Indian Summer
On Wednesday I went with my mom to work, where I helped take down the bulletin boards and chaperoned a fourth grade field trip to the theater to see Shrek Forever After. It isn't very good, as if you needed me to say so.
I know they're just little kids, but so many of them kept telling me how my mom and I look like sisters, or worse, twins. There's nothing wrong with looking like my mom, but looking exactly like her? No offense to her, but there is a 28 year difference.
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I unwound that night with Ravenous, a kinda-sorta-horror movie about cannibalism in the wild American west starring Guy Pearce and Begbie Robert Carlyle.
Guy Pearce should be too cute, but he isn't. ;alghdakhgadh Well, maybe not in this movie, but you get the idea. Casting Guy Pearce and then having him grow a beard is kind of like casting Jeremy Irons as a deaf mute, but whatever.
I don't care how many of his movies I see, Robert Carlyle will always be Begbie to me. It was weird to hear him with a softer accent, because I was expecting the rough Glaswegian brogue from Trainspotting. And yes, I was quoting him throughout the movie. lol
"Nobodae mooooove! That lassie got glassed and no cunt leaves here until we find oot who whaet cunt dunnaet!"
The ending was a little anticlimactic (lol giant bear trap), but I can't complain. I'm just thankful that incredibly ridiculous movies such as this even exist.
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The Indian Runner was just okay. I felt that some of the dialogue was trying too hard to be poignant and that metaphors were being forced, but then I remembered that it was written and directed by Sean Penn.
I was too amused by the fact that the brothers' names were Frank (Viggo Mortensen) and Joe (Tritter David Morse). The Hardy Boys, anybody?
The movie is inspired by a Bruce Springsteen song; Joe is a police officer and Frank is his short-tempered, delinquent more attractive brother.
This link had better hold.
Poor Dennis Hopper's character. My first thought was, "We should totally just bash Caeser to death with a bar stool!" Thanks, ONTD.
I though the ending was good, though. It was very bittersweet, and I like that in a story.
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I watched The Godfather: Part II.
I don't know where to begin. I liked it better than the first movie, although it will take several re-watches before I can absorb everything.
I had a little bit of difficulty remembering exactly who everyone was and how they all related to one another (I wish I had one of those family trees from the courtroom scene), but I think I managed.
My favorite part was just watching Vito's backstory.
I know they're just little kids, but so many of them kept telling me how my mom and I look like sisters, or worse, twins. There's nothing wrong with looking like my mom, but looking exactly like her? No offense to her, but there is a 28 year difference.
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I unwound that night with Ravenous, a kinda-sorta-horror movie about cannibalism in the wild American west starring Guy Pearce and Begbie Robert Carlyle.
Guy Pearce should be too cute, but he isn't. ;alghdakhgadh Well, maybe not in this movie, but you get the idea. Casting Guy Pearce and then having him grow a beard is kind of like casting Jeremy Irons as a deaf mute, but whatever.
I don't care how many of his movies I see, Robert Carlyle will always be Begbie to me. It was weird to hear him with a softer accent, because I was expecting the rough Glaswegian brogue from Trainspotting. And yes, I was quoting him throughout the movie. lol
"Nobodae mooooove! That lassie got glassed and no cunt leaves here until we find oot who whaet cunt dunnaet!"
The ending was a little anticlimactic (lol giant bear trap), but I can't complain. I'm just thankful that incredibly ridiculous movies such as this even exist.
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The Indian Runner was just okay. I felt that some of the dialogue was trying too hard to be poignant and that metaphors were being forced, but then I remembered that it was written and directed by Sean Penn.
I was too amused by the fact that the brothers' names were Frank (Viggo Mortensen) and Joe (Tritter David Morse). The Hardy Boys, anybody?
The movie is inspired by a Bruce Springsteen song; Joe is a police officer and Frank is his short-tempered, delinquent more attractive brother.
This link had better hold.
Poor Dennis Hopper's character. My first thought was, "We should totally just bash Caeser to death with a bar stool!" Thanks, ONTD.
I though the ending was good, though. It was very bittersweet, and I like that in a story.
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I watched The Godfather: Part II.
I don't know where to begin. I liked it better than the first movie, although it will take several re-watches before I can absorb everything.
I had a little bit of difficulty remembering exactly who everyone was and how they all related to one another (I wish I had one of those family trees from the courtroom scene), but I think I managed.
My favorite part was just watching Vito's backstory.