What movies have you seen recently?

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Interview with a Vampire
Warm Bodies
Queen of the Damned

Breeders.

You know how there are horror movies that are so bad that they're good? Well, this isn't one of them. This movie was so bad that it's just bad. Alien spores grow inside New York men, then gorily burst out to rape virginal women in order to repopulate the earth with their spawn. When the actors are acting, they act very badly - but in most cases, they appear only to be reading their lines (and very inane lines they are). Even the scenes where the women are naked are so blatantly gratuitous that it takes away from the experience of watching. Plus, the subject of rape as a violent crime is presented so shallowly that it offends one's sensibilities. Only the most die hard bad movie aficionados will be able to enjoy this stinker.

I watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban yesterday. I believe it was the last Harry Potter film to have a score composed by John Williams, who is my number one favorite film score composer.

Ratatouille

Huge improvement on the barely-watchable Twelve, but I still didn't enjoy it as much as Eleven, or any given episode of Mission: Impossible or Leverage for that matter.

Pocahontas
A whole lot better than Avatar.

The Birdman of Alcatraz

Quite an interesting old movie. It's about a guy serving life in prison in the early 20th century, who adopts a sparrow he found in the exercise yard one day, and this eventually leads to him becoming a burgeoning ornithologist. I didn't watch the whole thing, but it was pretty fascinating, and quite pleasant given the subject matter.

I'm watching Blackbird again on Netflix. I've probably watched it five times in the past year. Gritty drama. No visible acting. Poetic. Funny here and there. It's comfort food for me.

I saw "The Imitation Game" last night, the movie about the cracking of the Enigma code which shortened the second world war due to Alan Turing (and others, some of whom were not given credit in the movie) inventing a computer which could decode the German encryption on communications as to their war plan. Stunning performances all round, combined with great attention to period detail, an impressive script - this film will pick up a lot of awards I think, and justifiably so.

What was difficult was figuring out what was reality and what was dramatic invention - Turing was never suspected of being a spy as the movie portrays (and he wasn't). Nor did he work with the spy which the film places on his team (they never worked together). The computer was not called Christopher after Turing's boytime crush on a schoolmate. However, putting these details aside, it's an impressive film all round.

The film comes down firmly with a YES to the issue of whether Turing was on the spectrum and ticks boxes as to symptoms (some of which are dramatic invention apparently). It takes pains to show that he doesn't get jokes, can't tell them well, isn't a team player, doesn't respect hierarchy and authority for its own sake, can think outside the box with intuitive grasp of radically different possibilities, is very literal, is emotionally isolated, mathematically super-gifted, is incapable of sustaining emotional/sexual relationships, is misunderstood and considered weird by others, does not understand why they consider him weird.

It is a realistic depiction of one variety of the highly gifted aspergian scientist type, and won't offend ASD viewers as far as I can see. Though whether it was true of Turing himself is another issue altogether, and the jury is still out on that one. I would highly recommend the film.

Titicut Follies, Rosemary's Baby, and Treasure Planet. Eclectic mix. I know.

I've seen Mama a second time and I've seen Fruitvale Station, A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, and Now You See Me for the first time.

Reach Me

A motivational book written by a mysterious man quickly gains popularity, inspiring a group of people to confront their fears.

Drove through a snow storm tonight to see Wild at 10:35 pm. It was interesting, not overly sure on my consensus of it yet. I intend to start doing my own hiking and camping trips starting this summer so this movie intrigued me.