Quick comments on a handful of movies:
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD – Somebody came up with the odd idea of turning a fairy tale into a cross between a horror movie and Black Forest 90210. But I thought it was pretty entertaining, although I don't much like Amanda Seyfried. There's an actual mystery in the plot, with clues and everything.
SEASON OF THE WITCH – Critically reviled fantasy adventure with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as former crusaders taking a witch across France while the plague is raging. Most of the reviews seem to be talking about a different movie than the one I saw, which I thought was pretty good.
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU – Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in a thriller based on a Phillip K. Dick short story about a shadowy group determining the fate of mankind. I liked it, too.
SOURCE CODE – Jake Gyllenhaal (sp?) in a thriller about a guy involved in a mysterious government operation trying to locate a dirty bomb planted by a terrorist before it can destroy Chicago. In order to do this he relives the same eight minutes on a commuter train over and over. A pretty goofy premise, but entertaining, and I liked the ending.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS – What can I say? I like Jack Black.
HALL PASS – Crude Owen Wilson comedy written and directed by the Farrelly Brothers. Pretty far-fetched, but I laughed quite a bit. And Christina Applegate is still yowza.
DESPICABLE ME – Goofy but good-hearted animated comedy about supervillains. I liked this one a lot, too.
There might be something in here some of you would enjoy.
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I liked SEASON OF THE WITCH, too, but I'm a sucker for a bad Nic Cage movie. I liked DESPICABLE ME a lot, and we have THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU here to watch Real Soon Now.
The only one of these I've seen so far is Despicable Me and it was pretty cute, I thought.I want to see some of the others too, particularly the Adjustment Bureau.
Liked SOURCE CODE and ADJUSTMENT BUREAU quite a bit. Didn't see the others.
Is there a good Nicholas Cage movie? Well, yes. I liked Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, Birdy and Matchstick Men but on the whole...
LEAVING LAS VEGAS is a movie I've never seen, but I want to. Will get around to it eventually.
By the way, Patti, a friend of mine just asked me if I knew anything about Megan's books. I bent his ear for a while with high praise (figuratively speaking, since it was via email).
I have seen most of Nicolas Cage movies including the ones Ms Pattinase mentions, except for Birdy. Haven't seen that one yet. Cage is a fine actor though I had mixed feelings about Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Maybe it's just the film I didn't like.
Rented the DVD for THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU this week and thought it was pretty enjoyable, too. Just before watching it, I found PKD's short story, “The Adjustment Team," online and read it. It's interesting how they took a rather humorous, simple story and used it to germinate a much more dramatic film. (And, boy, I think if it involved Emily Blunt, I'd change "the plan," too.)
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