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Jul. 24th, 2005 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pricciarI watched a few movies this weekend. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Bruce Almighty, and The Fog of War.
Harry Potter was better than I remembered it. Lots of fun little jokes and great special effects. The quidditch match was especially well done. A great movie to eat pizza and watch.
Bruce Almighty is perhaps the worst movie that has ever starred Morgan Freeman. The music was terrible, the acting was terrible, the writing was terrible, Jim Carrey was terrible. I tried to watch the whole thing. I really did. But, 45 minutes of wanting my eyeballs to stop working to save myself from the pain was enough and I yanked it out of the DVD player and tried to force a bobcat to eat the DVD. This was a popular multimillion dollar movie. There is no excuse for music that didn't change from scene to scene (Until old pop songs started to get used in the most cliched ways possible.) There were scenes in the movie that started off mildly funny and went on so long that noone could have possibly still been laughing. At one point Jennifer Aniston is watching It's a Wonderful Life. "YES! A movie that effectively shows someone who has lost faith and heaven's dealing with. A movie that is full of sap, but still well made. A movie that doesn't force me to get violent! Thanks for reminding me, and for showing how awful this crap is." It was soon after that I took it out.
Fog of War was excellent. Errol Morris makes fantastic documentaries. This was no exception. My sole complaint about his film is that he had only one person to interview. This was Robert McNamara speaking for a couple of hours. Morris kept it engaging, and McNamara was an interesting person. I prefer Morris' previous documentaries that flit from person to person creating a full story from little pieces of story. If you are looking for a documentary Fog of War is worth watching. But, The Thin Blue Line and Fast Cheap and Out of Control are far far more enjoyable.
Aside from the movies I had a pretty fun weekend. Found an authentic french crepe place in Santa Barbara on Saturday. It was tres delicious. (See! French!) We also went to the Farmer's Market and I have peaches now. Got my bike totally fixed and I took a 20 mile bike ride. And I found out for sure that my camera is shipping. I cannot wait! It should get here on Tuesday.
Harry Potter was better than I remembered it. Lots of fun little jokes and great special effects. The quidditch match was especially well done. A great movie to eat pizza and watch.
Bruce Almighty is perhaps the worst movie that has ever starred Morgan Freeman. The music was terrible, the acting was terrible, the writing was terrible, Jim Carrey was terrible. I tried to watch the whole thing. I really did. But, 45 minutes of wanting my eyeballs to stop working to save myself from the pain was enough and I yanked it out of the DVD player and tried to force a bobcat to eat the DVD. This was a popular multimillion dollar movie. There is no excuse for music that didn't change from scene to scene (Until old pop songs started to get used in the most cliched ways possible.) There were scenes in the movie that started off mildly funny and went on so long that noone could have possibly still been laughing. At one point Jennifer Aniston is watching It's a Wonderful Life. "YES! A movie that effectively shows someone who has lost faith and heaven's dealing with. A movie that is full of sap, but still well made. A movie that doesn't force me to get violent! Thanks for reminding me, and for showing how awful this crap is." It was soon after that I took it out.
Fog of War was excellent. Errol Morris makes fantastic documentaries. This was no exception. My sole complaint about his film is that he had only one person to interview. This was Robert McNamara speaking for a couple of hours. Morris kept it engaging, and McNamara was an interesting person. I prefer Morris' previous documentaries that flit from person to person creating a full story from little pieces of story. If you are looking for a documentary Fog of War is worth watching. But, The Thin Blue Line and Fast Cheap and Out of Control are far far more enjoyable.
Aside from the movies I had a pretty fun weekend. Found an authentic french crepe place in Santa Barbara on Saturday. It was tres delicious. (See! French!) We also went to the Farmer's Market and I have peaches now. Got my bike totally fixed and I took a 20 mile bike ride. And I found out for sure that my camera is shipping. I cannot wait! It should get here on Tuesday.
