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Oct. 20th, 2009 04:06 pmThe Matrix and Reloaded
These are still pretty cool. I mean ok, the first one is better but viewed back to back the second one holds up. Honestly they are just comic books made into movies (without being actually published first) and work ok like that. Ignore the pseudo-philosophy and concentrate on the action. I also watched The Animatrix, which is about half totally awesome and half meh.
The Girlfriend Experience
I like Soderburgh when he delves into sex talk, and I like it when he is nonlinear, so I enjoyed this movie. High priced NYC call girl visits some clients, and her boyfriend, a personal trainer, does likewise. I couldn't believe only a couple of the people were real actors, the rest just were cast as themselves more-or-less and did mostly improvisations. Kind of a film geek experience.
Traffic
Speaking of SS. Reg just bought this along with From Russia With Love. It's still good, although there's a couple plot points that always make me cringe. The cocaine toy especially.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Read this a few weeks ago and it came in the mail Saturday. It follows the book more-or-less faithfully, except of course 3rd person rather than 1st, and more focused on McMurphy than Chief Broom. Not really much more to say about it, it's a powerful tragedy that hasn't at all become invalidated.
Embarrassing confession: I re-read Fight Club a couple days after reading that, and only just realized on this go-round what the ending meant. Durrr.
These are still pretty cool. I mean ok, the first one is better but viewed back to back the second one holds up. Honestly they are just comic books made into movies (without being actually published first) and work ok like that. Ignore the pseudo-philosophy and concentrate on the action. I also watched The Animatrix, which is about half totally awesome and half meh.
The Girlfriend Experience
I like Soderburgh when he delves into sex talk, and I like it when he is nonlinear, so I enjoyed this movie. High priced NYC call girl visits some clients, and her boyfriend, a personal trainer, does likewise. I couldn't believe only a couple of the people were real actors, the rest just were cast as themselves more-or-less and did mostly improvisations. Kind of a film geek experience.
Traffic
Speaking of SS. Reg just bought this along with From Russia With Love. It's still good, although there's a couple plot points that always make me cringe. The cocaine toy especially.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Read this a few weeks ago and it came in the mail Saturday. It follows the book more-or-less faithfully, except of course 3rd person rather than 1st, and more focused on McMurphy than Chief Broom. Not really much more to say about it, it's a powerful tragedy that hasn't at all become invalidated.
Embarrassing confession: I re-read Fight Club a couple days after reading that, and only just realized on this go-round what the ending meant. Durrr.
