I've seen four film festival films and one mainstream.
Godzilla: Final Wars is an epic crazy disaster movie with everything. It has giant monsters, aliens, mutants, kung fu, gun fu, well known landmarks being destroyed, Godzilla, hot Biologist babes in vinyal dresses and lab coats and extra cheese on top. I loved it to bits.
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants is a fantastic adaptation of the book and unlike most (all?) of the people I saw it with I don't have any baggage about any of the actors so I liked all the main characters. I especially loved Tibby who is apparently Joan of Arcadia. So good looking, and a good actor to boot!
On Thursday I woke up ridiculously early and full of energy so I made myself a skirt from old jeans. I loves my skirt. It has polar fleece lining and it's warm like wearing a blanket.
5000 Fingers of Dr T must be purchased on DVD. It is teh awesome. Dr T is such the fantastic villain...I want to see it again so badly! This is even after a projector broke down during the screening. It was an archival print of the film so they couldn't splice it so during the film we'd have a minute gap between reels while they switched from one reel to another. It was Old Skool movie watching. Awesome.
The Edukators is a very well made and written movie but I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have. I was hungry and my stomach was crampy and it reminded me too much of certain other movies I've seen. Other people laughed much longer at the jokes than I did. The main actors all reminded me of other actors too: It starred German Claire Danes, German Jake Gylenhaal and German Boone-from-Lost.
Howl's Moving Castle. I wish he'd stayed closer to the book. Instead of having Howl trying to make lost of different girls love him they had a war. And Howl would go and fight in the war. I don't understand. It just seemed to overcomplicate the story which made the ending quite abrupt and somewhat unclear. That said I enjoyed the movie immensely and will want to own it on DVD. In it's own right as a Miyazaki it's very good, although I think Kiki is still my favourite (and Spirited Away).
After the movie The Lovely Rachel and I went to the Holbein to Hockney exhibition at Te Papa and I fell in love the Michelangelo sketch they had. Several Leonardo Da Vinci's but only one which is "classic" Da Vinci. There were two of plants which were neat and one of a building collapsing or something which I thought was somewhat naff. The rest of the exhibition was pretty darn cool and I especially like the idea of taking artists on holiday with you instead of cameras.
"Yes, make a painting of that view, I find it rather lovely. Later you can make a sketch of me and this stag I've just killed."
Someday I will be that rich.
Then I showed My Neighbour Totoro to Rachel. It was well received.
Tonight? Dracula!
Posted by jenni at July 23, 2005 04:10 PM