Movies, Movies, Movies!

We sure have been watching a lot of movies now that we aren't playing WoW anymore! WOOT! I am going to try to list the movies that I watch, but I probably won't go into much detail on any of them because I have other things to do!

Tonight we watched about 30 minutes of The Boys from Brazil, and OMG, that is a movie that needs BADLY to be remade. The production value and acting are so horrible that we simply had to stop watching it. The music was totally distracting, wrong, and overblown. The acting was terrible and staged. The cinematography was very poor. Only the plot is interesting but not enough to keep us watching. Being a huge fan of classics, I am first to be reasonable about the difference in film styles from the past, but this is one of those movies that is pretty unbearable in this day and age.

Last night we watched Boys Don't Cry, starring Hilary Swank as a girl passing herself off as a boy who meets and falls in love with a girl in a small town where nobody knows the troubled 20 year old. It was a hard story to watch, but brilliantly portrayed by all the actors (Swank got a well-earned Academy Award for her performance, but everyone was extremely good too and Chloë Sevigny got a Golden Globe award for Supporting Actress). I was compelled to do some investigation on the web about Teena Brandon afterwards and was surprised to see how similar the two main actors look compared to the real people. I would definitely recommend this movie, but it's not a happy tale so be prepared.

A couple of nights ago we watched another Hilary Swank film (which prompted me to get Boys Don't Cry), called Freedom Writers, which was the true-life story about an English teacher who taught under-educated, inner city kids at a high school that no matter how hard their lives were, education could set them free. It was AWESOME. We recognized Swank from another movie we couldn't place and during a snack break, I looked her up and realized where we'd seen her: Million Dollar Baby, another exceptional film with Hilary Swank giving an outstanding performance and getting another Oscar.

I am now a total Hilary Swank fan, and can't wait to see her in another movie! She's AMAZING!!