The Bride!

 Wandered out the Athens Movie Palace today to catch The Bride!, the new flick from Maggie Gyllenhaal (which I spelled correctly on the first try), starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

It's fun.  A bit of a mess, but it's got tremendous energy, and a helluva fun performance from Jessie Buckley (who was already high on my list, but who might have bought benefit of the doubt for the rest of her career).  

A couple of nice throwbacks to earlier Frankenstein flicks, including a couple of references Young Frankenstein.....

One of the notable things to me was Jake Gyllenhaal (which I spelled correctly on the first try) performing.  Now, I don't want to tell anybody, least of all a film director, how to run their lives, but if it's me and I'm directing my sibling?  I order that sibling to do a lot of extensive training (i.e. dance, fencing, boating, etc).  I then costume them as uncomfortably as possible.  I also give them extensive, time-consuming makeup and prosthetics.  And then, I Stanley Kubrick the shit out directing their scenes with take upon take upon take.....

All of which ends up on the cutting room floor.

But then, that's probably why I'm not a film director......