Movies I have watched this week
Shake It All About - the only Mads Mikkelson film my friend has that isn't either super violoet or horribly sad - Danish film where Mad's character asks his boyfriend to marry him and then procedes to repeatedly cheat on him and hurt him (with a woman) because he is a spoiled little shit. It has a happy ending where he makes a grand romantic gesture and wins him back.
A Single Man - Colin Firth is of course awesome in this story about a man in the 1960's grieving for his partner of 16 years' death. It is a slow, quiet film. Nicholas Hoult is very pretty in it.
Mean Girls - 'Classic' film that spawned a million memes where Lindsay Lohan goes to high school after being homeschooled and gets subsumed into the mean clique and learns her lesson. I am clearly too old for this type of film now, I didn't enjoy watching girls being complete bitches at each other for pretty much the entire film.
In fact, my reaction to all these films can be pretty much summed up with this pic.
Another film I watched which isn't normally my thing, but I like Bill Hader and my friend recced it and was really good was The Skeleton Twins about emotionally damaged twins who reunite after 10 years to support each other.
Also, Only Lovers Left Alive - Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play vampires who drift about looking gorgeous and being arty and emo and nothing much happens. Lots of scenes of them driving around Detroit at night. Pretty to watch.
My highlight though was The Boat That Rocked, based on a true story about pirate radio boat off Britain in the 1960s. It stars a shitload of great British actors and one American, which apparently is enough to list it by its US release name on IMDB, Pirate Radio. It was fun and uplifting and i was teary at the end (disclaimer, one gross scene my friend fast forwarded through, where the gods gift to women character gets a girl into bed for the express purpose of tricking her into having sex with the new dude on the boat who's a virgin (cos apparently she wouldn't be able to tell when Nick Frost is replaced by a slim youth). *sigh*
From L-R - Tony Robinson, the dude who flirted with Hannibal ('it's not that kind of party')and got eaten, Nick Frost, Chris O'Dowd, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, young protagonist whatever, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Darby (alpha swearwolf from What We Do in the Shadows) and a couple of others.
Also in the film - Bill Nighy, Jen from the IT Crowd, Emma Thompson, and Kenneth Branagh and Jack Davenport completely wasted as fuddy duddy government officials.
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