I saw "Ghost World" last night. Two high school graduates have to transition into a larger reality. One makes it OK. The other finds a bus.
Score: 8/10
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I saw "Ghost World" last night. Two high school graduates have to transition into a larger reality. One makes it OK. The other finds a bus.
Score: 8/10
Interesting movie. It was based on a graphic novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Yes, it had that introspective, graphic novel feel about it and the main character liked to draw. My favorite movie that came from a comic was Posy Simmond's "Tamara Drewe".
I saw Gabe Polsky's documentary "Red Army" last night. It's about the Soviet hockey teams of the 70s and 80s, and concentrates on the career of Slava Fetisov, one of the all-time great defensemen. Fetisov is now the Minister of Sport for Russia, and he's clearly a charismatic character, in a phlegmatic, Russian manner. The movie contrasts the methods and style of legendary Soviet coach Anatoly Tarasov (whose, daughter, by the way, is the world's most famous figure skating coach) and his successor, the KGB-man Viktor Tikhonov.
The viewer revisits the Cold War, attempts by Russian players to get high-paying NHL jobs, and the nationalism that was a part of the sport. Fetisov and his famous "Russian 5" line mates dazzle the North Americans with their fluid play, and move on to success in the NHL. I'm about the same age as they are, played and coached college hockey, and idolized the Soviet style of play, so I liked the movie. So did my girlfriend, who hates watching sports in general, though.
It's interesting to me, Y/N, that we had opposite interpretations of the end of this film. I haven't seen it for many years, but my memory is that the girl you say "makes it OK" failed to leave the "ghost world" of their petty and insipid little town, and that the one who got on the bus was the one who made it okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
I think you are right about the author's intent in Ghost World, Pompey Bum, although I have not read the graphic novel.
However, it could also be viewed the other way. The girl who followed the old man on the bus vanished into the ghost world like the old man did. She scorned the petty and insipid world and caused personal damage to those around her. That she caused damage to others makes me think that her view of reality was wrong, or "ghost"-like.
My disagreement with your perspective (which I respect, by the way) is that a kind of harm also befell the girl who stayed. Her free spirit and potential were crunched into the cheap and controlling needs of the town (didn't she become a popcorn vendor at a local cinema or something?) The girl who left, however, remains free in a world where big girls and big boys have to deal with a little hurt sometimes. But I guess the title could be taken either way--or even as an indictment of both ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
The Goonies, every now and then I try to show my son some classics from my youth and we both enjoyed the Goonies last night. good fun
Saw Home at a special showing for toddlers in the daycare circuit. I enjoyed being there instead of managing kids in a playroom or whatever, but the movie really sucked.
0/10, I didn't find any redeeming qualities.
Also is there a worse animation studio than Dreamworks? I really don't know how they manage to put out such crappy movies so consistently.
I liked the first Shrek movie which was by Dreamworks. Also The Croods and Kung Fu Panda were pretty entertaining, but I am easy to please.
Here is the list of Dreamworks movies. I don't recall seeing the others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation
The first Shrek was quite good actually, definitely their high point Prince of Egypt, Chicken Run and Antz are tolerable, though Antz is hindered by some really bad animation. Kung Fu Panda sort of epitomizes everything lame about Dreamworks. Take a lame story, lame jokes, get a lame, recognizable, celebrity, voice actor for pizzaz and just lame your audience out, they're kids anyway.
I agree that Kung Fu Panda was lame. I wouldn't want to see it again. I think I saw Antz when my daughters were young, now that you mention it, but if I can't remember much about it, it probably wasn't very good.
It's the one where Woody Allen is an ant, dealing with the psychological issues of being a drone in a colony. It's not horrible, but like I said, the animation is bad. A Bug's Life is about a jillion times better anyway.
I think it was "A Bug's Life" that I saw with my daughters. I remember watching a 3-D animation related to that movie at Disneyland. My youngest was small and she wanted to sit on my lap. I wasn't sure how much she was understanding or even seeing with the 3-D glasses on until I felt her startle when one of those locusts (or whatever the bad bugs were called) burst out at us.
I think I might have seen Antz now that you mention Woody Allen. I remember he wanted someone to step on him to put him out of his misery. That part was amusing.
my most recent movie was (apart from bits and pieces of the avengers on television) was "dawn of the planet of the apes."
I found it absolutely enthralling and intense. id watch it again. I love how current technology can take old classics and remake them with better visuals. the movie raises all sort of questions about human nature and the human condition too.