Movie update
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valarltdThe P/F is whether it passes or fails the Bechdel Test 1) there must be 2 female characters, 2)who talk to each other, 3) about something besides a man.
1) Sweeney Todd--I played chaperone to 8 teenagers after a full day of work. This was great. Depp and Bonham-Carter were brilliant and Jamie Campbell Bower is so pretty & femme, my daughter was getting lesbian subtext during the Joanna romance. Alan Rickman was perfect, as always. (f, pt 2)
2) Full Metal Alchemist: The Conquest of Shamballa--interesting piece of work. A nifty alternate history, with the Nazi Thule Society actually achieving a goal.(P, landlady gives the girl a job)
3) Smokey and the Bandit--A shame for a driver to admit it, but I'd never seen this. Funny, if a bit dated. (f, 1)
4) Ever After--Still not sure why this is PG-13 and not a G, except for one bit of crude language. My kids were iffy about it, but soon got into it. Anjelica Huston is wonderfully loathesome, and Drew Barrymore still has the pretty and innocent thing. (P in spades)
5) Bridge to Terabithia--I never read this book, and it's a shame, since it's the sort of thing I would have loved at 10-14. The SPFX are good, the story is a fairly predictable YA piece. (p nicely)
6) Blazing Saddles--The A&E bleeped version. A classic comedy, with the best fart joke ever put on screen. The kids were rolling at that scene.(f, 2)
7) Night at the Museum--Sweet and predictable. Nice FX, very funny. Dick van Dyke sorely underused.(f, 2)
8) Captain Blood--Erroll Flynn vs. Basil Rathbone as rival pirates. Three of the four kids enjoyed a lot. Bun wants more Flynn/DeHavilland movies, and I will oblige her. (f, 3)
9) The Thief of Bagdad--Douglas Fairbanks is having a wonderful time. Pity this thing moves so very slowly. (p, odd for a silent, but it does)
10) Gremlins 2: The New Batch--Gremlins take over the Clamp office building. Lots of pop culture references and Christopher Lee, John Glover, cameos by John Astin, Henry Gibson, Hulk Hogan, Paul Bartel and Leonard Maltin. Very funny, if kinda gross.(p on several fronts)
11) Kim (1950)-- I hadn't read the book, but an aging Errol Flynn and a very very young Dean Stockwell carry this film. Technicolor and gorgeous, it moves in slow tense circles until the Great Game is played out.(f, 1)
12) It's a Great Feeling (1949). Doris Day before she was a virgin, being bamboozled by Dennis Morgan and Jack Carlson. Every Hollywood star of the era has a cameo as themselves. And Errol Flynn is the punchline to 90 minutes of mediocre musical tedium. (f, 3)
13) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Glorious Technicolor. Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains being deliciously evil. Olivia deHavilland, as always, luminously beautiful. And Errol Flynn in his greatest role. One of those movies where you sit and bask. (p. They conspire to get a message to Robin and his men)
14) Howl's Moving Castle. Anime. Very interesting piece about a wizard, a girl and all sorts of complications. Billy Crystal is pretty good as the fire demon. (p)
15) Godspell. Musical. Actually, we saw this at Easter. The Gospel as musical. More stylized and less grim than Jesus Christ Superstar. We IMDB'd the cast. Three are dead. Victor Garber is still working. And the rest did nothing else. Wonderful piece full of early 70's Jesus people zeitgeist. My favorite bit "It says 'rejoice'!"/"It says Keds." (hard to tell, no conversations, really)
16) The Court Jester. Danny Kaye in fine form. Basil Rathbone being villainous and Angela Landsbury being very very young. The Induction of the Knights and the Pellet with the Poison sequences are classics. (p)
17) The Sun also Rises. Lady Brett and her four admirers go to Pamplona for the fiesta. IOW, a bunch of drunks do dumb things and realize nothing ever changes. Entertaining in spots, downer. Errol Flynn spent most of the filming as drunk as his character. (p)
18) The Young Rajah. One of Valentino's Lost Films, this was a reconstruction with stills, extant footage and titles. Very beautiful man. Odd plot. (f)
19) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. SOOOOOO Boring. Costner is unconvincing as a British earl. It looks nasty, grimy and fairly realistic for the 13th century. It drags and is riddled with anachronistic attitudes and ideas. Not to mention Marian wimpifies during the movie. And the best parts are Little John's wife, Fanny, and Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham. (f)
20) For the Bible Tells Me So. Powerful documentary on how Christian families cope with a family member coming out. Gay family members range from Bishop Gene Robinson to a lovely lady who killed herself on her 30th birthday because of parental rejection.
21) Bubba Ho Tep. Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK who team up to save their Texas rest home from a marauding mummy. Funny, creepy and very low budget. (f. the 2 women talk about the main character)
22) The Ice Pirates. I hadn't seen this in years. Robert Urich leads a motley crew, including Anjelica Huston and Ron Perlman, in plundering water from the bad guys. So goofy. Huston is beautiful and stern and I totally swiped the bar scene for "Rewriting Old Songs." (p)
1) Sweeney Todd--I played chaperone to 8 teenagers after a full day of work. This was great. Depp and Bonham-Carter were brilliant and Jamie Campbell Bower is so pretty & femme, my daughter was getting lesbian subtext during the Joanna romance. Alan Rickman was perfect, as always. (f, pt 2)
2) Full Metal Alchemist: The Conquest of Shamballa--interesting piece of work. A nifty alternate history, with the Nazi Thule Society actually achieving a goal.(P, landlady gives the girl a job)
3) Smokey and the Bandit--A shame for a driver to admit it, but I'd never seen this. Funny, if a bit dated. (f, 1)
4) Ever After--Still not sure why this is PG-13 and not a G, except for one bit of crude language. My kids were iffy about it, but soon got into it. Anjelica Huston is wonderfully loathesome, and Drew Barrymore still has the pretty and innocent thing. (P in spades)
5) Bridge to Terabithia--I never read this book, and it's a shame, since it's the sort of thing I would have loved at 10-14. The SPFX are good, the story is a fairly predictable YA piece. (p nicely)
6) Blazing Saddles--The A&E bleeped version. A classic comedy, with the best fart joke ever put on screen. The kids were rolling at that scene.(f, 2)
7) Night at the Museum--Sweet and predictable. Nice FX, very funny. Dick van Dyke sorely underused.(f, 2)
8) Captain Blood--Erroll Flynn vs. Basil Rathbone as rival pirates. Three of the four kids enjoyed a lot. Bun wants more Flynn/DeHavilland movies, and I will oblige her. (f, 3)
9) The Thief of Bagdad--Douglas Fairbanks is having a wonderful time. Pity this thing moves so very slowly. (p, odd for a silent, but it does)
10) Gremlins 2: The New Batch--Gremlins take over the Clamp office building. Lots of pop culture references and Christopher Lee, John Glover, cameos by John Astin, Henry Gibson, Hulk Hogan, Paul Bartel and Leonard Maltin. Very funny, if kinda gross.(p on several fronts)
11) Kim (1950)-- I hadn't read the book, but an aging Errol Flynn and a very very young Dean Stockwell carry this film. Technicolor and gorgeous, it moves in slow tense circles until the Great Game is played out.(f, 1)
12) It's a Great Feeling (1949). Doris Day before she was a virgin, being bamboozled by Dennis Morgan and Jack Carlson. Every Hollywood star of the era has a cameo as themselves. And Errol Flynn is the punchline to 90 minutes of mediocre musical tedium. (f, 3)
13) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Glorious Technicolor. Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains being deliciously evil. Olivia deHavilland, as always, luminously beautiful. And Errol Flynn in his greatest role. One of those movies where you sit and bask. (p. They conspire to get a message to Robin and his men)
14) Howl's Moving Castle. Anime. Very interesting piece about a wizard, a girl and all sorts of complications. Billy Crystal is pretty good as the fire demon. (p)
15) Godspell. Musical. Actually, we saw this at Easter. The Gospel as musical. More stylized and less grim than Jesus Christ Superstar. We IMDB'd the cast. Three are dead. Victor Garber is still working. And the rest did nothing else. Wonderful piece full of early 70's Jesus people zeitgeist. My favorite bit "It says 'rejoice'!"/"It says Keds." (hard to tell, no conversations, really)
16) The Court Jester. Danny Kaye in fine form. Basil Rathbone being villainous and Angela Landsbury being very very young. The Induction of the Knights and the Pellet with the Poison sequences are classics. (p)
17) The Sun also Rises. Lady Brett and her four admirers go to Pamplona for the fiesta. IOW, a bunch of drunks do dumb things and realize nothing ever changes. Entertaining in spots, downer. Errol Flynn spent most of the filming as drunk as his character. (p)
18) The Young Rajah. One of Valentino's Lost Films, this was a reconstruction with stills, extant footage and titles. Very beautiful man. Odd plot. (f)
19) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. SOOOOOO Boring. Costner is unconvincing as a British earl. It looks nasty, grimy and fairly realistic for the 13th century. It drags and is riddled with anachronistic attitudes and ideas. Not to mention Marian wimpifies during the movie. And the best parts are Little John's wife, Fanny, and Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham. (f)
20) For the Bible Tells Me So. Powerful documentary on how Christian families cope with a family member coming out. Gay family members range from Bishop Gene Robinson to a lovely lady who killed herself on her 30th birthday because of parental rejection.
21) Bubba Ho Tep. Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK who team up to save their Texas rest home from a marauding mummy. Funny, creepy and very low budget. (f. the 2 women talk about the main character)
22) The Ice Pirates. I hadn't seen this in years. Robert Urich leads a motley crew, including Anjelica Huston and Ron Perlman, in plundering water from the bad guys. So goofy. Huston is beautiful and stern and I totally swiped the bar scene for "Rewriting Old Songs." (p)
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Date: 2008-06-23 11:31 am (UTC)*giggles* Oh, man, Bubba Ho Tep. *shakes head* I work in a nursing home. That one gave me such the giggles, it was almost painful to watch. That was one I had to watch in bits and pieces, because if something is too silly, it just can't watch it in one sitting. ;-) Very amusing. I should make one of my friends watch that. She works in a nursing home too...*giggles*
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Date: 2008-06-23 01:55 pm (UTC)My favorite bit of Bubba Ho Tep was the graffiti.
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Date: 2008-06-23 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-23 01:51 pm (UTC)I just haven't sat and watched all of it this year.
I've seen it about three times since Jan, but only bits and pieces.
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Date: 2008-06-23 03:34 pm (UTC)