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ceruseeGood movies I have seen lately:
I Capture the Castle: omg, this was fantastic. Solidly filmed, lovely material about characters who are quite likable and interesting. Must read the book, now. Hey, Marc Blucas! I used to have a little crush on him when he was on Buffy, which came back for this movie, although he looks less impressively mountainous when he's not standing next to tiny Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Blade Runner (the Final Cut): No, I'd never seen it before. It was pretty fine. Harrison Ford was pretty fine. My friend from Los Angeles, who was sitting next to me, assures me that LA is exactly like that, including the flying cars, and who am I to argue?
The Music Man: I'm tempted to go into detail on this. It's not as good a movie as the others here--it's an okay movie and an okay movie version of an absolutely brilliant musical that I love--and I've seen it before (both this movie, and a high school production of it that I doubt was as good as I remember it being), but it got me to pondering what I like specifically about Marian as a character. Maybe more on that later.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: Again, no, I'd never seen it before, although I have seen bits and pieces of the second and third Indiana Jones movies. Christ, it's racist, but what a solid and (despite the racism) enjoyable piece of filmmaking that was. Harrison Ford is pretty fine. So's Marion Ravenwood. More heroines should be named Marian; it seems to lead to good things.
Not so good:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: I gave up halfway through. It was just as racist as the first, and much nastier and darker to boot, requiring me to grit my teeth a lot harder. Harrison Ford is again pretty fine, but there are better, more pleasant movies in which he's fine, and plenty of them. When I read that Spielberg himself later admitted to not liking it (he thought the only good thing about it was that he met his second and present wife while filming it), I stopped trying to finish it. Ehhh.
Suburban Girl: As I described elsewhere.
I Capture the Castle: omg, this was fantastic. Solidly filmed, lovely material about characters who are quite likable and interesting. Must read the book, now. Hey, Marc Blucas! I used to have a little crush on him when he was on Buffy, which came back for this movie, although he looks less impressively mountainous when he's not standing next to tiny Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Blade Runner (the Final Cut): No, I'd never seen it before. It was pretty fine. Harrison Ford was pretty fine. My friend from Los Angeles, who was sitting next to me, assures me that LA is exactly like that, including the flying cars, and who am I to argue?
The Music Man: I'm tempted to go into detail on this. It's not as good a movie as the others here--it's an okay movie and an okay movie version of an absolutely brilliant musical that I love--and I've seen it before (both this movie, and a high school production of it that I doubt was as good as I remember it being), but it got me to pondering what I like specifically about Marian as a character. Maybe more on that later.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: Again, no, I'd never seen it before, although I have seen bits and pieces of the second and third Indiana Jones movies. Christ, it's racist, but what a solid and (despite the racism) enjoyable piece of filmmaking that was. Harrison Ford is pretty fine. So's Marion Ravenwood. More heroines should be named Marian; it seems to lead to good things.
Not so good:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: I gave up halfway through. It was just as racist as the first, and much nastier and darker to boot, requiring me to grit my teeth a lot harder. Harrison Ford is again pretty fine, but there are better, more pleasant movies in which he's fine, and plenty of them. When I read that Spielberg himself later admitted to not liking it (he thought the only good thing about it was that he met his second and present wife while filming it), I stopped trying to finish it. Ehhh.
Suburban Girl: As I described elsewhere.