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I've been totally slack at updating my "Movies Watched" list and need to catch up on that, but I thought I'd post now about a few I've seen recently that I enjoyed.
• Juno - So quirky that for the first fifteen minutes or so I actually thought it might be "too quirky for me," which really I would have said was impossible. But after that either the quirkiness settled down or I got used to it, because it was awesome. The dialogue was fantastic and Juno herself was great. So was her family. Loved it.
• The Orphanage - OMG, I loved this SO MUCH. TOTALLY creepy, like a really great ghost story, but there was plot and stuff too. Not at all gory (yay! Although I have perfected the art of averting my eyes during yucky scenes in horror films), VERY atmospheric and scary. I've seen it compared to The Others (which I still haven't seen, but keep meaning to!) but it reminded me of The Lady in White (but scarier, I think). Really, really good. Warning - likely to be upsetting to parents.
• 27 Dresses - Reminded me of The Holiday for no real reason except the genre. (I love The Holiday and have probably seen it a dozen times, in part because they keep playing it on cable. Love Jude Law, love Kate Winslet, love Jack Black. I even like Cameron Diaz in it and am not otherwise a big fan of hers.) LOVE Katherine Heigl, who is adorable and sexy in a real-person sort of way, and she's so cute in this HEA movie.
• August Rush - Totally a fairy tale movie, so you have to suspend your disbelief that most of this stuff could actually happen. But accepting that, if you like a good drama and you're a fan of music, you'll probably like this. Jonathan Rhys Meyers was utterly gorgeous - sensitive Irish musician character, YUM, people who were fans of Doyle on Angel and/or Glenn Quinn might like it. :-)
• Juno - So quirky that for the first fifteen minutes or so I actually thought it might be "too quirky for me," which really I would have said was impossible. But after that either the quirkiness settled down or I got used to it, because it was awesome. The dialogue was fantastic and Juno herself was great. So was her family. Loved it.
• The Orphanage - OMG, I loved this SO MUCH. TOTALLY creepy, like a really great ghost story, but there was plot and stuff too. Not at all gory (yay! Although I have perfected the art of averting my eyes during yucky scenes in horror films), VERY atmospheric and scary. I've seen it compared to The Others (which I still haven't seen, but keep meaning to!) but it reminded me of The Lady in White (but scarier, I think). Really, really good. Warning - likely to be upsetting to parents.
• 27 Dresses - Reminded me of The Holiday for no real reason except the genre. (I love The Holiday and have probably seen it a dozen times, in part because they keep playing it on cable. Love Jude Law, love Kate Winslet, love Jack Black. I even like Cameron Diaz in it and am not otherwise a big fan of hers.) LOVE Katherine Heigl, who is adorable and sexy in a real-person sort of way, and she's so cute in this HEA movie.
• August Rush - Totally a fairy tale movie, so you have to suspend your disbelief that most of this stuff could actually happen. But accepting that, if you like a good drama and you're a fan of music, you'll probably like this. Jonathan Rhys Meyers was utterly gorgeous - sensitive Irish musician character, YUM, people who were fans of Doyle on Angel and/or Glenn Quinn might like it. :-)
