the corner office

On Tuesday night I watched "Mystery, Alaska". Feel-good sports movie in the snow. I liked it. Makes me want to spend 6 months in Alaska some day, driving a snow sled to work. About 6 months should do it.

Movies last night, we saw "Man on Fire." Loooong. Gripping for the most part, it gets a bit dragged out in places. The story line starts out promising your standard uplifting themes, but soon heads for the depressing end of the pool. I'd say the movie's enjoyment is as much the experience of it, as the story. The most notable cinematrographic trick the movie uses, is subtitles all over the screen "advert-style" - ie. anywhere, anyhow. What's more, even when people are speaking perfectly understandable English, a lot of speech or "facts" are underscored by these all-over-the-show subtitles. I've never seen this before, and I can imagine that if everyone hopped on the bandwagon it could get irritating, but it works in this movie.

I call these sorts of movies 'Yentl' movies - the kind of movie you're glad to have seen, that you enjoyed, but that you have no desire to have to sit through again.