Friday, May 28, 2004
Despite being a Farrelly Brothers' production, "Stuck On You" was a pretty nice show about sibling-love. No distasteful dumb-and-dumber-ish gags, thankfully, though a bit of the humour was still a bit... erm. Matt Damon was very aww-inducing as the shy and homey Bob, but what was with that haircut? And how do identical twins end up one brunette and one blond, and neither resembling each other?
"Mona Lisa�s Smile" was dreadfully boring. Only so many times you can rehash "Dead Poets Society" after all. Lovely cast, but the plot had nothing new to offer, and wasn�t even inspiring. And it all reminded me of that stupid Barbara Bush's speech we had to study for Speech class *makes face*
Shan�t start on "Peter Pan", because I�ll be gushing and incredibly paedophilic.
"Dancer In The Dark"... a year 2000 movie I somehow never got around to watching. I spent a lot of the movie feeling slightly nauseous from the jerky camera movement, my head aching from the discordant pounding of the touching yet very avant garde music that was the quintessence of Bj�rk. Every emotion was just there, raw, painful and bleeding, no fancy camera work or computer graphics to soften the impact of Selma(Bj�rk)�s very really pain or the harshness of her reality. Neither was there anything to shield the audience from the baseness of humankind � greed, guilt, superiority, fake charity, selfishness � all there, in full uncensored unembellished �glory�.
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