The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>So far we've only watched Labyrnth and Princess Bride,

Labyrinth, Henson and Lucas are responsible for this one, so obviously there are a lot of puppets. I'm sure most people here probably saw it as a kid, starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie, it's about a girl who has 13 hours to get through a Labyrinth to save her baby brother who she wished would be taken away by the Goblins. There is so much cheese in this movie (similar to any Henson or Lucas film) that it is just that damn entertaining. Bowie was on some serious crack when he did this movie. Overall, it was cool to see one movie that I haven't seen since Kindergarten or grade 1 again.

Princess Bride, Now THIS one was excellent, I actually liked it the best of the two I've seen so far. Essentially, it's a story about a farm boy who leaves his one true love to go off to be a fisherman, and is killed by the Evil Pirate Roberts, the girl (buttercup or something funny like that) is taken by the Prince to be married, as he wants to marry a common girl (and she's hot) to relate to the people. Andre the Giant and Co. kidnap her, but are chased down by a Ninja (or so it seemed, some masked guy all in black) who happens to be the Pirate Roberts, he defeats them all in challenges and then rescues the Princess, she then discovers that Pirate Roberts is in fact farm boy (who has nopw grown into a cocky bastard who reminds me of 1/2 Depp from Pirates of the Carribean and 1/2 Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness). It's a comedy in the vein of Pirates of the Carribean a little bit more over the top, and it's an absolute classic, still very enjoyable by todays standards almost 20 years later. I'm going to guess, if the movie had been in a vault for 20 year and had only been released today, it would have probably made a good 500M in theaters at the very least.

As for the others, I think today I'm going to screen Heavenly Creatures and then Run Lola Run. I got Red Dawn and Dog Soldiers a while back too, but I think I may have already written on them (both excellent movies if you're into cheesy low budget but well done 70's style action flicks. Red Dawn was actually made in the 70's I believe)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Loved Princess Bride (one of my all-time favs), 28 Days, and Lost in Transaltion, I got them all. Don't remember Labryinth well and haven't seen the other two yet</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I can't say I was overly fond of either of them to be honest, but they are movies that I think I'll watch again for a second opinion, Heavenly Creatures is definetly the type of movie that seems like it would be a lot better the second time (since you know what to expect). Run Lola Run didn't have a whole lot of dialogue to it, and it seemed like the movie dragged on a little longer than it should of (even for such a short movie, it's like an hour and a bit). Essentially it's a movie about a 20 minute event that happens 3 times, but the movie just seemed to be made to compliment the music like the stuff that happens in a music video.

Heavenly Creatures, Directed by Peter Jackson seems very much inspired by Kubrick. It is the story about the development of a relationship between two young girls (Kate Winslet and someone else who I have never heard of) who are both extremely intelligent and have a lot of creative talent. In fact their imaginations are of such intensity that the two of them are on the edge of insanity. There is a lot of hallucination stuff that goes on, like the clay animated medival city, a lot of romantic stuff. The major theme of the movie is the development of a lesbian relationship which is similar to the Swedish movie that no one here has ever heard of called Fucking Åmål (though it is a hugely popular movie in Sweden), except it is based on a true story which took place back in the 1950's. There is a major event at the end that ties into the very first scene of the movie which shows them running through the woods screaming and covered in blood. My opinion on it, is similar to A Clockwork Orange, there is a lot I would cut out of it (and even change), but the good stuff is VERY good stuff.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Fucking Åmål? What's that about? Fucking Åmål?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Go watch Lost in Translation when you get the chance. Probably the best one in that bunch, IMO.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Agnes just moved to Åmål from some other place, and found it difficult to make friends, but was befriended by Elin who is quite popular. In short, a friendship develops between them, and it is discovered by the guys that Agnes is in fact a lesbian and they tease her about it by showing her a porn and asking her (rough translation) "What do you think of her?" and Agnes would answer, "Ah, she's alright." The guy would be like "What about the pussy?", right in front of her locker. There's a time in the movie where Agnes and Elin get into a disagreement and Agnes actually becomes a bit suicidal (she's very much in love with Elin). Elin slept with a guy, but didn't like it, and well, she made up with Agnes in the end (in fact it was in the school washroom, they locked the door, and all the guys were outside of it and knew the two of them were in there).

All in all, it's probably not a movie that anyone here will ever see, it's only in Swedish, the acting jobs were excellent, much better than most movies I have ever seen; I don't think a translation could ever do it justice. The characters and events are all very natural and not unbelievable such as movies like Wild Things and some others on the subject. It's a highly popular movie in Sweden; but has not been released outside the country (well at least outside of Europe).</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I wouldn't strike a comparison to Wild Things to anything. (Mostly there for the sex, being film noir, etc.) An American comparison might be (though I haven't seen it) High Art.</div>