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DH out of town for a few days, so I've been loading up on the chick flick DVD's. Watched Suffragette last night which chronicles the dreary plight of laundry women in London trying to get attention drawn to their lowly status to engender the right to vote, which started the ball rolling to get equal pay and other rights and empowered women's rights the world over. Truly a time when women were treated as less than chattel. They must resort to violence and becoming outlaws to be considered. (An interesting bit of social commentary/strategy which seems to be in active play today) Meryl Streep makes a guest appearance.

The second film was this afternoon. The Lobster is a slightly-futuristic fantasy view where being single has you being rounded up and sent to The Hotel where you must meet your match and couple-up within 45 days or be turned into an animal and released into the forest where you might get eaten by a bigger animal. Among group events at The Hotel are being bussed to the forest to capture The Loners, single folks who've bucked the rules and decided to live in a nomadic group where no couple-making is allowed. Every time a Loner is bagged (via tranquilizer dart...and then they are turned into animals), the Hotel guest gets an extra day added to their stay. Hotel guests try to find a mate with similar traits, be it near-sightedness, limping, frequent nosebleeds, hair quality, emotional characteristics. The story follows a divorced man who resides first at the Hotel and then in the forest with the Loners where he falls in love. Be forewarned --if you haven't already gathered so -- this is a weird movie. Collin Firth, Rachel Weisz, and John C. Reilly in the cast.
 
Not only that but, Sour and I seem to be the ONLY people interested in most of the movies we see. No matter how great the movie is, folks either don't see it or don't comment. Professional reviewers seem to mainly let me down - badly. I do pay attention to what everyone contributes but, some of the movies, either aren't out here or they are subjects I try to avoid.
 
deedee, scary to be like minded with me. People will think that you are strange.
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drumstick diva said:
No matter how great the movie is, folks either don't see it or don't comment.
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I used to go to the movies a lot when I was younger, but that was before vcr/dvd machines at home. There isn't the same motivation to catch a movie when it's on at the cinema because you can just wait for the DVD. There are so many movies now, a lot do get passed over. That's why I like threads like these, where somebody might mention a "sleeper" worth watching. Because I'm "out of the loop" I usually only hear about the superhero type movies.

I watched a couple yesterday. One was called "Thumbsucker", it was about this young man who still sucks his thumb (17 years old). Tilda Swinton plays the mother and Vincent D'Onofrio the father, Keanu Reeves plays his orthodontist. The main role was played by a bloke called Lou Pucci, who I'd never heard of. It was about this boy and his problems and how trying to sort them out led to other problems and how his interactions affected others, and..... I liked it, it was interesting and I wanted to find out what happened (I have trouble concentrating on movies these days, if they don't grab my attention I tend to stop them and go off and do something else). The characters were very interesting. Many of the adults were more "messed up" than "thumbsucker" himself.

I watched another called "Surviving Georgia". It is an Aussie movie about a couple of girls who move back to a country town after they are told that their mother, who ran off when they were young, has died. It was a fairly run-of-the-mill romantic drama/comedy, but I quite enjoyed it. Pia Miranda played one of the girls and Holly Valance the other. Shane Jacobson plays the local cop. (these are quite well-known aussie actors, Pia Miranda was in a movie called Looking for Alibrandi, and Shane Jacobson is in a lot of tv shows) If you don't go in expecting much, you won't be disappointed. I'd taped it off the tv, and started it up with no clue what it was about. I found it an interesting enough story to sit through it, there are worse ways to spend time than this one.
 
Watched 'The secret life of pets' at the drive in Sat night. Very good and funny loved it. Didn't stay for the second movie, gets done too late for us unless it's something super good we want to watch.
Pretty cool when the moon came up next to the screen, decent pic for my cheap phone.
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