The OGLs (Pamy, Lyon, Vanessa, Jac and I) hung out at Lyon's place last week for a movie marathon. I have never seen 5 movies in a row before and it was really thrilling. I guess the mood was just right and the company was really great.
Lyon's cosy room!
Well we were in the company of quite a few film greats. That ought to count for something.
First movie featured grand dame Meryl Streep alongside a former 007 actor and an actress who was famous for telling the weather with her boobs in 2004's Mean Girls. It was great the first time I watched it at GV Gold, but the second time was quite... dreary. Thank goodness for Julie Walters and Christine Baranski. They were hilarious.
Next up, we travelled a decade back in time with an animated feature film based on a Chinese legend. I've never watched it in its entirety before. It started off very well but I got a little bored at the very end. The best part was 98 degrees singing at the end. My favourite boyband after N'sync.
Another musical took centrestage. I find it ridiculous that I hadn't seen this masterpiece in the cinemas! The film was the first musical film to win the Best Picture since Oliver! in 1968 and on top of that, nabbed 5 other Oscars. I haven't seen Renee Zellwegger shine brighter in any movie in recent years. The massive scale of production was a feast for the eyes and ears and its use of unique cinematography really had my attention for every second of the movie.
The fourth movie came and by that time I was running out of stamina. However a sharp change of genre after the rather heavy musical film adaptation to a romantic comedy released one year later in 2003 and a cosier setting of Lyon's room got me going. Despite being largely panned by critics, I think Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey (whose Failure to Launch failed to launch) worked rather well on screen and the script was decent enough! Not the best, but certainly not the worst.
After dinner, we travelled across the Atlantic for a movie that was about Christmas. In fact I think it's so awesome that it should be seen every Christmas! Okay, so I'm exaggerating but I've seen bits and pieces on TV for the past 5 years that I was so irritated I decided to rent it for the our movie marathon. It has a huge cast and as difficult as it was for all of them to pull their weight, Emma Thompson was particularly good, while Bill Nighy was particularly funny. Kiera Knightley and Hugh Grant's characters were a bit fluffy... but all the small details in the movie worked out to become New York Times called, "a romantic comedy swollen to the length of an Oscar-trawling epic — nearly two and a quarter hours of cheekiness, diffidence and high-tone smirking". Awesome.
MIA: Mamma Mia
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