Sooo...I was totally going to blog about yesterday's movies this morning so they'd still be fresh in my mind, but instead I finished my Civ3 game. I came third. I suck. Then I went back to bed and it was warm.
Sunday was like this: Best of British Animation which was a bit hit and miss with the entertainment value. Highlights for me were the Aardman creatures comforts 'update' about cats and dogs although people were laughing so much you missed half the lines. Yes I just moaned about people laughing. I am the grumpmeister queen sometimes.
Errr I also liked Wedding Espresso which was about a woman fantasising her wedding plans and very slickly animated and Intolerance which is the third installment in Phil Mulloy's fantasy political satire. Awesome and unsettling.
After that we chilled out at Lee's parent's place for a few hours. (Literally because it was a very cold day and we didn't think to put on the heater...) and managed to see an incredibly good cartoon on the Disney network called Dave the Barbarian. It was really funny and silly and good.
At 6.15 we went to see Hero. It was breathtakingly beautiful. It had some of the most gorgeous saturated colour sequences I've ever seen. The CG was used seamlessly and the story was wonderful. Just so beautiful. *sigh*
Right after that was the Yes Men which was very entertaining and funny and yet left me kind of empty. It's about these guys who run satirical websites of George Bush and the WTO and then get invited places to represent the WTO...they turn up and say the most outrageous things they can to try and raise questions about what the organisation really does. I was like, Ok but what are they *actually* achieving?
Monday (today)
I slept in and played Civ3 as mentioned above.
Went to see Man Made at the City Gallery and was much moved and impressed. It's a well made doco following a gay couple going through the surrogacy process so they can have their own kid. Because surrogacy is illegal in Victoria they had to employ an agency in Chicago and travel there for the birth. It was a very sensitive film that didn't throw it's politics in your face but showed all the pitfalls and uhm, good hills you'd expect from that sort of situation. I fell in love with the name Junoa.
Then it was The Cat Returns, Studio Ghibli's latest, which I loved to pieces. Soooooooo Cuuuuuuuute! *sigh*. Loved it. Cats are awesome, etc.
One Missed Call was a bit disappointing. A certain Elric had said it was scarier than Dark Water and Ringu but I found this to be untrue. Rather Lee, Regs and I found it to be so confused as to actually make no sense. The premise and first part were very scary indeed. But, it still had merit as a movie and I liked it. I just don't really know what happened.
We debated all the way to Control Room, a documentary about the Al Jazeer channel in Iraq which I found to be much scarier than the scary cell phones. It was very hard to watch all the footage of bombing and hurt and dead civilians and soldiers, but at the same time I am glad that this channel and the movie about it exists. It was another very well made doco. I am having an exceptionally good hit rate with docos so far. Fingers crossed for me that it continues.
There's a new empire mag out now so I'm going to bug Lee to install the Civ3 expansions and read that in the mean time.
Oh and it was the snogging couple from Friday we sat next to in Saddest Music. Virtual chocolate fish to Matt and Debbie for guessing right.
Posted by jenni at July 19, 2004 09:35 PM