Pammyk's thoughts

Cute and Uniquely Entertaining

PammyK — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:58:37 GMT

I thought Penelope was a cute movie. I appreciated that it was rated PG, but that it was still an adult movie - it was refreshing. It isn't in my top ten, but it proved itself to be uniquely entertaining.

Harry Potter and the

PammyK — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:56:00 GMT

I can hardly remember the title of the Harry Potter movie I just watched...you know, the new one...in theaters now. Number 4 or 5...Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...or Harry Potter and the Ministry of Mistries...whatever. I don't really care that I can't remember the titles or keep the storylines straight from the different movies - I just truly love being entertained by these films, and this last one was just as good.

Overweight, naive...and depressed, but optimistic

PammyK — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:17:09 GMT

Tracy Orbison is such a sad character. He's overweight, naive...and depressed, but optimistic. The combination of those characteristics makes this movie hard to watch. You want to root for Tracy, but then he's just so naive about a situation you can't...or he's so optimistic about something that you just feel sad for him, and he has sort of this babyface that just makes it harder emotionally to watch.

Although the overall theme of the movie is hopelessness...there are little bits of humor and resolution that keep you going just enough to get through to the end.

Pretty farm life

PammyK — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:36 GMT

Farm life...there was sweat, hard work, drunkeness, dirt, struggle; but there was also peacefulness, calm, green grass, light breezes, swimming holes and crickets chirping. There is a calming feel to the movie that draws you in and just the right amount of hopefulness to the struggle and the sad. I thought that the combination of calm and hopefulness made it a sad but beautiful film. It left me feeling like I was laying in a field on a warm summer night...after a hard days work and a cool dip in the swimming hole...looking up at the stars knowing that I can't control where my life is headed, but that I can control the kind of person I am.

Violent but worthwhile

PammyK — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:44:06 GMT

I don't usually like watching violent movies, but this one was worthwhile. The violence was there, but I didn't feel like I had to cover my eyes.

I connected with almost every character, and felt sad for each one. Maybe a little hopeful for a few of them, but mostly just a little sad.

Valentine's Day

PammyK — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:53:55 GMT

I went to the Valentine's Day screening. I was excited about getting my Four Eyed Monsters sticker and had already decided to like the movie. How can I decide to like a movie before I've seen it? The same way that I decide that I don't want to see a movie before I've seen it - fairly close mindedly.

So did I truly like it? Would I have liked it if I had randomly seen it at a film festival before hearing anything about it? If I hadn't just had two java jive martinis and was sharing a box of chocolates with my friends on Valentine's Day? I'll never know. It was a little wacky and there was some potty mouth and swear words - things that normally turn me off to a movie, but I liked watching it.

I liked watching Arin and Susan write to eachother. I liked watching Susan at her job. I thought Arin's fantasies were funny. I liked how the birds were beautiful and fluttery and then when there was an STD in question the birds were walking around on a gross rooftop in their own poop.

I felt like Susan could do better than Arin though, at least throughout most of the movie. Toward the end I felt like maybe Susan was being more completely herself in the movie, but Arin was acting. There were just a few scenes toward the end where I felt like Arin was himself and relaxed with Susan, and then I started to see a wonderful little four eyed monster.

If you want to be me, be me

PammyK — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:45:17 GMT

All weirdness aside, I found this movie very touching. I've seen romance movies where the main couple look and act perfect for eachother, but you don't feel it, you don't believe they truly are in love. I truly believed it in this movie.

Quirky, sweet and touching, and I Ioved the end.

Scrooge is bald

PammyK — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:57:00 GMT

I've seen lots of different versions of "A Christmas Carol" and this one isn't the best, but it was on TV last night so I watched it. I liked it of course. You just can't help feeling so so sad about Tiny Tim and you can just feel the fresh cold air and the excitement of Christmas morning when Scrooge wakes up and realizes that he hasn't missed Christmas and there is still time to change and buy that huge goose for the Crachits. Its such a wonderful story that I'm not sure it matters which one you're watching. My main complaint about this one is that Scrooge was bald and younger looking - he should have wispy white hair and be ugly.

Wacky downer

PammyK — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:10:00 GMT

I'm not much for wacky downer films...as this film is aptly tagged. I just don't connect with cocaine snorting, mentally unstable guitar playing, extremely proper cheery, alcoholic writer type people...but thats just me. I like to connect to a movie and relate it to my own life. This movie didn't do it for me. Instead I felt like I was just watching wacky people living sort of a messed up life that didn't seem realistic in the least to me.

That said, there were a few things I liked. I laughed a few times at Corbit. His character was a little too weird - he may as well have been wearing is Elf outfit, but he was still funny. I liked the music too. I felt like the music blended well with the movie - it was a beautiful movie to listen to - and the character's voices were soothing and unique to listen to also.

Nature and History

PammyK — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:09:00 GMT

What I liked about this movie was how it made me think about nature and history. After the movie was done we talked about what it would be like to arrive in a new land and try to settle there - and how strange it would be to find people different from you living there. We also talked about nature and how different the Indians used the land compared to the English people. It made us really aware of how much we struggle with nature rather than work with it.

What I didn't like about this movie was that it was very slow moving. My sister fell asleep half way through and then she woke up and left the room to go sleep somewhere else. Then towards the end of the movie my dad left the room and didn't bother coming back to watch the end - it just didn't hold their attention. I also felt like the music could have been better, I kept waiting for a new more grand part of the song, but it seemed to stay at the same excitement level and the same melody. And also, I disliked that toward the end nothing bad happened anymore and it was just a romance story - what happened to the Indians? What was going on in the English settlement? There was so much struggle in settling and struggle between people earlier in the movie, and then that just disappeared and we were only watching Rebecca fall in love with John Rolfe.