Stayed at home sick in the past two days and watched four decent movies. Joss Whedons film adaptation of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing was good; although, I havent tried to watch any movie with the Shakespearean language in years, but I enjoyed it for what I could understand. The cast was chalk full of actors from Whedons other projects such as The Avengers, Cabin in the Woods and the television show Serenity. Whedon has now proven his versatility with making a movie from three different genres back to back. The Way, Way Back was a dark dramatic/comedy written and produced by Jim Nash(the Dean in Community) and interesting ensemble cast with Sam Rockwell, Steve Carrell, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry and Amanda Peet. It is a movie about growing up at a summer cottage that vaguely reminded me of my past. Europa Report was a low budget sci-fi movie about a discovery team exploring Jupiters moon Europa. The movie had Sharlto Copley(District 9, Elysium and the upcoming remake of Old Boy) and Michael Nyqvist(The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy). This is a phenomenal sci-fi movie with a realistic approach to what it would be like to send a manned spaceship into the outer solar system, most precisely Jupiters moon Europa, known for having an ice crust beneath which scientists suspect exists liquid water, maybe even an ocean. Byzantium was somewhat like Interview with the Vampire(1994) with two female leads Saoirse Ronan(Hanna) and Gemma Arterton(Quantum of Solace). Its really two films, one set 200 hundred years ago, one in the present time, with many of the same characters and the same location, Hastings, once a fishing village, now a tired seaside resort. The movies is dark and gorey and is probably the one of the best vampire movies in the past ten years - other than Let The Right One In(2008).
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:23:41 +0000
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