Lazy Day Cinema Splurge

I had kind of a slug day yesterday.  On Friday I was feeling dizzy and nauseous.  I also took my temperature and it was 96.2!  I crawled under the covers and went back to bed.  So Saturday, between making sure my puppies got walks and cuddles, I mostly plopped in front of the television and watched some movies.  I rented Suffragette, Spectre, and The Intern. 

Suffragette was really good.  I liked that it told the story of Emily Davison without making the movie about her.  I remember first learning about how they used to force feed the women prisoners on hunger strikes.  I was in college, and my imagination is very vivid.  When my professor was describing this, I kind of giggled.  He was like - are you a sadist?  No, I'm just trying to imagine someone trying to force-feed a pissed off suffragette. This movie definitely made me take back my scoff.  That scene was brutal to witness.  That scene was also when I knew this film would break-away and tell the story of Emily Davison (my clue: we can't give them a martyr for their cause).  I knew of Emily Davison and was excited to see this movie discuss her story.  I have often wondered how modern culture might view her: martyr or terrorist?  I think now days, everything is so easily labeled terrorist.  Most of their actions were civil disobedience and property/wealth destruction.  This is just a good movie that covers this topic in a very intelligent way.  Plus, if you had no clue about Emily Davison before this film, I'm sure Google helped you out afterwards. 

 

Spectre was a Bond movie.  It was action and romance titilating.  Swoon worthy Daniel Craig plays 007 to a T.  He's my favorite bond. I think he brings a different element to Bond.  Not just a womanizing spy, but also a man with emotions and duty.  I actually fell asleep a couple times and awoke at a confusing scene with drilling.  I had to rewind a bit and then re-watch. It was good and I almost feel like they closed the Bond saga.  Who knows, they may resurrect him again, but I hope he chooses love this time...and is allowed to keep it!
Plus.  I think I'm in love with the fact that Daniel Craig is married to Rachel Weiss (I adore her).  That may be why he ranks as my favorite Bond.  Althought I do love Timothy Dalton too. :)

The Intern was such a cute movie.  Anne Hathaway is always a favorite.  This was both female and senior citizen empowering. Love and work drive us.  And we need to have something keeping us busy.  Robert DeNiro did such a good job in this role.  The young owner/creator of a growing online clothing company (Anne) gets some help and persceptive on life from a senior citizen intern.  It was motivating to see Robert DeNiro support his female boss and really be a "he for she" kind of guy.  He supported her business and her running it.  He gave her life advice and business advice.  It was a wrapped in a pretty bow ending.  Happy ending, just what you wanted.  It had me tearing up a bit at some points.  But it was a great message.

Wow - that sucked

So One Day - that movie that I REALLY wanted to see...with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess (two people I LOVE) - DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE ON A GIRLS WEEKEND...unless you want your weekend to go from fun to absolutely depressing. It was fun - we went at 10 in the morning and there was only one other person in the theater...a man. But we giggled and had fun and put our feet up on the rail; that was until DEPRESSION comes at you like a lorrie from the right. Bloody lorries! It made me miss Edinburgh and Paris quite a bit to add to the depression factor. I do have to say though, Anne Hathaway's Scottish accent was pretty horrible! There were flashes of it being Scottish and then it was just kind of "sorta Englishy."

Anyway - the story is of two people Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway). They meet up again on graduation night, almost "do it," end up deciding to not "do it" and just be friends. The following day is St. Swithun's Day and from that day on, July 15 is a day where they usually meet up again in some way or another. It follows them from 1988 to 2011 and there friendship goes from good to great, to not so hot, to dead, to rekindled and so on. There friendship with each other makes them. One of the characters says to Dexter: "She made you decent and in return you made her so happy."

It was a fantastic movie, just horribly depressing and not fitting a celebratory weekend. This is a - I want to sit down and bawl my eyes out kind of movie. Go prepared with lot of tissues and waterproof mascara! I don't know if I can bring myself to read the book now, despite the fact that I am on the holds list for it at the library.