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Finally went to see Beauty and the Beast tonight. It was good, but I still like the animated version better. I particularly missed Angela Lansbury's singing. Also, the "Be Our Guest" number was WAY too over the top, and that's coming from someone who loved Xanadu!
Is it wrong that I thought Dan Stevens was hotter as the Beast than after he turned back into the prince?
Is it wrong that I thought Dan Stevens was hotter as the Beast than after he turned back into the prince?
Heh. That's always the reaction. Garbo famously said, "Give me back my Beast!" when she saw Cocteau's version and he transformed into the human.
Saw two good foreign films this week, Bacalaureat (Graduation), a Romanian drama by the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Their Finest by Lone Scherfig, the director of Italian for Beginners and An Education. Really enjoyed both. Their Finest makes a few choices in the final act I didn't love, but overall very enjoyable. (It's about a team of screenwriters making a propaganda film about Dunkirk in wartime Britain. Bill Nighy is a particular delight as always.) I got all excited watching the credits when I thought all the major production players were women, but then they had to throw a token man in there as DP. But still, refreshing.
Highly recommend catching both if you can.
Saw Zookeepers Wife last weekend. Enjoyed it. Agreed it is a great story. I thought Jessica Chastain was really good. Loved the costumes also.
Saw Gifted tonight. It's a nice movie. Totally made me cry in three places, all my kid issues, so yeah.
Chris Evans remains ridiculously attractive and dreamy and in need of all the hugs.
So I saw I Am Not Your Negro last night; it's the documentary made from James Baldwin's writings, about Baldwin and the black American experience. Alternately enraging, funny, and horrifying. Just a really good movie and many people should see it.
The trailer for the Kingsman sequel has Eggsy in an orange velvet tuxedo jacket AND Channing Tatum. What's not to love?
The whiff of violent macho homophobia that was in the first one?
It takes a lot to make me take a pass on a Colin Firth movie; I sat through Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, for God's sake!
Whereas I have zero desire to ever see a Bridget Jones movie.
Different people like different shit.
That lack of desire is definitely a feeling worth listening to regarding the second one. I'm told the recent sequel is quite a bit better, but I'm still gun-shy years afterward.