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healingmirthA weekend of movies in brief, but it still got long:
Legion - AKA the one where Paul Bettany plays an angel. Hahahahahaha. What? I will admit, I did not spend much time paying attention to the words in this movie, but, seriously. What? Did anyone ever explain what the deal with the collars was?
Easy A - AKA the mashup between the Scarlet Letter and every John Hughes movie. Sure, Hollywood, I will continue to believe that Olive's high school was so completely populated with gorgeous, funny people that no one ever asked her out, or even noticed her. Still, I really loved this movie. Especially Stanley Tucci! And the rest of the adults, actually.
A Single Man - AKA the one Tom Ford directed. For the first half of the movie, I really enjoyed the choices he made with the color saturation, but they got to be a little repetitive, or I maybe I just wasn't attentive enough to the fine details.
I did not realize until quite late in the movie that the male student is played by whatisname who was Hank McCoy in XM:FC. This was mostly because I was so distracted trying to identify what I'd seen Matthew Goode in recently, only to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to a friend of mine.
Step Up 3D - AKA the one with lots of dancing but no singing. Wasn't as awful as I was afraid as it was going to be. Interesting to watch in 2D on a television, as an exercise in "let's spot the 3D elements."
Newsies - AKA the one with the singing orphans that isn't Annie. I am pretty sure that I didn't know who Bill Pullman was when I first saw this, so I can be forgiven for forgetting that he plays the reporter. In all the press about the Broadway Newsies, they kept talking about how they created the new girl character as a love interest, which made me wonder if I'd been imagining that Jack already had a love interest - David and Les's sister. Nope! Did not imagine that. I feel like David has a much smaller part in the play than the movie, so maybe it was just easier to scrap his family, or maybe the decision to scrap his family lead to a smaller part.
Also, pretty sure James Franco shows up to deliver a single line, but he's not credited.
Invictus - Quite good? But then, we all knew that already, I think. I'm in no position to comment intelligently about the actual events or this portrayal of them.
I think that am already forgetting at least two movies. Oh well, it'll come to me, or not.
Uh, what else?
My cat growled in his sleep earlier. It was adorable.
Legion - AKA the one where Paul Bettany plays an angel. Hahahahahaha. What? I will admit, I did not spend much time paying attention to the words in this movie, but, seriously. What? Did anyone ever explain what the deal with the collars was?
Easy A - AKA the mashup between the Scarlet Letter and every John Hughes movie. Sure, Hollywood, I will continue to believe that Olive's high school was so completely populated with gorgeous, funny people that no one ever asked her out, or even noticed her. Still, I really loved this movie. Especially Stanley Tucci! And the rest of the adults, actually.
A Single Man - AKA the one Tom Ford directed. For the first half of the movie, I really enjoyed the choices he made with the color saturation, but they got to be a little repetitive, or I maybe I just wasn't attentive enough to the fine details.
I did not realize until quite late in the movie that the male student is played by whatisname who was Hank McCoy in XM:FC. This was mostly because I was so distracted trying to identify what I'd seen Matthew Goode in recently, only to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to a friend of mine.
Step Up 3D - AKA the one with lots of dancing but no singing. Wasn't as awful as I was afraid as it was going to be. Interesting to watch in 2D on a television, as an exercise in "let's spot the 3D elements."
Newsies - AKA the one with the singing orphans that isn't Annie. I am pretty sure that I didn't know who Bill Pullman was when I first saw this, so I can be forgiven for forgetting that he plays the reporter. In all the press about the Broadway Newsies, they kept talking about how they created the new girl character as a love interest, which made me wonder if I'd been imagining that Jack already had a love interest - David and Les's sister. Nope! Did not imagine that. I feel like David has a much smaller part in the play than the movie, so maybe it was just easier to scrap his family, or maybe the decision to scrap his family lead to a smaller part.
Also, pretty sure James Franco shows up to deliver a single line, but he's not credited.
Invictus - Quite good? But then, we all knew that already, I think. I'm in no position to comment intelligently about the actual events or this portrayal of them.
I think that am already forgetting at least two movies. Oh well, it'll come to me, or not.
Uh, what else?
My cat growled in his sleep earlier. It was adorable.
