Day 33 and 34: Click, Clue, and Corpse Bride

Click

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Super Sad, but really good

We kind of stalled out on this movie, because Matt doesn't particularly like it.  He thinks it's a good movie, but he finds it painful to watch.  He is a person who values family  and spending as much time with them as possible, so he gets upset at Adam Sandler's character when he chooses work over family.  And then as the magical remote fast forward's through his life and he loses his wife, and misses seeing his children grow-up, it causes Matt and I both to cry over the sadness of it all.  Overall, this has to be one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies, simply because he doesn't really do anything he's known for: funny voices, etc. I think he can has the potential to be a great dramatic actor, just wait until we get to the R's and we watch Rain Over Me.

Clue

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesomely Cheesy 

So, this movie was a nostalgic buy from the $5 Wal-Mart movie bin.  It was so bad it was good.  Tim Curry is amazing in it, and I realized halfway through, that I'm so used to watching him in RHPS in 5 inch heels, that I never realized how short he really is.  We watched this movie late after Click, so I fell asleep for about 10 minutes in the middle, but that's okay, because Tim Curry's character recapped everything at the end before revealing the killer in 3 separate and different endings of the movie.

The Corpse Bride

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Short and Sweet

Another Tim Burton movie, this brings our total up to 4 by now, I believe.  I love this movie because it has a cool plot, great music and great animation.  I like that it has a happy ending.  Matt really likes this movie too. 

Next: The final 'C' movie, Crash, and then beginning the 'Ds' with The James Dean Collection. 

Day 32: Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Super lame

This movie is terrible.  Another example of the things that get bought from the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart.  Two historians watching this movie results in a lot of comments about how the movie is wrong historically/mythologically.  The acting is AWFUL, and the writing is terrible.  I told Matt that it felt at times like the writer had just picked up our classical mythology textbook and copied and pasted the text into lines.  The effects were cheesy as well.  Harry Hamlin proved to be a terrible actor who just wore the same vacant expression throughout the entire film.  On a different note, Matt used this movie to teach a lesson on Perseus in his latin student teaching last year.

Next up: Click, Clue, Corpse Bride and Crash