Some movies I saw this weekend...
I watched 2 movies at cinema + the rest at home on DVD. They are mentioned below in time order:
1) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - It's not perfectly done but I love it!! I'm gonna give my student a treat by taking him + his mom to see it next Sat, since he's a big fan of the book series. Jim Carrey's Count Olaf is despicable but wicked enough to keep the attention while Meryl Streep's Aunt Josephine is really funny.
2) La Mala Educación (2004) - After much delay, this movie seems to have lost the chance of showing in cinema here, so I got my hands on a pirate copy... It's better than I expected!! I didn't feel that I was too moved emotionally but I prefer it over "Talk To Her" which is something that got me in tears though I didn't really want to. Anyhow, the ending is a bit weak.
3) Helter Skelter (2004) - Jeremy Davies somehow looks a bit too thin/weak to portray Charles Manson?? Anyway, this latest tv adaptation is not that great, though I was just watching for some rough idea on the Tate murder case, which is a tragedy too horrifying to be forgotten. Oh btw, of course the actor who plays Roman Polanski is a bit too 'straight'.
4) Caligula (1979) - Have you ever wondered how bad can movie-making be?? Then do by all means check out this weird failure starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole + Helen Mirren. Too much nudity, sex + death used in most unnecessary ways. I think I only have got thru to roughly an hour and I gave up altogether the hope of finishing watching this in one go.
5) Vanity Fair (2004) - I liked Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love", however the BBC mini-series version is much better than this one which story threads seem to be scattered all over the place and character sketches are a bit thin, but nonetheless it's great to be able to catch Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rhys Ifans + James Purefoy all in one film...
6) Accident (1967) - What is important is not, necessarily, what we see, but what we discern. Sometimes it's not about love, but about desire, about our very own egos. A great British New Wave film which is a brilliant follow-up to "The Servant" which also starring Dirk Bogarde. Not much was going on in the film, however it's more than just intriguing.
(Now as much as I would dread to, I start to wonder should I check out "Alexander" just for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers??)
1) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - It's not perfectly done but I love it!! I'm gonna give my student a treat by taking him + his mom to see it next Sat, since he's a big fan of the book series. Jim Carrey's Count Olaf is despicable but wicked enough to keep the attention while Meryl Streep's Aunt Josephine is really funny.
2) La Mala Educación (2004) - After much delay, this movie seems to have lost the chance of showing in cinema here, so I got my hands on a pirate copy... It's better than I expected!! I didn't feel that I was too moved emotionally but I prefer it over "Talk To Her" which is something that got me in tears though I didn't really want to. Anyhow, the ending is a bit weak.
3) Helter Skelter (2004) - Jeremy Davies somehow looks a bit too thin/weak to portray Charles Manson?? Anyway, this latest tv adaptation is not that great, though I was just watching for some rough idea on the Tate murder case, which is a tragedy too horrifying to be forgotten. Oh btw, of course the actor who plays Roman Polanski is a bit too 'straight'.
4) Caligula (1979) - Have you ever wondered how bad can movie-making be?? Then do by all means check out this weird failure starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole + Helen Mirren. Too much nudity, sex + death used in most unnecessary ways. I think I only have got thru to roughly an hour and I gave up altogether the hope of finishing watching this in one go.
5) Vanity Fair (2004) - I liked Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love", however the BBC mini-series version is much better than this one which story threads seem to be scattered all over the place and character sketches are a bit thin, but nonetheless it's great to be able to catch Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rhys Ifans + James Purefoy all in one film...
6) Accident (1967) - What is important is not, necessarily, what we see, but what we discern. Sometimes it's not about love, but about desire, about our very own egos. A great British New Wave film which is a brilliant follow-up to "The Servant" which also starring Dirk Bogarde. Not much was going on in the film, however it's more than just intriguing.
(Now as much as I would dread to, I start to wonder should I check out "Alexander" just for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers??)