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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
One of my favorite docs of all time. What a crew of characters! And that coach? Um. Forgive me, but I'm better...where do I sign up for the $40k per month gig? I thought it was great that the band reached out for help...and got it.
Plus? Lars' dad really made me smile.
Frankly, I loved everything about it!
I really have to see that movie. It sounds like a great double bill with Hard Core Logo, truly.
We took the niece to Across the Universe last night. The script is pretty terrible, but some of the numbers are amazing (not surprising since the film was directed by Julie Taymor). And Jim Sturgess, who plays the lead, is a total fucking star.
This would not have been my first choice of sights to greet me as I exited an afternoon showing of Stephen King's The Mist. Though I have to give the theater props for setting a mood...
Hee, Matt! All you needed was a couple of giant insects....
I really have to see that movie. It sounds like a great double bill with Hard Core Logo, truly.
That would be a great double bill! Foibles on parade...lots of tension and heart.
So I saw Enchanted and Bee Movie yesterday in a happy double feature. I was going to see American Gangster too, but we decided we couldn't end the night with an 11:30 showing of a 2:40 movie that would probably be depressing.
Enchanted was wonderful. Just tongue-in-cheek enough to balance the sweetness, with a truly stellar performance by Amy Adams. I have not seen Junebug and so was only familiar with her because of her short guest stint as a Hot Girl in The Office (though apparently also she played Tara's sister Beth in "Family" - who knew?) but she's just wonderful. I'm afraid she's going to find herself stuck in this type of movie, Anne Hathaway-style, but having already gotten an Academy nod for something less childrenish, maybe she can escape. Either way, Giselle can and will certainly join the list of Amazing Disney Princesses To Be Admired. I don't think Enchanted will displace Ella Enchanted as my Favorite Tongue-in-cheek Fantasy Kids Movie with Musical Numbers, but by this time next year their DVD cases will be sitting right next to each other on my shelf.
Bee Movie was fine, but kind of boring. And that's really all I have to say about that.
FWIW, and to each his or her own, but I didn't find American Gangster that depressing. Now, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is much higher on the depressing scale, with No Country for Old Men perhaps lower or higher depending on your general orientation toward the Coen brothers.
I didn't find any of the three movies downright BLEAK. But BTDKYD isn't really the movie to see before a party.
I think I may have won the bleak movie viewing sweepstakes today. Well, if no one saw Blood Simple in an arthouse, anyway.