Movies, Movies, Movies...

During the past 3 days I've watched 2 movies in a feeble attempt to drown my prelim sorrows. The Brothers Grimm and The Corpse Bride were my choice picks.

The Brothers Grimm was brilliant altough they cud have been a little more subtle when trying to squeeze all the fairytales in, though I liked their torture chamber which showed all the devices that the Grimms' really invented. Tres clever. Heath Ledger was so hunky! Must be the specs! (for those of you who dont' know this already, I have erm... interesting taste in men) Anyway, the not so fairytale ending was a bit of a let down. Guess i'm a sucker for happy endings afterall.


I've been dying (pardon my pun) to watch The Corpse Bride since I heard about the film. Say it with me: Johnny Depp! I'm also a fan of Tim Burton's work, I really think he's an eccentric genius. Anybody who has read his book The Melancholy Tale of the Oyster Boy will realise that it is a product of a truly disturbed mind. The movie was a tad prosaic for my liking though the animation was intersting and the score was truly haunting and fantastic. I was discussing the movie with my friend. You know, about how the dead looked so very much about the living. I was wondering whether Burton was trying to make a statement that death was not very different from life and that all our desires and dreams remain unaltered... Then I realised I was thinking too much and I should just enjoy the movie for what it is: mindless entertainment.