Movie night
Oct. 9th, 2005 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariOn Friday, Other Kenjari and I spent the evening at the movies, accompanied by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
epilimnion.
First We saw The Corpse Bride, which was really fun, if perhaps a trifle too short. It's the same sort of stop-motion animation as in The Nightmare Before Christmas, but I think that Burton and his collaborators have refined the technique considerably in the intervening ten years or so. The music by Danny Elfman was quite good, too.
Then we went just a couple theaters over to see A History of Violence, for whichepilimnion's guy D. joined us. I really liked this film, even more than I'd expected. It is, as the title might indicate, fairly violent, but not overly so. The story concerns Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), who lives a quiet life in a small midwestern town with his family. One night two men attempt to rob his diner, and he kills them in self-defense. Then some mysterious mobster-types show up, claiming the Tom is really (or at least used to be) a Philadelphia mobster. Things get complicated, more violence ensues, and the movie explores how people deal with violence in themselves. The acting is very good, and the portrayal of Tom's relationships with his wife and children are realistic. And Viggo Mortensen is very, very attractive.
epilimnion.First We saw The Corpse Bride, which was really fun, if perhaps a trifle too short. It's the same sort of stop-motion animation as in The Nightmare Before Christmas, but I think that Burton and his collaborators have refined the technique considerably in the intervening ten years or so. The music by Danny Elfman was quite good, too.
Then we went just a couple theaters over to see A History of Violence, for which
epilimnion's guy D. joined us. I really liked this film, even more than I'd expected. It is, as the title might indicate, fairly violent, but not overly so. The story concerns Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), who lives a quiet life in a small midwestern town with his family. One night two men attempt to rob his diner, and he kills them in self-defense. Then some mysterious mobster-types show up, claiming the Tom is really (or at least used to be) a Philadelphia mobster. Things get complicated, more violence ensues, and the movie explores how people deal with violence in themselves. The acting is very good, and the portrayal of Tom's relationships with his wife and children are realistic. And Viggo Mortensen is very, very attractive.
