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I'm visiting Kelly & Gavin in their large house in Northampton, and awaiting the blizzard, which is supposed to be here any hour now. The skies are white/gray-just the color of impending snow but so far ....nothing.
Last night we watched The Last Winter--how appropriate, which starts Ron Perlman as the head of a team of oil engineers trying to get some mining going in the Arctic as the climate starts warming. Bad things start emanating from the melting permafrost -nice and creepy. And it looks coolllld. There was a good sense of dread in this movie--initially I thought it was going to be similar to The Thing but no (luckily). Some interesting group dynamics, although most of the secondary characters didn't really impress themselves on me--their parts were very underwritten. The "monsters" were--I thought --nicely wrought, although I'd have preferred for them to have stayed much more impressionistic than they are by the end....
Well, after that, we needed something cheerier and warm so we watched Hellboy 2, coincidentally also starring Perlman (we picked up both movies from the local video store yesterday evening and it really WAS a coincidence)--fun and kind of charming--I hadn't seen #1--and great monsters, especially the tooth fairies.
Last night we watched The Last Winter--how appropriate, which starts Ron Perlman as the head of a team of oil engineers trying to get some mining going in the Arctic as the climate starts warming. Bad things start emanating from the melting permafrost -nice and creepy. And it looks coolllld. There was a good sense of dread in this movie--initially I thought it was going to be similar to The Thing but no (luckily). Some interesting group dynamics, although most of the secondary characters didn't really impress themselves on me--their parts were very underwritten. The "monsters" were--I thought --nicely wrought, although I'd have preferred for them to have stayed much more impressionistic than they are by the end....
Well, after that, we needed something cheerier and warm so we watched Hellboy 2, coincidentally also starring Perlman (we picked up both movies from the local video store yesterday evening and it really WAS a coincidence)--fun and kind of charming--I hadn't seen #1--and great monsters, especially the tooth fairies.
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