You know, I didn’t even care for Star Wars much, but I’ve seen a few movies since then, including all three Lord of the Rings flicks in theaters (although the extended versions on DVD are significantly better.) At Christmas I saw three films with my Mom in Detroit: ROTK (I’ll review once the x-DVD comes out), Master & Commander (my Mom likes the books, and the film was quite good if you like historical action drama) and Bad Santa (not really the thing to take your 81 year old mother to, but she’s cool, and we had a few laughs, as well as some grimaces.) Also Gosford Park on video, which was fun; I’ve always liked Altman (JL: Nashville is another classic to rent.) I can’t help being interested when they do something like Tolkien or Homer, which I was mad for in my youth, but for some strange reason I have yet to see any of the movies made from the Marvel Comics I used to collect; maybe I’ll catch up with Spiderman yet, but next up: King Arthur. Not sure if they can top Excalibur (another rental alert; Boorman is a significant director: Deliverance; The Emerald Forest…) but this version is supposed to have input from John Matthews, who, along with his wife Caitlin, represents the best of neo-pagan Celticism, so I’m intrigued…
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- alex 6-11-2004 7:16 am