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Movies are great. The great big ones and the cheesy little ones. I like them.
A lot about what is good about them is where you see them. The big screen from those overly researched supercinemaplex chairs is nice, but so is television from a sofa which has an ashtray near to it.
An unusual review of a Jack Black movie (I think) -- I am going to talk about a Public Radio show, Bill Maher, python scripts, really lousy Saturday Night Live players (and how they seem lately to go onto making movies that don't suck), my favorite old Queen song (at least this year) and a suggestion to see the movie without knowing the cast list.
I can almost hear the brainstorming: "I know, lets remake Silver Streak with The Rock playing Jill Clayburgh and Bill Murray being the guy that got locked in the cage with the ape. And see how long we can confuse everyone by calling the characters the same names as they used in Get Smart...."
Spoiler/embellishment alert:
This is how I imagined the off camera conversation to go. "I would rather be dead than to be the Pirate Queen".
I had a choice between seeing Shrek the Third or Pirates the Third at a digital theatre -- I chose Shrek because I have been wanting to see a rendered movie on a digital projector.
That is what I saw.
They have a volkswagon Thing in this movie. There is a marquis with the name Menudo on it. And there is a somewhat blurry humanbeing in one scene who could be Ted Nugent in his pre-hunting days. Maybe not though.
For Memorial Day.
The last 10 minutes....
Once again, I only caught the last two thirds of this 2000 version of Hamlet.
My moms age group had Richard Chamberlain. We had Mel Gibson. I would like to trade Mel Gibson for Ethan Hawke.
I only saw about the last three quarters of this yet another Jesus movie. I showed the interview sequence to yosh and said "Kris Kristopherson makes just as good of a Christ as just about anyone else, huh?"
This movie included a resurrection and also an escape plan.
This movie was not as good as Shawn of the Dead but good enough.
When I first heard about this collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, I was really looking forward to see the results.
I would have to call Grindhouse, this years "feel good" movie of the year.
Dear Quentin:
Thank you for starting Kurt Russells engine.
carol
Yosh was fairly keen to see this movie.
It was good.
They should know by now how to make mobster movies.
The same comic book artist from Sin City, this time with a different director. I went to see this movie at 1) Yosh's recommendation and 2) because I am very interested in the computer stylizing of digital films.
There are three reasons to see this movie. 1) you are a gay man who loves to look at scantily clad men. 2) you are a woman who has never seen male bodies in good shape doing battle things like men used to. 3) you are like me and would like to see a goregeous computer stylized film.
I got to see this in one of those digi-theaters I mentioned here.
I immediately saw this movie as a prequel for The Fantastic 4.
Yosh said he heard that this movie was not so good, so there was no seeing it at the movie theater. I caught it via direct satellite and I liked it. It probably would have been just fine to see on the big screen.
The Wiz is a Motown Musical that says it was filmed in New York. Another Motown Musical that actually was filmed in Motown is RoboCop. I think they just did not have money to pay the singers.
I saw some things in this movie that I never wanted to see. Like naked and unattractive men wrestling and what might have been faecal matter passed around in a bag.
At first I thought that Hugh Jackman was Orlando Bloom. Then I thought that David Bowie was Eddie Izzard.
I have been anticipating this movie since I saw the trailer the first time. In fact, I might have been anticipating this movie since I saw the same technique being used in a financial advising (iirc) commercial. That being said, it is interesting to see a movie like this when you have just a little experience with even just one pixel manipulation application, in my case, it is GIMP.
So, now I watch these movies and try to keep track of several things. The story, the imagery used to support/enhance the story, other similar stories and also pixel technique.
A comical and interesting look into the task of getting your film rated by the governments special little board that rates things.
I liked this movie very much, which surprised me.
I had watched what I saw (and contributed to) as a great and respectable project become dirtied with what looked to be a dating game or worse.
This movie actually started to make me laugh about some of the real life things I have been enduring since 2003.
I saw this DVD at the video rental and said something about it being a cool name for a movie. It was rented and watched.
It was a well written and well acted crime drama.
This was a great movie. I suspect that it will live a long life in public schools.
It is always really nice to listen to Morgan Freeman's voice, as well.
This movie was long. Without actually comparing the times, I would have liked the first one to be this long and this new one to be as short as the first one was.
I liked the movie. That being said, it was not as good as the first one. I am going to risk a funny explanation for the difference: The first one was more believable(?).
As an episode in Johnny Depps life, it is far more interesting. I was sorry that Keith Richards wasn't in it as promised.
I saw this movie about the time I met Tom Rathborne. There was a scene in the movie in which the female star wanted to meet Alice Cooper and when she finally did, the man who took her to meet him had much more to say to him than she did.
Things would have been different if I had met Tom in my own life -- the one I had been living when we first became friends.
Meatloaf is better without large breasts and I personally turned into a quivering mass of goo when I heard the first few bars (and that is all they played btw) of Only Woman Bleed.
Vin wasn't playing the role of a Jew in a Shakespeare comedy; he was playing an Italian. Many of the qualifications to make this role believable were already met. Then the director, Sidney Lumet for this mob movie; he directed a few of my favorite movies.
Here is the conversation when the dvd was returned to the rental conglomeration outlet:
- clerk:
- I liked that movie. Vin Diesel did really well with the dramatic role....
- carol:
- Yeah, I liked the movie -- I don't think I have seen him in a non-comedy yet though.
- carol (what I wish I would have said additionally):
- Although, I haven't seen [points to display thing behind her] that one yet. That one might actually be a tragedy....
This Dream Works animation, Madagascar was nice for me in that it was the first animated movie that both yosh and I saw for the first time at the same time. It was worth seeing just for the penguins.
I enjoyed being able to notice things about the mechanics of the animation and being able to discuss them instead of having them pointed out to me and lectured about. Not that that is bad, I just enjoyed this for a change.
Yosh and I talked about the lions hair and ears. The hair was beautiful....
Oh, I enjoyed X-Men: The Last Stand. It was not as good as the first two. Storywise, it seems to have had little effect on the saga, as when you are a mutant, you don't really die and you also don't really lose your powers. The cg, while beautiful in many ways was also somewhat incomplete...
I liked this movie, even though the rest of what I wrote here is negative, the people who made this movie so far can be counted on for telling a good sci-fi adventure tale.
That being said, how isn't The Matrix just another voyeur fantasy and this movie is simply about a bunch of perverted old men who mess up a perfectly decent girls life.
Even with almost the entirety of Shawshank Redemption included, it is not so difficult to unravel this adventure tale and see it as what it probably is. A bunch of perverts who should have left that girl alone.
I really loved the book tape in the nineties. I heard that Mel Gibson had bought this movie option back then but at the time too busy making Braveheart. I have no idea if this is the truth or not, but I liked this movie much better than Braveheart, especially as it addresses modern problems. It isn't what you say, but how you say it.
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Caro Dario, the quotes and slobber I write here could not possibly spoil this movie. It is a trilogy of non-epic proportions; the diary of a man in his early forties, an eloquent observer.
I found myself thinking about this movie often after seeing it.
I am in a difficult position -- I have to admit to watching a movie in its entirety or I have to deny saying the funniest thing I have said this year....
I saw a really wonderful movie last night, Frida. In addition to the beautifully told story was beautiful use of cg in which painted portraits seem to become real people.
- Tina Modotti:
- I don't believe in marriage.
- [crowd laughs]
- Tina Modotti:
- No, I really don't. Let me be clear about that. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic. To Diego and Frida.
- yosh:
- heh, peter griffin sings better than buddy hackett....
Once again, I am writing a review several months after seeing this movie, and I am seeing Hamlet again. This is an older version of Hamlet than that first one I saw in this series. It also looks like not everyone liked this movie as much as I did.
He ain't got no distractions Can't hear those buzzers and bells, hmm hmm humm hmin' Plays by sense of smell. Always has a replay, 'n' never tilts at all...
I grew up watching Walter Cronkite.
Edward Murrow was long gone by the time I was able to figure out those shapes in the television screen, but this movie, this movie about Edward R. Murrow had the look and feel and texture of what television news was then.
I really liked this movie.
Yosh owns this DVD.
- carol:
- Those scary black critters, the first ones not the big ones that look like people dressed in costumes, the little ones that rip your flesh from your bones -- they look like they morphed into the bats for Batman.
- yosh:
- I don't see what you are saying.
This was my favorite of all the Batman movies.
I cried probably two thirds of the time that the movie was showing and I was in the theatre watching it.
Long ago, I was given the basic wine training that they gave waitstaff who were to work in establishments of fine dining. I was a bartender then and I did not get the book. The restaurant that wrote the book came down with the World Trade Center, if I remember my education correctly.
At that time, 1988, I remember picking a few names and varieties that would be my fallback in the case I was ever among wine snobs and needed to sound like I at least once knew what I was talking about.
After seeing this movie, I realized that not too much has changed.
This is definately not my usual genre of movie. I am a big fan of Robert Rodriguez and was curious to see what the digital filmaker with the 10 Minute Film School could do to make this movie look like a comic book.
Without knowing the comic book it sought to emulate, I was taken back by how beautiful it looked on the big screen.
This is one of those great movies.
A rented DVD that I would like to own.
On the recommendation of Henry Rollins I started to see Wes Anderson movies.
This one was funny also.
If Wes Anderson movies are like wine, this movie would be his Beaujolais Nouvous.
The part I loved so much about this movie was the race that Royal had with his grandsons on the tricycles.
I recommended this movie to my dad. He warned me that he has a very short attention span now.
In many ways, this movie was not so funny. That teacher lost her job.
This movie completely surpassed my expectations.
This was written many many months after seeing this movie, Garden State. I enjoyed it when I saw it. When I review things about it to write about it today, I see Hamlet.
I heard the business card scene on the radio at least once. That was some funny stuff since I had been trying to help my friend design her web site and went with her to get things printed. I think she also wanted me to help with her business card and I do remember thinking that she was almost completely insane -- and not the same kind of insanity that she had been in college either, where glittery fabric and romance that ended with the receipt of a red rose had been encouraged.
She fired me from making her web site when I used the Cindy Bob font for it.
When I finally saw the movie, I was surprised by the violence and how it was mostly not funny, but a sad thing about trying to fit and stand out in the standards that were created for and by the yuppiedom of the eighties.
This movie was just plain silly. I laughed for most of it.
The inhabitants of #gimp on the irc were talking about this movie and Lord of the Rings when I first joined there in 2001.
They mentioned that in the movie, the main character made soap. I told them (quite honestly) that I made soap. Then they explained what the soap in the movie was made of.
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There was a trailer for this movie that I saw attached to Sin City (i think) that made me cry and gave me the chills.
I get nervous when my favorite books are turned into movies. I really loved this movies version of this favorite story of mine.
Highly recommended.
The last movie I saw in a movie theatre was CB4 in 1993. I admit, I saw this movie because public radio told me to. I took my daughter. Wikipedia says it is like Spinal Tap. I thought it was like Wayne's World. We all enjoyed it.
Then, in the year 2003, yosh was visiting for our birthdays and we went to see my next movie at a theatre. We saw this Pirates movie several months after its release, I guess I was lucky it was still showing. He found the movie showing in Flint Michigan and we took my car there to see it. Driving the two lane roads to and through Flint to see the city, we ended up 10 minutes late to the wrong movie theatre.
If CB4 is a good midnight snack, then this pirates movie was a good breakfast.