Wow I've been busy. I started out blogging with a bang, and now it's been what, five weeks since I last posted. So much I've wanted to write, but haven't taken the opportunity to do so.
Okay, watched Stanley Kubrick's The Killing. Pretty good movie, and very accessible for a Kubrick movie. His stuff is not for everyone, but I think most people can enjoy this. The basic story is about a robbery of a horse racing track, the lead-up to the robbery and the aftermath. The story is told in a fairly straightforward manner, kind of a precursor to Dragnet stylistically. It's pretty violent for its time (1956), and I suppose still a tad violent for today. It's definitely not for kids.
I went to see Watchmen and enjoyed it very much. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I think well worth seeing.
Went last Saturday to see Race to Witch Mountain — by myself! (I don't have a problem going by myself). I never did watch Escape to Witch Mountain beforehand, but I don't think it matters. Race pretty much only made reference to Escape, and it wasn't necessary to see the latter; Race is its own movie completely. I so wanted it to be so much better, and I feel Disney just rushed it before completion (ending work on a project doesn't mean it's finished, just stopped). Dwayne Johnson pretty much carried the movie on his broad shoulders. This is another one of those (few) "moments of goodness" interspersed with longer patches of "blah" and "oh, get real".
Tuesday night, while working until 2:30 in the a.m., I finished watching Darling. An interesting movie, kind of bizarre. There was one scene, The Truth Game, I'm still not sure about the meaning other than recognizing psychological dysfunction and perhaps symbolic of a "multiple-interaction gathering of an adult nature", but what?
I also watched a Japanese film whose English title is Branded to Kill. The number three killer is hunted/taunted by the number one killer after taking out the number two killer. Well done but odd.
And tonight, I watched Key Largo, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, among others. I would have testified I had seen this movie before, but what I saw tonight makes me wonder what movie I did actually see so many years ago. There was a hotel and a hurricane, but other than that, the movie doesn't match anything from my memory. (maybe I should watch Escape to Witch Mountain, just to know that I'm not mis-remembering).
As of 5:30 yesterday afternoon, I hit 40 hours at work. Fun.
