finally friday

i saw this preview for a movie called dear frankie on the bride & predjudice vid. i'd never heard of it, but it looked interesting--and it had gerard butler in it. i like gerard butler, even if i still feel like his vocal stylings were a poor choice for the phantom movie. but then again, i don't like phantom, so making it into a movie was a poor choice in my book. (oh yes, i expect hate mail.)

at any rate, this dear frankie movie i'd never heard of peaked my curiosity, so one click and it was in my queue, then at my door. i have to say, i loved it. set in glasgow, the scenery is sometimes bleak, and the accents sometimes thick, but i thought the storyline was original and entertaining. it also occurred to me how much i like watching non-american movies. hollywood has decided that the american public is too stupid (and we probably are) to assume an ending, so everything has to be spelled out. i loved the way dear frankie, and others, give you brilliantly subtle hints as to the direction a story might take. they assume that you are smart enough to dream a story-ending that rings true to you. i give it 1 bucket.

i also finally saw napoleon dynamite. i'll pause for your shocks of dismay. pause over. see i don't like 'mormon trends'. yes, i realize this is not a 'mormon' movie, but when every mormon i know is rushing out to see it, that makes it a mormon trend in my book. and it's not that i won't see it. i love the princess bride as much as the next mo, i just need to wait it out a bit to ensure i don't get caught in the hype. and in the case of nd, i'm not sure i get what all the fuss was about. there were certainly funny moments. particularly so because my mom is from preston, and i've spent a lot of time there. i get it, i do. and it's not my intent to dis it. it was entertaining. but the way people have reacted and discussed it, i was expecting more. a lot more. i was expecting my stomach to hurt. and it didn't. do we as mormons get overly excited about a movie that is 'clean' just because it is? just because we can safely watch it when we are with a group of other mormons? sometimes i wonder.

on a random nd sidenote--for those of you who ever met or saw kahre, does that guy 'don' just weird you out with similarity. it was a bit freaky for me.

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just plain creepy.