Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Big Hero 6: I didn't quite know what to expect from this movie but I gave it a shot. It was a pretty good movie, it was funny, and it was action-y and intense and there were also quite emotional in parts.

The Grass is Greener: This is a Cary Grant movie that I stumbled across. It wasn't one of the greatest movies out there but it's alright. It follows the affair of a modern English Lady (1960s? and a titled lady, not just a woman). Cary Grant is the husband and they live in a big stately house in which they live in few rooms while the rest are set up for tourists to go through. A wealthy tourist comes and barges in on the private quarters and sweeps Deborah Kerr's character off her feet. Grant's character then goes about figuring out how to get her back. There are some profound statements made about marriage, I'm not sure that I agree with some, but I'm not sure that I don't either. It's an interesting movie.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Art and Craft: I believe this was a documentary, it was interesting, I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. It follows a man who forges masterworks of art and then gives them to museums at originals. Apparently it's not illegal, which is interesting. It also follows the man who discovered the deception. The forger is a quite little man with schizophrenia and a number of other mental health issues.  I don't know how ethical it is for the forger to do what he does, but I also am not so sure about the other side. It ended with the forger taking his skills to a new venue, reuniting people with their stolen paintings...which is again maybe not on solid moral ground but very sweet.

Friday, April 17, 2015

The Hundred Foot Journey: I was really excited for this movie and looked forward to seeing it and perhaps I had hopes too high. It was a good movie but as I watched it, it seemed familiar, like something I'd seen before. As I watched I found the first half of the movie at least, quite similar to the movie Chocolate. I think the second half of the movie was a bit better but over all I was a bit disappointed in the movie.

Friday, April 10, 2015

1735 km of Vietnam: So I enjoyed this movie, it was cute, it's also It Happened One Night, Vietnamese. It is more exotic than the original by virtue of it's being set in Vietnam and being in color. See both. Apparently you can watch it online here.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Guardians of the Galaxy: I didn't know what to expect from this movie but I ended up quite enjoying it. I think if I think too hard about the plot or the movie it might diminish a bit. I did like that it was kinda different from your standard action/super hero movie. I also realized that it bore quite a few similarities to Star Wars: A New Hope, so there you go.

Friday, January 23, 2015

It Happened One Night: This was one of the first dvds I ever watched, back when the format was new and I was young enough not to think much of black and white movie. This movie is a delightful...I'm trying to decide if screwball comedy is quite the right category, I think so; it also is a fine example of Frank Capra's celebration of the common people.

Monday, January 5, 2015

42: This is a biopic based on Jackie Robinson's autobiography, which I think had the same title. I read the book a while back. The movie seemed to stick quite closely to the book but the movie focused only on Robinson's ascension to and and rookie year with the Dodgers and the book covered the majority of his life. I thought the movie was really good, but as a warning, there's a lot of language in this movie which is only fitting, I'm sure it's only a tiny percentage of what the Robinsons had to endure. It's quite an inspiring story.

Spy Kids: I don't think I've written about this yet. So there's three Spy Kids movies, but I think this one is probably the best (because like many franchises, I don't think there was more than one originally planned.) Spy Kids had great actors, a good messages and special effects that don't actually look too out of date, which is an impressive thing.