Noir, sadness, and bowling
Gonna start using this blog to track what I watch and do, just for my own fun. I track all this stuff in a bullet journal notebook and on various apps, but hey, why not share some thoughts here? This is by no means a comprehensive list of everything I have consumed, but it's the big ones. Everything here is from February 14th to the 22nd-ish. Hopefully these won't be this long in the future.
Movies
Went to a lot of movies in the past week. What's here is the end of me going to Seattle International Film Festival's (SIFF) Noir City, an 18 movie, seven day event of noir movies from 1948. I made it to ten movies total, and the first two here are the last two I saw before I realized I had to work the next day. The rest are movies I saw with friends in the theater and on the couch.
So Evil My Love (1948) - SIFF Noir City - theater
A gaslight noir where a recent widow meets a criminal painter who romances and convinces her to do evil deeds for their love. Pretty damn bleak story of dirty hands soiling everything they touch.
Sleep, My Love (1948) - SIFF Noir City - theater
A woman wakes up on a train not knowing how she got there and doubts herself as her husband convinces her something is wrong. I'll be honest, I had to be up early and left halfway through, but enjoyed what I saw. Young Don Ameche is such a baby!
Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) - theater
Scott and family get sucked into the quantum realm to face Kang the Conqueror in this middling movie with too much to juggle. I love Marvel, and these are basically my reason to not collect comics anymore. That being said, half the cast seemed forgotten about although when Jonathan Majors is on screen who could care?
Your Place or Mine (2023) - Netflix
Two best friends swap apartments and lives for a week and find they have more feelings for each other than they knew. Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher are pretty good here and share less screen time than Tom and Meg in Sleepless in Seattle, but the romcom energy is strong and it's a fun watch.
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) - theater
Mike is back and going to London to put on a show for Selma Hayek. Somehow the plot got dumbed down even more than the first two in this lacking sequel, but the dancing and shots are fun to watch. It's dumb, but you get to watch beautiful, bendy people have sex with their clothes on so it's not that bad.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - theater
Ang Lee's Oscar winning movie about a stolen sword and the dynamics of love while flying through trees holds up rather well on a big, modern screen. I'll be honest, it was a late showing and the film moves so slow my eyes drooped here and there (along with some chemical enhancement), but I still had a lot of fun.