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 |   Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland |
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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland    |
| Blog Harbor Challenge Prompt - Day 10: Only 33 films in film history have managed to surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Of those films (listed below for your reference), which one(s) do you think is/are the most overrated/undeserving of being on this list? Which movie do you think should be on this list but isn't? Tell us why! Furious 7? Seriously? I do not get the appeal of these movies. Each one seems more steeped in incredulity than the one before it. Despite a cast that is largely likeable and appealing, I just can't suppress actual reality long enough to accept the things this movie asks me to believe about cars. I think it ran its course before they got to Furious 7 - no pun intended. As far as what movie isn't on here that should be...King Kong, the non-stop thrill ride from 2005 featuring Jack Black and Adrian Brody. By all definition, the movie is a blockbuster - large scaled and epic. I'm surprised not to see it on the list, it certainly ranks up here with Jurassic Park. The movie grabs hold of you and its ceaseless action for nearly two hours. From creepy, violent natives and an emotional and engaging giant ape to enormous man-eating bugs to vintage images of a New York griped in the great depression era...it is a cinematic wonder. I'm very surprised to not see it on this list. |
| Blog Harbor Challenge Prompt - Day 9: Guilty Pleasure Day! What movie is your greatest guilty pleasure? The movie you know is terrible, but can't help watching every time you channel surf and happen across it? The movie you're almost afraid to admit you like, and yet find yourself popping in the DVD player or streaming a few times a year anyway? Confess your guilty pleasure and tell us what you like about it! Recently, after the untimely passing of David Bowie, I hosted a Labyrinth viewing party in my house. I was very excited to introduce one of my favorite movies from my youth to my daughter. She loved it, from start to finish. She loved the music and the muppets and the "bog of eternal stench". She delighted in the weird characters, the shriveled apple-faced goblins and the heroine. My husband abandoned us about midway through. Admittedly, years and years later watching it again, I found it pretty cringe-worthy at parts. The special effects were pretty pedestrian and the dialogue pretty lacking in substance. It was not by any stretch of the imagination, a great film. BUT, there was Bowie...and his music and his terrible,but awful catching "Magic Dance and Chilly Down" numbers. There was that horrendous 80's hair and glam, and there was, dare I mention it, the Goblin King's impressive....ball juggling skills...(what did you think I was going to say?..." All in all, the reviewing of this classic clearly redefined it in my mind as one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. |
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