Here are the movie recommendations I received, in order from first watched to last watched.
Lethal Weapon
Recommended by Jeff
I should mention first off that Jeff first recommended several other movies, all of which I love and had seen recently enough that I had to veto them. Excellent movie taste, that man. Lethal Weapon was a ton of fun. Classic stuff. (And this may be weird, but I found myself jealous of Riggs's home setup. Seemed to strike a chord with me somehow. Contained mess, sounds good to me.)
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Recommended by Erik
Holy cow, I don't know why I hadn't seen this before! Bill Murray is a god. (Tangent/slight spoiler: For further proof, see his recent cameo in the most excellent Zombieland.) This is an amazing movie, hilarious in the best tradition of Bill Murray being a complete goof. It belongs right up there with Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day. Well done!
Pride and Prejudice
Recommended by Kristi
[Dean shakes fist at Kristi.] Curses, I don't know how I allowed a 5 hr+ BBC miniseries qualify as a "movie", but I didn't want to turn down what was so obviously a challenge, so I watched it. Took me a while, and I'm not positive that I retained enough of the plot to recap it (except maybe: hundreds of social meetings and teas, people overly concerned with marriage, Colin Firth looking constipated - could just as easily have been called Tea and Constipation, just saying), but I did get all the way through it. It actually wasn't as bad as it could have been - some of the characters (the dad, and the main character, whatsername) weren't completely pathetic, and to be honest, it was quite well written. And I didn't notice any wristwatches or cell phones, so good on you, continuity** people. But man, if there's any bright side at all to having to watch five hours of Colin Firth, it's that at least he isn't Hugh Grant.
** Another tangent: Just as I was typing "continuity" (a pretty rare word to type), Holly (who was reading to Sophie in the other room) yelled out, "Dean, continuity!" I sat, stunned, wondering if I'd spelled it wrong or used the wrong word - wondering what objection she had to it, especially since she couldn't see the monitor. Turned out she wanted to show me a continuity error in a Richard Scarry book that Sophie had pointed out. What are the odds?
Last of the Mohicans
Recommended by Janet
Even though I'm suspicious that Janet's recommendation of this one was somehow linked to Daniel Day-Lewis's swarthy good looks, and not the (totally false) promises of a plethora of helicopters flying around in the movie, I still enjoyed this film. It had over-the-top 80s cheese, sure, but I live for that! The history surrounding early colonial North American settlement confused me just as much as a Socials 10 class, but when have I ever let lack of understanding stand in my way? It made up for it with lots of running around and fighting people, and fake gore, and stuff blowing up, even though no one had access to any C-4. It had love, it had sacrifice, it had fun continuity (there's that word again) errors! It had passionate pleas to "Just stay alive!" followed by jumping through a waterfall! Hooray!
Frida
Seeing as how it was my arch-nemesis that recommended this one, I thought it would be the worst of them all, so I saved it for last. I was pleasantly surprised! Frida was quite an enjoyable movie - fascinating story, excellent acting, altogether a very worthwhile watch. I even learned a few things, filled in a few deplorable gaps in my knowledge of Frida Kahlo, like what country she came from! Anyway, thanks to an actually good recommendation from Trish, I will now have to at least consider toning down one of my next 101 Things... (49. Send something unexpected and stupid to Trish in the mail.)
I think I'll have to do this one again, I could feel my horizons expanding as I was entertained. Thanks to one and all for the recommendations!
11 comments:
As if I'd recommend a crappy movie.
Sure you would. Especially after you receive twelve slugs stuffed into an envelope in your mail.
Swarthy good looks? I object! Fierce poetic long-haired manliness, more like. And it's not my fault if you missed the chopper sequences.
But I'm glad you gave the movie a try :)
Um I object to the fact that I seem to be some kind of torturer here. Okay, so maybe I could have been nicer, but I am pretty proud of you for making it through all 5 hours of "Tea and Constipation" which I'm calling it from now on. If more men watched this movie, maybe they'd understand women more. But more likely they'd just been annoyed that they had to watch 5 hours of tea and constipation when they could have been watching all 3 Lethal Weapons :)
Or wait, are there like 7 Lethal Weapons?
I dunno... I see very little in common between the women in that story and most of the women I know. Same with the men, actually.
For the record, they're working on Lethal Weapon 5, due out in 2012. :)
Peel the onion Dean! ;)
So, are you saying that for most of the women I know, underneath their "regular, sensible person" exterior, if I were to peel the layers of onion back, they're actually incompetent, flighty, shallow, marriage/relationship-obsessed, tea-aholic twerps? :D
Lest I be misunderstood, I want to point out that the women I know are *not* those things (and are actually quite cool), whereas most of the women in Pride and Prejudice came across as less than admirable.
Congrats for getting through this movie challenge! I'm so glad I had the chance to watch "The Man Who Knew Too Little" and would recommend it to anyone who needs a laugh!
No, only Elizabeth and Darcy are onions...everyone else is a flake. :)
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