This morning* on the Max train:
Person: Hey Kevin! How are you?
Other person: Good man, good to see you. How have you been?
Person: Great! I’m 110 days sober.
Other person: That’s great!
*This conversation happened at some point in May. But blogger moved this to June and I can’t remember now when it happened it May. So here it is in the June posts.
In trying to describe who should have been Snow White* in Snow White and the Huntsman, my friend who can’t remember names of actors ended up talking about this movie and recommended I see it. I totally disagreed with the premise,** but by ignoring my disagreement, I found this was a pretty enjoyable film. The whole Jennifer Aniston/Ben Affleck ending really annoyed me though and I couldn’t let it go.
*she was talking about Ginnifer Goodwin.
**If you want to go on a date with someone ask them. If you want to call someone, call them. If you want to marry someone, propose. It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman. This movie was set in the present, but had the gender roles of the 1950s front and center for the ladies. Geez!
So, you can probably guess who is in this movie which prompted me to see it, despite the fact it is a horror movie and I am not a fan of the genre. That said, I really enjoyed this, despite the gore, and mostly owing to the fact it was incredibly clever and had a whole host of actors I enjoy, not just Chris Hemsworth. It seems the key to the horror movie genre is to give me a puzzle to solve while watching.
ps. The poster above was the one I saw used to advertise the movie, and it is very clever. But according to my movie poster site the one below was the original one. I like it more, but I can see why they had to go with something else. The third poster is a bonus poster, just for fun.
So this movie was not so engrossing as to pull me away from many various thoughts and wonderings* while watching, but for the ending of a stressful day when I forgot to take a full breath the entire time I was at work, this was perfect. I loved seeing the actors perform (as opposed to acting like they are performing, which is what we see on the show,) like the moment when the actor who plays Blane finished singing and gave a short laugh of delight at the crowd’s reaction. I also thought the stories told by the featured Glee fans were quite good.
*Examples of various thoughts and wonderings would be:
ps. The name of this movie in the library catalogue is: Glee, the 3-D Concert Movie. And when you scroll down on the page it says, “2-D version” So I delighted in telling people I saw Glee, the 3-D Concert Movie in 2-D
I took advantage of a nice day to sit in a dark theater and contemplate my Chris Hemsworth thing. This was not a “good” movie, but I greatly enjoyed it, including the costumes, the special effects, the very sullen Snow White and a wonderful, scene-chewing (in the best way possible) Charlize Theron as the evil Queen. Oh yes, and a grimy Huntsman.
I mentioned in passing to Matt that I had never seen this film and it soon after arrived from the library. The film being over 20 years old, I was a bit leery that we would get some good racist humor, but it was a surprisingly progressive film and also was pretty funny, even after all these years. Now that I’ve seen it, clearly my life is complete.
This was a much better movie than the previews led me to believe (although the previews did that annoying thing of harvesting the best jokes, so said jokes weren’t funny by the time I saw them in context) and it was chock full of women! I thought there were flaws, but not deal-breaking ones and all the actors are the kind of actors that make acting look so easy. I also enjoyed the persistant positive speech by the hotel owner, no matter how bad things were.
I searched out this film because it was the same director who did City Island, a film I greatly enjoyed. This was pretty uneven, though I found it somewhat engrossing. It’s got some nice 50s period details, if you are interested, otherwise, I wouldn’t bother watching it.
