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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.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

The last few minutes that I watched this movie -- I broke it up for the web site here in the case that I mention those things that I watched in between these three parts. The final section I watched was 15 minutes long and contained the bat to dracula animation that is kind of interesting to see sixty years -- and so much technology since then -- later.

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein -- 48 minutes to 68 minutes

I ended up watching this movie in three sections. I did this by choice and not by design.

Lorenzo's Oil

Online sources and the TiVO description claim that this movie was made in 1992. I saw it perhaps in 1993 when it aired on cable. I remember not wanting to watch it because the description made me think it was going to be one of those made-for-television movies which tauted a special cause. These movies tended to be overly dramatic and full of good guys which were a little too good and bad guys which were a little too bad.

I watched it anyways and I really liked it. Seeing it again this decade, I am once again with the idea that it was originally intended to be a made-for-television movie as it seemed to have breaks at good places for commercials and all of the other things I listed with the exception of the character played by Susan Sarandon who seemed to be one of the bad guys with the "help" quite often.

Managing your own body and health issues when what the professionals are doing is hurting you (or anything like this) is probably a good message. I have personally always found it easier to believe in ideas that seem good, methods that really do work as promised and in my own experience than I have found it easy to believe in (or have loyalty for) groups of people for whom "studies have shown that", any one individual person, promises that have ceased to be fullfilled if they ever did.

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein -- first 48 minutes

From 1948, I saw this in a list of movies that would be shown via the direct satellite here and requested it. When I was a child, these movies would be shown on television, usually on the weekends on Saturday or Sunday morning (Sunday makes sense since Saturday was when the cartoons were on). So, in the seventies, they would show Abbott and Costello movies, sometimes others but mostly these, in the mornings on one of the weekend days. I liked these old movies more than Spanky and the gang and other old shows like this. My brother seemed to agree then with this -- I don't want to speak for him now though.

I requested that TiVO grab this movie for a few reasons. It has been interesting to re-see some of this stuff to see how my feelings for it are, how my attention span for the content is so many decades later, to see the old stuff with my new knowledge of computer graphics and the rendering of fiction for whatever screen it ends up on and this time specifically to see if they ever used the Mel Brooks triple in the dialog.

Sat, 06 Dec 2008

Joes Apartment

The first time I saw this movie I did not like it. I suspect that it touched a few "raw nerves" as it was about an apartment which was a mess and full of cockroaches. The apartment which I was living in was a mess, but without the cockroach population. It was a mess because I was patiently awaiting the other person in that apartment to do his share of cleaning. He had yet to unpack even and the community area was still with boxes of his unpacked stuff.

I used some of this same patience when I re-watched this movie and this patience was rewarded (this time) as the movie was much easier to see with those nerves not so raw.

I saw an obvious point back to Futurama in this movie -- before I saw that Billy West (voice of Fry) was the voice of the main cockroach. That was the main character, Joe, delivering pizza on a bicycle.

Sun, 30 Nov 2008

The most wrongly named movie....

A movie whose soundtrack also made it to the list of movies whose soundtrack did not include the Leonard Cohen song(s) used. Pump Up the Volume, the most wrongly named movie I have ever watched -- this decade or in the (almost) decades that fell between when I saw it and this one. The title should have been Talk Hard, a title which works on so many levels. So long ago by now, when I was communicating my thoughts and memories with the feeling of freedom I used to have, when I declared my profound love for this movie I was told by an acquaintance (a word which I use now instead of using the word "friend" to describe a person I have a list of good experiences with) from Australia called me "old skool". The opinions of others only change mine if upon review they are valid or more knowing than mine. Perhaps it is old skool and I am that whatever it is, but this movie still features music that never made it to mainstream (that I know of) and is so much better than its father movie Commander Midnight (although I can find no evidence that this 1970s era movie ever existed; my memory of the name might be a problem) and still no better version of the subject matter that I know of. Leave me in the old skool but not the too old and forgotten skool.

Except that the old skools were not judged by their test scores....

Sat, 29 Nov 2008

Men In Tights

From 1993, this movie is another Mel Brooks movie. There is nothing wrong with being a Mel Brooks movie -- this man, this giant of anything that can display his work, who founded many of the comedy formulas that work or had the insight to bring them to the television in the first place.

This is not his best movie, nor his best work but it is reliable to have all of the things that a Mel Brooks movie should have and not a waste of time more than watching anything else would.

I see Mel Brooks in so much successful comedy, another Mel Brooks movie is an okay thing to be.

Devil In A Blue Dress -- the very end

I watched the very end of this movie. Not enough to write an opinion of it, not enough to even know what the story had been. Typically I did not see enough of this to warrent taking the time to write a thingie here for it, but the watching of the very end of this was kind of weird for the watching of Men In Tights right after.

I started watching this (I was channel surfing at the time) and at this time there was a whole bunch of Denzel Washington movies available for watching so I thought I would add this to my list Denzel movies I had seen.

Fri, 28 Nov 2008

The Andromeda Strain

This movie is from 1971 and based on a Michael Crichton book. I remember when the movie came out, but it must have never made it to prime time and my parents wanted to see it (back in the days when there was one television set and the family watched it together) or to Bill Kennedy's afternoon movie on one of my sick days or in the summer when I was bored (where I saw a lot of movies). I geared myself to watch a movie that had the late-sixties, early seventies pacing and was kind of disappointed as it really seems to hold up by todays standards for the information it contained.

It wasn't fast paced, but it when it lacked pace it provided believable scientific melodrama. A fast pace seems to be often an inadequate replacement for believable science, in my opinion.

Thu, 27 Nov 2008

Hitman

After watching most of this movie five days before (I had been channel surfing), I scheduled it for a re-watch and it was not boring for a second viewing so soon

The first time I watched this movie, it was after the opening credits had finished, which were unusually filled with expository information about the main character. I was surprised at how much the main character grab my sympathy and compassion and all of those things that are necessary to make a movie into an easy to watch and good story.

Wed, 26 Nov 2008

Aliens

I love this movie! From 1986, I don't know what year I saw it for the first time. In the late-1900s and early 2000s I recommended this movie as a good flick for Mothers Day, and after watching it once again, I still claim that no other movie about motherhood is so poignant and to the point for showing exaggerated pictures of the real thing.

Ripley protected the living human child and destroyed alien eggs. I can tell you this also, as a woman who is in pocession of working parts. There are communities and systems in place and often in control of things like pay per hour and the cost of land and existing buildings that are not mindful of the people who make the community run enough to pay them enough to live there. It is wrong to bring a new child into such a community and it is correct to find an existing child and make that child safe. That is about resources and distribution and as I wrote elsewhere in this web site, even that branch of the National Rifle Association could add enough to not argue with me.

Tue, 25 Nov 2008

Alien

A movie from 1979. The story and the cast is a mix of genders and ethnic origins and none of this is a problem. The main character, Ripley, has no problem knowing her job and her role in the team she is a part of and the gender difference is reasonably shown to be not much of a problem if any. The problem is the non-human life form who as programmed has placed the lives of the others on the team in which it is a part of lower in the keep list than the dangerous lifeform they discover.

This mechanical man is right there looking at and working with that crew and the conditions are obvious.

All of this in a movie from 1979! Now it is 2008 and EVERYONE IN CALIFORNIA has a problem conceiving of women being equal to men and perhaps even that the real person is more important than the game player. I get angry because the future of the past often is so much nicer and more honest to my real life experience than the future which is right now and being imagined in the right now.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008

Armageddon -- edited for commercial television

In the years since Moonlighting, Bruce Willis' movies can almost always be relied on to be not a waste of the 1.5 to 2 hours they require you to give of your life and dedicate to watching the fiction he appears in. Moonlighting was more innovative then than reliable for story line -- but that was a long while ago and a different medium.

This movie, which I enjoyed watching enough that I watched it again later when it appeared unedited on one of the cable stations, is being mentioned here for this quote and so I can explain what it made me think of and the reason that of all of the quotable lines in this movie, I wrote this one down.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008

Hitman

I started to watch this movie after the credits had finished but still in the beginning parts. The description said it was about a hitman in Saint Petersberg with a task to do in Saint Petersberg.

Then in the closing credits, I read that the movie was based on a game.

Sat, 22 Nov 2008

X-Men 2 -- edited for commercial television

A letter to my government teacher: "I am sorry we shot Nixon during the re-enactment of the trial he should have had, it was (believe it or not) Andy's idea to do that."

I don't like being the snitch about this, even 29 years later, but with all of the people in that class of mixed grade-average students, and those similar situations since then when probably no one would even consider that it was the "good boy" who suggested the activity or scripting that disappointed you so. Your disappointment was not forgotten and with it the fact that you were living the life that the rules you believed in dictated.

So many of the real people in my life make the big screen superheros look small in comparison.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008

The Cars That Ate Paris

I had seen the last 10 to 20 minutes of this movie (shown on IFC) and it made me laugh. It made me laugh because I had been this year mentioning one of my old vehicles to a person claiming to be from Australia and how that vehicle or car had been banned from many demolition derbies here, in United States and specifically in that state in which it had been designed and built. In the last 10 to 20 minutes of this movie, it became clear to me when they "killed" what must have been a bad guy by backing a car repeatedly into the passenger door of the car containing the bad guy -- it became clear to me that either the Aussies had never had a demolition derby before then or that the movie was just made to be fun or both.

Realism is a goal not a necessity and the death of a person via means which would not kill or even hurt in reality is not so bad.

So, I told TiVO to save the movie the next time it aired and this is about when I watched it.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008

August Rush

It took a while, but I wanted to hear this movie again. It had fallen off from the stuff saved by TiVO, fortunately, it was still being re-broadcasted. I requested it again and today, knowing it would once again make me cry but that it would be worth it to hear it again. I re-watched it eagerly.

To know what I think is so good about the movie you can read this. The rest of this "review" is not about the movie and more about the problems of being here and some of the other problems which are unreasonable (in this case, without good reason) to judge a movie with.

Sat, 08 Nov 2008

Madagascar-Escape 2 Africa

In my opinion, this movie was superior to the first. The more penguins have much to do with this -- I found it interesting that there was still very little inter-action between the penguins and the rest of the animals. Is that the case where art reflects life? And why only have art reflecting life for this one species?

Four of one thing

The trailers I saw before Madagascar-Escape 2 Africa included four trailers for movies about dogs. Later, and perhaps inspired by the Hippo named Gloria and most certainly inspired by that one episode of Lucy Daughter of the Devil I was able to effortlessly make a list of four popular songs with the name "Gloria".

Tue, 04 Nov 2008

August Rush

I can't remember the reason I set the TiVO to record this movie, I am writing this several weeks and another re-watching of it later and my notes say "great scoring" which is not something that I needed help to remember about the movie.

I hesitated to call it a good movie at first and I did not ask that it be saved on the disc that the TiVO uses. I did say it was the best scored movie I had ever seen -- the music score, the music that accompanies the action and enhances the story. It was a story about music and musicians, so the score has a place in it almost like its own character, an audible player in the cast of characters. Much of my hesitation was due to the fact that it is a family movie (it was broadcasted by HBO Family), so the story and the action are within those eh, lines. And, it made me cry. Not did it just make me cry, it made me not want to watch it with others again because for certain I would cry again. Sweet, sappy, sentimental tears -- puffy eyes, and all from a vulnerable 45 year old.

Please ignore the messenger due to these problems and know that it is at least a good movie and quite possibly a great movie -- for what it is supposed to do and be.

Mon, 20 Oct 2008

The Blues Brothers

Among some groups of people, I would be considered an old person. I started watching Saturday Night Live its second season. The Blues Brothers is so far the best movie that has come from a Saturday Night Live skit or group, so far that I know of.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008

Burn After Reading

Do you know who might enjoy this movie? Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr., that is who.

Sat, 27 Sep 2008

Finally I get to see....

Natural Born Killers, 1994 a movie which never showed on the cable at a time that I could see it.

qualities that distinguish

High Anxiety from 1977 is an old movie, a homage to Alfred Hitchcock and thankfully still around to be watched. This review is actually just an additional quote which is not going to make it into the new quote section here, in lieu of the other that is more suited for modern days -- possibly for all modern days, even when today is no longer "modern".

Sun, 07 Sep 2008

Reel Time Like Bill Maher or Topical Gun

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.

Sun, 10 Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (in mere digital)

I asked for the opportunity to compare the IMAX display with the digital display and re-watched this Batman movie. With the zazz no longer there and the knowing of the plot and the characters -- my eyes were not tired, but my mind was questioning many of the details.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008

The Dark Knight

I saw this movie on IMAX and the beauty of the opening scenes in particular zazzled (to borrow a word from Dethklok) my senses so much that I failed to notice the gaping holes in the story later. After seeing Iron Man but before seeing this I had the pleasure and honor of being asked work on some of the stitching errors in this image:

Hong_Kong_Night_Skyline_retouched

I admit that I did not complete the task and that I still regret this, but the hours spent in the attempt to make the stitch errors disappear were perhaps mentally, just a few steps away from seeing the IMAX camera pan between the buildings that are in the image. In the middle of the zazz, I was able to recognize some of the buildings -- the experience was exceptional for me, so much so, that as I write this, I feel left out for whatever IMAX stuff will be in Keanu's upcoming movie (yes, another post-dated text).

Mon, 07 Jul 2008

WALL-E

This was a good childrens movie and very watchable for this adult. The Peter Gabriel video enclosed at the end was an additional reason to see the movie.

Wed, 02 Jul 2008

Silver Streak 2008

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...."

Thu, 12 Jun 2008

Iron Man on film

It has been interesting to compare the different displays of movies, perhaps not 5 to 6 years of interesting, but interesting nonetheless. I asked to see the movie again, I can't remember if I asked to see it on film or not, but the second showing was the film version.

It was just as enjoyable and entertaining as it had been when displayed via digital. It did seem as if a foreign language word which I had some questions about had been repaired, however. That was and still is quite an interesting phenomena to me. Unprovable beyond me just knowing the change.

Sat, 24 May 2008

Iron Man

I really enjoyed this movie. I am writing this entry after having seen this movie one more time in a cinema (the second time was on film) and once again from the DVD. I really enjoyed this movie and the fact that the rest of this is a complaint about super-heros has nothing to do with my opinion about this super-hero movie.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007

The Blade Runner

Online sources say that this movie is from 1982. I saw it first in 1984 or 1985 from a widescreen version of the video tape on a projection television which also sported (or had attached to it) a 5 component speaker system which was for me (and perhaps everyone else then) a relatively newly available in the consumer market technology.

Viewing it at a movie theatre with a good sound system was not the same thing and my choice back then to call that little gathering of what I now call acquaintances for dinner and a movie (Hedonistic) holds. Good food, state of the art movie viewing and people who I felt comfortable with and seemed to be able to access the thinking parts of their brains.

Sat, 10 Nov 2007

Bee Movie

A very cute movie and the trip through the combustible engine was cool (but it seems like more suitable for other stories) this movie was as short of science as it was big on cuteness.

It could actually serve the purpose of showing the difference between computer generated fiction and real life in a conversation between a parent or teacher and a child or children or adults who have a problem determining the difference between the two.

The science of pollination and how that works on this planet is interesting and the role that some of lifes less cute and less well-behaved naturally occuring species and events are important to the health of the planet and everything else that occurs on it can be interesting. This movie does not do that very well.

Sun, 19 Aug 2007

Sicko

I saw this Michael Moore movie in a cinema here in California. I am writing about it more than a year later (post-dated entry) and the most that I can remember is that I kind of miss the presentation of facts from both sides of the story and that some of the stories presented in this movie seemed a little contrived. It has been a while and this might be unfair.

Sun, 08 Jul 2007

Transformers

I was too old and too much of a girl perhaps to have played much with the toys when I first saw them. I remember when I first saw them very much. I thought "that's cool" but when I expanded the toy, the robot was not exactly made of the same parts that an automobile is made of.

Sun, 10 Jun 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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".

Wed, 06 Jun 2007

Shrek the Third

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.

Tue, 29 May 2007

Tapeheads

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.

Mon, 28 May 2007

Jarhead

For Memorial Day.

Sat, 26 May 2007

Free Enterprise

The last 10 minutes....

Tue, 22 May 2007

Hamlet

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.

Sat, 19 May 2007

Convoy

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.

Sun, 29 Apr 2007

Hot Fuzz

This movie was not as good as Shawn of the Dead but good enough.

Sat, 14 Apr 2007

Grindhouse

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



Mon, 05 Mar 2007

The Departed

Yosh was fairly keen to see this movie.

It was good.

They should know by now how to make mobster movies.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007

300

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.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006

The Illusionist

I immediately saw this movie as a prequel for The Fantastic 4.

Fri, 01 Dec 2006

Fantastic Four

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.

Sun, 12 Nov 2006

A Motown Musical

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.

Sun, 05 Nov 2006

I Read 'Clam Bank' in the title (if you flip the G into an A)

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.

Sat, 04 Nov 2006

The Prestige

At first I thought that Hugh Jackman was Orlando Bloom. Then I thought that David Bowie was Ricky Gervais.

Tue, 10 Oct 2006

'the Scanner movie'

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.

Sun, 24 Sep 2006

This Film Is Not Rated

A comical and interesting look into the task of getting your film rated by the governments special little board that rates things.

Thu, 14 Sep 2006

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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.

Mon, 11 Sep 2006

Layer Cake

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.

Wed, 30 Aug 2006

March of the Penguins

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.

Sun, 09 Jul 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

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.

Fri, 07 Jul 2006

Roadie

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.

Every Italian Needs to Make One Mob Movie

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....

Sun, 18 Jun 2006

The Penguins were well rendered

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....

Mon, 29 May 2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

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...

Sat, 22 Apr 2006

V for Vendetta

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.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Thank You For Smoking

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.

Mon, 20 Mar 2006

AEon Flux (2005)

title
Æon Flux
Flight
from Frankfort to San Francisco
IMDb
Æon Flux
Wikipedia
Wikipedia Page

Wed, 15 Mar 2006

Elizabethtown

title
movie title
Flight
San Francisco to Frankfort
IMDb
Elizabethtown
Wikipedia
Wikipedia Page

Thu, 09 Mar 2006

'I smell jogging suits, video tapes, watchdogs in the garden'

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.

Tue, 28 Feb 2006

like enduring seventh grade all over again

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....

Wed, 22 Feb 2006

a movie about Frida Kahlo

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.

Sun, 29 Jan 2006

Meredith Willson's Music Man

yosh:
heh, peter griffin sings better than buddy hackett....

Mon, 31 Oct 2005

Another 'Hamlet'

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.

Mon, 24 Oct 2005

It's All Gone Pete Tong

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...
  

See this movie and Tommy on the same evening.

Wed, 19 Oct 2005

Good Night and Good Luck

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.

Fri, 30 Sep 2005

Serenity

The movie was really really good. The tv show was better.

Sun, 26 Jun 2005

Pitch Black

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.

Sun, 19 Jun 2005

Batman Begins

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.

Mon, 25 Apr 2005

Sideways

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.

Sun, 03 Apr 2005

Sin City

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.

Thu, 27 Jan 2005

Shaun of the Dead

This is one of those great movies.

A rented DVD that I would like to own.

Shaun of the Dead.

Sun, 12 Dec 2004

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

On the recommendation of Henry Rollins I started to see Wes Anderson movies.

This one was funny also.

Bottle Rocket

If Wes Anderson movies are like wine, this movie would be his Beaujolais Nouvous.

The Royal Tenenbaums

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.

Rushmore

In many ways, this movie was not so funny. That teacher lost her job.

Mon, 29 Nov 2004

almost perfection

This movie completely surpassed my expectations.

Sat, 28 Aug 2004

'Hamlet'

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.

Sun, 08 Aug 2004

American Psycho

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.

Sat, 24 Jul 2004

From Dusk to Dawn

This movie was just plain silly. I laughed for most of it.

Fight Club

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.

Mon, 05 Jul 2004

Intermission (2003)

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Intermission
Flight
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IMDb
Intermission (2003)
Wikipedia
Intermission

Fri, 25 Jun 2004

Hidalgo (2004)

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Hidalgo
Flight
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IMDb
Hidalgo
Wikipedia
Wikipedia Page

Sat, 01 May 2004

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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.

Fri, 19 Sep 2003

CB4 then Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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.