movies – WeatherGrrrl's Station

Day and Knight

WeatherGrrrl — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:01:16 +0000

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Yawn. This movie can’t quite make its mind up what it is, there’s just not enough wit involved to pull it above the mediocre level for which it has settled. The action is not quite spectacular enough to be … Continue reading →

Prince of Persia

WeatherGrrrl — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:34:06 +0000

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Hokum. But deliciously fun hokum. A pretty boy hero meets a spunky heroine and they do battle with a dastardly bad guy in a plot that makes absolutely no sense. Gotta say Jake Gyllenhaal is seriously hot and buff and … Continue reading →

Ramona and Beezus

WeatherGrrrl — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:54:42 +0000

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Sweet. It’s not often we get to see young interesting female leads in a movie made primarily for young girls so this was a real treat. The plot isn’t particularly unexpected but did make me laugh quite frequently. A very … Continue reading →

Alice in Wonderland

WeatherGrrrl — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:40:13 +0000

Erratic. This was a little like a roller coaster ride, zooming up to brilliantly good and down to ditch water dull. Can’t recommend it really but there are some great little bits and pieces hidden along the way. The visuals are spectacular though why anyone would need to watch this in 3-d is beyond me. I love that we have a heroine who squashes her buckle and comes through to win the day. Plus the white queen is one of the creepiest, supposedly good guys, you’ll ever come across. She was brilliant. Somehow in the end this film didn’t amount to more than the sum of its parts and certainly left me wondering why on earth it was made.

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Mo Movie Measure

WeatherGrrrl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:45:24 +0000

I just came across the Mo Movie Measure. Sadly, almost everything I’ve seen recently fails by a huge margin. Most of the half way decent movies just lately seem to be about individual men psychologically disintegrating with nary a woman in sight. *sigh*

How hard would it be for a screenwriter to write an interesting story about an interesting woman? There are plenty of interesting women in the world. Perhaps the screenwriters aren’t up to the job?

To summarise: to be worth watching, a movie should have:

1. at least two women in it
2. who talk to each other
3. about something besides a man