Corrissey
lovable loser
Re: tell us about the last Film you saw.
Saw Doubt (2008) last week:
Well-acted with two of my fave actors (Streep & PSH) in it. It was good, but not as great as I was expecting. It didn't feel like a complete movie to me; left me thinking & with some doubt
which I guess was the whole point.
In 1964 a Catholic elementary school has just admitted its first Black student, a 12-year-old boy transferred from public school. The principal, a rigid disciplinarian nun, and the liberal parish priest are both concerned for the boy's welfare in a predominantly Irish/Italian school. The nun becomes convinced that the priest has, or is planning to have, an improper relationship with the child and is determined to force him to leave the school. A third compassionate person is the boy's mother, who has another point of view. The fourth person is a young teacher who is concerned but confused by the conflict between the nun and the priest.
Last night, I watched The Iron Giant (1999). I had seen it before, but we watched it again. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directed. It's a great movie for all ages. "You are who you choose to be".
"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Then watched Gran Torino (2008)
I fell asleep during it (which I never do--post root canal had somn to do with it) right after the bangers shoot up Tao's house. My husband had to tell me how it ended. I was still unimpressed. I got tired of Clint's grumpy, get off my lawn, guy. Something about his voice irritates me, too. Clint's a legend, just gimme his old stuff, plskthx.
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.
Saw Doubt (2008) last week:
Well-acted with two of my fave actors (Streep & PSH) in it. It was good, but not as great as I was expecting. It didn't feel like a complete movie to me; left me thinking & with some doubt
which I guess was the whole point.
In 1964 a Catholic elementary school has just admitted its first Black student, a 12-year-old boy transferred from public school. The principal, a rigid disciplinarian nun, and the liberal parish priest are both concerned for the boy's welfare in a predominantly Irish/Italian school. The nun becomes convinced that the priest has, or is planning to have, an improper relationship with the child and is determined to force him to leave the school. A third compassionate person is the boy's mother, who has another point of view. The fourth person is a young teacher who is concerned but confused by the conflict between the nun and the priest.
Last night, I watched The Iron Giant (1999). I had seen it before, but we watched it again. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directed. It's a great movie for all ages. "You are who you choose to be".
"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Then watched Gran Torino (2008)
I fell asleep during it (which I never do--post root canal had somn to do with it
) right after the bangers shoot up Tao's house. My husband had to tell me how it ended. I was still unimpressed. I got tired of Clint's grumpy, get off my lawn, guy. Something about his voice irritates me, too. Clint's a legend, just gimme his old stuff, plskthx.
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.
So now I'm watching "Marley and me" to cheer myself up.
(I know they probably were several of them, but still!
Crap film.
