Saw Fermat's Room. Infuriating movie. Four mathematicians are tortured by being forced to pretend they've never heard various classic puzzles ("A man with one boat! a fox! a chicken! and a bag of grain!") and then solving them in the most roundabout manner possible ("Okay, imagine you're the fox! This table is the boat!") If they don't work fast enough, the room they're inside of shrinks a little. They wisely spend much of the time bickering and losing the little PDA that they put answers into. They round out the movie by destroying the unpublished solution to the Goldbach conjecture. Woo! Take that, number theory!
There were some very striking scenes and nice twists, but I nerd-raged way too hard to enjoy.
Jun 28, 2012
Brave
Saw Brave last night. It was very good and funny. I was trolling my friends afterward by discussing the subtle patriarchal-ism of pre-film short.
Jun 26, 2012
Enemy Mine
Saw Enemy Mine. A very campy film. Space camp gives way to a different sort of campy-ness (I think the process of becoming friends is essentially un-film-able) and ends well. A Flash Gordon-esque film.
Jun 25, 2012
Jun 24, 2012
Frankenstein
Saw the original Frankenstein. It was apparently a fairly modern, restored version. Initially, there was a line about being god that was cut (blasphemy) and a scene where the monster throws a girl into a lake was cut (too grisly.)
Sometimes I wonder how people from the 30s would react if you showed them a modern film (say, Transformers) but now I know they'd be terrified and burn it as a witch.
Jun 21, 2012
Jun 19, 2012
Dog Soldiers
Saw Dog Soldiers. Big stupid fun. Enough sinister creepiness to over-rule the macho bullshit.
Jun 18, 2012
Pickpocket
Saw Pickpocket. Interesting film. Raskolnikov as petty thief. The beauty of a magician preforming their tricks.
Jun 16, 2012
Re-Animator
Saw Re-Animator. The bits with the cat were quite creepy. The scenes with the girlfriend doing her best 'scream-queen' were less so. The scene with the girlfriend on an autopsy table were way creepy in a completely different direction.
Jun 12, 2012
Mutiny on the Bounty
Watched Mutiny on the Bounty. Very aggravating beginning, satisfying middle, draggy ending. All in all, very good.
Jun 10, 2012
Conan the Barbarian
Saw Conan the Barbarian. It was okay so long as Arnold kept his goofy mouth shut. It was going hard for the serious mood of the Lord of the Rings movies, but with Arnold and the special effects of last decade.
The Celluloid Closet
Saw The Celluloid Closet. So sweet and hopeful, yet so condemning and isn't it typical that I'd like it? Ah! It makes my heart ache.
Jun 5, 2012
Bringing Up Baby
Saw Bringing Up Baby. Deeply depressing comedy. This sociopath breaks up a guy's marriage because he's too incoherent to defend himself. Tony Curtis suffers and stutters through the whole thing and then declares he loved it at the end. Did you, Tony? What part did you love? I kept thinking what I could have done in his situation. Maybe cry? Would she have left him alone then? How deliciously absurd, right? There were also some neat camera tricks. Ugh. Draining.
Jun 3, 2012
Rambo 4
Saw Rambo 4 : very violent silliness. What it lacked in characterization and individual deaths it made up for in bulk of bloodshed. Also apparently the filmmakers felt that audiences would not hate a guy who's overseeing genocide unless he was also a pedophile ¯\(°_°)/¯
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