It’s finally the week of Christmas now guys. I’m writing this post from Jamaica as I’m home for Christmas, and I hope you all are too. I’m so happy to be home enjoying all the comforts that come along with it. The ackee and saltfish is flowing, the movies are playing and the jokes are to be enjoyed. I’ve already caught up with not only my podcast co-hosts but I plan on having a local meetup (more on that later this week if I dare)…

So on the related note, this is what I’ve been watching:

THE DEEP BLUE SEA (2012)

I was looking forward to this movie because, like the rest of the internet, over the last couple years I’ve fallen for Tom Hiddleston. Something about him just works. This movie however is complete Hiddleston porn in the worst way possible. It’s a beautifully shot movie with not much else going for it. The story is overly drawn out and feels like one of those self important films that takes so long it has you snoring before it gets to that third act where things are beginning to kind of come together.

FACES (1968)

An unaffecting film about a marraige seemingly gone wrong. Read my full review here.

HUSBANDS (1970)

Cassavetes returns to his first film’s ideas of having a crew of friends running around town pontificating on life and such in the wake of their best friend’s death. If you have Peter Falk in your movie and can’t get me to laugh/cry once there’s something wrong.

WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)

When you have a nightmare that makes you drive for 14 hours instead of taking a plane then something is wrong with your logic. However, this movie does present a nice visual palate as to the world of dreams and has a feeling as if there’s more analysis available for character study than maybe I was ready to enjoy at the time as we’re left to enjoy hours of introspection into the life of this aged doctor on his way to receiving a really special hat.

REWATCHED

Continuing my run of enjoying the Black Friday deals I’ve picked up I finally got around to seeing Iron Man and Blazing Saddles. Iron Man, I feel is getting better with age in the wake of this super-hero dynasty right now. It’s able to set up not just a character but a tone and philosophy so well, even though it manages to botch the villain here. Somehow by the 3/4 mark of the film you’re so on board with everything that is Tony Stark and Iron Man is that everything else is secondary. Blazing Saddles, is Blazing Saddles and that’s ok. If you like racist (nor really) cartoony westerns where the black man really invented the candy gram you’re in for a treat.

Netflix Instant recently made a deal with Disney to acquire a lot of their back catalog and I can’t say that I’m displeased. I revisted Pocahontas and The Nightmare Before Christmas (probably one of my go to Christmas films every year). I enjoyed Pocahontas when I was a child, because I love musicals, but it’s so weird to me to still be drawn to a lot of those songs but also be so turned off to hear Mel Gibson as John Smith and some of the logical and cultural nuances that are propogated by this movie. How did Pocahontas speak and not speak English at the same time? It’s so laughable at times it’s sad.

My world of catching up on 2012 films has devolved quickly into revisiting some recent discoveries as much as possible because I like loving the things I watch. So The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Silver Linings Playbook have been watched at least twice this week each. They are both gloriously lovable movies that I comprehend if someone doesn’t like. They have, at their core, an obsession and madness that I feel I shouldn’t relate to this well. I love them and I can’t wait for their Blu Ray release.

My count has been updated to 239 First time watches (139 from 2012); 138 Rewatches; 367 Total Films