Cat Ladies
I watched this documentary on YouTube. I think it was originally shown on Animal Planet. Not sure it counts as a movie, but I'll include it here. It was too short (less than 45 minutes) to follow 4 different cat ladies. They could have gone further with all of them. Margo only had 3, but her home was covered in cat memorabilia. Her story ends with 1 of her cats dying and the people in her life offering support. Jenny is a pretty real estate agent in her mid-30s who has 16 cats. Her story had the 2nd most disappointing ending. She decides that she has to make more of an effort in her interpersonal relationships with others. Great, but you kind of get the feeling she has already come to that conclusion several times over so really, there is no real resolution there. They barely dip into an abusive childhood and a strained relationship with her sister (she also has a brother she mentions once). Jenny, at one point, calls her sister and asks, "Is asshole there?" which I assume was referring to her sister's husband. These are holes in a story that would make it more complete and interesting.
Diane (pronounced Dee-ahn) has an addiction to rescuing cats and had over 130 (I think). She ended up reaching her breaking point and reducing her number to 95 by holding an adoption drive. They barely touch on the financial hardship of having so many cats (she had overdraft her debit account nearly $3000). Sigi kept hoarding cats to the point where family and friends stopped talking to her. She got to the point where she considered them excess and not the ridiculous amount of cats she continues to rescue while practically living in squalor. I was most disappointed with her story because they barely touch on the war she has with her new neighbors (a couple who moved in during the winter and no one told them of the crazy cat lady next door) and when Spring came, the gaggle of cats became a real problem. They gloss over a lot in this documentary. Each of them could have been the documentary alone.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I enjoyed it despite the plot getting a bit confusing in the middle, something I felt MI3 avoided. I watched this on Netflix, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the scenes on the DVD was titled "Paula Patton's Boobs" because it was full of close-up shots of Paula Patton's boobs. Just an observation.
Anyway, the action sequences were really good which is the whole reason I watched this movie. They were the best in the series, in my opinion. That was kind of a letdown in the previous one. I liked that they not only explained away Ethan not being married anymore (which was boring in MI3), but used it in the plot of Ghost Protocol, even of it was kind of contrived.
Looper
I liked it, maybe not enough to have spent $20 on the Blu Ray. The time travel is a bit tricky, as it often is in other movies. One plot device has characters' in the present having their bodies changed to affect their future selves, but almost anything in the changed present should affect whether their future selves even get any back in time. The problem is basically that the movie can't decide whether there is 1 or multiple timelines. It changes it's mind to fit the plot. I get it even if I kept trying to reconcile it in my mind.
Old Joe getting erased from existence kind of bothered me. I'm not saying it makes the movie bad or worse. Rather, I just kept thinking, "Man, that's shitty." He just doesn't get to be. Additionally, the ending doesn't ensure that the Rainmaker doesn't become the Rainmaker. The audience is led to that conclusion. I felt that not specifically telling you is the point. Rian Johnson wants you to think about it and talk with others. I'm in the "Joe saves the future" camp. Just the way I interpreted the ending.
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