quick and lazy thoughts on the movies I've watched so far this year

[arisha]

1. Sherlock Holmes, 2009
Too much action (I say this because I dislike action scenes, not because I believe a Sherlock Holmes movie can't have action in it, because I don't), but otherwise awesome, especially the scenes with Holmes and Watson and witty banter. This movies makes me want to study hard and become very smart. Yeah, I know the movie tries to show the downsides of being as crazy smart as Holmes. I kind of don't even care.

2. Murder by Death, 1976
This movie is Clue except rather more offensive (the blind butler is portrayed as totally incompetent, Peter Sellers plays a Chinese man), to the point where I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I really liked it. It has some very amusing writing in it. Also, Maggie Smith!

3. Star Trek, 2009
This movie was so much less serious than I'd expected it to be!! I rather enjoyed it for its humourous scenes; I'll admit that the_wykydtron had to explain the plot to me afterwards.

4. The Thin Man, 1934
This movie was mentioned on my friendslist three times in one week, and then I watched Murder by Death which includes parodies of Nick and Nora, so I felt almost obligated to watch it. I enjoyed it, although it wasn't quite as amazing as I had been led to believe.

5. After the Thin Man, 1936
My favourite of the series so far, I think because I actually enjoy the supporting cast in this one. Although I could've done without Asta's subplot, what the heck.

6. Wool 100%, 2006
I'm not sure I fully understood this movie, but I loved it anyway. I feel like I'm reading it on the wrong level when I look at it this way, but I loved that it's a movie about two hoarders who just one day decide to get rid of almost everything they own. And they enjoy it!

I also loved that I understood pretty much all of the Japanese in this movie, but then I feel like a loser saying that because I think it was written at a very easy level. Oh well. x)

7. Another Thin Man, 1939
I feel like I wasn't really in a movie-watching mood when I watched this, so unfortunately all I can say about it is that it was okay. And this is the first time that I've correctly guessed who the culprit is, lol!

8. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 1948
I have no idea what Cary Grant and Myrna Loy were doing in this movie, because seriously, they were better than this. This movie was bland in a really strange way. Like, I was never bored, but I was never enthralled by it or anything either. Even the attempts to give this movie some drama fell completely flat. I dunno. Watching this was kind of like watching a very slow-moving reality show. I did quite like the man who was drilling their well, though, lol.

9. Jezebel, 1938
I was expecting an awesome Gone With the Wind rip-off but what I got was a movie that didn't quite know what it was trying to be. Ugh, I dunno. I need to find a movie that proves to me the awesomeness of Bette Davis, because so far there's only been that one scene in Of Human Bondage that's really impressed me.

10. Mean Girls, 2004
It was kind of awesome to watch this movie for the first time after spending all summer in party posts where people were constantly quoting it, hahaha! The "Four for you, Glenn Coco" is SO MUCH MORE HILARIOUS in context, I can't even believe it. So yeah. I kind of loved this. I actually remember paying a lot of attention to this movie when it came out, and reading all sorts of articles about it ... I imagine this is because I was combing through all the entertainment magazines looking for articles on Troy, which was released two weeks later. xD

11. It Happened One Night, 1934
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in a seriously awesome movie. Actually, some parts really bothered me the same way Colbert's Midnight bothers me -- her male counterpart follows her until she loves him. Basically. :P I was kind of surprised by Gable's acting in this movie; I guess I've only really seen him in Gone With the Wind, and I really enjoyed seeing him play a character who's similar-but-different. For some reason I kept picturing Leonardo DiCaprio in his role, haha. In a remake? It could work!

12. Clash of the Titans, 1981
I think most of my enjoyment of this film came from the fact that I was watching it with my friends and we mocked it mercilessly. I imagine the upcoming remake will have better special effects, but not much better anything else. Maggie Smith was in this movie as well, playing a Thetis who wasn't Thetis at all.

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This was more of a, "Hey! MoMusu! I know who likes that!" kind of thing. :)