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In surprising break with tradition, my thanksgiving was, in fact, not utterly horrendous.
That being said:
I ended up seeing the 10:00 showing of The Darjeeling Limited with my brother and his girlfriend at a dinky little independent movie theatre. It was something I enjoyed at the time, but I had mixed feelings on ultimately.
It reminded me of Little Miss Sunshine and both movies reminded me of Everything Is Illuminated. That is at once good and bad. I adored Everything Is Illuminated; ergo movies which remind me of it are good. However, because I adored it so much, it's very difficult for a similar movie to measure up. That's sort of how I felt with the message of Little Miss Sunshine; it was adorably quirky, and a fairly fun ride, but I felt most of the characters were mere caricatures, and although both movies dealt with the theme of death, the death in Everything Is Illuminated had a much stronger impact than the one in Little Miss Sunshine.
Off that, then, I felt the characters in The Darjeeling Limited were less caricatures than those in Little Miss Sunshine I'm thinking specifically of Dwayne in this case. However, I felt that the entire emotional motif in The Darjeeling Limited was somewhat less than those in Little Miss Sunshine (and, of course Everything Is Illuminated).
I suppose my final opinion is The Darjeeling Limited is something worth seeing - Owen Wilson, as always, is amusing and the movie is interesting from a cultural standpoint. Just don't expect it to change your life.
Also watched The History Boys with Jenny. Enjoyed it quite a lot. Fun characters, nice plot, if it was a bit rambling, and any movie that sporadically quotes poetry is good in my book.
And, on my own, I rented Shakespeare In Love which I stopped watching halfway through due to glaring historical inaccuracies(!). And the movie's inability to create a villain that was likable in some form or another. Honestly, that's the quickest way to turn me off a movie - "OMG t3h bad guyz r irredeemably eeeevil!" Like, okay. Great. He's the bad guy. We get it. We're not supposed to like him. But just because he sees women as property doesn't mean he's a total bastard. Hello Elizabethan era. That was kind of the norm.
That being said:
I ended up seeing the 10:00 showing of The Darjeeling Limited with my brother and his girlfriend at a dinky little independent movie theatre. It was something I enjoyed at the time, but I had mixed feelings on ultimately.
It reminded me of Little Miss Sunshine and both movies reminded me of Everything Is Illuminated. That is at once good and bad. I adored Everything Is Illuminated; ergo movies which remind me of it are good. However, because I adored it so much, it's very difficult for a similar movie to measure up. That's sort of how I felt with the message of Little Miss Sunshine; it was adorably quirky, and a fairly fun ride, but I felt most of the characters were mere caricatures, and although both movies dealt with the theme of death, the death in Everything Is Illuminated had a much stronger impact than the one in Little Miss Sunshine.
Off that, then, I felt the characters in The Darjeeling Limited were less caricatures than those in Little Miss Sunshine I'm thinking specifically of Dwayne in this case. However, I felt that the entire emotional motif in The Darjeeling Limited was somewhat less than those in Little Miss Sunshine (and, of course Everything Is Illuminated).
I suppose my final opinion is The Darjeeling Limited is something worth seeing - Owen Wilson, as always, is amusing and the movie is interesting from a cultural standpoint. Just don't expect it to change your life.
Also watched The History Boys with Jenny. Enjoyed it quite a lot. Fun characters, nice plot, if it was a bit rambling, and any movie that sporadically quotes poetry is good in my book.
And, on my own, I rented Shakespeare In Love which I stopped watching halfway through due to glaring historical inaccuracies(!). And the movie's inability to create a villain that was likable in some form or another. Honestly, that's the quickest way to turn me off a movie - "OMG t3h bad guyz r irredeemably eeeevil!" Like, okay. Great. He's the bad guy. We get it. We're not supposed to like him. But just because he sees women as property doesn't mean he's a total bastard. Hello Elizabethan era. That was kind of the norm.