I spent the weekend gallivanting around the County (well the Midlands) attempting to catch up with some University Friends. After a particularly heavy Saturday night in Nottingham and a horrific drive down the M1 on Sunday I was looking forward to getting home, shutting the curtains, fighting off the feeling of nausea and watching some films. I had a back log of blockbuster rentals to get through so started with the easiest, least complicated movie in my DVD heap, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Being a huge Katharine Hepburn fan I was really looking forward to watching the last Tracey / Hepburn pairing on screen.
The film is dated, made in 1967 it doesn’t deal with the interracial issues particularly gracefully and there are a few scenes that are difficult to take seriously in 2009. However I did love the final moment in which Spencer Tracey delivers the ultimate romantic line ‘If it is half what we felt it is everything’ not to his onscreen daughter but to his very real and rarely emotional mistress Katharine Hepburn, who in the background is shedding what look like genuine tears… she didn’t win four Oscars for nothing!
A big bag of Haribo Starmix and an even bigger bottle of water helped me through the first film; however the next one was proving to be a bit more of a struggle. In the Loop should not be watched while enduring a hangover, which is just a little tip from me to you. It is a whirlwind of a movie, I’m pretty sure it is savage in its sarcasm, it is laugh out loud funny and I think it continuously hits the right levels of cynicism… But I won’t be sending it back to Blockbusters just yet as the inability to keep my eyes open did distract me somewhat and a second viewing will now be required.
On the off chance that I am right, and with or without half a bottle of Vodka inside me I generally am. I would hazard a bet that Peter Capaldi will be on the receiving end of an Oscar nod come next year, I think…?
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