man, am I fried.
Sep. 9th, 2003 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafitalOnly one week into classes and I'm dead already. Not a good sign. :)
Went to see a few movies this weekend, and thought I'd share my thoughts:
American Splendor:
I know next to nothing about Harvey Pekar, American Splendor, and comics in general. Although I did go through a very minor comics period when I was younger, but only because my best friend at the time wanted to collect them and *her* motivation was because her older brother told her one could theoretically sell them for money. Needless to say, wealth via comics was a bust. *g* We were like 12.
This movie was really charming, a bit slow paced, but intriguing in its departure from normal story telling. Not a documentary, not a feature movie either, it mixed three different forms of media: visual comics style story telling, regular live action actors, and then the real life Harvey Pekar and Co. stepping in to comment on the live action. I love encountering and learning new and different means of telling a story and this movie really broke some interesting ground, imo.
The real gem of this movie, however, is Hope Davis, who is rapidly becoming a favorite actress of mine.
Thirteen:
Nothing like re-living that wonderful age 13, I gotta tell you. My age 13 was blissfully free of much of the angst portrayed in this movie (thank God!) but I lived very very close to it. Could have been me, quite easily. Watched it happen to a lot of my friends. And my friend M who went to see it with me had to call her mom afterward, saying it was almost exactly like her age 13, sans drugs. eek. Visually, very frenetic and moving. Raw, almost. The young actresses are absolutely incredible and heartbreaking. For their performances alone, I recommend this movie, but I'm a sucker for strong acting. One of the things this movie captures so incredibly well, aside from the general trauma of being 13, is that girl bond of girlhood that happens at that age, and how utterly utterly devastating it is when/if it goes badly.
Another gem in this was Jeremy Sisto. Hello! Hey, it's Elton from Clueless! *g* He needs to be cast in a something fandomworthy so as to be exploited properly, imo.
And finally The Swimming Pool:
Well it's got a beautiful girl who walks around mostly unclothed for much of the movie. And she talks with a sexy french accent. I was really intrigued with the synopsis of this film, about an uptight British mystery writer who goes on vacation to France to get away from it all but is unfortunately saddled with a pouty french daughter of her publishers and her precocious sexuality. It had promises for all sorts of sexual, queerish, type things going on, and a murder mystery, and it sounded really good. And there was a hint of all that, but ultimately it was a bit unsatisfying and the ending was confusing when it didn't need to be.
Went to see a few movies this weekend, and thought I'd share my thoughts:
American Splendor:
I know next to nothing about Harvey Pekar, American Splendor, and comics in general. Although I did go through a very minor comics period when I was younger, but only because my best friend at the time wanted to collect them and *her* motivation was because her older brother told her one could theoretically sell them for money. Needless to say, wealth via comics was a bust. *g* We were like 12.
This movie was really charming, a bit slow paced, but intriguing in its departure from normal story telling. Not a documentary, not a feature movie either, it mixed three different forms of media: visual comics style story telling, regular live action actors, and then the real life Harvey Pekar and Co. stepping in to comment on the live action. I love encountering and learning new and different means of telling a story and this movie really broke some interesting ground, imo.
The real gem of this movie, however, is Hope Davis, who is rapidly becoming a favorite actress of mine.
Thirteen:
Nothing like re-living that wonderful age 13, I gotta tell you. My age 13 was blissfully free of much of the angst portrayed in this movie (thank God!) but I lived very very close to it. Could have been me, quite easily. Watched it happen to a lot of my friends. And my friend M who went to see it with me had to call her mom afterward, saying it was almost exactly like her age 13, sans drugs. eek. Visually, very frenetic and moving. Raw, almost. The young actresses are absolutely incredible and heartbreaking. For their performances alone, I recommend this movie, but I'm a sucker for strong acting. One of the things this movie captures so incredibly well, aside from the general trauma of being 13, is that girl bond of girlhood that happens at that age, and how utterly utterly devastating it is when/if it goes badly.
Another gem in this was Jeremy Sisto. Hello! Hey, it's Elton from Clueless! *g* He needs to be cast in a something fandomworthy so as to be exploited properly, imo.
And finally The Swimming Pool:
Well it's got a beautiful girl who walks around mostly unclothed for much of the movie. And she talks with a sexy french accent. I was really intrigued with the synopsis of this film, about an uptight British mystery writer who goes on vacation to France to get away from it all but is unfortunately saddled with a pouty french daughter of her publishers and her precocious sexuality. It had promises for all sorts of sexual, queerish, type things going on, and a murder mystery, and it sounded really good. And there was a hint of all that, but ultimately it was a bit unsatisfying and the ending was confusing when it didn't need to be.
