Boogeyman, Steve Zissou, Kinsey
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Our local video rental store had, for a change, a wide selection of interesting movies. We ended up making two trips to the store during the weekend.
We started with Boogeyman. Expectations were about middle-level, but even that was too high. It was utterly bad, really.
A lot of it was the stupidity of the story, another big part the ineptitude of the lead actor. He just wasn't up for the task, and the script didn't support him at all. Not recommended.
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was, in the other hand, a most excellent movie. It was full of brilliant comedy, absolutely brilliant.
It was fun in every sense, lots of witty verbal comedy and clever visual jokes. It was all very refreshing. There's a long thread in IMDB on the best lines of the movie, as there were so many good ones.
I'm tempted to buy the movie, that's quite untypical. It was just so cleverly funny. The cast is great - Bill Murray is superb, as is Cate Blanchett, as is Willem Dafoe (he's very calm, collected and German) and so on. Wes Anderson is looking pretty good, after this and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Kinsey was an interesting portrait of an important and controversial man. Kinsey's studies on human sexuality certainly opened many closed doors.
The movie was quite good. The whole controversy around Kinsey's studies was less of an issue than I expected. I think that's good - I'm not sure if I would be interested to see all that mess. It was made clear enough that Kinsey's research wasn't all that welcome.
Anyway, if you don't know the man and his works, I suggest you watch the movie.
We tried to watch a movie of another influential man, but stopped in the middle. Helter Skelter, which isn't about The Beatles but Charles Manson, was surprisingly boring considering the subject matter.
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