Fourth of July Movie Marathon
Jul. 5th, 2007 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeyThe roomie and I didn't get started on our planned all-day movie marathon until around 2PM due to some pancake-related mishaps (one of us burned our finger and spent the rest of the day with it stuck in a glass of ice water).
With the exception of one film, these were all movies I had never seen before.
Movies Watched:
The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson, 2004) - Weird weird movie. Definitely not Wes Anderson's best, but there's still genius in there, once you get past the... well, the weird. Cate Blanchett is brilliant in this. Loved the Portuguese David Bowie songs.
The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973) - Surprisingly dull. Some exciting action sequences pepper an otherwise undistinguished film. Christopher Lee isn't given nearly enough to do. Stick with the Kiefer Sutherland film.
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay, 2003) - Call it prep-work or call it a maddening desire to watch all the films name-checked in Hot Fuzz. Entertaining enough film, but when Bay sends us to Cuba at the films two-hour point, the whole thing goes from sorta-ridiculous to okay-what-the-fuck. This shit just got unreal.
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 2004) - This is the one I had seen before. The roomie was unconvinced that a concert movie would be an interesting thing to watch for our movie marathon. David Byrne proved her wrong. Again and again and again. This movie is made of all the things that awesome aspires to be.
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990) - Easily the best of the first three Exorcist films. Sadly, its pacing is ruined when Brad Dourif's character begins his maniacal monologues (in two indulgently long sequences). Then, like Exorcist II before it, the whole thing goes to shit in the last act. Le sigh. Sidenote: isn't it weird how all the odd-numbered Exorcist films start with a definite article, and all the even-numbered ones don't?
All in all, definitely a lot of films with a lot of things to say for them. That's what a good movie marathon is about, though. You don't have to watch great movies, just movies you're going to talk about for the next week.
With the exception of one film, these were all movies I had never seen before.
Movies Watched:
The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson, 2004) - Weird weird movie. Definitely not Wes Anderson's best, but there's still genius in there, once you get past the... well, the weird. Cate Blanchett is brilliant in this. Loved the Portuguese David Bowie songs.
The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973) - Surprisingly dull. Some exciting action sequences pepper an otherwise undistinguished film. Christopher Lee isn't given nearly enough to do. Stick with the Kiefer Sutherland film.
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay, 2003) - Call it prep-work or call it a maddening desire to watch all the films name-checked in Hot Fuzz. Entertaining enough film, but when Bay sends us to Cuba at the films two-hour point, the whole thing goes from sorta-ridiculous to okay-what-the-fuck. This shit just got unreal.
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 2004) - This is the one I had seen before. The roomie was unconvinced that a concert movie would be an interesting thing to watch for our movie marathon. David Byrne proved her wrong. Again and again and again. This movie is made of all the things that awesome aspires to be.
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990) - Easily the best of the first three Exorcist films. Sadly, its pacing is ruined when Brad Dourif's character begins his maniacal monologues (in two indulgently long sequences). Then, like Exorcist II before it, the whole thing goes to shit in the last act. Le sigh. Sidenote: isn't it weird how all the odd-numbered Exorcist films start with a definite article, and all the even-numbered ones don't?
All in all, definitely a lot of films with a lot of things to say for them. That's what a good movie marathon is about, though. You don't have to watch great movies, just movies you're going to talk about for the next week.
