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Audrey Rose (1977)
Good book adaption
About 3 or 4 years ago I bought the novel Audrey Rose at a fair because the summary at the back seemed interesting. I started to read it, and wow! What a story! Incredible, such a story that you read once and remember for ever. It took me only 2 evenings to read it, couldn't stop.
Now I have a DVD player and while browsing IMDb I noticed there's a movie of the story, from 1976. I searched for it on DVD and was soon able to order it. Last night I watched it for the first time.
(minor spoilers) Let me say that the movie did bring the book to live. The thing I am most happy (well, so to speak) about is that they left the original ending unchanged, as sad and depressing as it is. No Hollywood 'happy ever after' this time. Through the entire movie I recognized all scenes from the book. I'm not a very big Hopkins fan but here he did portray a good, and sad, role. The girl, Ivy/Audrey.... why hasn't she done more movies than the 5 or so she did? She was very believable, and in the end scene, even though I knew what was going to happen, she had me paralyzed with fear for Ivy and compassion for Audrey. Just thinking what Audrey must have gone through in her final moments is enough to make your stomache cramp and you eyes tear.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Weird experience
I watched this movie when it was on tv, I already owned the soundtrack at the time mainly for the Letters to cleo songs. I didn't expect much from the movie, and as I watched it enjoyed myself but didn't rate it very highly. Then the next week or so I just couldn't get the movie out of my head, kept thinking about and reliving scenes from it. So it must have made a lot more impression then I thought.
The movie itself, I liked Kat (Julia Styles) from the first moment I saw her and didn't like Bianca very much. Somehow the movie seems to simulate otherwise as Kat is supposed to be the bitch that keeps Bianca from dating... thanks to their father (great character). Also Cameron, I didn't feel much compassion for him as he tried to reach Bianca but isn't taken serious by her. But then Kat and Pat, I did like them both as sort of outcasts. Just look at the 'quotes' section for some hilarious scenes between them.
And of course I was pleasently surprised I got to see Kay Hanley performing live with her band Letters to cleo... she's something Kat and I share, being 'our' favorite singer...
Light of Day (1987)
Great songs
Although the movie may be disappointing, the soundtrack sure is not! It contains unique songs of Joan Jett, like the titletrack or the heavy rocker 'Rabbit's got the gun'. Even Michael J feels like singing a song (but if that was such a great idea...) Anyway, for all that like Joan as a musician the soundtrack is a must-have.
S.F.W. (1994)
Intriguing
A great movie about the hypocrysy of the american media. I've heard people saying about this move: "I would like to have seen more about what happened in the store". Then I think: You haven't understood the movie at all. Stephen Dorff is brilliant in his role as the anti-hero Spab who has to run away from the media because he has no interest for them, leading him into more and more problems until there is no escape then to just play along with them. Reese Witherspoon plays the role of Wendy very well, the rich kid who has tasted the live without her tight parents strings. And then, the climax in the end of the film... The only bad thing is that I read the novel afterwards and they changed the end!! Why????