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More Movie Notes!
Nov. 29th, 2011 07:52 pmI just love movies! I really do.
I Am Legend
I liked this a lot and am not sure why I didn't see it earlier: post-apocalypse survivalism is a trope I love. It never uses the word "zombies", and indeed the monsters in this movie are faster than traditional zombies and probably smarter. They also avoid light. I found this movie engaging, occasionally scary, and ultimately hopeful.
The Gymnast
A recommended lesbian film, and this one gets points for an inter-racial relationship and having a middle-aged woman as the lead character. Jane was an Olympic-level gymnast as a young woman, is now a massage therapist, is unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, and is unhappy with her life. I liked that this movie was largely about how Jane is reinventing herself, starting over at age 43. She reconnects with an old friend, starts a new career, and falls in love with a young woman. I enjoyed the earned happy ending.
2 Girls in Love
Also a recommended lesbian film. I was suspicious at first because it's about high schoolers, but it's a charming film about two very different girls who fall in love, and it's happy and mostly non-angsty. This one also features an inter-racial relationship and class differences.
Captain America
I thought this was boring, and not even in an interesting way. Just boring! Clearly it's merely a lead up to the Avengers movie.
Midnight Cowboy. streaming on Netflix
It is so amazing this film was made at all, especially in 1969! It was rated X originally; now it is rated R. Joe Buck (John Voight) travels from Texas to New York with dreams of being a hustler to rich women. He is really bad at the business end of hustling and quickly ends up broke. The story is about his adventures in the city, trying to make money and survive, but mostly about his friendship with a man named Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). It was a strange, emotional, moving story and I loved it.
Winter's Bone
I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. It's about a 17 year old girl taking care of her younger siblings and her ill mother. She needs to track down her father after he did not show up for court, otherwise she'll lose her house. It's a brutal film, full of gray skies and brown trees, and mean hard people who have their own social codes. I liked that it was about a strong woman, and that it drops the viewer into the action without explanation, but something about this film bothers me still and I'm not sure what. Overall I didn't like the bleak cinematography and I wasn't that into the story.
I Am Legend
I liked this a lot and am not sure why I didn't see it earlier: post-apocalypse survivalism is a trope I love. It never uses the word "zombies", and indeed the monsters in this movie are faster than traditional zombies and probably smarter. They also avoid light. I found this movie engaging, occasionally scary, and ultimately hopeful.
The Gymnast
A recommended lesbian film, and this one gets points for an inter-racial relationship and having a middle-aged woman as the lead character. Jane was an Olympic-level gymnast as a young woman, is now a massage therapist, is unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, and is unhappy with her life. I liked that this movie was largely about how Jane is reinventing herself, starting over at age 43. She reconnects with an old friend, starts a new career, and falls in love with a young woman. I enjoyed the earned happy ending.
2 Girls in Love
Also a recommended lesbian film. I was suspicious at first because it's about high schoolers, but it's a charming film about two very different girls who fall in love, and it's happy and mostly non-angsty. This one also features an inter-racial relationship and class differences.
Captain America
I thought this was boring, and not even in an interesting way. Just boring! Clearly it's merely a lead up to the Avengers movie.
Midnight Cowboy. streaming on Netflix
It is so amazing this film was made at all, especially in 1969! It was rated X originally; now it is rated R. Joe Buck (John Voight) travels from Texas to New York with dreams of being a hustler to rich women. He is really bad at the business end of hustling and quickly ends up broke. The story is about his adventures in the city, trying to make money and survive, but mostly about his friendship with a man named Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). It was a strange, emotional, moving story and I loved it.
Winter's Bone
I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. It's about a 17 year old girl taking care of her younger siblings and her ill mother. She needs to track down her father after he did not show up for court, otherwise she'll lose her house. It's a brutal film, full of gray skies and brown trees, and mean hard people who have their own social codes. I liked that it was about a strong woman, and that it drops the viewer into the action without explanation, but something about this film bothers me still and I'm not sure what. Overall I didn't like the bleak cinematography and I wasn't that into the story.
