Watched two movies on DVD last night and that got me thinking of the movies I’ve seen lately. Movies that make me think and spark conversation are ones I like the best.
1. Up in the Air – Saw this on my birthday with friends and we all liked it. Had a few issues to discuss – honesty, job/career choices, and choices we make as far as relationships and jobs.
2. Valentine’s Day – Saw this on Valentine’s Day. Full of all different kids of love: long term, new, child/parent, crush, affair, and the love of friendship.
3. Edge of Darkness – High body count and severe acts of violence. Mel Gibson plays a father in pursuit of his daughter’s killer. I’m a bit tired of this rogue/vigilante justice plot … and not that fond of Mel Gibson.
4. Sex in the City – This movie, to quote one of my coworkers, is “Dorky”. I couldn’t agree more. It was way too long, way too stupid, and I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. That’s two and a half hours of my life I won’t get back.
5. Diggers – I think the film maker thought “if the whole cast smokes and uses the f-word that’s a film“. Only 90 minutes long, this movie pretends to explore the “a tight-knit group of friends, who try to maintain their small-town way of life in the face of enormous changes in 1970s Long Island.” I would add “by smoking cigarettes, abusing drugs and alcohol and only using profanity to yell at each other.” Thumbs down.
6. The Dead Girl – The story of a murder from the perspective of ancillary people associated with The Dead Girl. Actually, maybe this is better described as snippets of the lives of the people associated with The Dead Girl. We see a bit of the life (and the struggles) of The Stranger, The Sister, The Wife, The Mother, and finally, The Dead Girl.
Have yet to see any of these, and looks like I have not really missed all that much!