Tag: three sentence movies

The acting was quite good by two of the three main characters and there were some quite delightful scenes in this movie.  However, when it all was finished and done, it just didn’t hold together very well, to my disappointment.  Also, I get annoyed at movies where people are supposedly “uncool” and then their high school existence is about 400 times cooler than mine leaving me to feel incredibly lame.*

Cost:  Would have been $8.50 but someone gave me passes to Regal so it was FREE
Where watched:  Fox Tower.

*I will say that this movie has me rolling ideas of what does it really mean to be “popular” and “cool” and my annoyance may get spit out as an essay in the future.

The previews before the movie began were so horrendous I got gun-shy and turned off the movie before it started.  However, I eventually recovered and can report that the movie itself was one of the more delightful films I’ve seen this year.  Beginning with two characters, the movie builds and builds on itself, spreading witticisms here and there, until it vaults into a giddily funny climax which once again had me thinking, “That Jennifer Westfeldt is so SMART.”

Cost:  free from library
Where watched: at home.

There was a good concept here, excellent production values, solid actors, all the makings of a good movie.  But it was not a good movie, alas.  There were many things that went wrong, but I think one of them was the weirdness of having everyone be 25 years old which meant there was no gravitas to any of them.

Cost: free from library
Where watched:  at home.

I knew this would be a tense film and I didn’t want it to keep me up late at night on a school night, so I came prepared with knitting to distract me.  This was a fine film, with fabulous performances by all and some excellent cinematography.  I’m quite glad it won best picture, even if it did take me over two years to see for myself.

Cost:  free from library
Where watched: at home.

This was much better than I remember it* and fun in an incredibly embryonic Joss Whedon way.  First of all, it’s totally the “girl gains her power” story I keep complaining there aren’t any of in the movie world and it also provided me with the bonus that fashion in the movie coincided with my high school fashion years so I know that I wasn’t being weird when I wore a dress with dorky shoes and socks, that was actually a fashion forward move on my part.  Also, I have now been reminded what that Luke Perry thing was all about.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home.

*I can clearly recall that I found it to be “kind of weird.” when I saw it during high school.  And maybe Ms. Sterner and I saw this together? Maybe at Overland Park?

Having never seen this movie on the big screen, I was happy to spend a Sunday afternoon seeing Harrison Ford in the glory days before he developed his wattles.  The movie holds up pretty well and it’s an interesting contrast to see Action Adventure before CGI (like in this movie) compared to the previous night’s viewing which was all CGI.  Also, Karen Allen is the best Indiana Jones heroine.

Cost:  $8.50
Where watched:  Regal Lloyd Cinema 10

I greatly enjoyed this movie when we saw it in May, but if you had asked me to recount the plot to you, I would have only been able to stammer “Uh, it’s pretty funny.  Um, and. Uh.”  Watching it this time was an experience of repeatedly thinking “oh yes!  I remember this part, this was quite enjoyable.”  I think it was the frantic pace that caused the post-viewing amnesia in that I was all in during, but there was so much that happened my brain just got overwhelmed and forgot it all.

Cost:  $3.00
Where watched:  Portlander Inn Cinema. (at the Jubitz truck stop)