A little bit of a different movie watching week for me than normal as I did catch a couple movies in theaters — That Awkward Moment and Need for Speed — as well as watching Dr. Strangelove on the film’s 50th Anniversary, but more on that soon enough. However, I ended up watching a lot of movies on cable.
I caught Mission: Impossible, which, for whatever reason, still surprises me it was directed by Briad De Palma. I watched about 75% of Warm Bodies and even went On Demand and had Michael Mann‘s Thief playing in the background while I did a little work.
Finally, it’s Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar month and I have several films set up to record, many I’ve seen, many I haven’t and last night I watched one I had seen, Frank Capra‘s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It’s been some time since I first saw this movie and it has all the signature trappings of a Capra feature, but there still remains a lot of truth embedded in a Capra film, not to mention it goes to some dark territories while in the midst of going very over the top. It’s why the films work rather than play as only the melodramatic soap opera’s they’d otherwise be.
Now, today, I’ll be watching the Super Bowl and only the Super Bowl. Go Hawks!
