Three Movie Review
It is Monday and the first day of the work week has come and gone. Right now it is a little after eight and I figured that I would sit down and write out an entry to get the blood pumping into some writing. If nothing else this journal is good for that.
Yesterday as I said I spent much of the afternoon watching movies. The first one I watch was Intolerable Cruelty. It was another Coen Brothers movie and I believe it was the last one that I had not seen. I had found it at Circuit City for five bucks in December, but had not watched it yet. I can sometimes be good at that since I prefer to watch movies with others. It is sort of a shared experience and you then have someone to talk to about the movie afterwards. I like that, but if I waited for that, then I would be bound to miss out on a lot of movies.
Intolerable Cruelty was excellent. The Coen brothers continue to amaze me. Everything they tend to do is excellent, with the only real exception being Ladykillers. I was very disappointed in that movie, but I think it might be just because I had higher expectations. Anyway, it came out to be a good movie. I would rate it four stars out of five. There are a couple lines that I am still laughing at but I will not say what they are.
The second movie I watched was one that I also picked up in December. It was William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the Leonardo DeCaprio version. I was unsure how I would like it, but it came highly recommended. I actually really, really liked it. Part of it is that I had forgotten how much I do like Shakespeare. I was one of those people in high school that had no issues understanding his plays and enjoyed reading them, although watching them with a troupe of good actors is even better because his lines were meant to be said with emotion. This version of Romeo & Juliet was placed in modern times, but stayed true to the play. While the movie was a downer…I mean what do you expect from the tale of Romeo & Juliet, but it was enjoyable to watch. Anyway definitely a strong four and a half stars out of five stars.
The final movie that I watched yesterday was Go. This was made by the same people that made Swingers. I mention this because many have seen that movie, although surprisingly I have yet to watch it. I think I have it though, so I need to watch it. I liked Go also. It was like three stories that wrap together and whenever a director can pull that off, it is a style that I like. Things come out not as you would expect it and there are some twists and turns that are great. My favorite being in the third arc in the movie. I would say out of the three movies I watched yesterday that it was worst one, but still it is good movie. It is a solid three and a half stars out of five.
At work today one of my co-workers suggest a fucked up movie that I need to watch. It is Repo! The Genetic Opera. The main character is played by the same actor the played Giles in Buffy and from the trailor I have to say that I am interested in it. For some info on that go to:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/
Yesterday as I said I spent much of the afternoon watching movies. The first one I watch was Intolerable Cruelty. It was another Coen Brothers movie and I believe it was the last one that I had not seen. I had found it at Circuit City for five bucks in December, but had not watched it yet. I can sometimes be good at that since I prefer to watch movies with others. It is sort of a shared experience and you then have someone to talk to about the movie afterwards. I like that, but if I waited for that, then I would be bound to miss out on a lot of movies.
Intolerable Cruelty was excellent. The Coen brothers continue to amaze me. Everything they tend to do is excellent, with the only real exception being Ladykillers. I was very disappointed in that movie, but I think it might be just because I had higher expectations. Anyway, it came out to be a good movie. I would rate it four stars out of five. There are a couple lines that I am still laughing at but I will not say what they are.
The second movie I watched was one that I also picked up in December. It was William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the Leonardo DeCaprio version. I was unsure how I would like it, but it came highly recommended. I actually really, really liked it. Part of it is that I had forgotten how much I do like Shakespeare. I was one of those people in high school that had no issues understanding his plays and enjoyed reading them, although watching them with a troupe of good actors is even better because his lines were meant to be said with emotion. This version of Romeo & Juliet was placed in modern times, but stayed true to the play. While the movie was a downer…I mean what do you expect from the tale of Romeo & Juliet, but it was enjoyable to watch. Anyway definitely a strong four and a half stars out of five stars.
The final movie that I watched yesterday was Go. This was made by the same people that made Swingers. I mention this because many have seen that movie, although surprisingly I have yet to watch it. I think I have it though, so I need to watch it. I liked Go also. It was like three stories that wrap together and whenever a director can pull that off, it is a style that I like. Things come out not as you would expect it and there are some twists and turns that are great. My favorite being in the third arc in the movie. I would say out of the three movies I watched yesterday that it was worst one, but still it is good movie. It is a solid three and a half stars out of five.
At work today one of my co-workers suggest a fucked up movie that I need to watch. It is Repo! The Genetic Opera. The main character is played by the same actor the played Giles in Buffy and from the trailor I have to say that I am interested in it. For some info on that go to:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/