I was walking home from the movie theater last night, when I saw the shadows of the trees thrown on the new-fallen snow by the streetlights. I thought it was pretty.
The movie I’d gone to see was Anaconda, the bonkers ‘reimagining’ of the original horror movie Anaconda from 1997, which had been bonkers already. All I can say of the new movie is that it was a goofy bit of fluff that the actors had fun with; I wouldn’t recommend either unless you just want to escape for an hour and a half. One strike against it, though: there is some graphic, brutal butchery of two majestically large CGI snakes.
Many people are turned off if a dog dies in a movie, I hope you feel the same about vicious killings of snakes.
Speaking of fateful dog movies I recently decided to see if Good Boy was as good as anticipated. I liked it. The dog receiving a warning in a dream from a previous family dog was priceless. Our dog lives (important!) Previous dog…not so much. So there is that. Not quite I am Legend though.
I’m there for the unsettling dog POV horror.
I never saw the original Anaconda and still have a self-imposed Jack Black moratorium to abide by.
There are plenty of “so bad they are good” creature films out there you can watch together with friends over beer and popcorn.
“Brandon’s Cult Movie Reviews” is a great source for finding them.
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The late Roger Zelazny once wrote a novel where one of the characters was a GM dog with human-level intelligence.
Not all Zelazny wrote was fluff. I recommend his “Eye of Cat “.
Pretty to me too. Clean snow always makes everything look better.