Having watched some movies
Nov. 18th, 2023 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kihouSarah's aunt visited a couple weeks back, and as is tradition we watched a combination of movies with "red" in the title and vaguely classic movies.
Red Notice was a very fun, twist-filled Lupin-esque heists-and-adventure-archaeology sort of deal. It's not, like, clever or anything, but it had some fun action sequences and never got boring and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
We then watched The Comedy of Terrors mainly on the strength of me contending that I like Vincent Price, though afterwards I realized I'm not really sure what else I've seen him in. A bit slow-moving at the start, but it has a good cast and the climactic sequence was very fun and had some good jokes. No Arsenic and Old Lace but I'm happy to have watched it.
Red 2 was a fun spy action film with a bit more actual coherence than Red Notice. Anthony Hopkins does a really fun job.
And now, without Sarah's aunt, we watched Spirited Away: Live On Stage, the recording of the Japanese Spirited Away stage play. It was very well done; very close to the original in terms of script with a few added songs, but really great puppetry, stage transformations, and clever transitions to represent the spirit world convincingly without excessive use of projected special effects. I'd definitely recommend it. (Also makes me think about how Spirited Away is and isn't like common portal fantasy architypes and how that relates to gameable structures.)
Red Notice was a very fun, twist-filled Lupin-esque heists-and-adventure-archaeology sort of deal. It's not, like, clever or anything, but it had some fun action sequences and never got boring and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
We then watched The Comedy of Terrors mainly on the strength of me contending that I like Vincent Price, though afterwards I realized I'm not really sure what else I've seen him in. A bit slow-moving at the start, but it has a good cast and the climactic sequence was very fun and had some good jokes. No Arsenic and Old Lace but I'm happy to have watched it.
Red 2 was a fun spy action film with a bit more actual coherence than Red Notice. Anthony Hopkins does a really fun job.
And now, without Sarah's aunt, we watched Spirited Away: Live On Stage, the recording of the Japanese Spirited Away stage play. It was very well done; very close to the original in terms of script with a few added songs, but really great puppetry, stage transformations, and clever transitions to represent the spirit world convincingly without excessive use of projected special effects. I'd definitely recommend it. (Also makes me think about how Spirited Away is and isn't like common portal fantasy architypes and how that relates to gameable structures.)
