movie thoughts that are not a review

Back from the (movie) theater! Wow, I am still having trouble with the fact that it costs *eight dollars* to see a matinee. That is — wow. Anyway!

It turns out that our local cineplex is just as loud and obnoxiously colored as it always has been, but I hadn’t been in a while, so it all seemed a little more overwhelming. I feel whelmed to the max.

I had a few thoughts about all the bright and shiny movie posters we saw, though (along with all the dark and dreary ones).

1. Why do I like Spiderman? I’m terrified of spiders! This makes no sense to me.

2. Thanks to the poster for “This Means War”, apparently I can recognize Tom Hardy, but not Chris Pine (to be fair, I *thought* it looked like him). Of course, I also thought that Moran in Sherlock Holmes looked like Tom Hardy, so it’s possible I just think everyone looks like everyone else, and sometimes an actor is in enough movies that I get it right.

3. I thought the posters for “Mission Impossible: The One With Hawkeye” were hilarious. I love that Tom Cruise is wearing this grungy hoodie, and everyone else is wearing normal-to-nice clothes.

(One, because seriously, is that the same disreputable hoodie from Minority Report? And two, I can just imagine the characters being all, ‘dude, we’re just going undercover; we can still dress in regular clothes — in fact, if any of us are sticking out like sore thumbs in this picture, it’s, well, it’s you.’)

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.

movie review: Sherlock Holmes 2 (Game of Shadows)

1. Jude Law: snappy dresser. Seriously, how did he manage to look good in *everything* they put on him? RDJ mostly looked like a bum, no matter what he was wearing. Even when he was dressed up! (No offense to Robert Downey Jr; bum is a good look for him.)

2. So they cut out the bit on the train, from the first preview I saw — the one that mirrored the first movie, with the whole, “Get that thing out of my face,” etc, etc. I’m torn between not really caring in this particular situation that the part was cut, and being really irritated in general that movies do that — show things in the previews which then don’t actually happen in the movie. Feels like false advertising (and, in fact, it is!).

3. Overall, it was about what I expected. Still would rather have been watching the Avengers, but it was an enjoyable afternoon outing.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.