apologies to bretters

all i do is apologize these days it seems

i don't starve myself bret
*sigh*
although people say i *have* lost weight

heh heh

ok to lighten the mood, i am gonna do some quickie movie reviews. because i work in a video store but all i hear all day is how great The Day After Tomorrow is, and how Bowling for Columbine was "a load of shit".
so....here are some of my favs, with and without slashiness.

Casablanca....also with or without slash, but i prefer with. as a teenager, i adored the het angsty love triangle in this movie--but was glued to the screen for every scene involving Claude Rains as Capt. Renault. Years later, I realized why. Cynical Louis and idealist Rick...or Ricky as Louis likes to purr...make one hell of a couple. Claude Rains, incidentally, is an actor I like to compare to Geoffrey Rush, I don't know why. I think it's the delicious way they both savor words. The historical background is great as well, the symbolism of everything in this post-Hayes code film, the faded beauty of the black and white....*sigh*. Even if Pooky will never watch it.

Lawrence of Arabia. This movie is...this movie is how movies should be made. Painstaking detail, fantastic imagery, amazing actors and dialogue, and cinematography to die for. Not to mention an exquisite understanding of the warped tormented mind and body of T.E. Lawrence expressed as much as the 1960's would allow. (Actually, I think being forced to watch their words only enhanced the portrayal of Lawrence.) And then there is the kinky Turkish Bey, gettin' all up in the Kool-aid, and the pretty, pretty, sad Ali. So brokenhearted at the end. The film is set up like a Greek tragedy, and the myth-like aura to it all is fucking mindblowing. See it on a big screen if you can.

Wayne's World See...not everything will be slashy! :P I can still quote this movie word for word. Garth...with the robotic arm... Whole movie, funnier than Austin Powers. Yes. You heard me right. (Although a special shout out to Goldmember. "You are very toight. I can tell from your toight pants.")

The Lion In Winter i think i love this movie because it shares my view of history. or at least, how i feel a lot of history should be viewed. people tend to see monarchs as famous, grand figures and not also look at their private lives. they are people and great figures at the same time, and some, like Eleanor of Acquitaine (whom every feminist should know) and Henry of England are two people who were actually thought of as legendary in their own time, and were together, and had these amazing adventures and these famous children and these completely fucked up family lives. the movie goes down like this, Eleanor and Henry and their children, including Richard the Lionheart, are all in the same castle for Christmas. Henry is a king who united England, fought in a crusade, and stole his wife, Eleanor, from the King of France (Louis), his best friend. Eleanor and Henry no longer live together, years later he banished her to a tower for her outspokenness and adultery. She hates him for *his* adultery. they use their children as weapons to fight each other, only since each rules a country, this also means they use their children in war against each other. the kids btw, are scheming for the throne because Henry is getting old. but none of them are suitable because John is crazy, Geoffry is cold, and Richard is a sodomite. (And with who? Why the current king of France, Louis' son Phillip. Whose sister, Alais, is engaged to Richard but Henry is screwing her anyway)...Merry Fuckin' Christmas! Jerry Springer with royalty. I love it.

It Happened One Night Two words. Clark Gable. and then two more words. Claudette Colbert. Early Hollywood actresses kicked some serious ass and bitches like Julia Roberts can't hold a candle to them. this is the movie that *created* the romantic comedy, and the screwball comedy. it offered fantasy and romance during the depression and yet is quite thoughtful about the poor conditions of a lot of Americans during the time. it urges sympathy and compassion, and in addition to being amazingly romantic and sexy (scandalous at the time in fact) is funny. Gable is a funny, funny drunk. ("Oh yeah?" "Gee I wish I'd said that, we could have ended this conversation five minutes ago.")

Maybe for my last one i should try to pick something a little more recent. So many to choose from. Grosse Point Blank? No...Quills..heh. Not right now. Ha. I know...as though people have not seen it, i will say, Bridget Jones' Diary. adaption of Jane Austen...yes...very modern...yes...way better, for the most part, than the book. very funny, very romantic, very sympathetic heroine. she is not glamorous, she isn't especially clever, and she dates/fucks the dumbasses that actually populate the earth outside of movies. there is a difference in the book, namely that poor singleton Bridget does not view Darcy as this amazing tremendous fated love, so much as she views him as just another boyfriend, but one that she loves very much. in this case however, as with Liberty Valance, we are going to go with the myth. Rispa loves the myth, she adores the myth, she writes the myth, because reality can suck a dirty cock. (incidentally, Rispa is compared by her friends to Bridget's friend Shazzar in the movie. "Shazzar, journalist. Likes to say to fuck. A lot.")

did any of that make any sense? i doubt it. i think i only gave the plots of two of them. ah well.