and I could not believe how much I hated it. There was so much great buzz surrounding this film that I was looking forward to seeing it. And then as it played out in front of me I wanted to slap the shit out of Todd Haynes for writing and directing it and I wanted to kneecap the studio exec who gave this turkey the green light.
This movie is interminably long and incredibly pretentious. I was begging for the end credits to roll and I nearly cried with happiness when they finally did. All the actors have done and or will do better work elsewhere and Todd Haynes is capable of better, and he's capable of worse too because he did after all make another film, Velvet Goldmine, that got good press but which I hated. Maybe I missed something, maybe I'm too stupid to get the symbolism, or maybe I just hated this movie. Yeah that's it. I just hated this flick.
In other movie news Edmonton's own Captain Karen won the latest Name That Film contest! However since I just sent her a vintage postcard with a zen proverb on it, she is not eligible to get another one so soon. So what I did was I found the address of a woman who has the same name as Captain Karen in a state that borders Canada and I sent her the vintage postcard with a zen proverb on it.
And here's this week's film still in the ongoing Name That Film contest:
Send your entries to monkeymuckATgmailDOTcom and you could win a prize! Entries accepted until I decide to stop taking them. In the event of a tie I will select one person at random to be this week's winner. This offer is not valid in some Baltic countries and one or two islands off the coast of Greece.
Anyhoo, this is what came in my package from north of the border:
a travel pack of tissue with a cute monkey on it, a little plush monkey with stretchy rubbery arms, which I can do things like this with.
Also in the prize pack was this little toy set: 
My bad photography skills prevent you from seeing the winged monkeys in the bottom left corner, so you'll have to trust me when I tell you how cool they look. She also sent a bar of super good quality chocolate with a chimp on it but unfortunately since the temps are in the high 70's to low 80's here and the sun is out in full force it was all melty by the time I got it out of the petit paquet. But like all smart commanders of ships that sail the high seas, Capt. Karen planned ahead, she put the candy bar in a little sealed plastic baggy. Said bar and bag are now residing in my freezer and hopefully I'll be able to have a nibble off it soon.
(The above picture is not Captain Karen. Captain Karen is much cuter that this but since she complained the last time I used her picture on this blog I had to resort to using this drawing I found on Google Images.)