April will be better.

March was a pretty sad month for this blog... only 3 posts. At least one of them wasn't by me. :)

Well, back on March 2nd I wrote a post called "Movies to see..." How did we do?

Zodiac - I did see this one, with Änna while we were out in Boulder. I was very excited to see it, and it didn't quite live up to my expectations. Could have been that we were annoyed after not being able to find the theatre and missing the first couple minutes... although even with those minutes missing I thought a weakness of the film was how long it was. I'm not usually one to complain about the length of a movie either, but Zodiac seemed long for the wrong reasons... -or- Maybe it was long because there was a lot of content, but not long as a way to enhance the content...

All in all it was definitly a very well crafted film, and the writing was good, as was the acting. But as good as it was to watch, I never felt like I got into the characters' heads... I didn't empathise with their addictions/afflictions... I wanted them to get over it. And I didn't feel like that's where I should have been at the end of this one. Especially if you consider Fincher's Se7en and even Fight Club, two movies that really put you in the characters' shoes (whether or not you like being there). I would be interested in hearing what others thought about this one, and I'd probably interested in seeing it again to re-evaluate. Cool. Share your thoughts.

Lives of Others & The Queen - I never made it to either of these. They are both sitting in my Netflix waiting list. What can I say?

Sweetland - Änna and I also got to this one a couple minutes late. Weird.
Sweetland was beautifully shot and pretty fun/easy overall to watch. Actually, it was a lot funnier and lighter than I thought it would be. What I'd heard about Sweetland led me to believe that it was a drama about a man who pays for a mail order bride, but then isn't allowed to marry her because it turns out she's German (WWI time), but they end up living together anyway and are consequently dis-owned by the town - not allowed to buy/sell anything - and they end up withering away... All of which is true, except there are jokes throughout and you can substitute that last part for "- but they overcome all odds in the end and live happily ever after." So I wasn't expecting that, but the film doesn't come off as overly cheesy at all, in spite of how I made it sound. :)

So, I want to do better this month, but we'll see...

Movies to see - 4/02/07
300 (the Frank Miller graphic novel adaptation), Dreamgirls (at Riverview now), The Lookout (with Joeseph Gordon-Levitt who was awesome in Brick), The Host (South Korean horror with possible socio-political undertones), The Namesake (Indian - American culture clash), Shooter (Marky Mark has been good, but this might suck? Still fun?) & Reign Over Me (Adam Sandler, hit or miss?)... Oh, and I forgot Grindhouse! (The latest Tarantino/Rodriguez looks ridiculous. In the best kind of ways.) And, no, I didn't forget Blades of Glory. (I have no interest in seeing Farrel fall on his face. Oh, but I guess I mean that only figuratively.)