Last night Mom and I watched most of Singin' in the Rain - she realized she's never seen the movie. It was so late but I kept saying "oh this is a good number, oh this is a good part!" finally I admitted the whole movie is good numbers and good parts. I need to own that movie.
The two-disc dvd set is awesome, with tons of terrific bonus features, including the original film clips of the songs (for example, "Singin' in the Rain" was originally in the first big musical, Broadway Melody of 1929 and sung by the full stable of MGM stars).
Did your mom end up watching the whole thing? Did she like it?
She loved the whole thing. And the clothes. I need to get the two disc set it sounds great.
We also watched Gypsy and finished The Doughgirls which was funny.
Anyone see(n/ing) the Percy Jackson movie? I figure any fantasy YA CGI movie is going to be dubbed a Harry Potter ripoff, so I'm half ignoring online reviews.
I like the cast, so I had some curiosity.
So Valentine's Day? Sort of cute, but so politically offensive on pretty much every level. I don't even know. And the "twist"?
People in the audience kind of gasped and twittered at the end when it turned out that Eric Dane and Bradley Cooper were together. They didn't even get to kiss!
That's some kind of bullshit. I could get started on the range of other issues, if anyone wants to know.
For the most part, no one that wasn't white got a romantic storyline on-camera. There were many examples of "foreign" types providing a funny one-liner or reaction shot or similar, and one from a girl in a wheelchair. Most of these people weren't actually characters in the movie, just props. There just happened to be a (black) sign-language interpreter at hastily-thrown press conference -- see how inclusive they are?? And this one may be more spoilery, but
when Jamie Foxx was making a generally pro-gay statement on camera (he's a reporter), he had to end it with a homophobic "joke."
Oy. can you tell me about the George Lopez plotlet? He seemed like an interesting inclusion.
Not much of a plotlet. He
works for Ashton Kutcher, and is basically his sounding board. As it turns out, he has a wife and children he loves, but they are only shown, not heard.
OK, I guess Hector Elizondo and Jessica Alba could have been playing Latino/a characters, but they weren't
ethnic
like Lopez's.
Thank you for taking the hit and seeing the movie, Jesse. I'm glad I didn't.
