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This time next week I will be in Montreal. I am told it is a beautiful city.
So Gwen and I spent the day doing stuff for Lumos. While we were crafting our fingers to the bone we watched a couple of movies. Both of which I have never seen. "The Others" with Nicole Kidman - very nice. I'd like to see it again knowing the hook and the twist.
I called the hook in the first hour or so, or part of it, and we theorized from there and we got wilder and wilder, some of which was right, some of which was not. It was as intreguing as the "Sixth Sense" in a way. I'd love to see it again knowing the hook and the twist, and construct what we know when we know it. I do wish the whole movie hadn't been broken up with so many commercials. Nine and a half minutes of movie for every seven minutes of commercials? What are you, nuts? TBS, man. Sucks to watch movies on that station. And not in that good way, either.
The second movie was Gwen's netflix (yay commercial free!). "Stage Beauty" of the same type of period theatre-geek movie as "Shakespeare in Love" but *I* thought way better done. Gwen doesn't agree with me, but I found "Shakespeare in Love" to be too much of itself. Too wink-wink nudge-nudge are-you-in-on-the-whole-quoting-the-plays-thing?, beautifully crafted word-wise, but paper thin in plot and interest. "Stage Beauty" I found a much better as a whole-crafted movie. The struggle of Ned, whose entire self is caught up in, and has worked his entire life to be, an actor who portrays the female characters on stage. He is now supplanted and must find a way to act the male parts. The struggle of Maria, who only wants to act even if she knows very little about it. The history around the two when the King overturned the decree banning women from the stage and makes the decree that men can only play men's parts, and women can take the women's roles. The fall of one once celebrated and the rise of the other from obscurity. Well done. Very pretty costumes, good use of color, lovely sets. Sublime acting. Four out of four stars. And Billy Crudup has very pretty eyes. Very very pretty. He makes a passable woman, but he is more striking as a man. With pretty eyes.
So Gwen and I spent the day doing stuff for Lumos. While we were crafting our fingers to the bone we watched a couple of movies. Both of which I have never seen. "The Others" with Nicole Kidman - very nice. I'd like to see it again knowing the hook and the twist.
I called the hook in the first hour or so, or part of it, and we theorized from there and we got wilder and wilder, some of which was right, some of which was not. It was as intreguing as the "Sixth Sense" in a way. I'd love to see it again knowing the hook and the twist, and construct what we know when we know it. I do wish the whole movie hadn't been broken up with so many commercials. Nine and a half minutes of movie for every seven minutes of commercials? What are you, nuts? TBS, man. Sucks to watch movies on that station. And not in that good way, either.
The second movie was Gwen's netflix (yay commercial free!). "Stage Beauty" of the same type of period theatre-geek movie as "Shakespeare in Love" but *I* thought way better done. Gwen doesn't agree with me, but I found "Shakespeare in Love" to be too much of itself. Too wink-wink nudge-nudge are-you-in-on-the-whole-quoting-the-plays-thing?, beautifully crafted word-wise, but paper thin in plot and interest. "Stage Beauty" I found a much better as a whole-crafted movie. The struggle of Ned, whose entire self is caught up in, and has worked his entire life to be, an actor who portrays the female characters on stage. He is now supplanted and must find a way to act the male parts. The struggle of Maria, who only wants to act even if she knows very little about it. The history around the two when the King overturned the decree banning women from the stage and makes the decree that men can only play men's parts, and women can take the women's roles. The fall of one once celebrated and the rise of the other from obscurity. Well done. Very pretty costumes, good use of color, lovely sets. Sublime acting. Four out of four stars. And Billy Crudup has very pretty eyes. Very very pretty. He makes a passable woman, but he is more striking as a man. With pretty eyes.