MOVIES!

HMV has "That Night in Rio" which appears to be the same cast, playing the same roles, only made 2yrs earlier, on sale. I might pick it up tonight.

Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Champion (Kirk Douglas) - on TCM now

Oscar month is awesome

i know the movie is not kitch, and i really liked it.

but i was watching it with two friends who just oozed over every goddamn thing joan crawford did, and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

honestly, i am not now (nor have i ever been) all that taken with any of ray -- but i love sterling hayden, so this was an enjoyable pic

I thought Blade II was supposed to be the best one. or at least "the one guillermo del toro did." I didn't like it enough to fuck with blade 3 at all

on dangerous ground
secretary
the king of kong

that is a hat-trick of awesome

Elena And Her Men
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
Prenom:Carmen
" The War " Episode 1 (still on the fence about Ken Burns. Is that Nora Jones singing over war footage somewhere on here? Sheeesh)

wow tekkon kinkreet rules good call mr tomboto

and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

Yup, although I've never minded In a Lonely Place.

a boy and his dog (crazzzzzzy)
superbad (though i missed the last 20 minutes)
and last night i watched the law & order CI marathon instead of the oscars, because the oscars are boring.

hmmmm, not as boring as cop shows

I finally watched Pan's Labyrinth. Maybe it was having to take five breaks to check on the crying cat, but I feel like I sort of missed something. Maybe the movie was just so punishing that I sort of checked out, emotionally.

punishing, indeed. (did you get my Boleyn webmail?)

Oh sorry! No, I'll check it now.

Charlie Bartlett - I'm a complete sucker for rich kid-public school or poor kid-private school movies, and there's a lot of good here, but it's the most haphazardly written movie I've ever seen.

Who Killed The Electric Car made me cuss at a teevee

(not because it sucked, because of subj matter)

it is effing infuriating, esp. the bits where all the cars are just sitting on the far side of the chain-link fence turning to shit and rot.

vantage point - ugh avoid avoid

saw it in times square, people were heckling the screen and I was enjoying the heckling

were you transported back to 1981 Times Square?

Mandingo (not at all bad, and far more honest than GWTW & other antebellum South potboilers)
10 Rillington Place
In Harm's Way (surprisingly anonymous Preminger WW2 Navy epic)
Backstage

Pet Sematary - So unfrightening, so many poor decisions ...

In the Valley of Elah (frustrating)
Be Kind Rewind (meh)
Star Trek IV (awesome)
Star Trek V (terrible)
Golden Compass (terrible)

tried to watch Infernal Affairs 3 (disc scratched)
saw I am Legend

My *mom* likes Star Trek IV

if you actively dislike star trek iv then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything

the Whale one? that launched Nimoy's sterling career as a film director?

yeah 4 is the whale one and it's the best

Nimoy wrote it too

well, shared the "Story" credit

Doesn't Spock put a Vulcan death grip on a "punk" in that one?

yes

YES

On a bus crossing the golden gate bridge. Minutes later, Gracie the whale tells him she is pregnant when he mind melds with her.

I like Spock's attempts at profanity. They are lolsome.

I am watching the films in order, and this theory that the odd ones suck and the even ones are awesome is 100% accurate.

how come hoods don't carry "ghetto blasters" anymore?

for shame!

p.s. http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php

I am watching the films in order, and this theory that the odd ones suck and the even ones are awesome is 100% accurate.

-- caek, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:29 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

TREKIST!

Shatner is pretty awful in IV and the love interest sucks.

xp, I discovered this theory last night, I've never seen any of the films except IV before this week.

She's not aged well since, that's for sure

http://www.geocities.com/big7thheavenfan/Me2006CH1.jpg

Catherine Hicks on the left, btw

gone baby gone (casey affleck and amy ryan both awesome, good film overall)

:O

"lewis, a man's heart is stonier...he plants what he can..then tends it"

^^perhaps the best thing about pet cemetery (we inherited a copy back in ithaca and ended up watching it all the time, as we had no tv reception). can't quite sort out how they did such a bad job

got gone baby gone at home right now on netflix, looking forward to it

yeah ST IV is way overrated, and none of the others can touch Khan

xx-post

the book is so good and one of King's scariest. the movie is like some retarded cliff's notes version.

otm. I blame the director and dp. Every scene is set up so inefficiently, the focus on all the wrong elements.