Too many movies!

[avram]

bugsybanana is spending the long weekend over here. We’re on a movie-watching binge! So far:

Saturday:
Fight Club, which I’d seen before, but she hadn’t. It’s a very different experience the second time through. Lots of scenes read very differently when you know what’s really going on.
Plan 9 From Outer Space, which she’d seen but I hadn’t. No number of watchings can save this movie. It can teach you a lot of about movie-making, by negative example.

Today:
Batman Begins, which we actually had to leave the house for. It was worth it. This movie gets Batman in a way that Burton’s never did. Certainly the best live-action Batman movie ever; I’d have to see the animated Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm again before I removed the qualifier.
Moulin Rouge, because I’d already seen it and wanted something I didn’t have to pay attention to, and she wanted something different from Batman Begins. Me: “It’s a little over-the-top....” She: “A little?!”

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I love Fight Club, and one of the reasons why is that the second viewing is like seeing an entirely different film! A character that I hated and found annoying and irritating the first time round is an absolute saint the second viewing. ;) I don't know of any other movie that is so utterly transformed by the conclusion that it becomes a totally different movie the second time round. So. Good.

The only thing better than Plan 9 From Outer Space was Plan 9 From Outer Space - the Musical. Damn, I wanna see that again. >;)

Part of why I love Moulin Rouge is because it is over the top, (though mostly I love it cause boyish gorgeous singing Ewan MacGregor and really pretty costumes and sets!) though alas the movie could have been so much more, so much cooler, than it actually was if Baz had just taken the inspiration for it more literally. Ah well.

[avram]

The character in question is Marla, I’m guessing. Yeah, all of her scenes in the second half of the movie read totally differently. The seeming-petulence becomes hurt astonishment.

There are a lot of subtle little hints about what’s going on. Bits of dialog, things like who people are looking at when they’re talking, stuff like that. Wow.

A bunch of my friends rave about a movie called Plan 10 from Outer Space, which is not a sequel to Plan 9, but a weird movie about Mormons. Though since the Mormon scriptures are bad science-fiction to beging with, it’s a pretty natural pairing.