Deeeee-NIED
Jun. 5th, 2004 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I said to my beloved ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird, "So I've got this free movie card! What should we spend it on?" And she said, "The Day After Tomorrow!" Last night, accordingly, we made the plan to go out tonight and go enjoy disaster porn goodness. And although spazzkat, kathrynt, and llachglin wanted to see Shrek 2, we went and met them for dinner and hung out, and that was fun.
We were going to the same theater, so we went on around over there... and parted company before we got up to the theater as we parked elsewhere in the shopping center.
Here's the annoying part, though. The show times listed for The Day After Tomorrow on our local paper's web page had the movie playing pretty much hourly this evening at this particular theater: 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:30. We got there, though, to find that THERE WAS NO 9:20 SHOWING.
Dara made the Sad Dara Face. The Woodinville Theater staff should be ashamed of themselves for making Dara make the Sad Dara Face!
We didn't want to stay for the 10:30 showing, so I proposed to Dara instead, "So what say we come back to the Grand Illusion and go see The Blob?" This sounded like an adequate substitute for disaster porn.
Except it turns out that the showing they've got tonight is actually a 1988 lame-o remake of the 1958 film. That's no fun!
Bah. So now we're going to go to Scarecrow and see if we can rent either It Happened One Night, which Kathryn highly recommended, or maybe The Towering Inferno, because WE WANT TO SEE A DISASTER MOVIE DAMMIT!
solarbird, "So I've got this free movie card! What should we spend it on?" And she said, "The Day After Tomorrow!" Last night, accordingly, we made the plan to go out tonight and go enjoy disaster porn goodness. And although spazzkat, kathrynt, and llachglin wanted to see Shrek 2, we went and met them for dinner and hung out, and that was fun.We were going to the same theater, so we went on around over there... and parted company before we got up to the theater as we parked elsewhere in the shopping center.
Here's the annoying part, though. The show times listed for The Day After Tomorrow on our local paper's web page had the movie playing pretty much hourly this evening at this particular theater: 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:30. We got there, though, to find that THERE WAS NO 9:20 SHOWING.
Dara made the Sad Dara Face. The Woodinville Theater staff should be ashamed of themselves for making Dara make the Sad Dara Face!
We didn't want to stay for the 10:30 showing, so I proposed to Dara instead, "So what say we come back to the Grand Illusion and go see The Blob?" This sounded like an adequate substitute for disaster porn.
Except it turns out that the showing they've got tonight is actually a 1988 lame-o remake of the 1958 film. That's no fun!
Bah. So now we're going to go to Scarecrow and see if we can rent either It Happened One Night, which Kathryn highly recommended, or maybe The Towering Inferno, because WE WANT TO SEE A DISASTER MOVIE DAMMIT!
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-06 12:17 pm (UTC)oh!
Date: 2004-06-06 12:19 pm (UTC)Re: oh!
Date: 2004-06-06 12:54 pm (UTC)We saw this one
Date: 2004-06-06 12:27 pm (UTC)The 1958 one, which appears to be a foreign film, also seems to be a different story:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140276/
Re: We saw this one
Date: 2004-06-06 12:36 pm (UTC)Re: We saw this one
Date: 2004-06-06 12:51 pm (UTC)We'll have to look that one up
Date: 2004-06-06 12:52 pm (UTC)Its portrayal of women and romance is in many ways more forward-thinking than most movies I've seen in the 1940s and 1950s. There was clearly a backlash later and this film demonstrates what things were like before that backlash took hold.
It's clearly a film made at the depth of the Great Depression. The on-location shooting provides scenes that are in many ways historical documents of life at the time, even with the caveat that Capra was certainly idealizing things. I loved the auto camps, for example, that were early versions of the motel. Even the scenes filmed on sets show a spirit that is very much of its time.
It was also made before the Hayes code was being actively enforced, so there's an edge to the dialogue that isn't often found in many films that came only a little while later.
Ultimately though, Colbert and Gable are just really, really good.
Re: We'll have to look that one up
Date: 2004-06-06 01:07 pm (UTC)Re: We saw this one
Date: 2004-06-06 12:53 pm (UTC)Though Dara only wound up watching half of Them as she fell asleep in the middle. I watched it all the way through; we might re-watch the second half for Dara tonight.
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Date: 2004-06-06 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-06 12:16 pm (UTC)Let me know when's good for you!