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etumukutenyak ([personal profile] etumukutenyak) wrote2008-12-30 07:18 pm
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Recent Movies, or after a long drought

Last 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.

[identity profile] mjlayman.livejournal.com 2009-01-01 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
I saw Tin Man when it was first on and I really liked it. I thought it was a reasonable riff on Oz while still being relevant and a good story. I plan to put Milk on my Netflix list, when I get to 2008.

[identity profile] etumukutenyak.livejournal.com 2009-01-01 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Milk is one of those movies I keep thinking about, because Harvey Milk was such a bright star for the gay rights movement, and he was cut down just as he was beginning to develop his power. We'll never know if he could have made a difference, especially early in the AIDS epidemic when the community needed a leader.