Movie day and for once I’ve seen a couple!
We’ve already covered Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York last week. All I’ll add is that I came out of it having seen something totally unlike anything I’ve ever seen, and that’s always a good thing for me. Yes, it’s extremely leftfield, far more so than Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine, but it’s excellently played by all concerned and asks a hundred different questions about life, love and the nature of everything that you’ll be debating the following day and rolling around in your head for the following week.
Just suspend your disbelief at the premise, let it wash over you and revel in something truly, genuinely unique. You may come away wondering what it is you’ve just seen but how often can you say that about an American movie?
Sublime -> ridiculous.
Night At The Museum 2 is also worth a mention, even if only for just how bizarre it is. I always think it’s unfair actually to review kids movies as an adult. The sole criteria you should apply to something like this is “did the kids like it?” and my 11 and 5 year old very much, almost as much as the first one.
I just thought it was alright, diverting enought for an adult not to get bored and that delightful Amy Adams kept popping up every now and then to be just lovely, which helps.
So, instead of an actual review of the movie I thought I’d list you some of the more bizarre moments in the film
A giant octopus fighting a series of black and white 1930s Chicago gangsters.
Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest playing Ivan The Terrible.
The Jonas Brothers voicing three flying marble cherubs.
Ben Stiller being slapped by 2 monkeys. For quite a while.
THE most surreal cameo from Darth Vader and Oscar The Grouch. Together.
Washington’s giant Abraham Lincoln statue fighting the massed armies of ancient Egypt, Napoleonic France and Al Capone. See?
There’s more.
It did, however, make me want to go and visit the 456 museums of the Smithsonian immediately so worthwhile in the end?
Cue a giant John Wilkes Booth gag?
Agree with you on Synecdoche, NY - great film and requires more than just a little suspension of disbelief. Gets you thinking though.
Know I will be subjected to Night At The Museum 2 at some stage- especially since myself and the boys went to most of the Smithsonians on the Mall during the last vist home.
Definitely recommend the museums but they are cavernous so get planning now- their website is excellent for information and pics. Definitely nothing like the real thing though- a lasting memory for me is being in one of their restoration facilities looking at this tatty plane only to read the dim letters spelling out Enola Gay- nothing like being confronted with history!