Mrs. Cohn Zohn and I just got back from the movies. We try to see a flick every Friday but yesterday I had the Pac-12 Championship. Today, we saw “Hitchcock,” very enjoyable. On the way home I asked Mrs. Cohn Zohn to rank the three movies we saw most recently. Her rating: Lincoln, Skyfall, Hitchcock.
My rating: Skyfall, Lincoln, Hitchcock.
When I told her I was rating Skyfall first, she said rather archly, “I know that.”
Dr. Feelgood
Hmm. Saw Skyfall and found it entertaining. But here’s the thing- the older I get, the less entertaining the big action pictures have become. They’re OK, but they don’t do me like they used to.
Not to say that action/ suspense genre films don’t excite. Recently we saw Argo, a very good and very tense historical retelling of an aspect of the Iran Hostage Crisis. Even though I knew the outcome, the storytellling was brilliant.
I guess that’s what I’m after nowadays; greater storytelling, minimized action for actions sake.
December 1st, 2012 4:46 pm
RC
Saw Argo last night, I thought it wa good not great, had to throw a bone to the misses, was hoping to see Skyfall, next week maybe.
December 1st, 2012 6:00 pm
lameduck
Lincoln was too slow for me. I’ll stick with Ms. Moneypenny.
December 1st, 2012 9:02 pm
glenellen
We just saw Flight. It was entertaining, good. I loved the part John Goodman played.
December 3rd, 2012 10:04 am