For whatever reason, I’ve gone on a movie kick lately. Part of the reason is I’ve got my AppleTV set up to work okay. I’m still not happy with the configuration. Anyway, so I finally watched The Da Vinci Code the other day. Boy, did Tom Hanks look old. I recall the novel being a page-turner, but the movie didn’t seem nearly as complex. And I guess the subject matter–whether the Holy Grail was actually Mary Magdalene, Jesus’ wife and pregnant mother of his child–but it is a novel and the storyline isn’t exactly new.
After a wonderful dinner at Hattie’s in Oak Cliff (bacon-wrapped, jalapeno-stuff quail for me and tenderloin(!) for Holly), Holly and I went to see The Reader–Holly chose it, kind of. It was widely applauded and I think Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her role as a German woman who has a summer liaison with a young German boy in the late 1950s. A decade later, the boy sees her for the first time as a war criminal defendant for her role as a death camp guard during WWII. It is a serious, heavy story–that Holly didn’t care for at all. I could have done without seeing so much skin.
I’m not going to go into it, but Woody Allen is not the Woody Allen I vaguely recall as a kid. I don’t know that I ever saw any of his films as a kid, but I was aware of the neurotic Jewish funny man and his reputation for making very funny films. All of that to say that, after watching Bananas, I’m not sure I get it. Humorous? Yes. A visionary? I have no idea considering the movie is older than me, but I doubt. Will I watch more Allen films? Probably.
Yeah, we just watched the Da Vinci Code, too. I think companion fell asleep an hour into it.
I’m pretty sure she’s not interested in the other two. Which pretty much makes me not interested in the other two.
You only watch movies she wants to watch? It’s so sad (yet hilarious) to watch the decline of trench.
It’s evolution, baby.
No longer a troglodyte, I guess. End of an era.
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