ewan McGregor movie I've actually liked. I, of course, was the only one who did. The boys hated it. Jay said it was the worst thing he's seen since Mindhunters. But they don't know what they're talking about! The Island was tons of fun with some out of control product placement.
I did agree with the boys that the thing where they're dropping on the R doesn't work. They should have broken a window and gone back down through the building. That would have been much cooler.
I love the end with all these people in white spreading out over the desert, and then Scarlett, Ewan, and Djimon in street clothes.
I am irritated with The Sacramento Bee. They had some interview with Sean Bean with a headline that said something about how Sean likes playing villains. I don't know that I would have figured out that he's the bad guy (rather than just some kind of morally ambiguous part of the operation) when we first meet him. I would have liked to see that emerge on its own.
Real Women Have Curves starts out slow, but it's very good once it gets going. It's a bit closed in, but that's because it's adapted from a play, which I didn't realize until the end credits.
One of the things I liked about it (aside from America Ferrera in her underwear, and mismatched underwear at that) was that there are some things left unresolved at the end. Her mother doesn't give her blessing. We don't know if she and Jimmy keep in touch. We don't know if Estela's business survives. It's a bit like real life.
I also liked that I watched it without subtitles and was able to understand the Spanish just fine.
Speaking of Spanish, I also recently Netflixed La mala educación. It wasn't bad (and, dude, Fele Martinez and Gael Garcia Bernal have sex), but it was way too much like Todo sobre mi madre. I think I'm done with Almodóvar.
When I first saw trailers for Wedding Crashers, it looked completely dumb. Then there were some other trailers, and it actually looked like a movie. And then we bought tickets at the kiosk, which warned us that it was rated R and we'd have to show ID.
The R rating makes a big difference. It's very, very funny, and there's a lot of sex, including a hand job at the dinner table.
The only bad thing about the movie is Will Ferrell. I hate him (although I loved Bewitched), and his character was exactly the same character he always plays.
The Island is the first Ewan McGregor movie I've actually liked. I, of course, was the only one who did. The boys hated it. Jay said it was the worst thing he's seen since Mindhunters. But they don't know what they're talking about! The Island was tons of fun with some out of control product placement.
I did agree with the boys that the thing where they're dropping on the R doesn't work. They should have broken a window and gone back down through the building. That would have been much cooler.
I love the end with all these people in white spreading out over the desert, and then Scarlett, Ewan, and Djimon in street clothes.
I am irritated with The Sacramento Bee. They had some interview with Sean Bean with a headline that said something about how Sean likes playing villains. I don't know that I would have figured out that he's the bad guy (rather than just some kind of morally ambiguous part of the operation) when we first meet him. I would have liked to see that emerge on its own.
Real Women Have Curves starts out slow, but it's very good once it gets going. It's a bit closed in, but that's because it's adapted from a play, which I didn't realize until the end credits.
One of the things I liked about it (aside from America Ferrera in her underwear, and mismatched underwear at that) was that there are some things left unresolved at the end. Her mother doesn't give her blessing. We don't know if she and Jimmy keep in touch. We don't know if Estela's business survives. It's a bit like real life.
I also liked that I watched it without subtitles and was able to understand the Spanish just fine.
Speaking of Spanish, I also recently Netflixed La mala educación. It wasn't bad (and, dude, Fele Martinez and Gael Garcia Bernal have sex), but it was way too much like Todo sobre mi madre. I think I'm done with Almodóvar.