Monday, May 21, 2007
I don't know much
I'm thinking I must not know much about movies. No one seems to like Spiderman 3 yet I did, I admit that I didn't like all the time spent on PP and MaryJane and I totally didn't like the crybaby stuff, but I just shook my head and watched the rest of the movie. I liked having lots of villains it gave more to watch. Adding to this thought I watched Shawshank Redemption this weekend because I have always heard that it was good and I had never seen more than a few minutes of it. It was good, I totally enjoyed the movie and thought all of the actors did a great job and I totally liked the story. On the bonus DVD I found out that it was a Steven King Novella that was cool too, they mentioned that the movie has been voted as the best or near the best movie ever on the imdb along with The Godfather and Citizen Kane and a few others like that. I looked it up, it is right there at #2 after The Godfather. Now it has been a while since I have seen the Godfather but from what I remember it was a good movie but I don't' think it would make my top20 list. Star wars was on the list but way down closer to 10, what's with that? Signs was not anywhere on the list, The Princess Bride was down in the 100s. So what I draw from this is that apparently I don't know much about movies. THX1138 is another one that I saw in the last week, that movie was outstanding, I loved the vision that George Lucas had and he was trying to portray his current day, he thought it was bad then? Some people tell me it is just because my tastes are different, but why? Shouldn't I be able to tell a good movie from a bad one? I think Shawn of the dead sucked, but 28 days later was excellent. I am just a little weirded out to find that I am so out of the norm on something that I have such an interest in as movies. I don't have film or art training but I thought my opinions would at least line up a little with the rest of the world. With all of that said, I saw a Hallmark Entertainment version of Frankenstein, with William Hurt and Donald Southerland, yesterday, I loved it, totally different than any other depiction of Frankenstein that I have ever seen, the monster was really Victor and the creature wasn't a big dumb brute he was well read and quoted great works and only wanted to not be alone, buy the end I was glad to see Victor die and even then the creature cared for his body and carried it away with the love and respect of a son to a father even though the father never showed it to him. I want to read to book now because if it is like this version I believe I would thoroughly enjoy it.
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