snow cavern

Movie Night

I don't watch movies very often! this is just who I am as a person. so as a way for me to spend time with my mom we are watching movies weeklyish! so i can say i have seen some movies!

we are alternating movies, ish. also if we get 20 minutes into a movie and the other person wants to switch movies that's allowed.

we also have 22-23 season tickets to the guthrie theatre in minneapolis, so on weeks we have a show we're not going to watch a movie in addition to that, haa. i'll put little reviews of those on this page too.

  1. 9/3/2022 (mama's pick)
    • Thelma & Louise (1991) - we got to the point where a dude assaults Louise(? i think it was louise) which was about 20 minutes into the film so we stopped watching it because it was a bit too distressing for me.
    • Clueless (1995) - this is just Emma. but teenagers. and technically-not-incest. it was fine? I am remembering why I don't watch movies.
  2. 9/11/2022 (my pick)
    • the movie i wanted to show her isn't on any streaming service right now. i'll have to track down a copy at some point.
    • Constantine: City of Demons (2018) - John is such a sad, sad man. pathetic. I quite like him. a mostly bitter bittersweet ending, as is typical of constantine. could porbably make a good intro to the character, movie-wise, since it's got the most important bits of his backstory. animated comic book movies >>>> live action comic book movies, near always (but then i think that of most movies lol).
  3. 9/24/2022 (guthrie)
    • Vietgone (Qui Nguyen) - excellent. very well written, great set descisions. the use of language throughout was very nice. a bit of a jarring end scene, though that is rather the point of it.
  4. 10/9/2022 (mama's pick)
    • Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - apparently Loretta Lynn (who this movie is about) died recently so it was on the mind. I did not like this, we stopped shortly after she got married. she was so young, jesus.
    • ETA: she picked it back up again after i left and said i stopped it right before a statuatory rape scene! wow! mama why do you keep chosing these movies!!!
    • We ended up playing scrabble instead.
  5. 10/15/2022 (guthrie)
    • Sally & Tom (Suzan-Lori Parks) - clearly a good play, with fantastic costuming, casting, and set decisions, but not to our liking. we left at intermission for various reasons.
  6. 10/30/2022 (my pick)
    • Summer Wars (2009, sub) - this is the movie i wanted to show her that i couldn't find anywhere ha, it's one of my favorites! she quite enjoyed it too. it's a bit dated, as anything technology-focused from 2009 would be, but it's cute... also, this movie is the reason i picked up koi koi (which is probably the case for lots of western players haha)
  7. 11/20/2022 (mama's pick)
    • You've Got Mail (1998) - a romance movie where the two main characters were already in relationships (that they didn't like, granted, but still). also the professional aspect of it... seemed a bit skeevy. we stopped after 20 minutes so maybe things got better but maybe not. while we were looking for another movie, we talked about my tastes (which i didn't really know before we started this), especially wrt romance (because that's a lot of what my mom likes). it's the heteronormativity i think.
    • Æon Flux (2005) - pretty good? not like the cartoon at all but i've only seen a little of that. i think i have a copy of the tie-in game somewhere but i've never played it. and like, this had romance. a little. it's not romance that i dislike.
  8. 12/31/2022 (guthrie)
    • The Little Prince (Rick Cummins and John Scoullar) - FUCKING FANTASTIC, and half the reason we got season tickets. i love this story so we knew going in we would enjoy it - a fitting new year's celebration! fantastic casting and costuming, and very well thought out set design. there was puppetry which my mom kept asking me about bc the first play we ever left and the only play we've left not at intermission was the jungle theatre's production of the oldest boy, because that puppet freaked me the fuck out, but it was really just that puppet. i'm fine with other puppets! hells sake i spent a couple years in the May Day parade and went every year i wasn't in (until 2020 anyway). maybe it was the mouth?
      also the fox was hot. yes i know he was played by the same guy as the king and the snake, doesn't matter. the snake was hot too. the king... not as much.
  9. 1/16/2023 (my pick)
    • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) - impeccable. mom had seen it before and she spotted a few new things. also it made me feel smart for noticing things hehe.
  10. 2/5/2023 (guthrie)
    • Blues for an Alabama Sky (Pearl Cleage) - Fucking depressing. Good God. it was really really really good though. we did have to leave at intermission for our own sanity. our friend who also has season tickets confirmed that what we thought would happen did happen. the costuming and prop decisions were fantastic. that DRESS!!! FUCK.
  11. 3/11/2023 (guthrie)
    • Born With Teeth (Liz Duffy Adams) - superb! i love assholes and desperation and betrayal
  12. 3/22/2023 (guthrie)
    • Hamlet (good ol billy shakes) - it's hamlet (i don't particularly care for hamlet)
  13. 6/24/2023 (guthrie)
    • Murder on the Orient Express (Ken Ludwig) - extremely good! it was on the proscenium stage and the set was like.... three cars that got shifted? we could only see one at a time. very very good. whenever mrs. hubbard claimed to be minnesotan we'd laugh it up because. no. no she was not. the actor for poirot was very energetic it was really funny watching him shout at people like "nnNYGHEEEH."
  14. 7/3/2023 (guthrie)
    • Into the Woods (Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine) - delightful first half and delightfully tragic second half. a whole bunch of my friends were once in a junior version of into the woods, which is of course only the first half. during "Hello, Little Girl" my mom leaned over and asked if they did that song in the junior version. yes.
  15. 7/29/2023 (guthrie)
    • Shane (Karen Zacarías) - just wonderful. the set design was absolutely fantastic and the casting was spot-on for what they were trying to accomplish. definetly felt like a western movie. always a fan of when the guthrie uses water (there wasn't much of it but it was there!)
  16. 8/20/2023 (mama's pick)
    • we were going to watch across the spider-verse but we couldn't find it on streaming. sad.
    • Cool Runnings (1993) - it looked fun but i... didn't actually want to watch it...