Caseus Archivelox: The Goodbye Girl, Silverado, The Gathering Storm, & The Gorgon

2002-04-28 - 3:00 p.m.
I also had three movies on in the background when attempting to write the paper. The Goodbye Girl, Silverado, and The Gathering Storm. The first was a sort of dissappointing Neil Simon-penned film, with a good performance from Richard Dreyfuss (especially as an extremely fey Richard III). Silverado was a really good revisionist western with an incredibly good cast (Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner (in a good performance outside of a baseball film or JFK, who knew?), John Cleese, Brian Dennehy, Roseanna Arquette, Linda Hunt, and Jeff Goldblum). Very fun film. The Gathering Storm was based upon the part of Winston Churchill's unfinished 3-part autobiography set from 1936-1940. Incredibly good. I'm a big fan of Churchill, and this was good. Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave were excellent as Mr. and Mrs. Churchill.

After that I decided to watch the movie I had taped last night, Hammer film's 1964 classic The Gorgon. Combining Greek mythology with great acting from Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee is great. Sure Megara doesn't look good at all, but it has a lot of atmosphere to make up for that failure.