Films
Maleficent 2 is somewhat rougher than the first Maleficent episode.
Bad queen Michelle Pfeiffer ruins the wedding of prince and princess in order to gain power over the Moors and destroy the fairies inhabiting that land.
Maleficent overcomes her dark heart again and turns the queen into a goat.
3,5
Finally, 35 years after the fact, I watched the beautiful movie Out of Africa with Meryl Streep and . Not sure I can explain what the movie is about. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
I would say it is about nothingness as the meaning of life. Which not a bad motive either.
Lady marries the wrong brother, who has other interests than his wife, but succeeds in transferring syphilis to her. She falls in love with a man that does love her but dies too early in a plane crash.
But she keeps going proudly.
You can now watch Blade Runner 2049 on Netflix. I watched it last week and found it an unexpectedly good movie.
I had never watched the original Blade Runner, but now I had become curious about that one. Last I watched Blade Runner with our own cult actor Rutger Hauer.
What a great film! I understand now why Rutger Hauer got his reputation from this movie. His acting blows away even Harrison Ford as main character of the movie.
On the plane I give myself time to watch a movie, at home almost never. But still I don’t watch all the pulp. Next to me, the neighbor is watching Red Sparrow, a movie that doesn’t make you happy, so from a distance.
I pick out this film by Burton: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Actually because everything by Burton can be trusted. Also this movie is as pleasantly peculiar as Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Dark Shadows.
However, no Johnny Depp in the high profile role in this film. Asa Butterfield plays Jake, a boy from an ordinary family with an agonizingly unimaginative and unpatriotic father, who has found his life’s fulfillment in bird-watching. Asa is a skinny boy who fits the cartoon character role of Jake just fine.
Jake’s grandfather turns out to have led a hidden life as a hunter of evil creatures. Jake finds himself following in his grandfather’s footsteps. He must save Peculiar Children from devil-like creatures (Samuel L. Jackson) who are targeting their eyeballs. The story is difficult to retell, but is a fairy tale with the typical Burton horror character without becoming flat horror. Fantasy and reality are pleasantly blended into a Roald Dahl-like story.
