Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

It was a movie filled 4-day weekend, a bunch of which was laying in front of a tv that has cable. At the theaters, I saw Stranger Than Fiction and The Fountain.

Stranger Than Fiction was, for me, a perfectly lovely movie in every way, and includes one of my now favorite on screen love stories. I adored every performance, every inclusion of "animation" and just about every line of dialogue. It also make great use of its soundtrack.

The Fountain was delightfully ambitious and gorgeous to watch. I appreciated what it attempted to do more than it actually did, I think. It's essential flaw may be that the story needed more time. It deserved at least four hours and I think it needed at least that amount of time to tell the story it was trying to tell. I felt like there were pieces missing, like I was watching an exciting but early cut of the film. A scene would end and I'd be left thinking, "But, but, but...more, more, more."