Landlady’s got a big old hard drive at her place with a bunch of movies and TV shows, and with her permission I’ve killed quite a few evening hours with it over the past couple of years. Some of the movies are of the ‘only because it’s free’ variety, and those I have mostly avoided until such moments when I was really hard up for a movie I haven’t seen six times.
Such was the case with a flick called GI Jane, which I have heard of but disdained for reasons I trust will be obvious. But I watched it recently, during an evening when I wanted a movie but just couldn’t face Fifth Element or Dark City one more time. (I did what I could with sales-rack DVDs before I left Socal, knowing I’d want them in hermitage. But it wasn’t a very prosperous period and now that’s pretty much what I’ve got.) So to Landlady’s hard drive and Demi Moore I trudged, and to my surprise the flick didn’t suck quite as totally as I assumed it would. Almost. Very close. But not quite totally.
And there was a D. H. Lawrence poem I looked up later, assuming it was an excerpt but it appears to be the whole thing:
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself
Which I think may go on the sidebar.
I’ve seen it a couple of times and liked it well enough. Anne Bancroft is a perfectly credible senator on the take.
I keep meaning to watch Dark City, only heard good things.
I noticed that Lawrence quote on the sidebar a couple days ago – almost commented on it at the time. I heard the same quote earlier this year and thought it interesting.
By virtue of where and how I live I probably see more non-domesticated animals than humans as I go about my daily business. His observation jibes with my own. I’m not sure exactly what that observation is worth – but there’s some food for thought in it for me.
Way back when the Lord of the Rings movies came out, I had a *ahem* friend who would go on and on ad nauseum about the wonderfulness of Viggo Mortensen. So, out of spite, I recommended GI Jane to her, knowing that the character he played in it was nothing like Aragorn…I am assuming she watched it, because I haven’t heard from her since. 😀
Considering when it first came out, I enjoyed it and have seen it three times since then. It shows a saying that I’ve been living on for the last three years “Being strong isn’t an option when it’s all you’ve got left”. And that poem…. gave me shivers then and it gives me gooseflesh now. A bit of gossip/behind-the-scenes: When Demi’s character shaves her hair off, she really does it – it’s not a wig, it’s the real-thing.