'Trash'
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.
Saw Fault In Our Stars because cousin wanted to, which was mostly pleasing and didn't play to too many Young People Dying Early cliches.
Except that my Mom was on oxygen for the last couple years of her life and it was a Big Deal to plan out how much oxygen to take along on a trip, or in daily life, and most of all, either the machine or the tanks made a constant hissing sound.
At least it seemed to be a sincere try, and I can't fault the actors doing their best.
Finally took the boy to see How to Train Your Dragon 2, today. He really enjoyed it, though he bawled for 5 minutes straight after the scene we were discussing earlier.
Of course, when we asked him about it after the movie he said he was crying because Drogo stole Toothless so even if we had warned him ahead of time, it would have been for the wrong trauma. Go figure.
Finally caught Chef this weekend. It was very enjoyable in and of itself. Then there was the food porn. That grilled cheese sandwich pretty much had me moaning, and it got better fom there. Good stuff.
I really enjoyed How to Train Your Dragon 2: the Neville Longbottoming of Hiccup. However I do think that I liked Hiccup better as outcast than as Hero of the Last Several Years. And Toothless' several new abilities, including the ability to resist the ice-dragon and rule the other dragons, were a bit too dragonus ex machina for me.
All that said, the animation is lovely.
Although there's proof I'm an environmentalist: I kept trying to figure out how this ecosystem could support quite so many apex predators, especially since they apparently didn't feed the sheep to the dragons...
I kept trying to figure out how this ecosystem could support quite so many apex predators, especially since they apparently didn't feed the sheep to the dragons...
heh. I felt they were whitewashing the sheep issue, but didn't mention it to the kids.
As for Toothless, my take on it was that his ability to resist came from the fact that he had bonded so strongly to his Hiccup, and likewise his rise to Alpha came simply from the fact that he had resisted. I was okay with all that since it gives kids a way to represent the difference between power over and power with.
Has this been posted?
‘To Be Takei’, A Documentary About ‘Star Trek’ Actor and Social Activist George Takei
Looks fun!
This weekend was the lowest grossing July 4 weekend since 1999.
What is it with this Summer? There's seriously been nothing I've been interested in seeing since May, and probably nothing until Guardians is released in August.
Tom, seriously! There's nothing good out this summer. Captain America was the best movie of the year. I enjoyed Edge of Tomorrow but it doesn't seem to be making the kind of money they probably thought it would. What else is there? Did they really think Transformers and Dragons 2 would be the summer blockbusters?
I'm personally gratified that Transformers isn't doing better.
Dragon 2 probably will have legs, because not everybody can get their kids to the theatre on a holiday weekend.
I'm gratified Earth to Echo isn't doing better.