A couple of movies we have seen in between Roots episodes that I will
mention briefly. The first is “Gozu,” a Japanese horror movie. Now
I don’t know how the Japanese horror flicks have gained such an
outstanding reputation, because the one I have seen have
been…well…pretty horrible. We say Ju-on, that was made into
“The Grudge,” with Sarah Michelle Geller here. It was just
stupid. And then the America remake of another Japanese flick, “Dark
Water” with Jennifer Connelly. Dumb! Well, Gozu was worse than
either of them. To me it seems like these film-makers just throw in
whatever they want that seems strange, whether it makes any sense or
not. And Gozu was the worst offender. Eerie maybe, and in so odd a way
it does not startle. But horror---not even close.
Another small movie we saw was “Two Brothers and a Bride,” that I
had low expectations for---possibly because David Arquette was one of
the stars. When I say it is a small movie, I also mean that
literally…it is just about 80 minutes long. But I was pleasantly
surprised. The movie about 2 adult brothers whose mom dies, and sends
them on a search for a wife for one of them, is really warm, and not an
oddball comedy, a la Dumb and Dumber at all. The other two stars really
hold it together, Tim Blake Nelson (who you may recognize from O
Brother, Where Art Thou?) is great, as is Emily Mortimer. All in all a
nice movie to watch. Nothing too extraordinary, but well conceived and
carried out.
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