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Aighhhh. I watched two awful movies last night: Elephant Walk with Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, and Dana Andrews. Granted, it was made in the mid-50s but the misogyny, the racism, the Imperialistic privilege....I put it in my queue because I thought it would be nice to see Taylor, Finch, and Andrews together. Ummmm. Finch is rich tea grower/manufacturer in Ceylon who goes to England, finds a bride (Taylor, who runs a bookshop) and brings her home to his huge estate, which is figuratively haunted by Finch's autocratic father and was built in the direct path to the river of a herd of elephants --hence the movie title and the name of the estate. No white women are anywhere to be seen but a bunch of boylike drunkard expats hang out with Finch. Booooring.... and isn't Taylor boooored? Yup. The whole thing is a lot of twaddle. Don't see it.
Then The Fountain, the atrocious yet moving misfire by Darren Aronofsky with Hugh Jackman (yum) and Rachel Weisz. Crisscrossing three periods of time the Spanish age of discovery, current times, and the future, a man searches for the fountain of youth (really life) in order to save his love. From what I can tell, the movie is really about the acceptance of death as a part of life. (or maybe not). Anyway, it sucks big time.
Finished Monk, which was very satisfying and nearing the last season of Angel and yes, the muppet episode was dumb. I realize that they were trying to emulate the brilliant sleeping/flying killers of Buffy but it just didn't work.
Ah and yesterday a friend and I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which was fabulous. Makes me want to read the novels. Good mystery, violent, fascinating characters, well acted. And of course it's going to be re-made into a dumb, cheesy American film. See it now, in the Swedish with subtitles before they ruin it and make it impossible to see the original.
Then The Fountain, the atrocious yet moving misfire by Darren Aronofsky with Hugh Jackman (yum) and Rachel Weisz. Crisscrossing three periods of time the Spanish age of discovery, current times, and the future, a man searches for the fountain of youth (really life) in order to save his love. From what I can tell, the movie is really about the acceptance of death as a part of life. (or maybe not). Anyway, it sucks big time.
Finished Monk, which was very satisfying and nearing the last season of Angel and yes, the muppet episode was dumb. I realize that they were trying to emulate the brilliant sleeping/flying killers of Buffy but it just didn't work.
Ah and yesterday a friend and I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which was fabulous. Makes me want to read the novels. Good mystery, violent, fascinating characters, well acted. And of course it's going to be re-made into a dumb, cheesy American film. See it now, in the Swedish with subtitles before they ruin it and make it impossible to see the original.