Movies

[omly]

When in doubt, you can usually assume I have not seen a movie. Apparently the household is trying to fix that. In the past week we have seen:

Constantine - This was not one that I would have necessarily have picked, but I actually really enjoyed.

Thank You For Smoking - Hilarious, that is all.

The Whole Nine Yards - A fun movie for the summer. It certainly is not a deep philosophical thing, but I enjoyed it anyhow.

Lemony Snickett - Not nearly as terrible as it could have been, though the cherry picking and rearranging of 3 novels made it a little scattered. They did a decent job of making it seem continuous if you hadn't read the books though.

Comments

[crazybone.livejournal.com]

Constantine

[insert obligatory rant about turning decent comic book series into bad movie here]

[ladychi.livejournal.com]

I love love love Thank You For Smoking. It's ridiculously hilarious.

[c1.livejournal.com]

I never read the book, so Lemony Snickett did well by me. But when I watch a cinematic adaptation of a book, I go in knowing that a book is a wholly different medium from a film, with different capabilities such as a different sense of pacing and detail, and judge accordingly. In 2 hours of a film, you can't include everything: the merit of a director's work is how he chooses which bits to include, and what gets left behind.

[omly.livejournal.com]

No, I absolutely agree. I didn't expect there to be everything, it was just an interesting choice to put the pieces from books 2 and 3 in the middle of the story from book 1.

[c1.livejournal.com]

It's been awhile since I've seen it, but do you think the story went together better than it would have if the stories went in order?