'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I think My Big Fat Greek Wedding might be closer to the Kishotenketsu form, as it seemed to have no conflict at all.
And to be clear, I did like The Grey, there's just something about it that sits weird, and I suspect that was intentional on the part of the filmmakers.
I thought there was plenty of conflict in MBFGW, as well as character change and growth. It just didn't involve death or explosions or things crashing. It was all interpersonal and interfamilial, and was resolved rather gently. I wouldn't say there wasn't a plot. There was more going on than just a woman falls in love and gets married. It was just a sweet story of a particular time in someone's life.
Yeah...I do think they missed an opportunity because the family conflict was neutralized so easily, but, you know, I don't have a big hit like that...what do I know? But Toula does grow and change.
I would have liked the movie a lot less if there had been more family drama/conflict. Then it would have just been a soap opera.
A PSA from Gary Oldman: [link]
That's hilarious.
That makes me want to hug Ray Allen. Which isn't really the rarest of urges for me, but still.
Why would you originally open your action movie even two weeks after TDKR if you have leeway? Is this [link] more important because of how successful The Avengers was? I'm assuming something changed in how they were looking at the calendar.
Am I the only one who still thinks The Dark Knight Rises will actually perform significantly below expectations? My guess is that it does way better than Batman Begins but not as well as The Dark Knight, ending its run somewhere in the $400 millions. I admittedly base this only on two middle-aged women (my mother and mother-in-law) I know who saw The Dark Knight because of Heath Ledger as The Joker, but are pretty unlikely to see this one, so perhaps it is not very well researched.
Just saw Safety Not Guaranteed today and OH MY GOD! so good. I loved it more than I have loved a movie I've seen in the theater in a long time.