Cinema Trips: November & December
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kittiwakeNovember Cinema Trips
The Fourth Kind was not exciting enough, and the fake docudrama aspect of it meant that it dragged and I got a bit bored. Yawn.
I only went to the cinema once in November, and "The Fourth Kind" isn't worthy of being named as my favourite.
December cinema trips
The Descent: Part 2. Apparently the original film had two different endings. The American ending has Sarah escaping from the cave and driving away towards safety, and seeing Juno's ghost in the car with her. The original ending (the one I saw) implies that the scene in the car was just a dream, and ends with Sarah huddled on a ledge in the cave, with no way of escape. The new film starts with a blood-covered Sarah accosting a motorist on a forest road and there is no sign of her car, so maybe it fits with the
original ending better and Sarah did manage to follow the flow of water out of the cave as she says later in the film. Conveniently for the purposes of the plot, Sarah has lost her memory, so the sheriff, deputy and cave rescue
team who accompany her back into the caves to look for her friends have no idea what they will be up against. It is very gruesome in parts, and is basically just like the first film, except for having both men and women fighting the cave-dwellers, rather than just women.
Nativity! is an extremely funny film about rivalry between two schoolteachers and former friends who are putting on nativity plays. Lots of laughing out loud from the audience at the showing I went to. And it's a 'U' so this is one Brit-com that is totally suitable for little kids.
The Queen of Spades. For some reason Broadway was showing this black and white melodrama made in 1949. It is the story of an inpecunious Russian officer who wants to find the secret of winning at cards even if it means selling his soul to do so. Anton Walbrook chews the furniture as the crazed soldier, and there were quite a few (unintentional) laughs!
St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold was very funny, as the girls try to track down the treasure hidden by a pirate ancestor of the headmistress, and foil the woman-hating secret society run by the descendant of the man it was stolen from, who are also after it. I liked the way they created a Flash Mob in a London railway station to distract the baddies.
My favourite film in December was "Nativity!".
The Fourth Kind was not exciting enough, and the fake docudrama aspect of it meant that it dragged and I got a bit bored. Yawn.
I only went to the cinema once in November, and "The Fourth Kind" isn't worthy of being named as my favourite.
December cinema trips
The Descent: Part 2. Apparently the original film had two different endings. The American ending has Sarah escaping from the cave and driving away towards safety, and seeing Juno's ghost in the car with her. The original ending (the one I saw) implies that the scene in the car was just a dream, and ends with Sarah huddled on a ledge in the cave, with no way of escape. The new film starts with a blood-covered Sarah accosting a motorist on a forest road and there is no sign of her car, so maybe it fits with the
original ending better and Sarah did manage to follow the flow of water out of the cave as she says later in the film. Conveniently for the purposes of the plot, Sarah has lost her memory, so the sheriff, deputy and cave rescue
team who accompany her back into the caves to look for her friends have no idea what they will be up against. It is very gruesome in parts, and is basically just like the first film, except for having both men and women fighting the cave-dwellers, rather than just women.
Nativity! is an extremely funny film about rivalry between two schoolteachers and former friends who are putting on nativity plays. Lots of laughing out loud from the audience at the showing I went to. And it's a 'U' so this is one Brit-com that is totally suitable for little kids.
The Queen of Spades. For some reason Broadway was showing this black and white melodrama made in 1949. It is the story of an inpecunious Russian officer who wants to find the secret of winning at cards even if it means selling his soul to do so. Anton Walbrook chews the furniture as the crazed soldier, and there were quite a few (unintentional) laughs!
St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold was very funny, as the girls try to track down the treasure hidden by a pirate ancestor of the headmistress, and foil the woman-hating secret society run by the descendant of the man it was stolen from, who are also after it. I liked the way they created a Flash Mob in a London railway station to distract the baddies.
My favourite film in December was "Nativity!".
