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May. 12th, 2004 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8So, I've seen a few movies recently-- Van Helsing, Brother Bear, and Secondhand Lions.
Brother Bear I loved . . . I'm a huge fan of animated features anyway, and this one was just very cool, especially in light of the making-of featurette. Seeing the Bulgarian women's choir perform part of the soundtrack was way too neat, and I always love watching parts of the animation process. *sighs and wishes she could draw* ;-)
Secondhand Lions I also loved, and I'm going to buy it as soon as possible (all the copies were gone at the store. Other people have good taste, too). Performances were excellent all around, and I have to say that the uncles' characters are now my role models for what I want to be like when I'm older. They were just perfect.
As for Van Helsing... I'd been looking forward to seeing it for a while, and then I saw all the critics' reviews bashing it (the critics and I rarely see eye-to-eye on *anything*) and this was no exception. For the most part.
Major spoilers behind the cut.
First off, I loved the people in the movie. I thought they did supremely well and some of the more serious rants against the film-- like the review that said the movie was misogynistic and used Kate Beckinsale's outfit as proof-- were just laughable.
Not to say that there weren't some problems. It didn't seem to hang together very well in parts, it was *long* (not that I don't love epic movies, etc., but in a theater seat... not more than once) and some of the dialogue-- the villians' in particular-- didn't mesh.
Though the main bad part for me wasn't really the fault of the movie itself, but rather due to a previous Stephen Sommers film.
Namely, The Mummy Returns.
When Anna dies, at first I didn't believe it. I thought, 'oh, she's probably not actually dead. And if she is, they'll figure out some way to bring her back-- they didn't let Evy die, they're not going to kill her'.
And by the time I figured out 'oops, wrong', the initial emotional impact of the moment had faded.
Though I will say this about that moment-- the howl shifting into a human scream as Van Helsing morphs back into human form was just great.
And speaking of that scene, what is it about Hugh Jackman and wolf-characters? ;-) I swear, I'm going to rethink Kath's and my cybercasting list and switch him into the Shapeshifter's role, just to keep things consistent. lol
Anyway, that's it for movie updates . . . at least until I see Troy sometime soon.
Brother Bear I loved . . . I'm a huge fan of animated features anyway, and this one was just very cool, especially in light of the making-of featurette. Seeing the Bulgarian women's choir perform part of the soundtrack was way too neat, and I always love watching parts of the animation process. *sighs and wishes she could draw* ;-)
Secondhand Lions I also loved, and I'm going to buy it as soon as possible (all the copies were gone at the store. Other people have good taste, too). Performances were excellent all around, and I have to say that the uncles' characters are now my role models for what I want to be like when I'm older. They were just perfect.
As for Van Helsing... I'd been looking forward to seeing it for a while, and then I saw all the critics' reviews bashing it (the critics and I rarely see eye-to-eye on *anything*) and this was no exception. For the most part.
Major spoilers behind the cut.
First off, I loved the people in the movie. I thought they did supremely well and some of the more serious rants against the film-- like the review that said the movie was misogynistic and used Kate Beckinsale's outfit as proof-- were just laughable.
Not to say that there weren't some problems. It didn't seem to hang together very well in parts, it was *long* (not that I don't love epic movies, etc., but in a theater seat... not more than once) and some of the dialogue-- the villians' in particular-- didn't mesh.
Though the main bad part for me wasn't really the fault of the movie itself, but rather due to a previous Stephen Sommers film.
Namely, The Mummy Returns.
When Anna dies, at first I didn't believe it. I thought, 'oh, she's probably not actually dead. And if she is, they'll figure out some way to bring her back-- they didn't let Evy die, they're not going to kill her'.
And by the time I figured out 'oops, wrong', the initial emotional impact of the moment had faded.
Though I will say this about that moment-- the howl shifting into a human scream as Van Helsing morphs back into human form was just great.
And speaking of that scene, what is it about Hugh Jackman and wolf-characters? ;-) I swear, I'm going to rethink Kath's and my cybercasting list and switch him into the Shapeshifter's role, just to keep things consistent. lol
Anyway, that's it for movie updates . . . at least until I see Troy sometime soon.
