Moonrise Kingdom

Saw Moonrise Kingdom. Every scene was like a little diorama. It was really funny and nice.

Fermat's Room

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 They round out the movie by destroying the unpublished solution to the Goldbach conjecture.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.

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.

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.

Stagecoach

Saw Stagecoach. Liked it a lot. A straightforward story well done. Good show, John Ford.

Satan's Sadists

Saw Satan's Sadists. Not bad. Forgettable movie, but awesome title.

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.