Recent Movies, or after a long drought
Dec. 30th, 2008 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
etumukutenyakLast night we were going to watch a re-run of Hellboy, but instead we stumbled across the SciFi Channel showing of "Tin Man", which was a re-imagining of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Dorothy Gale is now DG, and works at the diner in the small town; her parents have a farm. Unbeknownst to DG, there's another world in which an Evil Sorceress is looking for the path to power. She sends her henchmen through a Travel Storm to DG's house, and the adventure is off. Alan Cumming plays the scarecrow, Neal McDonough is the Tin Man, and I don't recall who played Raw, the lion.
The Evil Sorceress turns out to be DG's sister, the evil older sister who wants to take over the Outer Zone.
It was shown in two parts, back to back, so we had to send Sonny off to bed at the conclusion of part one. We stayed up to watch the entire thing, and it was well worth it.
Today we sent the Sonny off to the Y program, and after our errands were done we took in a movie that we wouldn't otherwise get to see. I'm not sure why "Milk" is rated "R", but it is also a good movie worth seeing. I knew who Harvey Milk was, and how he was murdered, but Honey had only vaguely heard of him. Sean Penn is a fantastic actor and really captured the accent, mannerisms, and passion of Harvey Milk. Some of the scenes brought tears to my eyes, because they were a powerful reminder of how bad life was back then. It took a lot of charisma to bring people out of the closet, and he did.
The Evil Sorceress turns out to be DG's sister, the evil older sister who wants to take over the Outer Zone.
It was shown in two parts, back to back, so we had to send Sonny off to bed at the conclusion of part one. We stayed up to watch the entire thing, and it was well worth it.
Today we sent the Sonny off to the Y program, and after our errands were done we took in a movie that we wouldn't otherwise get to see. I'm not sure why "Milk" is rated "R", but it is also a good movie worth seeing. I knew who Harvey Milk was, and how he was murdered, but Honey had only vaguely heard of him. Sean Penn is a fantastic actor and really captured the accent, mannerisms, and passion of Harvey Milk. Some of the scenes brought tears to my eyes, because they were a powerful reminder of how bad life was back then. It took a lot of charisma to bring people out of the closet, and he did.
