Movie Mania

I watched several things this weekend, instead of doing anything constructive.

First, we rented "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This movie was fairly faithful to the book. Remember that this book was longer than any of the three that had preceded it so unfortunately, the moviemakers had to cut quite a bit of it out; otherwise the movie would have been six hours long. It was long enough as it was. I prefer the book over the movie version, but DH enjoyed the movie. He has liked all the HP movies. I thought that the main characters are looking a little too old for their parts, though.

Next, we watched "Saw II." What a disappointment. I was read for something chilling and creepy like the first "Saw" but this movie was not even close. Other than gore, there were very few scary parts, and unlike the first movie, this movie did not leave me thinking.

The third movie I watched was "House of 1000 Corpses." A few years ago, critics raved about this movie, saying it was brilliant. I found it to be a tedious ripoff of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It wasn't even scary. It was just stupid. I don't know what the point was. Perhaps you have to be a Rob Zombie fan to enjoy it. There was a lot of just plain mindless violence. *shrugs*

Last weekend, I saw an 1960 movie called "Sons and Lovers," starring (a very young) Dean Stockwell. It was based on the D.H. Lawrence book of the same title. The movie tells the story of a young man who is trying to break free of his mother's control, and find his place in life. The young girl he thinks he loves offers up her virginity, which he accepts and then realizes that she can't love all of him. The second woman was a married woman, but she still loved her unfaithful husband, so they couldn't be together. Finally his mother dies and the movie ends, with him having the whole world before him. But he wonders if he'll ever be happy with a wife. Now I need to read the book.