I have no patience with movies any more. If I'm not interested after half an hour: click, delete. It's the wicked Amazon Prime again. When a movie downloads free to your PC there's no investment. Amazon Prime is evil. (It's the primeval Amazon.)
I had hopes for My Brother's Keeper. There's a mercy killing, confessed to and recanted, and a trial. What's not to love? Beards. Oh, and hoarding. I think I got as far as the scene when the documentarian quizzes the completely inarticulate brother. "How did that make you feel?" "I dunno." "You don't know how you feel?" "Yup." And it went oooooooon. Stop it! Edit that out already. It felt like a five minute news segment made into a 90 minute movie.
I think I watched forty minutes of Around the World in Eighty Days. Then I noticed it was three hours long and bailed. Why did it get five Oscars? Why did it start with ten minutes of explaining who Jules Verne was? I decided to delete anything more than two hours off my list, and now I will never see The Deer Hunter.
Secrecy. It's about secrecy! And the government! Juicy! And you know what? The government is secretive! I swear, they spent thirty minutes telling me the government has secrets, and NOT telling me what those secrets are.
Rock of Ages. I made it to the first Tom Cruise scene. Were there other scenes? I will never know.
I will come back to Beasts of the Southern Wild someday when Gary isn't next to me screaming POOP SHES PLAYING WITH POOP every time mud showed up in a scene (which would be every scene). As it is I only got as far as the scene when the teacher warns the water will rise.
I almost, almost bailed on Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, but instead I repositioned myself directly in front of the tv, cranked up the speakers, and focused on lip reading because otherwise it's all sighs and mumbles. That was worth it. I even bought her biography after.
Let me know if I gave up too early on any of these (besides Beasts, because I think that's worth a revisit. Or is it?)
The Deer Hunter is a very strange movie. It seems like there should have been some deep message imparted, but I didn't really get it.
I'm glad I watched it, for some reason I don't fully understand, perhaps that the characters were so very true to the guys I knew in that time and place. But I never want to see it again. Maybe because the denouement is true to those guys I knew, and I didn't understand it IRL, either.
Posted by: ~~Silk | March 06, 2013 at 02:42 PM
I didn't understand Beasts, but I found myself mesmerized by it, mainly because of the little girl.
Posted by: RockyCat | March 06, 2013 at 03:06 PM
Yeah, I'm there with you. Bad acting, stupid plots, interminable scenes, vapid characters; it does not take long to tell when the movie is a stiff. If husband and I factor out differences in taste (he does not like comedies, sci-fi or fantasy), we pretty much always agree on the verdict. Bad acting is bad acting.
Posted by: Bella | March 06, 2013 at 03:13 PM
~~Silk - If you didn't get it, I won't get it. It sounds like hours of emotional pain.
RockyCat - Again, if you didn't understand it, I won't understand it. I was not all that fascinated by the girl. Off my list.
Bella - Well then I should ask you: I'm about an hour into The Master. Bail or gut it out?
Posted by: TheQueen | March 07, 2013 at 01:19 AM
Oh man,I loved Beasts. Hush Puppy is fantastic.
I haven't seen any of the others. I'm starting to be like that with movies too. Except I just pull up a puzzle on my iPad and check out instead of turning them off.
Posted by: Natalie | March 15, 2013 at 06:54 PM
Natalie (Hi!) - Okay, I'll have to check out Beasts again, maybe next weekend.
Posted by: TheQueen | March 18, 2013 at 12:26 AM