and all with some combination of people that included lisa. impressive.
1) whale rider. cast: lisa & i with a DVD, friday night.
whew. this one totally threw the kleenex box at us. as lisa says, "as soon as they brought on the whales, that was it!" we were both weeping like girls. (funny, that.)
i really liked the movie, and enjoyed seeing the new zeland landscape, a foreign culture and their music. the story was great, too. in an interview with the director in the special features, it was suggested that every little girl should see this movie. i agree... though make sure they all have tissues at hand. (as it turns out, though, i saw this film the night before i got my period, so i was overly emotional and may have cried more than the average girl would. i suppose we'll never know for sure.)
2) mystic river. cast: mary, lisa & i at wynnsong, saturday afternoon.
i knew a little bit about this story beforehand, and usually if i know something about a film ahead of time i end up not being very moved by it. (that case was proven by whale rider... i knew very little and ended up crying my eyeballs out.) i did pull out a tissue at one point during mystic river, but on the kleenex rating scale, i'd only put this only at a 1. whale rider was a 3 kleenex movie. something like sophie's choice or terms of endearment is a 4 or 5.
as much as i enjoyed the film, i think i have been relatively unimpressed with clint eastwood's directing skills in every movie of his i've seen. for some reason i just never seem to feel really drawn in to the characters' lives. the storytelling impressed me, but i just didn't feel like i was living in the story. still, i think tim robbins did a fantastic job and should get the best supporting oscar. sean penn was great, too. and while i don't think he's going to get his leading oscar, i do believe he should get some award for being so damn hot. hubba hubba.
3) in america. cast: mr. & mrs. pinky, lisa & i at the madstone, saturday night.
a ½ kleenex movie. or maybe i was just out of tears by this point. damn... my eyes are swollen from crying so much in 24 hours.
i liked this movie. it was all heart. Djimon Hounsou... damn, what a great scene, when he shouts that he's in love with everything that's living. however, one scene does not an oscar make, and tim robbins will certainly kick his ass.
pinky was telling us about an interview she saw with the director last week... turns out this is supposedly some sort of autobiographical movie. i had no clue. it's too "perfect" to be that accurate, though... i mean, everyone lives happily ever after. (except Djimon, but in a weirdly supernatural way i guess he lives happily ever after, too.)
if i had to rank the 3 movies, i think it would probably be in the order i saw them in: 1, 2, 3.
i think i'm going to watch seabiscuit tomorrow (and hopefully won't cry at all), and if there are any hours left before beth's oscars party, maybe i'll try to catch a screening of cold mountain. or not. time feels very warpy right now. i could use a good dose of realism.
Posted by xta at February 28, 2004 11:20 PM | TrackBack