Harry, ¿que pasó?
Oct. 29th, 2006 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arishaSo I am obsessed with Prisoner of Azkaban again because I am sick and so am doing little but watching teevee all weekend, and I watched it in Spanish yesterday and in English today because it was on and man is that movie better in Spanish even though every reason I come up with for why that might be sounds so doofy ... (You can tell I'm a fan of the run-on sentence.)
Brother: Poor Neville. Puberty really hit him with a rock.
[scene where Harry, Snape and Lupin are in the hallway]
Brother: This scene really needs some music.
Sarah: Like what?
Brother: They should have used "Ride of the Valkyries." That would be sweet.
[scene where Hermione gets mad at Trelawney]
Brother: Aw man, Hermione is going to rip her face off!!
Oh, and I guess I'll write about this now before it gets all old like all the other things I never actually talk about. On Thursday night I saw Marie Antoinette which I think was a bad idea. When I say that I guess it reflects badly on the movie but what I mean is it was probably not the best idea to go to the movies after suffering through half a day of school and then coming home early to go to sleep ... basically I spent the entire movie trying not to have a coughing fit, which is fantastic. :P The movie itself, though, I guess I'm kind of neutral towards it, in the end. For whatever reason I had kind of got it into my head that it would be like a second Amadeus. Because it's a movie set in eighteenth-century Europe? It's not like Casanova was another Amadeus so I don't know why I thought that. It amused me, though. In Marie Antoinette there was a mention of Mozart, a line I wouldn't have understood without Amadeus (when Briseis - man, I would like that actress so much better if I hadn't first seen her as Briseis - mentions "Marriage of Figaro"), and when Emperor Joseph II showed up I was all "You're not Jeffrey Jones!!" XD;;
The end of the movie was weird, even though I knew it ended when they leave Versailles. I think it was supposed to be Marie Antoinette at Versailles in sort of the same way as Amadeus is Mozart in Vienna, but the difference is that Mozart in Vienna ends with his death and Marie Antoinette at Versailles doesn't end quite so dramatically. I mean, where is the head chopping?!?! I could see what they were trying to do by ending it there but I think it needed a more solid ending than that. The movie in general I found too light and fluffy. I didn't feel like it made any of the points it set out to make. A lot of the costumes and the rooms were more interesting than the characters. I couldn't stop seeing Kirsten Dunst as Kirsten Dunst, which is perhaps an argument for casting lesser known actors in historical movies? I mean, I liked the movie but at the same time it doesn't really have anything to recommend it, except the pretty colours ...
I watched Lost in Translation last weekend and hadn't thought that Marie Antoinette would be at all similar but it kind of was, in parts. Like, there are parts where a character is just sitting staring out the window. And it's weird because according to my brother my dream movie is one in which two people are sitting in a room, and the big climax occurs when one of them leaves. But Lost in Translation was so boring!! How could you go to Tokyo and stay in your hotel all day?? How could you live with yourself if you spent your entire trip to Japan surrounded by people who speak English?? What is the point of going to Japan if you are going to sing American songs at karaoke?? And how could you go on Matthew's Best Hit TV and not even enjoy it?? That show is like the show that cheers me up when I am down, it is pure aaawwweeesssooommmeee!!!
I shall end this rather abruptly now, haha, yay. ^^;
Brother: Poor Neville. Puberty really hit him with a rock.
[scene where Harry, Snape and Lupin are in the hallway]
Brother: This scene really needs some music.
Sarah: Like what?
Brother: They should have used "Ride of the Valkyries." That would be sweet.
[scene where Hermione gets mad at Trelawney]
Brother: Aw man, Hermione is going to rip her face off!!
Oh, and I guess I'll write about this now before it gets all old like all the other things I never actually talk about. On Thursday night I saw Marie Antoinette which I think was a bad idea. When I say that I guess it reflects badly on the movie but what I mean is it was probably not the best idea to go to the movies after suffering through half a day of school and then coming home early to go to sleep ... basically I spent the entire movie trying not to have a coughing fit, which is fantastic. :P The movie itself, though, I guess I'm kind of neutral towards it, in the end. For whatever reason I had kind of got it into my head that it would be like a second Amadeus. Because it's a movie set in eighteenth-century Europe? It's not like Casanova was another Amadeus so I don't know why I thought that. It amused me, though. In Marie Antoinette there was a mention of Mozart, a line I wouldn't have understood without Amadeus (when Briseis - man, I would like that actress so much better if I hadn't first seen her as Briseis - mentions "Marriage of Figaro"), and when Emperor Joseph II showed up I was all "You're not Jeffrey Jones!!" XD;;
The end of the movie was weird, even though I knew it ended when they leave Versailles. I think it was supposed to be Marie Antoinette at Versailles in sort of the same way as Amadeus is Mozart in Vienna, but the difference is that Mozart in Vienna ends with his death and Marie Antoinette at Versailles doesn't end quite so dramatically. I mean, where is the head chopping?!?! I could see what they were trying to do by ending it there but I think it needed a more solid ending than that. The movie in general I found too light and fluffy. I didn't feel like it made any of the points it set out to make. A lot of the costumes and the rooms were more interesting than the characters. I couldn't stop seeing Kirsten Dunst as Kirsten Dunst, which is perhaps an argument for casting lesser known actors in historical movies? I mean, I liked the movie but at the same time it doesn't really have anything to recommend it, except the pretty colours ...
I watched Lost in Translation last weekend and hadn't thought that Marie Antoinette would be at all similar but it kind of was, in parts. Like, there are parts where a character is just sitting staring out the window. And it's weird because according to my brother my dream movie is one in which two people are sitting in a room, and the big climax occurs when one of them leaves. But Lost in Translation was so boring!! How could you go to Tokyo and stay in your hotel all day?? How could you live with yourself if you spent your entire trip to Japan surrounded by people who speak English?? What is the point of going to Japan if you are going to sing American songs at karaoke?? And how could you go on Matthew's Best Hit TV and not even enjoy it?? That show is like the show that cheers me up when I am down, it is pure aaawwweeesssooommmeee!!!
I shall end this rather abruptly now, haha, yay. ^^;
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Date: 2006-11-01 07:27 pm (UTC)Interview With a Vampire I've only seen little wee bits of, when it's been on TV and I've been flipping through, but yeah, haha, it took my brother and I a good ten minutes to work together to figure out who the little girl was, hahaha. XD; Excellent. That movie kind of blows my brain because of all the famous people in it. Like Oceans 11! Are they even allowed to have that many famous famous people in one movie? How can you see any of them as their characters, instead of just famous people? It weirds me out unnecessarily so.
I think Marie Antoinette is still fine to see once, I mean, you get some nice shots of Versailles and the costumes are all interesting and everything. It's just that if you come running from the theatre crying "THAT'S MY NEW FAVOURITE MOVIE I'MMA SEE IT SEVEN TIMES!!!" I shall be a tad confused as to why. :)
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