The Great Netflix Catchup
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Good movie. Absurdist to be sure. Tim Roth is Tim Roth in every movie that he does, but Gary Oldman remains one of my favorite actors, the type that I want to model my "career" after. He can play anything and do it with remarkable aplomb.
Mulholland Dr.: I thought I was getting it. But everything from the lesbian scene to the closing credits... um... was... I don't even know where to start. It was keeping away from Lynchian until that point, then you start to question the man's sanity.
The Orphanage: Another "That's the ending?" moment. I don't even know where to begin. It reminds me of A.I., in that an ending that's made to be so, um, happy, can be so EXCRUCIATINGLY DEPRESSING instead.
Mulholland Dr. The Orphanage. The Game. Moon. Pi. Donnie Darko. So far my Netflix experience had been filled to the brim with "What the hell just happened?" movies. I have Millers Crossing and a whole load of Hitchcock coming up. I needed a cleanser. Starting with...
E.T.: I hadn't seen it since I was in elementary school. The sick bay scenes scared the piss out of me. So this was my first time in over twenty years. And, honestly? It was a lot better than I expected. Well-done Spielberg, with child actors that weren't annoying child characters. Too bad they sent me the CGI-enhanced "Walkie Talkie Version."
Singin' In The Rain: Saw it once years ago. Liked it then. Loved it now. Probably my favorite movie musical of the era. The humor actually works for me, which doesn't happen that often with movies from the era, and holy crap the dancing.
Slap Shot: Low-brow in the exact opposite way. I know it's considered one of the Man Standards, especially here in The State of Hockey, but I dunno. This one doesn't hold up nearly as well. It's a different game, and one of the more, I dunno, politically and socially obsolete movies I've seen. But, wait... THAT WAS PROFESSOR WALSH? She was REALLY cute in 1977.
Coming up: The Fast & The Furious (cuz why not?), Hamlet (the Tennant/Stewart version, first viewing since I got into Who), Braveheart.
Mulholland Dr.: I thought I was getting it. But everything from the lesbian scene to the closing credits... um... was... I don't even know where to start. It was keeping away from Lynchian until that point, then you start to question the man's sanity.
The Orphanage: Another "That's the ending?" moment. I don't even know where to begin. It reminds me of A.I., in that an ending that's made to be so, um, happy, can be so EXCRUCIATINGLY DEPRESSING instead.
Mulholland Dr. The Orphanage. The Game. Moon. Pi. Donnie Darko. So far my Netflix experience had been filled to the brim with "What the hell just happened?" movies. I have Millers Crossing and a whole load of Hitchcock coming up. I needed a cleanser. Starting with...
E.T.: I hadn't seen it since I was in elementary school. The sick bay scenes scared the piss out of me. So this was my first time in over twenty years. And, honestly? It was a lot better than I expected. Well-done Spielberg, with child actors that weren't annoying child characters. Too bad they sent me the CGI-enhanced "Walkie Talkie Version."
Singin' In The Rain: Saw it once years ago. Liked it then. Loved it now. Probably my favorite movie musical of the era. The humor actually works for me, which doesn't happen that often with movies from the era, and holy crap the dancing.
Slap Shot: Low-brow in the exact opposite way. I know it's considered one of the Man Standards, especially here in The State of Hockey, but I dunno. This one doesn't hold up nearly as well. It's a different game, and one of the more, I dunno, politically and socially obsolete movies I've seen. But, wait... THAT WAS PROFESSOR WALSH? She was REALLY cute in 1977.
Coming up: The Fast & The Furious (cuz why not?), Hamlet (the Tennant/Stewart version, first viewing since I got into Who), Braveheart.