Movies For The Holiday Season
Well it’s that time of year again: finals, shopping, getting sick, and making plans with friends. But more importantly this is the time of year when all of the actually well made movies come out. Or as I like to call them, films. To the casual movie goer the holiday season harvest of movies can be wasted. Too often people go see the cheap joke and flashy visual effects movies, but that’s why I’m here. I’m going to give a quick run down of the extra-virgin movies that you should spend your valuable time seeing.
Note: I have not actually seen any of these movies yet. This is simply a list of movies in which I see the most potential. (OH YEAH! didn’t end the sentence with a preposition)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What a surprise, the LotR geek is telling people to see another movie with orcs in it. But I would recommend this movie regardless of the era of ‘rings’ that we just left. These books are saturated with rich characters, symbolism and adventure. The movie really should have enough dimensions to it that everyone leaves the theatre fully satisfied, from the intellectually impaired to the movie snobs of the world.
King Kong
Yeah, let’s just get all the typical Greg movies out of the way now. PJ (Peter Jackson for those of you not in the know.) decided to remake this movie because it was the movie that made him fall in love with cinema. Now I know that most people are going to think that this is just some action movie with a big gorilla fighting a t-rex, and some of you are okay with that, while the others think it’s too unrealistic and cheesy (sheppard…). But I truly think that PJ is going to bring more to the screen than just the action. I’ve never seen the original so I don’t quite know what themes are going to fuel the movie, but I have faith that it’s going to make you think more than you thought you would. But if thinking isn’t your cup of tea when it comes to movies then don’t worry, I’m sure there is going to be plenty of action to appease all the sheppard’s out there. I also think we’re going to see some great acting. Even from Jack Black! Hopefully there will be no roller skates or bubbles though…
I’ve decided to continue this list at a later time. It was good to get the two biggest movies out of the way in the same post. Coming up next time: Pokeahotass, assassins, cowboys and Japanese woman (with no Rivers).
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November 26th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
What about Walk The Line?
November 27th, 2005 at 1:29 am
that will be in the continued one that i’ll write at some point
November 28th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
greg watches and writes about bland, generic hollywood movies, i am calling for his resignation, who is with me?
November 28th, 2005 at 11:49 pm
shaka, i own you here. this is my world. don’t mess with me. i’m sorry if i don’t see your artsy movies that no one cares about. but guess what, no one cares about them here either.
November 28th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
Fight fight!
November 29th, 2005 at 1:41 am
i dont want to just fight, i want a war….and here is the first bomb………..Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick’s greatest film…..sleep on that if you have to
November 29th, 2005 at 1:58 am
I’ll have to watch that one in its entirety.
To date, I’ve only seen 2001 and Dr. Strangelove in full.
November 29th, 2005 at 2:05 am
i won’t argue about that, since I haven’t seen any of those movie, except parts of eyes wide shut.
and i don’t mean to sound like i’m above those movies because i want to see them.
i haven’t been a movie snob long enough to see most good movies.