Movie Madness
May. 29th, 2008 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateWhat started out as a simple list of movies I'd like to see or want to see again (by putting them in the Saved portion of my Netflix Queue) turned into a criticism of one movie and a diatribe on another movie. Be cautious fellow feminist readers, the movie I write the diatribe on may make you angry.
Movies to put in Saved Queue on Netflix:
City of Ember (interesting concept)
Righteous Kill (Pacino and de Niro)
The Rocker
Hancock
The Dark Knight
The Love Guru
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Australia (11/14 - HUGH JACKMAN!)
Tropic Thunder
Igor (in the Land of Malaria... the Science Fair is SERIOUS)
Iron Man (seen it, loved it)
The Incredible Hulk (let us hope that the movie is as good as the trailer)
Mother of Tears (some witches are teh EVIL it says)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (Bwahahahaha! Looks funny)
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (7/4/2009 - the teaser shows our favorite little Scrat falling into an animated version of our next movie choice)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (the "nephew" was in that other film... the one made by the people who did Jumanji)
At this point (on the third column of movies if you use the list view) it seems like the links to the movies conked out. It would start to load the movie but the quicktime screen would show the Q with a question mark over it... Curious. I'll try again later on today or tomorrow to check out the rest of them. There were some others that I am still contemplating putting on the list - Towelhead and Up The Yangzte - but I'm not sure yet.
Of the next two movies, only the first will be put in the Saved Queue. It is on these two that I have some specific comments/diatribe to make:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [no Rachel Weisz for Evie, Evelyn Carnahan (O'Connell)] Yet another "father & son" pairing... like the lamentable Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull debacle, and, even though he would be old enough to play "himself" in this installment of the movie Freddie Boath is replaced by Luke Ford - to play Alexander 'Alex' O'Connell (the son). So you go from The Mummy to The Mummy Returns to the latest installment The Mummy: TOTDE where you have no Oded Fehr, and no Rachel Weisz. I think I may wait until it comes out on video - unless the tomato-meter gives it a high freshness rating.
And Miss Conception seems a completely tawdry and despicable attempt to inject some humor into (for the people who have to experience infertility) a tragic situation. Especially after reading the true tales of people that are desperate to have children. To turn it into a farce seems to take the hardship faced by these people and not only rub their noses in it but laugh in their faces as well. Maybe it is just the way it appears in the synopsis:
Georgina Scott (Heather Graham) is a broody 33 year-old, who sends her boyfriend, Zak, (Tom Ellis) packing when it has become apparent that he doesn’t share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak sets off on a documentary shoot and hopes that she’ll cool off in his absence. But Georgina discovers that early menopause runs in her family and heads for a specialist with her reluctant best friend, Clem (Mia Kirshner, The L Word), in tow. Learning that her baby making days are numbered, Georgina enlists Clem and their camp pal, Justin (Orlando Seale), to make the most of it. A battle plan is drawn up but their escapades become increasingly frantic as Georgina explores internet sperm donors, night clubbers, a love struck co-worker and funeral-goers in her desperate and hilarious attempts to beat the biological clock.
Nope. Not just the synopsis that makes me sick to my stomach... According to the actual trailer this woman is told by her doctor that she has "ONLY ONE EGG LEFT" and that in the next two weeks ovulation will occur and if she doesn't bang everyone left and right in an attempt to fertilize this ONE EGG that she has left she will never produce a child that is hers genetically. In one scene she is shown apparently RAPING a man; the maid walks in the door while she is straddled on him (and there are sounds of her slapping him while trying to get his pants off) and he says "Help Me." followed by her saying "Can you come back in a few minutes?"
*vomits a little*
Movies to put in Saved Queue on Netflix:
City of Ember (interesting concept)
Righteous Kill (Pacino and de Niro)
The Rocker
Hancock
The Dark Knight
The Love Guru
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Australia (11/14 - HUGH JACKMAN!)
Tropic Thunder
Igor (in the Land of Malaria... the Science Fair is SERIOUS)
Iron Man (seen it, loved it)
The Incredible Hulk (let us hope that the movie is as good as the trailer)
Mother of Tears (some witches are teh EVIL it says)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (Bwahahahaha! Looks funny)
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (7/4/2009 - the teaser shows our favorite little Scrat falling into an animated version of our next movie choice)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (the "nephew" was in that other film... the one made by the people who did Jumanji)
At this point (on the third column of movies if you use the list view) it seems like the links to the movies conked out. It would start to load the movie but the quicktime screen would show the Q with a question mark over it... Curious. I'll try again later on today or tomorrow to check out the rest of them. There were some others that I am still contemplating putting on the list - Towelhead and Up The Yangzte - but I'm not sure yet.
Of the next two movies, only the first will be put in the Saved Queue. It is on these two that I have some specific comments/diatribe to make:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [no Rachel Weisz for Evie, Evelyn Carnahan (O'Connell)] Yet another "father & son" pairing... like the lamentable Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull debacle, and, even though he would be old enough to play "himself" in this installment of the movie Freddie Boath is replaced by Luke Ford - to play Alexander 'Alex' O'Connell (the son). So you go from The Mummy to The Mummy Returns to the latest installment The Mummy: TOTDE where you have no Oded Fehr, and no Rachel Weisz. I think I may wait until it comes out on video - unless the tomato-meter gives it a high freshness rating.
And Miss Conception seems a completely tawdry and despicable attempt to inject some humor into (for the people who have to experience infertility) a tragic situation. Especially after reading the true tales of people that are desperate to have children. To turn it into a farce seems to take the hardship faced by these people and not only rub their noses in it but laugh in their faces as well. Maybe it is just the way it appears in the synopsis:
Nope. Not just the synopsis that makes me sick to my stomach... According to the actual trailer this woman is told by her doctor that she has "ONLY ONE EGG LEFT" and that in the next two weeks ovulation will occur and if she doesn't bang everyone left and right in an attempt to fertilize this ONE EGG that she has left she will never produce a child that is hers genetically. In one scene she is shown apparently RAPING a man; the maid walks in the door while she is straddled on him (and there are sounds of her slapping him while trying to get his pants off) and he says "Help Me." followed by her saying "Can you come back in a few minutes?"
*vomits a little*
