This past weekend, in addition to Revenge of the Sith, we also watched Into the Wild. In talking about movies in one of my classes (before the class started!), a few people said it was excellent, and so I wanted to check it out.
(Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! If you’ve not seen this movie yet, you [...]
Movies
Into the Wild
The Lives of Others
One of the things I did in between studying and writing was watch the movie Das Leben der Anderen (released with English subtitles as The Lives of Others). While such a statement from me is problematic due to how few movies I watch, I’ll say it anyway: it was one of the best movies I’ve [...]
A few brief thoughts about the Prisoner of Azkaban movie
I was cleaning and reorganizing a bit in our bedroom this past weekend, and saw that the Prisoner of Azkaban movie was on. Having seen only bits and pieces of it previously, and having just finished the book, I thought I’d tune in. I ended up catching the last hour or so. I had a [...]
The ending of Children of Men…
… could have been a lot better. I just finished watching the movie, and I while I thought it was a pretty good movie, I would have liked a more solid ending. What I expected was the boat finding Kee, and then a brief segment showing the future: the Human Project area, with more people [...]
Requiem for a Dream – a very sad movie
Warning: Some spoilers within.
Last night I watched Requiem for Dream. I wanted to watch it after reading about it (after having discovered it via the theme music in the Da Vinci Code trailer).
It was a roller coaster of a movie. I had a general idea about what the movie was: the crumbling of 4 lives [...]
