Date Night and Thelma and Louise - Spring Break

Hey everyone!

Over the last few days I've watched a few movies. In my film studies class I watched Thelma and Louise for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. I also watched Date Night with Rachel tonight. I really enjoyed both of the movies, and I actually couldn't help but to find a similarity between the two.

Thelma and Louise is kind of a female-power movie which dramatizes the way men bring down women. The movie has very few woman, a ton of men, and all of the men in the film seem to be bad guys. Actually, now that I think of it, not one of the men I saw in that film was a good guy. I guess at least one was trying, they just weren't having it. Can you blame them though? They did go all the way across the country to flee from the police!

Date Night was just a fun romantic comedy, which, trust me, I get to see a lot of since my wonderful girlfriend loves them so much. And, quite frankly, some of them are actually really good. Date Night pushed a few boundaries on being a good film in that some of their jokes got used... Over, and over, and over. Seriously, the kill shot joke, was funny the first time, not so much the second. The dancing scene was funny for the first 15 seconds, but then it got old, kind of fast. "Whacked Off." Yup, we get it, no need to reiterate seven times for us. Thanks. Otherwise, the first times they did each joke were really funny. Just put the main characters into your mind as if you were a child, and they were your parents, that's what I did, and I liked it quite a bit. Another quick gripe I had about this film was the beginning, the initiation of them getting into trouble. It was kind of cliche. It's been done before, and I'm pretty sure the director has seen North by Northwest, so they probably knew they were ripping it off. The side characters are a lot of fun though. James Franco and Mila Kunis are in the film for about 10 minutes, and James Franco shines for all 10 of them. Maybe I'm biased, he is one of my favorite actors.

I also talked about a similarity. What? You ask. Well, in Thelma and Louise, they end up doing something that gets them in trouble, and then trouble follows them for the rest of the movie, and it seems to bring no happiness until the end for them, much like in Date Night. I guess that was the only similarity, but I guess that might be another reason to dock Date Night. I am seeing a couple of things that they kind of ripped off.

Either way, they are both good movies. Thelma and Louise may be a quite a bit greater, but Date Night is a pretty good film too, in it's own right.

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Spring Break is also coming up in a few weeks. Something came up in my journalism class today too, so a lot of stuff got moved around, meaning I now, aside from Monday of next week and the few days of studying I'll need to do before it, have quite a bit of free time going into, and during Spring Break.

Part of the reason I'm studying film as a minor is because I think it is a great link to cultures from all around the world. Some films teach us about a culture, and some films can even bring change around in a culture, regardless, I think it needs to be noted that if studied in-depth enough, film can be just as useful as any textbook.

So, over Spring Break, I want to continue to grow my knowledge of film. In this short side-post I'd just like to quickly ask any of my readers to leave a comment, and let me know about some of your favorite movies, especially ones that are on Netflix available for instant viewing (but you can tell me other films you love as well). If I haven't seen it, I'll look into it, maybe watch it, and if I do watch it I'll probably end up talking about it, and reviewing it in my blog.

Thanks in advance for any of your comments, and thanks again for reading. Every page view I see in my stats really means a lot to me. Trust me, I look at my blog stats well over 10 times a day, just ask Rachel if you want proof. She'll tell you. I think she may get kind of annoyed! :-P

Bye everyone!