Two movies, two mean women

Up in the Air is a movie that might become a little dated when we'll watch it in 50 years or so. But if in 50 years someone will want to see the movie that best reflects 2009's atmosphere, then this will probably be the movie he should see. It stars George Clooney in his best performance yet as Ryan Bingham. Ryan Bingham works for a company that provides a curios service: They fire people when their bosses don't have the courage to do it themselves. Bingham is one of the best in this business. The writer-director Jason Reitman wrote this script already seven years ago, but only now did he get the chance to make his movie. This wasn't that bad for him, because with the current financial crisis the movie became more relevant. This is also how he got the inspiration to cast some people in his movie that were fired in real life. They are all cast as employees who are fired by Ryan Bingham. Reitman asked this people to react in the movie to this news like they wished they reacted when they were really fired.

But its use of the financial crisis is not the only reason that this is a movie for our times, like many critics have called it. In fact the movie has many themes, and the financial crisis might be the theme the movie is the least interested in. Ryan Bingham is a man that only feels at home when he is on the road, preferably in a airplane. He doesn't much care for friendships, let alone some deeper relationships and he is not very fond of his family either. During the movie he begins to question his lifestyle and is even prepared to change it. His change of heart though is in no way provoked by the financial crisis or the possible immorality of his job.

To me, the real reason why this movie is so relevant is its brilliant use of new media and technology and how it affects us. We live in a time when media and technology are evolving faster then ever and becoming more important then ever. They make a lot of our jobs easier and cheaper to do. But should we use them anytime we can? This is a question asked by Up in the Air. Natalie Keener, a new employee of Ryan Bingham's company has developed a system by which the company can fire people with only a webcam and a computer. This is obviously cheaper and faster. An employee now doesn't need to leave his office and can fire more people in a day. But it is worth asking whether this is the right or ethical way to fire people.

Another dilemma we face by the development of new media is the following: It might be cheaper and faster for companies to use the new media, but still most of the employees working ther have grown up without them. Now it is pretty tough for them to learn how they work. Apart from that, they are often forced by these new media to change their lifestyle in pretty big ways. Ryan Bingham loves to be on the road. He is absolutely not amused when his boss happily tells him that the new system works great and that he now 'finally' can spend more time at home. Besides all this, the movie also shows how much we currently interact through social media. The characters' mobile phone is always on and is the most important mean of communication. It is how Ryan gets information about his job and Natalie is dumped by her boyfriend with a simple sms-message. And when Ryan and Alex, a woman with a similar lifestyle as Ryans, are lonely, they chat via a pda.

With all this talk about its use of media I haven't said anything much about its story and characters yet. Apart from Ryan Bingham, the most important characters are Natalie Keener and Alex. Natalie is an ambitious, but naive graduate. After introducing her new system she is forced to go with Ryan on his travels around America. This because Ryan wants to show her that firing people is not something that everyone can do, and that it is a delicate job. This turns out to be a very valuable trip for her. Natalie is played by Anna Kendrick who is the second great young actress Reitman discovers after Ellen Page in Juno. She acts brilliantly.

Alex is played by Vera Farmiga. As I already said, she turns out to be a very mean woman. That is the weakest part of the movie. When Alex and Ryan meet, they agree that their relationship will only be casual. But during the course of the movie they grow closer. Alex even accompanies Ryan to his sister's wedding, where she almost acts as part of the family. Near the end of the movie Ryan, tired of his lonely life, finds Alex' address and goes to visit her. She turns out to be married and says that Ryan is just a nice distraction from her ordinary life. This does not make much sense. We did not get a single hint in the movie that Alex did not really like Ryan. In fact, it even often seemed that she liked him more then he liked her. It just seemed that they wanted Ryan to become relly heartbroken and didn't really know how to do it. But that's not the only part of the ending that doesn't really work. Natalie quits her job, because a woman, she and Ryan fired killed herself. This is something that's been done in a lot of movies and very unoriginal. The very last shot of the movie is brilliant though. Now that Natalie doesn't work for the company anymore, Ryan gets to go up in the air again. But after all he went through in the movie he doesn''t really know whether this is the life he still wants. With a look of both relief and sadness he looks at all these departure times and then the movie ends

This is, despite the ending, still a very good movie that has clever dialogue, nice cinematography and great acting from both Kendrick and Clooney. After three movies Jason Reitman still has not made a bad one.





While Vera Farmiga turned out to be a pretty bad woman in Up in the Air, she is a very decent one compared to mrs. Beth Jarrett, played by Mary Tyler Moore in the movie Ordinary People..

Conrad Jarrett is a troubled teen, but not entirely without reason. He feels guilty for his brother's death and has the feeling that his mom doesn't really love him and has always loved his brother more. He is wrong about the first part, but he during the course of the movie he seems more and more right about the second part. Of course this all is not a reason for killing himself, which is what he tried to do some time before the movie began. Conrad's dad Calvin is a nice man, who loves Conrad and actually doesn't seem to dislike anyone. Since Calvin tried to kill himself he is recovered physically and doesn't seem to still have the urge to repeat himself. But he still isn't really recovered mentally. He is distant with his friends, who still try to support him, but grow more and more annoyed. Conrad is also back again whith his swimming team, but that doesn't really interest him anymore and he eventually quits it. His only bright spots are the psychiatrist which often really seems to help him and the choir, where he sings with a nice girl who likes his voice and maybe him too. Another girl in his life is the girl that was with him in the hospital when he killed himself, but apart from a dinner they had he hasn't seen her and she doesn' t return his phone calls. In the meanwhile he still can't connect with his mother. But at least he is not the only one that has trouble connecting with her. Calvin has more and more trouble comprehending his wife, who was probably always the same, its just that Calvin only know realizes that this might not be the woman he loves.

Ordinary People now seems to be mostly known as 'that movie that unfairly beat Raging Bull at the Oscars'. That is not fair. This is a great movie that is an interesting combination of American Beauty and Good Will Hunting. It's better than the first and worse than the latter. It's good from the beginning with the great and beautyfully shot opening sequences. For the first 5-10 minutes we see the Jarrets interacting together. It's obvious that they are concerned about their son, and it's also obvious that he isn't quite right, we just don't know why. This is a great and very interesting choice, that actually has consequences for the entire movie. Because of this these charcters seem more realistic. They obviously talk to each other and not to us. Many movies begin with dialogue which makes us understand the plot. Not here though, and that's very logical. The Jarrets don't need to say to each other why their son has troubles. They already know that.

The movie's title is Ordinary People and that is a brilliant one. Not because these are ordinary people, but because these people are desperate to be considered ordinary. They deceive both themselves and the people around them that their marriage is fine, that their son is fine, that they have overcome their other son's death and that they are are still a reasonably happy family that supports and loves each other. And it actually works. If we only saw the scenes where they are surrounded by other people, we would almost think that this is a slightly boring feel-good comedy about a suburban family and their slightly annoying son. At no point in the movie do we actually see Calvin and Beth grieve over their deceased son. When they discuss it, it almost feels like they could as well talk about the failure of their car. At the end of the movie they finally face the facts, but their problems aren't solved now. In fact, only know can they start solving them. Although both Calvin and Conrad do this, the main culprit is Beth, who even scaffolds her husband, when at a party he mension that their son is seeing a psychiatrist.We get the feeling that he does this, because she is afraid of what other people might think of her otherwise. She is also afraid that her life might change in ways she never wanted to think of. She wants everything to be organised. She wants this so badly that even at her son's funeral she became at her husband for wearing the wrong shoes.

This movie has great attention to detail, and two scenes in particular show that very well. In one scene Calvin and Beth talk about some fellow who died in front of their son. This is not a death that has affected them in any way and they make some lighthearted jokes about it. The person you should watch in this scene is Conrad though who very subtly shows he is a bit stressed by this conversation. In another scene we see Conrad trying to connect with his mother by offering her help with the table. She (kindly) says that it is not necessary, but then she gets a phone call from a friend of her. She complains to her that she is very busy and has a lot of work to do around the house. This obviously distressing to Conrad.

There is not much bad to say about this movie. At the beginning of the movie there are some weird conversations, which seem to show that not all is wel in the family, but they don't really work. Also the scenes between Conrad and his psychiatrist could have been more interesting, although they are absolutely necessary for the movie.

I don't really like Robert Redford as an actor, I find him dull. As a director though he is a lot better. Besides this movie I've seen Quiz Show and The Horse Whisperer. This one and Quiz Show are very good movies and The Horse Whisperer isn't all bad.

Two wonderful movies

Just saw the two movies that'll have the dubious honour of being the first that Ill discuss at more length at this blog. These are A Serious Man and Boogie Nights


A Serious Man is an absolute masterpiece and the best movie of the Coen brothers yet. I have never been a really big fan of them. I found Fargo and The Big Lebowski to be great and Intolerable Cruelty to be very enjoyable. No Country for Old Men was very well made, but left me pretty lukewarm. Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink I found somehow very incoherent. The Ladykillers was just plain bad and O Brother Where Art Thou annoyed me a lot. The rest of them I have yet to see.



One of the greatest things about almost any Coen-film is that it evokes a specific time and place, which influences the way their characters live. One often gets the feeling that if their characters lived sometime or somewhere else, they would do things differently. Good examples of this are the L.A. slackers at the beginning of the 90's in The Big Lebowski and the gangsters in the 20's in Miller's Crossing. In A Serious Man it are American Jews somewhere at the end of the 60's and the beginning of the 70's. It's the time when the culture of the whole western world is radically changing and these Jews are no exception. While the elders still try to live a life as serious men, devoting their life to God, the younger generation takes advantage of their new freedoms. They listen to rock and roll, smoke pot and call each other fuckers. In the middle of this is a professor in physics Lawrence Gopnik. When we first meet him he is a healthy man, with a reasonably nice family, he is living in a nice neighborhood and is happy with his work. He isn't perhaps a very devoted Jew, but he sends his kids to Hebrew school. In short he is a pretty serious man who doesn't do much wrong. During this movie his life will change in more ways then he probably has ever imagined.



First his wife announces she'll leave him for their mutual friend Sy Ableman and that Larry should move to a beautiful hotel. He can't stay at home, all the tension would be bad for the children. On top of all this a student that fails an exam tries to bribe him,his tenure becomes endangered and his brother turns out to be searched by the police. At least Sy Ableman consoles him for losing his wife!



His only solace is the upcoming bar mitzvah of his son. What he doesn't know is that his son is not exactly an example of the perfect Jew. He listens to Jefferson's Airplane during Hebrew class,smokes pot and orders records via his fathers' name and account. He shows up stoned for his bar mitzvah, but manages to hold himself together and is bar-mitzvahed successfully, which means that he now is a real Jew and he may see the rabbi Marshak now.



Rabbi Marshak is considered the wisest rabbi in the community and Lawrence tried to speak to him for advice about all his problems, after not getting much useful advice from the other two rabbi's. Marshak couldn't see him. He was busy thinking. But Marshak has time for Danny Gopnik, like he has for every boy who just had his bar mitzvah. Marshak then shows why he is considered the wisest rabbi. With a sad face he says to Danny:"When the truth is found to be lies, and all the hope within you dies".Indeed, he quotes the Jefferson Airplane song Somebody To Love, except that he changes joy in hope. The rabbi realizes in what time he lives and that this might be more meaningful advice to Danny then some quote from the Torah. He also mentions to Danny the names of the band members and asks him to remember him. They might become more important to Danny then God. What the rabbi says seems pretty grim, but after the rabbi's quote the song continues:"Wouldn't you love somebody to love". So the rabbi's advice is the old and simple advice to rely on your loved ones.



This advice is also meant for Larry and is essentially the same like the two previous rabbi's give him. That is to stop worry about things you can't control or apprehend and just do your best in life and enjoy it. This is pretty ironic in two ways. First this is exactly how Larry teaches physics. You don't have to understand the big picture he says, just understand the math behind, since that's what really matters. The second irony is that when Larry finally loosens up a bit and his life pretty much returns to normal, he gets a message from his doctor, who says he cleared up his whole schedule for Larry and he should come right over. Also his son's school is threatened by a tornado. And on that note the movie ends.





This story is told with great humor, some interesting ethical and philosophical asides and the movie is full of great scenes and music. The most memorable scenes are probably a scene where Larry is on the roof, fixing his antenna, the scenes with Larry and the student that tries to bribe him and the scenes with the rabbi's, especially with the second one, who tells a wonderful story about a dentist who found some bizarre message in one of his patient's mouths. There is also a brilliant sequence where we cut between Sy and Larry, who are both driving a car. Sy is relaxed, while Larry is tense and gets involved a small car accident. This seems at first like a scene that exists simply to elicit a laugh, but when Larry finally gets to work he is called by his son who tells him that Sy just died in a car accident. The movie is also shot very beautifully and every single performance is pitch perfect.




Some people claim that they didn't like this movie and that if they were Jewish they probably would understand it more. That's nonsense. I am not religious and know very litlle about Judaism. This movie is first and foremost simply about an ordinary man facing ordinary problems that most people can relate to. Sure they refer to some specific Jewish words like 'gett'. I had no idea that it is a ritual divore, but an ongoing joke in the movie is that most of the characters themselves don't get right away what it is.











Up until Boogie Nights I hadn't seen anything by Paul Thomas Anderson, except for the brilliant opening monologue in Magnolia. Boogie Nights is a very entertaining movie which does not have a really gripping story, but seems to exist mostly so Anderson can show off his filmmaking and writing. That is not a bad thing, since it is pretty obvious that Anderson is very good at it. Every scene is carefully and brilliantly constructed and has got something of interest.



Boogie Nights is an ensemble piece which follows a bunch of people working in the porno-movies industry. The main protagonist is Eddie Adams, a 17 year old, who hasn't finished school and now works in a night club and earns a bit extra by showing his dick for 10 dollars. He is discovered there by porn director Jack Horner and so Eddie becomes an actor known by the name Dirk Diggler.



This porn director Jack Horner is not an ordinary porn director. His dream is to make an artful porn-movie, which people will not just see to get an orgasm, but also because it is a great film with a great story. Jack is married to Amber Waves, a regular actress in his porn films. Jack has no problem watching while she is working. Amber once had a more ordinary life and was married to a counselor from which she has one kid, which she is not allowed to see anymore. She is often pretty depressed about this and often gets high on drugs with Rollergirl, a porn actress who never takes away her roller skates. Amber develops a pretty big crush on Eddie, alias Dirk.



Dirk's best friend becomes Reed Rothchild, an actor with whom Dirk comes up with an idea for a series of movies about a crime-fighting hero and his partner, who are popular with the ladies. Reed and Dirk also star in these movies directed by Jack who hopes that these will be the movies people will remember him by.



Jack's screenwriter is Little Bill who is married to a woman who has sex with almost every man she meets, and when Bill discovers her, she simply tells him to fuck off. She also claims to be embarrassed when Bill gets mad at her for having sex with another man in front of an audience.
When during a New Year celebration Bill again finds her with another man he kills her,her lover and himself.


Buck Swope is a country-loving black actor whose dream is to own a store which sells good Hi-Fi audio systems. Scotty J is a director of gay porn who has an eye for Dirk. Maurice Rodriguez is the nightclub owner who hopes to be remembered by starring in of Jacks pornfilms. Kurt is Jack's cameraman who takes porn-movies a bit to seriously. Colonel J is the pruducer of Jack Horner's movies. He loves young women, but lands in jail when one of them turns out to be a bit too young. And finally the boss of it all is Floyd Gondolly, who doesn't care much about the artistic pretenses of Jack. Money is all that matters to him, so he forces Jack to shoot his films on video instead of on film. It is cheaper, but the movies are now even less interesting. Or like a sad Kurt proclaims: "They are all the same now."

The movie essentially exists of two parts. In the first part we see all these characters working, or having fun at either Maurice's nightclub or at parties at someone's house. And although they are using excessive drugs, having excessive sex and doing all kinds of other things most people wouldn't think of, they became sympathetic people who seem at least a little bit normal. In the second part of the movie,due to a lot of different reasons, the characters have to go out in the 'real' world. That doesn't work out pretty well. They all get in some pretty serious trouble. We realize that all these characters are really pretty messed up and that they don't make porn movies simply because they like them so much., but because there is really no other alternative for them.

Although this seems pretty grim, the movie is actually pretty joyfull. In the end it all ends happily. This is mostly due to Anderson's filmmaking which bursts whith energy. The movie takes place in the 70's and 80's and almost every scene is accompanied by some great song of that period. Like I said earlier, the movie is full of great scenes. There are two standout scenes though. The first one is a scene where Dirk, Reed and a stripper named Todd, want to deceive a pretty insane drugdealer named Rahad Jackson and played brilliantly by Alfred Molina. This an incredibly absurd and violent scene, but also incredibly funny and well made. The best scene though is the scene where Buck Swope obtains the money he needs to open his Hi-Fi shop. What happens in this scene could interest the narrator of Magnolia who is talking about great coincidences.

Finally the actors are worth mentioning. Almost every actor Anderson cast in this movie was not very famous back then, but has now become a big star, or at least a pretty respected actor. Some of the stars are Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg,John C. Reilly,William H.Macy
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy,Heather Graham,Luis Guzman and Philip Baker Hall. Interestingly enough the biggest cast member back then was Burt Reynolds who currently stars mostly in B-movies. This seems to become his last good movie and he got a deserving Oscar nomination for it. So did Julianne Moore and Paul Thomas Anderson for his screenplay. In a year when Titanic managed to get 11 Oscars, Boogie Nights didn't won a single one, but in none of its nominated categories was it beaten by Titanic. This post comes to and end with this irrelevant, yet fun fact

Movies of the Decade

It's January 2010. That means that the first decade of the 21 century just finished. So no better way to start this blog then with the best movies of the past decade







1.Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)







This is a great movie. Its dialog is great like in any Tarantino-movie. But this one is probably also the best acted and the best looking movie of his. It is satirical of war movies, but it's main point is simply to entertain. I find it wonderful that Tarantino was not stopped by history. Movies don't need to be accurate, or realistic to be good. No movie can be completly accurate or realistic and if we want that we'd better read an encyclopedia. We just have to believe that what happens to the characters in the movie can really happen to the characters in the movie. Like Tarantino himself said about this movie:"This did not really happen, but if my characters really existed it could have happened' . For now this is enough about this movie, but someday Ill write a bigger analysis of it.



2.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)



This is also a movie which is absloutley original, though that's not very schocking considering it was written by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich). But unlike with Kaufman's other movies here we care for the characters too. Kate Winslet is always a great actress, but this movie has Jim Carrey's best performance. The most important thing about the movie is its structure though. I think that if this movie was told in any other way, it wouldn't be as good as it is now. Even the subplot exists just so we can believe more in the main plot.



3.Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann, 2001)

This movie has got some flaws. Its editing is a bit too frenetic and the ending is a bit cliched. But that doesn't matter much. The movie is so energetic and the use of contemporary songs in 19th cenury France is brilliant. Some great examples are the Elephant Love Medley and Roxanne's tango.

4.Collateral (Mann, 2004)

Apart from the fact that this is a well acted and very thrilling movie, it has also brilliant cinematography. Los Angeles is shot beautifully and almost becomes a character of its own.

5.Juno (Reitman, 2007)

Jason Reitman is one of the great emerging directors of the past decade and has already made better movies than his father. This movie is one of the few great romantic comedies. Diablo Cody got a lot of credit for her screenplay, but this movie probably would not have been as good without Jason Reitman and Ellen Page. Some people who criticize this movie claim that no one talks like the people here. That's true, but doesn't matter. We wouldn't need to go to movies if people there talked like everybody.




6.Match Point (Allen,2005)

Woody Allen and Quentin Tarantino are my favorite directors. This is his best movie of the past decade, though I enjoyed Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Whatever Works and Anything Else too. Match Point has a great story with some philosophic undertones.

7.Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)

I am not a big fan of Martin Scorsese, though I haven't seen his classics yet. But this movie bursts with energy from the great opening scene on. It might have some flaws, but it is so ambitious that they are forgiven. Of course Daniel Day-Lewis acts brilliantly

8.High Fidelity (Frears, 2000)


9.Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002)

I don't have much to say about these two movies, except that they are both incredibly entertaining

10.Gone Baby Gone (Affleck, 2007)

This is a thriller, and a character study which at the end asks some ethical questions too. That last part is not really strong, but the rest of the movie is brilliant. Ben Affleck is not the greatest actor, ( though not as bad as some make him up to be ) but he proves with this, and of course Good Will Hunting that he can tell a great story.

Now, this weren't the only movies I liked a lot this decade. Here are others witch deserve to be mentioned in no particular order:

-Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (great crime movie of 2001. Many of its stars would became the most important actors of the last decade)

-Ridley Scott's American Gangster : American Gangster was exactly the movie I expected it and hoped it would be.

-Quentin Tarantino's Kil Bill 1&2: Style over substance of course, but great style. Kill Bill 1 is made like a classic musical, but instead of singing the characters start fighting. Kill Bill 2 is a lot better and the final showdown between Uma Thurman and David Carradine is brilliant.

-Steven Spielberg's The Terminal: Unfortunately Tom Hanks isn't a very interesting actor any more and seems to play in movies which take as little risks as possible. This is an exception.

-Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight: It is certainly not one of the best movies ever made, but it creates great tension and the Joker is played brilliantly by Heath Ledger.

-Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Carribean: The best trilogy of the decade. It's very entertaining and Jack Sparrow is one of the greatest characters of this decade.

-Richard Curtis' Love Actually: A surprisingly good movie. It are not a series of cliched love stories, but it is about wish fulfillment. What we see happenning in the movie could just as well happen in its characters' dreams. The best examples are when the Brittish president stands up for his country and when the horny Englishman goes to the USA to meet girls because he hopes they like his accent and that is exactly what happens to him.

-Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smoking: The movie satirizes both the smoking industry and its detractors.

-Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby: A simple movie with great performances and a great story.

-Woody Allen's Whatever Works and Anything Else: Anything Else was the first Woody Allen- movie I ever saw and Whatever Works is actually a very entertaining and funny movie with a great Larry David and a lot of the themes that Allen explored troughout his work.

-Judd Apatow's Knocked Up: I am not really a fan of his other movies, but this one is very funny.

-Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums: I can't really explain why I like this movie a lot. Nor can I explain why I don't like any of Anderson's other movies

-Neil Burger's The Illusionist and John Curran's The Painted Veil: Two movies with great performances by Edward Norton and good stories

-Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin! and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen: One movie which remembers the good times of East Germany. The other one reminds us that it wasn't so good there

Martin Mcdonagh's In Bruges: The movie is probably indebted to Tarantino, but is very good. It has got a great story, great performances,great scenes, but the ending ruins a lot.

-David Cronenberg's A History of Violence: Great thriller/character study

-George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck: Great journalism drama which criticizes not only senator McCarthy, but also contemporary journalism and politics.

The Coens' Intelorable Cruelty and No Country for Old Men: One is funny, the other one pretty grim, but both are pretty good.

Peter Weir's Master and Commander: A movie with a lot of thrilling action that also makes some points about the clash between science and war/politics. Peter Weir is one of the most underrated directors.

Andrew Niccol's Lord of War: The movie is fun, but it's best part is one of the best opening sequences i've ever seen.

Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road: It's similar like, but better than American Beauty, mostly because its satire is more biting, while its characters are more likeable

And many more...

There are of course some movies which I didn't like and consider very overrated:

-Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy is atmiteddly very well made, but is incredibly boring

-Paul Haggis' Crash is inrcedibly simpleminded. That movie discusses racism like we did in elementary school. Apart from that it is also pretty badly made

-Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace and Finding Neverland: Quantum of Solace wanted to make James Bond more realistic. That is not what makes James Bond interesting. Casino Royale started it, but that was pretty well made. Quantum of Solace was so badly edited during, especially the fighting scenes that you couldn't see what was happenning. Finding Neverland was not only boring, it also managed to make Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Dustin Hoffman boring.

Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition:This didn't need to be such a bad movie. The material was interesing, but it seemed they paid more attention to the costumes and cinematography then at the story.

and more..

I hope to write more about all of these and other movies when I see them some time again.