Good Times or Why I Love 99 Cent Rental Day

Thursday is the famous 99 cent rental night at Pick a Flick. All rentals, including new releases, are only 99 cents! Terena and I each rented 7 movies to tide us over for the week. I chose a bunch of flicks that I was interested in seeing but had never had the opportunity before. They included: Road to Perdition, Kung Pow, Serving Sara (Bruce Campbell is in it), Ginger Snaps, Jackie Chan's Gorgeous, Sexy Beast, and The Cat's Meow. Terena and I watched "Ginger Snaps" last night and I just finished watching "Road to Perdition." While I am on the subject of Terena and last night, I will just say that I had a great time and things went really well! Back to the movies however. "Road to Perdition" had some wicked cinematography which basically elevated the film single handedly. Not that it was bad, but the cinematography was soooooo good that it makes the movie by itself. If I was in charge, I would have chopped off the opening and closing voice over narrations and left the scenes silent. I think it would have had more of an emotional impact without the kid explaining the point of the movie. That seems to be a running theme with me. I am not a fan of voice-overs that explain the theme. Although, I love the ones in, my favorite movie ever, "L.A. Story." Go Figure! "Ginger Snaps" on the other hand, was a great little horror/teenage angst movie. I loved the parallels drawn between puberty and lycanthropy. Oh yeah, it was also pretty funny too! They just made a sequel that comes out this week, although I've heard that it is not as good. Oh well, such is life.
On an off topic.... man, the Fleischer brothers were freakin' AMAZING. We watched a bunch of old Fleischer shorts in class yesterday and holy crap! They were soooo different from what Disney was doing back then. They were filled with fucked up imagery, sexual suggestion, and Cab Calloway! Nothing beats a rotoscoped Ghost singing "St. James Infirmary Blues." Well, I am off to work tonight to make some bread. Props to Harvey Pekar!