As you know, I watched/finished A Series of Unfortunate Events last night. Although the drive to and from Buffalo to Maine was not a series of unfortunate events, returning to my gloomy house in Portland did seem slightly unfortunate, and although still I had not necessarily enjoyed this movie enough to finish it the first time I started it, just before holiday travel, I thought, second chances are sometimes a good idea, and usually always with movies. And so, as you know, I watched/finished aSoUE last night.
That's what Jim Carrey reminds me of in this movie. I've seen Eternal Sunshine so many times, love it!, that I've become accostomed to that Jim Carrey. I remember thinking his 90s movies were funny or else really bad, depending on the movie, anyway, after watching the Making Of featurette on the ES DVD, I just think, maybe I learned that Jim Carrey is kind of a jerk? I'm excited to see I Love You Phillip Morris, though, aren't you?
The second time I really liked it, despite my casting criticisms. Like, the children are too adult looking and beautiful. They don't look very much like children, with the exception of the baby. But then they grew on me because they're all really great. I was excited that Jennifer Coolidge was part of the theatre troop. I love her in this, she is so great:
I loved Meryl Streep in it and whoever is the snake uncle. That snake story was so great, I was sorry when he died. What else? I dunno. The marriage play was amazing. That eye stuff was intriguing. I wonder, will they ever make more movies? I guess I should read the books.
Although I liked the movie, ultimately, I do wish it had been all like the end credits because that stuff: loved it the most!
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how do you put videos in the blog? i can't figure it out.
ReplyDeletei love the snake uncle too! his name's billy connolly and he's a british comedian but not in a lot of movies. i wanted to see all his movies after seeing this movie, but there wasn't much to see.
there was that great animation part in the 7th harry potter too, which i love.
I embed videos. Isn't embedding great? How you do that is, in YouTube, below the videoscreen and the play (or whatever, the place that shows the passing of time?) bar, there's a line of buttons, like LIKE, ADD TO, SHARE and EMBED. You can use share to email or facebook share things. If you click EMBED, it gives you code for the video, so you just copy and paste it into yr blog post and voila!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally totally drinking the new Kanye Kool-Aid, have I mentioned that already?