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Macbeth w/ Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is even better than I'd hyped myself for! I don't know if I've ever seen anything sexier than Ian (he's maybe in his mid-thirties here). Anything butcher. Am I surprised? 0_0 <--- yes, yes I am.
I had to put closed-captioning on for the Scottish accents in hopes of understanding them.
The Macbeths keep kissing and entwining. I'm not sure whether that's working for me. Physical passion between the couple is good, yes, but to this degree/ And does it feel slightly artificial, or is that me wondering how the hell Ian, Man of Gay, is managing to do this scene? Will reflect on it.
One of the weird sisters (the maiden, I think?) is all trance-y and fantastic. I'm not sure exactly what they're going for, but the effect is truly spooky and really absorbing!
The only marring point so far- (they haven't yet murdered Duncan) what the hell is Judy Dench wearing? Seriously, what is that? It's all black and sack cloth-y, and that's fine, but the cut! Ye gods, the horrible cut!
Also saw recently:
Movies I cried in like the ridiculous little woman I am are marked with an *
Kinsey*: I enjoyed it, but I made the mistake of seeing it with grandma, who talks during movies and lived in the college town featured large in the film ("Oh, Erin, there's the Bloomington library! Have I ever taken you to Bloomington, it's such a pretty town-" "Grandma, the theater's dark, and you can't really see other people, but that doesn't mean other people can't hear you talking!") It's entertaining, the end is moving- though not an entirely satisfactory conclusion, I thought- and you should see it because hey, fun AND educational!
Finding Neverland*: EXCELLENT. Took me a while to get into it, which was odd considering that it was a good movie, and Depp performed v. well. Chilly!Victorian!Wife was so well-cast. Or well-acted. Or both.
Hero*: (again) This movie always makes me cry. You know, at the end. "I always wanted to go home with you." And then I loose it. And it's so pretty. The color palate is amazing. As Danny would say: Taste the Rainbow! (I'm going to advise any boyfriend he has in the future to do just that and watch Danny be horrifically embarrassed)
Van Helsing: Delightfully horribly. No plot coherence, co-starring Pouty McClevage (er, Kate Beckinsdale). The sad thing is the costume designs were okay, and the pyrotechnics crew, and guy playing Frankenstein’s monster were absolutely fabulous. Just REALLY good. If they had been left alone in a room, they would have shot a fabulous movie. But alas, the rest of the cast found them.
This could have been such a good movie if it were filmed by a competent director, about the girl character (tweaked to be less Mary-Sueish) protecting her village, had Van Helsing entirely cut out, and been a tight, focused script. I want to film it in grainy indie scope, one girl fighting for her family and village against the dark things lurking up in the castle.
Having kick-ass female co-stars isn't the answer to a lack of feminism in typical action movies, because they're always sidekicks, still lesser, still the little women rather than the protagonist. And the ways they show power on screen are still very male ways such as the standard ass-kicking, but even there are detracted from by a need to femininize them, making them 'look hot while doing it.' I want the plot in the above paragraph- an Ester to save her people- in one of these bloody action movies, and I want the female to be taken every bit as seriously as any male involved, and to not necessarily find love by the end. Then I'll be happy.
I'm going to see A Very Long Engagement tomorrow. Yay!
I had to put closed-captioning on for the Scottish accents in hopes of understanding them.
The Macbeths keep kissing and entwining. I'm not sure whether that's working for me. Physical passion between the couple is good, yes, but to this degree/ And does it feel slightly artificial, or is that me wondering how the hell Ian, Man of Gay, is managing to do this scene? Will reflect on it.
One of the weird sisters (the maiden, I think?) is all trance-y and fantastic. I'm not sure exactly what they're going for, but the effect is truly spooky and really absorbing!
The only marring point so far- (they haven't yet murdered Duncan) what the hell is Judy Dench wearing? Seriously, what is that? It's all black and sack cloth-y, and that's fine, but the cut! Ye gods, the horrible cut!
Also saw recently:
Movies I cried in like the ridiculous little woman I am are marked with an *
Kinsey*: I enjoyed it, but I made the mistake of seeing it with grandma, who talks during movies and lived in the college town featured large in the film ("Oh, Erin, there's the Bloomington library! Have I ever taken you to Bloomington, it's such a pretty town-" "Grandma, the theater's dark, and you can't really see other people, but that doesn't mean other people can't hear you talking!") It's entertaining, the end is moving- though not an entirely satisfactory conclusion, I thought- and you should see it because hey, fun AND educational!
Finding Neverland*: EXCELLENT. Took me a while to get into it, which was odd considering that it was a good movie, and Depp performed v. well. Chilly!Victorian!Wife was so well-cast. Or well-acted. Or both.
Hero*: (again) This movie always makes me cry. You know, at the end. "I always wanted to go home with you." And then I loose it. And it's so pretty. The color palate is amazing. As Danny would say: Taste the Rainbow! (I'm going to advise any boyfriend he has in the future to do just that and watch Danny be horrifically embarrassed)
Van Helsing: Delightfully horribly. No plot coherence, co-starring Pouty McClevage (er, Kate Beckinsdale). The sad thing is the costume designs were okay, and the pyrotechnics crew, and guy playing Frankenstein’s monster were absolutely fabulous. Just REALLY good. If they had been left alone in a room, they would have shot a fabulous movie. But alas, the rest of the cast found them.
This could have been such a good movie if it were filmed by a competent director, about the girl character (tweaked to be less Mary-Sueish) protecting her village, had Van Helsing entirely cut out, and been a tight, focused script. I want to film it in grainy indie scope, one girl fighting for her family and village against the dark things lurking up in the castle.
Having kick-ass female co-stars isn't the answer to a lack of feminism in typical action movies, because they're always sidekicks, still lesser, still the little women rather than the protagonist. And the ways they show power on screen are still very male ways such as the standard ass-kicking, but even there are detracted from by a need to femininize them, making them 'look hot while doing it.' I want the plot in the above paragraph- an Ester to save her people- in one of these bloody action movies, and I want the female to be taken every bit as seriously as any male involved, and to not necessarily find love by the end. Then I'll be happy.
I'm going to see A Very Long Engagement tomorrow. Yay!
