Haven’t had much free time at all to watch a movie (vs having something on teevee in the background that I probably saw a bunch of times before), but did catch some shorts.
First up was “Yes, God, Yes”, the 2017 short, not the 2019 full-length movie. No wonder nothing made sense goggling for it, as everything was pointing to the full movie.
Anyway, it was cute, a “coming <coff!> of age” flick about the main chickie (Natalia Dyer) discovering naughty pleasure despite all the brainwashing she’d been subjected to at school and probably at home, too (ie, that everything’s a sin).
The priest’s screensaver was a hoot!
Pretty interesting, some good laffs, I’d give it a thumbs-up.
Next up was “Hotel Chevalier”. One word: w…t…f???
Even after goggling it, it makes no sense to me. Apparently it’s a sort of short prequel to “The Darjeeling Limited”. Uhhh, oooookay, never saw it, and if it’s anything like HC, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to. It’s rated 7.3, reviews say it’s a monument to Wes Anderson’s genius, but I’m still all “wtf???”. I’d rather watch something from Wes Craven than Wes Anderson.
I get it, “slice of life” flix don’t always have a beginning, middle, and end, but this was like a 10min SOL that just didn’t make any sense.
On the plus side, you get to kindasorta see Natalie Portman all nuded up, ’though in her “V For Vendetta” ’do somewhat grown-out.
And here she’s covered in bruises. You can see them almost right from her first appearance, moreso when all nekkid, the dewd even asks her about them, she never answers, and that’s the end of that. And apparently in TDU she makes a cameo, so I’m guessing no bruises are explained away in a brief cameo, either. So… why??
Yeah, and we’re back to “wtf??”.
But the crappy song that was playing over and over and over on his Ipod or whatever, loud enough to drown out dialogue, and after about 30sec felt like a worm burrowing through my brain, I really wish I never even heard at all. It was that annoying.
So if you want to see some more of NP than in her other flix, have at it. Just turn down the sound. Or just fast-forward to that part and play it in slo-mo. Otherwise, at least in my opinion, there’s zero reason to watch it.
Ugh.