![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Films - getting me through the week
Sep. 16th, 2009 10:17 amI can't get in to my dissertation. I really can't. I really resent having to do it. However, I have no choice but ot suck it up as it's due on the 25th. It does mean that this week has been miserable though.
So I will talk about films again. At the weekend we went to see Julie and Julia. Now I thought it would be a lot more chick flick-y than it was and I'm gald to say that I really enjoyed it. I do like going to see stuff like that at the cinema as I love the feeling of joy I get when I'm walking home. Meryl Streep's a joy to watch of course (she makes everything look so effortless!) and although the Julia side of the story is the more interesting of the two, the way the two stories are connected is done really well. It's like watching two films in one but even though the stories are fifty years apart it's weird how the similar themes cross over. So yeah, a really enjoyable film, and my God does it make you hungry!
The other film we watched was The Fast and The Furious. Now I like a silly action film as much as the next guy but really, this was utter rubbish. I mean, for a film full of car chases it was very boring. None of the car chases were that impressive apart from one with the truck at the end. Too little too late though. James wasn't impressed either and a few of his friends (on Facebook) leapt to defend the film, their main reason for it being 'good' seemed to be, 'it's got Vin Diesel in it'. And when that's your final line of defense you know something's wrong.
So I will talk about films again. At the weekend we went to see Julie and Julia. Now I thought it would be a lot more chick flick-y than it was and I'm gald to say that I really enjoyed it. I do like going to see stuff like that at the cinema as I love the feeling of joy I get when I'm walking home. Meryl Streep's a joy to watch of course (she makes everything look so effortless!) and although the Julia side of the story is the more interesting of the two, the way the two stories are connected is done really well. It's like watching two films in one but even though the stories are fifty years apart it's weird how the similar themes cross over. So yeah, a really enjoyable film, and my God does it make you hungry!
The other film we watched was The Fast and The Furious. Now I like a silly action film as much as the next guy but really, this was utter rubbish. I mean, for a film full of car chases it was very boring. None of the car chases were that impressive apart from one with the truck at the end. Too little too late though. James wasn't impressed either and a few of his friends (on Facebook) leapt to defend the film, their main reason for it being 'good' seemed to be, 'it's got Vin Diesel in it'. And when that's your final line of defense you know something's wrong.
