I have an excellent idea, let's change the subject

Mixed bag of films yesterday. I finished watching Them. I guess if you have some intention of watching this film don't read anymore because I'm going to spoil it.


Them was actually pretty good as thrillers go and I'm not big on them really. The man gained my respect as he checked the bathtub by stabbing at the curtain with a big stick instead of slowly opening it. THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD ALWAYS DO BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHAT IS IN THERE. Holidays with me are fun. The woman gained my respect by being pretty resourceful and not a total wuss. She pushed one of the guys off a building after all and in the obligatory running through a wooden area she didn't fall down as much as one might expect. There was no annoying music to inform you of scary things. They loomed, you saw, you were a little bit worried. Most importantly the couple seemed genuinely afraid and you don't really know what it is chasing them until quite late on and when you do (they are just kids playing twisted pranks) it's still creepy. More so because they're human, real and children. Best bits were when she had her eye to the hole where the handle of the door used to be and one of them suddenly stabbed a metal rod through, almost blinding her. But it didn't. Hurrah.

I then watched Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. Starring Bob Dylan! And man did they ever want you to notice it was Bob Dylan. Ooh look cowboy stuff INTENSE CLOSE UP OF THIS AS YET UNNAMED AND SO MEANINGLESS CHAP. Highlights were kids swinging in a noose, anything where Billy the Kid was in it being all charming and killing people and Bob Dylan's hat. Low? I didn't need to see an old man being bathed delightedly by half-naked whores. Nor did I need to see him jammed in a bed with them all with such an old man grin. It was creepy.

Then I watched 21 grams which I'd had recorded for months. According to it Hitman is in cinemas soon! It was fantastic but then I'd seen Amores Perros and Babel so I expected it to be so. Charlotte Gainsbourg's voice lulls me to sleep though when she speaks English. Very odd.

This morning I watched 10 minutes of Picnic at Hanging Rock but was so utterly bored I deleted it and watched To Catch a Thief instead because who doesn't like Cary Grant and Grace Kelly being all charming in blinding technicolour? It was pretty unremarkable I guess. Some shots were great and it had its moments but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again.

I still have Tell No One, Zodiac and Everything is Illuminated recorded and about six or seven more waiting. I don't know if there's room for them all but I've done ok. I had to delete Stranger Than Fiction for the 3rd time because it was recording at the same time as something else which I didn't even know you could do. Apparently you can but you can't watch tv at the same time which my mum insisted she did so that went away. I can't really be bothered with it. I couldn't be bothered seeing it in the cinema despite being invited and I can't really be bothered watching it now. I'm not sure why.