Movies of january

[oneiriad]

So, decided to do this again, with a few adjustments - mainly that I'll be counting a mini-series or a complete season of a longer series as a movie. Anyway.

1. I'm Not There
Interesting, though since I must shamefully admit to knowing precious little about Bob Dylan I probably missed a lot. Still, I liked the way different actors portrayed what I suppose was different phases, so to speak.

2. Lost in Austen
Oh look, Mary Sue in Austen-land on tv. I wonder if Amanda will travel around and find Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. Although honestly not that fun - oh, it had its moments, like Amanda convincing Darcy to take a dip in the pond or Elizabeth showing Darcy all the Colin Firth fangirl pages on the internet, but since Amanda kind of went on my nerves... Still, my favourite time travel stories tend to be about people from the past visiting the present, and what little this one had of that, well - Elizabeth got to be super-welladjusted in no time at all and poor Darcy got to be shocked to silence by merely seeing a little rushhour traffick - doesn't anybody believe in a middle ground around here?

3. De halvt dolda (The half hidden)
Swedish mini-series that I almost turned off before the first ten minutes - except then the story changed from the 70's to the 21st century and I watched the rest wanting to know the connections between all these people and times. A story about sons who are, in various ways, neglected by their parents. Oddly enough, the one I liked the best was Linus, the skinhead boy who had to take care of his younger siblings because of his mother being an alcoholic and who dreamed of being a ship's builder - liked him far more than the idiot emo kid he winds up gaybashing to death. Ah well...

4. Babylon 5 - season 5
Am I the only one who watched season 5 and couldn't stop wondering when Sheridan would remember just a little about his encounter with future Londo and connect just a few of the dots - or did he get brain-damaged at Z'ha'dum and nobody told me?

5. 1984
Shiver-enducing, even if the technology looks silly...

6. Milk
Interesting and kind of sad.

7. 10.000 BC
How does the people managed to go from what I suppose must be a tundra north of the Alps to sub-Saharan Africa on foot in what appears to be a relatively short time - and without crossing deserts or seas? Why aren't the mammoths at the Pyramids dropping like flies from the heat? For that matter, why would mammoths have a lead bull? Why, why, why - sorry, but this movie annoyed me. Nice sabertooth tiger, though.

Comments

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

I agree with you completely about 10,000 BC they either walked a really, really long way, or that was some kind of earth-like planet where the weather and wildlife just likes to surprise people! But I still can't explain the mammoths.

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

You're theory would work better if there wasn't a scene where you get a glimpse of a map of what is very obviously the Mediterranean. Actually, until I saw that map I was working on a theory involving the Mediterranean Sea being not, but a lowland covered in forest...

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

I completely missed the map, I must have been craftily distracted by all the prehistoric animals!