Recent Movie Comments / Reviews - 01/19/19 09:13 AM
My grand-daughter has been taking me out to the movies. (She recently got her learner’s permit)
So I have some comment and reviews. Only minor spoilers. (I think) I will try to hide them.
I expect she will be taking me to see a few more before she gets her license, so I was going to call this thread "Uncle Klar's Recent Movies Comments & Reviews", but I thought that might dissuade others from commenting. If anyone else has any thoughts on the subject.
Mary Poppins:
It was fun. Fun, interesting take on the Mary Poppins character. Emily Blunt has had some interesting things to say about her interpretation of the character on the chat shows.
I read all the Mary Poppins books as a child. It is probably impossible to get that character on the screen. In the films, Mary makes all those magical things happen, as though she were some kind of sorceress or fairy. In the books, the magical universe just sort of follows her around. (e.g. on her birthday, the zoo animals celebrate by coming out of their cages, locking the human zoo staff in, and having a big party. For her.)
I also recently saw the stage musical Waitress, and I noted an interesting parallel.
Brief history: in old-school romantic comedies, the happily-ever-after ending was a marriage between the two leads. In both Mary Poppins and Waitress, the happily-ever-after is somebody gives the leads a massive pile of money.
In the real world, a great many people get married. A majority, even. Very, very few end up with someone giving them a massive pile of money.
Aquaman:
I find it very intriguing that the characteristics which in other media make Aquaman a mockery are exactly what make him a hero in this film.
(1) His {hideous} orange and green fish-scales-and-seaweed costume.
(2) He talks to fish.
Of course, the real reason he wins out in the end is because:
Into the Spider-Verse:
Very enjoyable film. The artwork is interesting, although sometimes {intentionally} glitchy, and hard to watch for an old man. Each of the various spiderfolk are rendered in their own style, which remains consistent for each of them throughout the film.
Interesting takes on the alternate-universe villains. I haven’t really been following modern-day Marvel, so I don’t know how original or derivative they are.
Loved Lily Tomlin as Aunt May. Who would have thought her career would follow the arc that it has, when we first saw her on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In back in 1969.
The one complaint I had about the film was that Peni Parker, the anime SP//dr-Girl from the Future, never really got a chance to shine. All the other spiderfolk had their bits in the ensemble. Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, especially had several shining moments. Oddly enough, he fit right in to an pleasantly odd movie.
I really, really want to see Stan and Ollie, but it is in very, very limited release, and the nearest theatre now showing it is 60 miles of rough freeway travel away form here.
So I have some comment and reviews. Only minor spoilers. (I think) I will try to hide them.
I expect she will be taking me to see a few more before she gets her license, so I was going to call this thread "Uncle Klar's Recent Movies Comments & Reviews", but I thought that might dissuade others from commenting. If anyone else has any thoughts on the subject.
Mary Poppins:
It was fun. Fun, interesting take on the Mary Poppins character. Emily Blunt has had some interesting things to say about her interpretation of the character on the chat shows.
I read all the Mary Poppins books as a child. It is probably impossible to get that character on the screen. In the films, Mary makes all those magical things happen, as though she were some kind of sorceress or fairy. In the books, the magical universe just sort of follows her around. (e.g. on her birthday, the zoo animals celebrate by coming out of their cages, locking the human zoo staff in, and having a big party. For her.)
I also recently saw the stage musical Waitress, and I noted an interesting parallel.
Brief history: in old-school romantic comedies, the happily-ever-after ending was a marriage between the two leads. In both Mary Poppins and Waitress, the happily-ever-after is somebody gives the leads a massive pile of money.
In the real world, a great many people get married. A majority, even. Very, very few end up with someone giving them a massive pile of money.
Aquaman:
I find it very intriguing that the characteristics which in other media make Aquaman a mockery are exactly what make him a hero in this film.
(1) His {hideous} orange and green fish-scales-and-seaweed costume.
(2) He talks to fish.
Of course, the real reason he wins out in the end is because:
Into the Spider-Verse:
Very enjoyable film. The artwork is interesting, although sometimes {intentionally} glitchy, and hard to watch for an old man. Each of the various spiderfolk are rendered in their own style, which remains consistent for each of them throughout the film.
Interesting takes on the alternate-universe villains. I haven’t really been following modern-day Marvel, so I don’t know how original or derivative they are.
Loved Lily Tomlin as Aunt May. Who would have thought her career would follow the arc that it has, when we first saw her on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In back in 1969.
The one complaint I had about the film was that Peni Parker, the anime SP//dr-Girl from the Future, never really got a chance to shine. All the other spiderfolk had their bits in the ensemble. Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, especially had several shining moments. Oddly enough, he fit right in to an pleasantly odd movie.
I really, really want to see Stan and Ollie, but it is in very, very limited release, and the nearest theatre now showing it is 60 miles of rough freeway travel away form here.