decidedlyodd

I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately it seems.

Just before I left, I watched Cabaret. It was one of those movies I’d seen parts of several times, but never in its entirety. The Germanophile in me liked the view of 1930s Berlin while my stereotypical inner queen liked the musical numbers.

Over the weekend at my parents’, I watched Madagascar. The animation was good. I even liked the story line and most of the characters (especially the penguins and monkeys), but the excessive trite references to pop culture and other movies really got on my nerves. After that, I sort of watched The Da Vinci Code catching the beginning, end and various parts in the middle while looking at baby pictures in between. I’d seen it before though and wasn’t really all that taken by it (too much explanation IMHO).

After getting home, I watched another movie I got through Netflix–A Very Natural Thing. The movie on its own isn’t all that amazing really, although it’s engaging and interesting. It generally fits into that category of a standard gay drama. It handles serious issues, does not contain self-loathing or sissy characters and has a story line which I thought fairly accurately portrays gay life. The kicker is that it was made in 1973. Obviously, things have changed since then both with regard to things like hair styles and HIV/AIDS, but I was still struck by how I identified at points with how it portrays the lives of gay men. Plus, it has lots of tastefully done eye candy. It’s unrated because there’s probably no way this movie would have garnered anything but an X rating back in those days despite it not being pornographic really at all. Definitely a neat older film.