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Catching Up: Friday Movies
Nov. 28th, 2004 08:26 amI did most of my Hebrew Scriptures integration paper on Friday (but have procrastinated the last two pages for today). When I was done with the paper, I started watching the Netflix movies I've had for about a month.
Bus Stop, with Marilyn Monroe, was a disappointment. It's about a young cowboy who falls for a saloon singer and then kidnaps her to take back to his ranch as his wife. I guess I was hoping for something along the lines of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which is a long-time favorite of mine. But I couldn't finish this one. Bo, the cowboy, is a complete barbarian; not only is he lacking in basic social skills, he is completely without empathy. On the bus going to the rodeo he tells his older companion that he's looking for "his angel," and when he finds her, he'll marry her and take her back to the ranch. "What if she doesn't want to go?" the older man asks, sensibly enough. Bo looks stunned at the thought. "Do I ask a calf if it wants to be roped, or a bull if it wants to be thrown? If she doesn't want to go, then it's my job to teach her the error of her ways. I'll rope her and pin her wings to the ground until she learns the way things are going to be." Gack! I watched less than an hour. I had hoped that once he met his 'angel' that he might improve, but when she didn't fall for him the way he did for her, and when she insisted she had other things she would rather do than marry him and go off to his ranch, he simply did not listen, just kept talking over her and then making a huge public scene outside her boarding house when the manager told him she wasn't there when she was hiding from him. It actually made me feel rather sick to my stomach.
Kiki's Delivery Service was a sweet, if a rather standard growing-up story, even if the main character was a thirteen year-old witch. The best part of it was Gigi, her talking black cat. The Child and I watched it together, and that was nice.
The best of the lot was The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which I probably would not have enjoyed quite so much if I hadn't already known and liked the lead actors: Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce, and Hugo Weaving. (I'm afraid that I won't be looking at Elrond in quite the same way ever again!) I thought it was a great story, with fine performances. I had to watch it in pieces, however, because the Child was coming up and downstairs during it, and it is definitely something she is too young to see right now, but I am not going to bar her from our living room on account of a movie. I'll turn the movie off instead.
Bus Stop, with Marilyn Monroe, was a disappointment. It's about a young cowboy who falls for a saloon singer and then kidnaps her to take back to his ranch as his wife. I guess I was hoping for something along the lines of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which is a long-time favorite of mine. But I couldn't finish this one. Bo, the cowboy, is a complete barbarian; not only is he lacking in basic social skills, he is completely without empathy. On the bus going to the rodeo he tells his older companion that he's looking for "his angel," and when he finds her, he'll marry her and take her back to the ranch. "What if she doesn't want to go?" the older man asks, sensibly enough. Bo looks stunned at the thought. "Do I ask a calf if it wants to be roped, or a bull if it wants to be thrown? If she doesn't want to go, then it's my job to teach her the error of her ways. I'll rope her and pin her wings to the ground until she learns the way things are going to be." Gack! I watched less than an hour. I had hoped that once he met his 'angel' that he might improve, but when she didn't fall for him the way he did for her, and when she insisted she had other things she would rather do than marry him and go off to his ranch, he simply did not listen, just kept talking over her and then making a huge public scene outside her boarding house when the manager told him she wasn't there when she was hiding from him. It actually made me feel rather sick to my stomach.
Kiki's Delivery Service was a sweet, if a rather standard growing-up story, even if the main character was a thirteen year-old witch. The best part of it was Gigi, her talking black cat. The Child and I watched it together, and that was nice.
The best of the lot was The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which I probably would not have enjoyed quite so much if I hadn't already known and liked the lead actors: Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce, and Hugo Weaving. (I'm afraid that I won't be looking at Elrond in quite the same way ever again!) I thought it was a great story, with fine performances. I had to watch it in pieces, however, because the Child was coming up and downstairs during it, and it is definitely something she is too young to see right now, but I am not going to bar her from our living room on account of a movie. I'll turn the movie off instead.
