Movie reviews, plus my car sucks
Dec. 4th, 2007 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13Have now seen two movies in the past week!
No Country For Old Men--this is the Cohen brothers in top, non-comedy form. This is not a kids movie, and frankly I don't think anyone under 17 or so should see it. It's extremely well done, and had me checking to make sure my Midland/Odessa area accent hadn't come back for days afterward. Very simple premise: Man finds money, others try to take it back--but handled by two masters. If this doesn't win multiple Oscars, I will be very disappointed.
The Mist--After seeing it, I can see why I got reviews from friends that said they loved it and friends who said they hated it. Very faithful to the novella (we are talking Frank Darabont here, who brought us The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption)--up until the end. Excellent, spot-on casting, and the damn movie had my legs tied up in that horrible "fight or flight" response that I had during Jurassic Park and Aliens.
Looking forward to The Golden Compass and after seeing the preview for Cloverfield I admit I am intrigued. No desire to see The Poughkeepsie Tapes; as I said to my friend Trag during the preview, it looks like Blair Witch Project crossed with torture porn. Ew.
Then, tonight, less than a mile from my apartment, the car started overheating, with steam coming out from under the hood. I pulled into a spot at the complex just as the idiot meter hit the red; I couldn't see any obvious broken hoses or seals when I popped the hood. There was coolant everywhere in the engine compartment--it leaked out under pressure, that's for sure. On my brother's advice, I'm going to fill up the radiator in the morning and leave the cap off while I coax it to the garage. I really, really hope it's just a hose or a seal or something, but I never seem to get that lucky.
And I just paid the car off, of course. I guess I'm lucky it didn't burn up, as happened to a coworker last week (he and his son are fine, just scared!).
ETA: It's a hose, and they also are replacing the thermostat. Getting the broken(!) hood latch fixed too. If there wasn't a major freeway between my home and work I'd just bike in--it's only 4 miles. (grumble)
No Country For Old Men--this is the Cohen brothers in top, non-comedy form. This is not a kids movie, and frankly I don't think anyone under 17 or so should see it. It's extremely well done, and had me checking to make sure my Midland/Odessa area accent hadn't come back for days afterward. Very simple premise: Man finds money, others try to take it back--but handled by two masters. If this doesn't win multiple Oscars, I will be very disappointed.
The Mist--After seeing it, I can see why I got reviews from friends that said they loved it and friends who said they hated it. Very faithful to the novella (we are talking Frank Darabont here, who brought us The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption)--up until the end. Excellent, spot-on casting, and the damn movie had my legs tied up in that horrible "fight or flight" response that I had during Jurassic Park and Aliens.
Looking forward to The Golden Compass and after seeing the preview for Cloverfield I admit I am intrigued. No desire to see The Poughkeepsie Tapes; as I said to my friend Trag during the preview, it looks like Blair Witch Project crossed with torture porn. Ew.
Then, tonight, less than a mile from my apartment, the car started overheating, with steam coming out from under the hood. I pulled into a spot at the complex just as the idiot meter hit the red; I couldn't see any obvious broken hoses or seals when I popped the hood. There was coolant everywhere in the engine compartment--it leaked out under pressure, that's for sure. On my brother's advice, I'm going to fill up the radiator in the morning and leave the cap off while I coax it to the garage. I really, really hope it's just a hose or a seal or something, but I never seem to get that lucky.
And I just paid the car off, of course. I guess I'm lucky it didn't burn up, as happened to a coworker last week (he and his son are fine, just scared!).
ETA: It's a hose, and they also are replacing the thermostat. Getting the broken(!) hood latch fixed too. If there wasn't a major freeway between my home and work I'd just bike in--it's only 4 miles. (grumble)
