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Jun. 11th, 2007 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfirecrackerAll of the sudden, I can't seem to pick a happy-ending movie to save my damn life!
This weekend's viewing included: Timeline, starring Paul Walker, who I'm beginning to believe just isn't a terribly good actor. It looked like it was going to be a nice, fluffy little romantic comedy about a group of modern archeologists traveling back in time to fourteenth century England.
I should have turned it off after the first guy in the group got shot full of arrows, because it just went downhill from there . . . people getting killed off left, right, and sideways. And I just couldn't buy the two romantic pairings the movie tried to create -- personally, I think Paul Walker had way more sexual chemistry with his freakin' sword than with what's-her-face.
Whatever. *rolls eyes*
Next on the list was Breakfast On Pluto. Okay, I admit that I just didn't get this movie. Mostly I watched it because I think Cillian Murphy is a beautiful, beautiful man, and hey! Now we all know that he makes a beautiful woman, too. The end of the movie just left me scratching my head and going, "Huh?"
If anyone has seen this movie and cares to discuss, I would love to hear it.
And then there was Bent. OH MY GOD. This movie made me want to slash. my. wrists. I bawled my fucking eyes out. I really should have suspected that a movie set primarily in a WWII Nazi concentration camp would come to no good end. The ending was just . . . OH. It felt like a blade to the heart. I mean, the first time Max gets to hold his lover is when Horst has been shot to death by the SS? And Max has to bury Horst's body? And he says, "I love you. What's wrong with that?" Right before he goes and throws himself on the electrified fence?
Bawling. Eyes. Out.
I had to stay up late and watch my newly checked-out copy of Latter Days TWICE, just to take the bad taste out of my mouth.
Okay, yeah, so, there's an unsuccessful suicide attempt in that movie, but at least it has a HAPPY ENDING!!! Also? Fucking funny movie, full of the kinds of sly quips and sharp one-liners that I love beyond all reason.
I wonder why I haven't been able to find happy-ending movies in the gay genre? Is it unique to movies with homosexual male protagonists? Or am I just having a serious run of bad luck?
This weekend's viewing included: Timeline, starring Paul Walker, who I'm beginning to believe just isn't a terribly good actor. It looked like it was going to be a nice, fluffy little romantic comedy about a group of modern archeologists traveling back in time to fourteenth century England.
I should have turned it off after the first guy in the group got shot full of arrows, because it just went downhill from there . . . people getting killed off left, right, and sideways. And I just couldn't buy the two romantic pairings the movie tried to create -- personally, I think Paul Walker had way more sexual chemistry with his freakin' sword than with what's-her-face.
Whatever. *rolls eyes*
Next on the list was Breakfast On Pluto. Okay, I admit that I just didn't get this movie. Mostly I watched it because I think Cillian Murphy is a beautiful, beautiful man, and hey! Now we all know that he makes a beautiful woman, too. The end of the movie just left me scratching my head and going, "Huh?"
If anyone has seen this movie and cares to discuss, I would love to hear it.
And then there was Bent. OH MY GOD. This movie made me want to slash. my. wrists. I bawled my fucking eyes out. I really should have suspected that a movie set primarily in a WWII Nazi concentration camp would come to no good end. The ending was just . . . OH. It felt like a blade to the heart. I mean, the first time Max gets to hold his lover is when Horst has been shot to death by the SS? And Max has to bury Horst's body? And he says, "I love you. What's wrong with that?" Right before he goes and throws himself on the electrified fence?
Bawling. Eyes. Out.
I had to stay up late and watch my newly checked-out copy of Latter Days TWICE, just to take the bad taste out of my mouth.
Okay, yeah, so, there's an unsuccessful suicide attempt in that movie, but at least it has a HAPPY ENDING!!! Also? Fucking funny movie, full of the kinds of sly quips and sharp one-liners that I love beyond all reason.
I wonder why I haven't been able to find happy-ending movies in the gay genre? Is it unique to movies with homosexual male protagonists? Or am I just having a serious run of bad luck?
