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Ok, ok, so making a plan to blog about a certain topic on a certain day each week is NOT my forte (whatever happened to consistent Wednesday LOST blogs?)

However, I’ll still report on the movies I watched since last last Saturday…

A Scanner Darkly- I some what enjoyed this, in the sense that I found some parts funny, some parts well written, and I thought the animation aspect was creative. I wasn’t through the roof about it though.

Before Sunset- I LOVED this movie, and I never even saw the first one. It was like sociology experiment, watching the two characters interact in a 2 hour period, as they at first are very “best foot forward” and slowly they lose control and break down a bit, only to pull back, and on and on. In the end I SO wanted this couple to just stay together, because in that two hour conversation I was convinced NO ONE would have that much connection. I guess that’s why its not reality.

Calendar Girls - Very cute chick flick, a lot of fun!

A Great New Wonderful - Some parts of this were funny, but mostly it was kinda sad. I didn’t remember it was about the aftermath of 9/11 for every day new yorkers’ until the very end. I’d watch again; it was a thinker.

Office Space- You might see a common  release time frame of a lot of these movies- they came out during the time of anti-secularism in my life. So I have some catching up to do- (and the public library makes it easy to do without breaking the bank!) I was glad to finally watch this whole movie, though I don’t think there was anything brilliant about it, it definitely helps me understand the references in just about every Gen X book or film Gotta love that “Don’t it feel good to be a gangsta” song and when they smash up the printer- I doubt I could ever sit in a cubicle, esp if I didn’t have a family to support. Noooooo thanks.

The OH in Ohio - hahaha… It’s foolish, really, most of the movie is pretty scanky for my taste, but some parts were funny. It would make a good gal night, with the right gal’s… and the right martini’s.

The Wind the Shakes the Barley -  This was worth watching as a drama film- it’s the story of two brothers, initially on the same side of the Republican’s in the 1920’s in Ireland, though in the end they are drawn to opposite sides after the peace treaty. It’s war, so be prepared for that. I liked this movie up until the end, because I felt it was marketed as though the brothers were divided by the war for most of the movie, but instead it spent a great deal of time following the band of rufkins in the Republican “army” struggle with the concept of killing, torture and war. It was not until the end that the treaty divided them and it ended leaving much of the storyline to be explored.

I REALLY want to see Into the Wild and the Darjeerling Limited in theaters now. It’s driving me crazy.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 at 11:49 am and is filed under Movie Lists