semi-coherent ramblings

Feeling a bit off today. Light-headed, unfocused, vaguely moody for no reason I can pinpoint... but anyway...

Went to the Bastion of Evil earlier on a Pomegranate Juice/hummus run and made three impulse buys. One was a Valentine's Day gift to myself... It was a little red monster. When you squeeze it's foot, it wiggles and sings the Phenomenon song (you know the one: Phenomenon! do dooo do-do-do! Phenomenon! etc. etc.)

Yes. I am a goofball. 8-D

Also couldn't resist a rummage through the $5 DVD bin and came away with The Bride, and Real Genius... oddly enough they were both made in 1985... Coincidence or fate? :-? I'll let you be the judge. I'm not saying I was meant to get these movies... Well, nevermind, I guess I am...

Now, The Bride, for those of you playing the home game, is a take on The Bride of Frankenstein, starring Sting, Jennifer Beals (yes, incidentally, I did expect her to start dancing at some point during the movie... ;-P), and Clancy Brown (The Kurgan himself! As the Monster, no less! ^_^).

Now, how a movie with a scene depicting full frontal female nudity got a PG-13 rating is beyond me.  :-?  Not complaining, mind, but generally I thought the censors were more anal than that...

Moving right along, I rather like this film... Nice lil gothic romance (perfect for someone who's a lil gothic and very much of a romantic--shh, don't tell anyone!), somewhat cheesy in places (generally in the form of lines that could've been better written), but not so much that it ruins the movie. My only complaint is that I would've liked to see Eva (Beals' character) be a bit stronger toward the end... They did that clicheted thing where she faints. *rolls eyes heavenward*  Not going to tell you why, though... Just in case you haven't seen it...

Yes. I am a sadist. >;-)

Now, the nude scene... Earlier on in the film, we hear Frankenstein telling his chum that Eva is a blank slate, she might be made into anything--the new woman, the perfect woman, even! as intelligent and bold and yada yada as a man! So far so good, fine progressive thinking for a 19th century man. Go Sting.

Next scene we have him sitting by the fire late at night, and in comes Eva, awake for the first time since the lightning gave her life, nude and fearless and full of curiosity about the world. She sits down at the good doctor's feet and begins asking him questions. In comes the housekeeper, looking for the vanished Eva, and she's horrified--horrified!--to find them this way. The good doctor reminds the housekeeper that Eva doesn't know any better and that she must be taught the ways of "polite society."

Nrrgg. *facepalm*

Okay, kids, 19th century "polite society" is not the first thing we want to teach a girl if we want her to be the perfect woman! This is the first clue we get that the good doctor has no ruddy idea what a git he is. Of course as the movie progresses and Eva proves herself everything he'd believed he wanted, the good doctor begins to show that he's far more a monster than either of his creations. (Incidentally, all this time the Monster, later named Viktor by a kindly Little Person named Rinaldo who befriends him, is off in Budapest, earning an honest living in a circus, trying to save enough money to return and properly woo the lovely Eva.)

So, that's enough on that movie... I'll talk about Real Genius later....