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pasitheaSunday we took a trip over to Santa Cruz to return Spike and bummed around downtown for a while, eventually drifting into StreetLight. For the sake of amusement, I wandered into DVDs, and promptly found a stack of things I never thought I'd find on DVD. o_O At the very top of the list, Suburbia, this film I'd been babbling about. Right there in the discount bin, never even opened. Also found, The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love (I have a pirate VHS of this, it was time I bought it even though it was twice as much as every other film I got), Desert Hearts O_O Talk about a rare find. _TWO_ lesbian movies in one bargin bin. More on DH later. And finally... The throw-away film with which to torture my friends, Waking Life (It was cheap and I'm sadistic)
So.. When we returned from Santa Cruz, I was hot to watch Suburbia but I'd promised Stacey Howl's Moving Castle so we went to that instead. It was a decent film. I don't think it was the best Studio Ghibili has done but it was alright. Also, my movie experience was tainted by Assholians from the planet Uranus. (Straight couple ducked into the theatre about 10 minutes after the movie started and, in a mostly-empty theatre, decided to park his 8ft tall arse right in front of me and then gesture wildly and blither to his girlfriend. Stacey convinced me to move back a few rows, and which point, they GOT UP AND TOOK THE SEATS WE WERE IN. Fucking straight people. Next time I just kick the back of his chair throughout the movie. Stacey held me down so I didn't bite his head off and I instead just chucked ice cubes at him during the film. Too bad my fucking aim is lousy. A good solid cold wet thwack int he back of his head woulda made me feel a LOT better.
Anyhow.. The next day, we had to go do some stuff anyhow so I took Stacey to see Batman Begins at a matinee. I think maybe all my friends saying this was a great film made my expectations too high. Also, Scarecrow is the one batman villian that really makes me want to punch him in the head (hmm, there seems to be a theme here) Wooooo. I'm Scaaaaaaaaary! So, I guess the movie was well made and such but it didn't really click with me. I guess I like either the super-heroic action or the pednantic detective and this version fell between those.
So that evening, I finally got to see Suburbia for the first time in 15 years. Not sure how I feel about this film in retrospect. There was definetely some negative to it. The main characters were a little racist and homophobic, though considering it was made in 83, that's hardly surprising. And as for the movie itself, the black cop is probably the only clear-cut 'good guy' in it. (Jack's step father) and Joe's gay father isn't as bad as most of the other kids' parents. Still, this movie is very slow, and honestly, a bit scary because it made me realize a few things. One: That while I always though of myself as a poser and a wanna-be, I was actually pretty freakin' punk and two. Aurgh! There's a lotta stuff I'd like to forget. (My friends lived in abandoned houses and I partied with them/slept there off and on. I remember the groups of people staring at the TV and just kind of doing _NOTHING_ Sure there's some fun memories but there's a lot of drek too.
The next day, Stacey had her wisdom teeth taken out and, so I would suffer as much as she did, she made me go with her to see The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl This was another marginally OK film. Nothing new, nothing exciting, it kinda fizzled in the same way Spy Kids 3D did but not as bad. I think I'm giving up on Rodrigez now. Spy Kids was a one-hit wonder. It was pleasantly weird and surreal despite the soccer-momness of it. The movies he's made since then haven't really captured the same glory.
Before the movie, I had my terrifying anime moment. I took Stacey to get a banana shake and she sat there, dazed from the drugs, her lips rimmed with blood and tried to eat her drink. A river of red spilled over her lip, down her chin, and dripped onto the table. Really creepy-looking.
After the movie it was time for... ANOTHER MOVIE! Desert Hearts If you haven't heard of this film, that's of little surprise. This was a real actual lesbian film produced in 1986. It's set in the 1950's and is about a college professor getting a divorce from her husband. She's moved from New York to Nevada and established residency because it's the only place she can easily get a divorce in that time. While there, she meets a woman who changes her life and breaks through her icy facade. This movie is about the same pacing as Irreconcilable Differences and is rather unique in being possibly the only lesbian movie ever which does not end with someone dying. Slow, and full of Patsy Cline music but a really good film. I think Breis and Atara would both really enjoy this one.
And last...Freshman Philosophy 101 uh, I mean RotoFlash: The Movie er... um.. Waking Life Why did I buy this film again? Oh, right! Torture! Not ME, you fool! Augh! Too late. I watched it. Well, really, I stayed in the kitchen and cooked while Stacey and Peggy watched it. I can only assume it embedded them with brain-rotting spores because they were laughing and seemed to perversely enjoy this horror.
My copy of Fantastic Planet arrived the other day but Time Masters iswaswere being delayed. Err wait. The iswaswere thing was Light Years. Ohwell. Anyhow, I may watch it soon but my eyes are all googly. I've watched more movies the past week or so than I have in the past several months. I guess that probably means I'm stressed about this moving thing and also it's made me halt working on projects so I'm out of project space at the moment and need something to fill my time. :/ Gotta start packing. :(
So.. When we returned from Santa Cruz, I was hot to watch Suburbia but I'd promised Stacey Howl's Moving Castle so we went to that instead. It was a decent film. I don't think it was the best Studio Ghibili has done but it was alright. Also, my movie experience was tainted by Assholians from the planet Uranus. (Straight couple ducked into the theatre about 10 minutes after the movie started and, in a mostly-empty theatre, decided to park his 8ft tall arse right in front of me and then gesture wildly and blither to his girlfriend. Stacey convinced me to move back a few rows, and which point, they GOT UP AND TOOK THE SEATS WE WERE IN. Fucking straight people. Next time I just kick the back of his chair throughout the movie. Stacey held me down so I didn't bite his head off and I instead just chucked ice cubes at him during the film. Too bad my fucking aim is lousy. A good solid cold wet thwack int he back of his head woulda made me feel a LOT better.
Anyhow.. The next day, we had to go do some stuff anyhow so I took Stacey to see Batman Begins at a matinee. I think maybe all my friends saying this was a great film made my expectations too high. Also, Scarecrow is the one batman villian that really makes me want to punch him in the head (hmm, there seems to be a theme here) Wooooo. I'm Scaaaaaaaaary! So, I guess the movie was well made and such but it didn't really click with me. I guess I like either the super-heroic action or the pednantic detective and this version fell between those.
So that evening, I finally got to see Suburbia for the first time in 15 years. Not sure how I feel about this film in retrospect. There was definetely some negative to it. The main characters were a little racist and homophobic, though considering it was made in 83, that's hardly surprising. And as for the movie itself, the black cop is probably the only clear-cut 'good guy' in it. (Jack's step father) and Joe's gay father isn't as bad as most of the other kids' parents. Still, this movie is very slow, and honestly, a bit scary because it made me realize a few things. One: That while I always though of myself as a poser and a wanna-be, I was actually pretty freakin' punk and two. Aurgh! There's a lotta stuff I'd like to forget. (My friends lived in abandoned houses and I partied with them/slept there off and on. I remember the groups of people staring at the TV and just kind of doing _NOTHING_ Sure there's some fun memories but there's a lot of drek too.
The next day, Stacey had her wisdom teeth taken out and, so I would suffer as much as she did, she made me go with her to see The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl This was another marginally OK film. Nothing new, nothing exciting, it kinda fizzled in the same way Spy Kids 3D did but not as bad. I think I'm giving up on Rodrigez now. Spy Kids was a one-hit wonder. It was pleasantly weird and surreal despite the soccer-momness of it. The movies he's made since then haven't really captured the same glory.
Before the movie, I had my terrifying anime moment. I took Stacey to get a banana shake and she sat there, dazed from the drugs, her lips rimmed with blood and tried to eat her drink. A river of red spilled over her lip, down her chin, and dripped onto the table. Really creepy-looking.
After the movie it was time for... ANOTHER MOVIE! Desert Hearts If you haven't heard of this film, that's of little surprise. This was a real actual lesbian film produced in 1986. It's set in the 1950's and is about a college professor getting a divorce from her husband. She's moved from New York to Nevada and established residency because it's the only place she can easily get a divorce in that time. While there, she meets a woman who changes her life and breaks through her icy facade. This movie is about the same pacing as Irreconcilable Differences and is rather unique in being possibly the only lesbian movie ever which does not end with someone dying. Slow, and full of Patsy Cline music but a really good film. I think Breis and Atara would both really enjoy this one.
And last...
My copy of Fantastic Planet arrived the other day but Time Masters iswaswere being delayed. Err wait. The iswaswere thing was Light Years. Ohwell. Anyhow, I may watch it soon but my eyes are all googly. I've watched more movies the past week or so than I have in the past several months. I guess that probably means I'm stressed about this moving thing and also it's made me halt working on projects so I'm out of project space at the moment and need something to fill my time. :/ Gotta start packing. :(
