tv and movies: the most recent
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avreliamy mother visited us a month ago, so we used the opportunity to go see movies. Unfortunately at the time there were no movies we both really wanted to see, so we went to something we both didn't mind. Just imagine - a year and a half without going to a movie theater!
Taken. We actually ended up liking it quite a lot - as an action movie. Action is unstoppable, every second something happens, and Liam Neeson beats up everyone quite nicely. One thing why this movie worked for me was that I could relate to the notion "Most bad things that you fear can actually happen" so the premise wasn't an outlandish nonsense as usual, but rang true. Besides, I could identify - in my memory - with the young girls that get into trouble, because they think nothing can happen to them. I was seventeen, and I thought myself pretty smart and intelligent, and I've done some things that look awfully stupid from half of the life later. I was lucky - or maybe not that stupid. The girls in the movie were just enough stupid to get into trouble, but one of them was lucky to have Jedi Liam Neeson for a father. Liam Neeson plays a former secret agent type guy who also knows for a fact that "Most bad things that you fear can actually happen" and acts sufficiently paranoid, then immediately goes to Paris and turns everything upside down in a very satisfying manner.
on a bigger scale, there are some troubling considerations. The girls went to Paris, then got to Albanian villains, and it sets fine with me. If they went, say, to Russia, I would be more uncomfortable with an American turning everything upside down for his very own purposes. Of course, no sane parent would a teenage child go to Russia unsupervised, whereas Paris seems so familiar and safe. On the other hand if they were in trouble because of Russian criminals I would have been annoyed. My personal cockroaches aside, it's the men's world and girls can only get in trouble there and be saved - or not saved. Or wait at home, waving hands helplessly, like the mother of a girl. But yes, this is world, and the movie reflects it as is. Some might be bothered by an American going everywhere without any regard to the local authorities. But then, it was less strange than a secret U.S. military base in Siberia in Fantastic Four... Anyway. this is our world. Overall, the movie proved to be strangely satisfying and I think we will watch it again some day.
The second movie we watched was International. P. was underwhelmed - it was certainly not what we expected based on the trailers. I was nicely entertained by watching Clive Owen running around desperately. I kind of like him, so the meaning of running around was less important. I liked Naomi Watts's character as well - ans I liked that they worked as colleges, without a hint of a romance. Nice change from ... almost everything else.
The trailers were insane, and not in a good way. Except for Crank 2. which was insane in good way and very gleeful about it.
TV stuff: as usual. hardly existing. I watched Dollhouse, and was so utterly bored by the first episode, that I couldn't bring myself to watch the following ones until #6. Ep. 6 was rather interesting, and now I am looking forward to watch the next one, but still don't feel like watching episodes 2-5. Maybe later. Not sure.
Instead I occasionally watch some Buffy episodes and call it a rewatch. It's not a true rewatch, since I pick up episodes very randomly (though in general order) and let them play as a background, but I don't have time for any other type of rewatch, anyway.
Taken. We actually ended up liking it quite a lot - as an action movie. Action is unstoppable, every second something happens, and Liam Neeson beats up everyone quite nicely. One thing why this movie worked for me was that I could relate to the notion "Most bad things that you fear can actually happen" so the premise wasn't an outlandish nonsense as usual, but rang true. Besides, I could identify - in my memory - with the young girls that get into trouble, because they think nothing can happen to them. I was seventeen, and I thought myself pretty smart and intelligent, and I've done some things that look awfully stupid from half of the life later. I was lucky - or maybe not that stupid. The girls in the movie were just enough stupid to get into trouble, but one of them was lucky to have Jedi Liam Neeson for a father. Liam Neeson plays a former secret agent type guy who also knows for a fact that "Most bad things that you fear can actually happen" and acts sufficiently paranoid, then immediately goes to Paris and turns everything upside down in a very satisfying manner.
on a bigger scale, there are some troubling considerations. The girls went to Paris, then got to Albanian villains, and it sets fine with me. If they went, say, to Russia, I would be more uncomfortable with an American turning everything upside down for his very own purposes. Of course, no sane parent would a teenage child go to Russia unsupervised, whereas Paris seems so familiar and safe. On the other hand if they were in trouble because of Russian criminals I would have been annoyed. My personal cockroaches aside, it's the men's world and girls can only get in trouble there and be saved - or not saved. Or wait at home, waving hands helplessly, like the mother of a girl. But yes, this is world, and the movie reflects it as is. Some might be bothered by an American going everywhere without any regard to the local authorities. But then, it was less strange than a secret U.S. military base in Siberia in Fantastic Four... Anyway. this is our world. Overall, the movie proved to be strangely satisfying and I think we will watch it again some day.
The second movie we watched was International. P. was underwhelmed - it was certainly not what we expected based on the trailers. I was nicely entertained by watching Clive Owen running around desperately. I kind of like him, so the meaning of running around was less important. I liked Naomi Watts's character as well - ans I liked that they worked as colleges, without a hint of a romance. Nice change from ... almost everything else.
The trailers were insane, and not in a good way. Except for Crank 2. which was insane in good way and very gleeful about it.
TV stuff: as usual. hardly existing. I watched Dollhouse, and was so utterly bored by the first episode, that I couldn't bring myself to watch the following ones until #6. Ep. 6 was rather interesting, and now I am looking forward to watch the next one, but still don't feel like watching episodes 2-5. Maybe later. Not sure.
Instead I occasionally watch some Buffy episodes and call it a rewatch. It's not a true rewatch, since I pick up episodes very randomly (though in general order) and let them play as a background, but I don't have time for any other type of rewatch, anyway.
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