Started Witch Hunter Robin last night.

The bonus DVD that came with Oblivion. :p

I just watched 11:14. Never heard of it before, but a friend told me about it. It's sort of like Memento meets Pulp Fiction. I liked it.

Now I have Two for The Money.

Oh, I also watched the Uncensored version of the Roast of Pamela Anderson. It was funny, I thought.

Stargate SG-1 Season 1.

Two For The Money sucked for the money.

"Waiting..."

Funny immature comedy about being a waiter. We liked it of course.

I just saw A History of Violence http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/. Now, you'd think with a cast like this (Ed Harris, William Hurt, Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, etc.), it would be somewhat good, right? Not so much. What a steaming pile. The only scene worth watching is the angry sex on the stairs with Viggo and Maria. :yum: Hot.

Shultze gets the Blues...
incredible Indie film.

I heard it was good. Should I rent it or no?

I heard that the graphic novel it is based on was much better than the movie. Maybe read it instead.

I liked it a lot.

On another board, some peoples were going on about the new King Kong. I got it from my news group a while back and never watched it. ... I started again to set out and watch it... I don't know about chick/beast tear jerking flicks..

Last night I tried to watch "Walk the Line"

It didn't represent Johnny Cash to my liking. ug. It made him seem 'slow'. I know he spoke slowly but the personality didn't translate to the rest of the face or actions. ug... I didn't like it. I shut it off half way.


Last week I watched Memoirs of a Geisha. It was only a little less boring than Walk The Line, only because I read the book.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It has taken me two nights because I fell asleep partway through.

I am now trudging my way through the extras.

A Day Without Mexicans


(what a hoot... I loved burning a copy for my Portico New York Hip Hop Florida Latino "House Detective")

Capote--major yawn.

Conan O'Brien's Tenth Anniversary Special. Again. laughter IS the best medicine.

Animusic II


it took forever for them to follow up on Animusic


Anybody want a sample?

Memoirs of a Geisha

Amazing flick. Working my way through the extras overload.

Well, I did it.

My two week trial with Netflix commenced toward the end of last week. There were a couple movies I wanted to see, but I didn't want to pay full price. I am too lazy to use the conventional video store, as I suck at returning videos.

So far I've seen Tokyo Godfathers and Millenium Actress, both are anime movies written and directed by Satoshi Kon, who is also responsible for Paranoia Agent.

Way cool flicks ... I don't think either of them would translate well to a live-action movie (Tokyo Godfathers might, in a Three Men and a Baby kind of way, but it would be terribly mis-cast).

Millenium Actress uses a very neat little trick for the memoir sequences (which comprise most of the film). Very neat.

Oh, and as far as netflix goes? I already upgrade my membership to two DVDs in hand at the same time.

Netflix really is nice unless you don't keep an eye on your spouses cue and get "Little Black Book" (a movie so bad it won't even rate a cult following) and "Super Size Me" (which I had no intention of seeing) on the same weekend.

most recently for me was Derailed with Clive Owen and Jen Aniston. Wsa very good, a nice change from a lot of the CRAP that is out there right now.

Saved! (A not terribly funny satire that relies on gross misunderstanding of Christianity)

Profit (TV Series that lasted about four weeks, starring Adrian Pasdar.)

I watched The Squid and The Whale yesterday. I really enjoyed it and I think anyone else who went through divorce as a child would, too. It was sad and very funny. It has a strong Wes Andersen feel (as it should, he produced).

I have no TV signal coming into my house. I have a 5-disc DVD changer. I just got Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume Three (I was at Fry's shopping for a dishwasher) ...looks like it has some great episodes: Fratboy Aliens, Total Recarl, The Broodwich.

Saw Elizabethtown over the weekend. It was your typical romance movie. Cute at times.

There were a couple totally impossible scenes/ideas that kind of bugged me. Like Kirsten Dunst made a "trip tic" of sorts with accompanying mix CDs timed to the mile so Orlando Bloom could do a road trip across half the country, riding back country roads and stopping to see the sights. It's a pretty cool idea. Her directions led him to particular places, and if he went the proper route at the proper speed, the mixed CDs were synced to his journey. She would also narrate some of the sights on the CDs she made. In reality, it would have taken her a week or two to create this multimedia realtime directions binder, especially to get the syncing right, but she somehow put it together in an evening.

Overall, it was an OK movie. If I had to give a thumbs up or thumbs down, it would get the thumbs up.

glatt, have you seen Garden State? Pretty much the same movie, but MUCH better, IMO. Guy is unsatisfied with his life/job, goes home to another state for family funeral, meets amazing girl, falls in love after knowing her two days, etc.

Seriously though, see Garden State. It's very well done. Natalie Portman is super cute. And so is Zach Braff, despite his giant nose.

Yeah, I've seen Garden State. It's a really cool movie. I liked the boat-house best.

Just watched Match Point, and kind of hated it.

Grave of the Fireflies

Entirely too sad.

squid and whale.....pretty good.....

I agree, the story was very sad. I cried. But the animation was beautiful.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events or whatever the heck it's called.

Wonderfully clever movie, you do not need children in the household to rent this.

Perfect Blue (I think I'm caught up on my Satoshi Kon anime now) ... interesting multilayered storytelling.

Seven Samurai.
Samurai 7
Aeon Flux, live action
Been wanting to watch Elizabeth again, gotta' find that.
No lie!:thepain3:

That's two in like a week--has someone been enabling this anime kick, or are you actually buying them?

I first saw Perfect Blue at an anime convention many years ago (yes, I'm a huge dork and I'm okay with that.) There were many viewing rooms showing many different things, and next door to us was apparently something of the hentai variety. Just as we got to the sorta-rape scene, the crowd next door began chanting "PORN! PORN! PORN!" at the top of their lungs. Made the scene much more disturbing, to say the least...

Netflix, baby. Netflix.

Although I did just place a FunCash order with Columbia House DVD Club for Tokyo Godfathers and Millenium Actress.

Not only are you a huge dork, but you lived the dork fantasy ... come on ... you worked for a video game company! How cool is that?

The original unaltered Star Wars trilogy has been announced. That'll go on my pile.

That will be a to buy, not a to rent.

Just watched #3, Revenge of the Sith. Kinda neat how Darth Vader became who he was, but for some reason the actor who played him seemed to not be the person for the role. Roger Waters is the only human alive to be that bitter- he'd make a perfect Vader!!!! LOL

Quite possibly the worst casting choice in recent memory. Though the directing was so bad that it could easily not be Hayden's fault.

I recently found The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition: Season 2 and The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition: Season 4 for sale, used. Each was under $50. Score!! The bad news is that its really hard to get up in the morning having gorged myself on the shows.

Watched Pinocchio tonight.

Is it worth it?
I live in a hick town and will have to buy it if I want to watch it. The trailers have me jonesin'.

Fun With Dick & Jane - still in the wrapper, looking at the cover, maybe I should unwrap it and stick it in the DVD player? :D

I'm jonesin' for Steamboy. Any reviews (first hand reviews, please, I've read plenty on the internet already.)

what the bleep do we know?

I watched it three times.

Hick towns are precisely why netflix was invented. Those three Satoshi Kon dvds are what put me over the edge into signing up.

Bee Season (hoped that it would be set in Cheltenham/Elkins Park, just like the book ... they moved the action (or lack of action) to Oakland. How can anything with Richard Gere not be good?)

Timeline (okay adaptation of the book that I wasn't terribly excited about to begin with ... not one of Crichton's best, but not as bad as Sphere or Congo).

Princess Mononoke (nice artistically, moderately good story line, but I still don't understand how the forest creatures became demons, since the Ironworks humans did not use magic. I also don't get how the title goes with the film ... there is no princess. Is this something like the spoon in the Matrix?)

I am also watching Dangermouse.

IIRC, the boar god got shot, and went crazy, which in turn infected the other boars.

And San was the princess, but I never quite understood how that worked.

I get that the boar god getting shot led to it ... but it was just a bullet, not some locus of evil like the thing in the toaster oven from the end of Time Bandits.

Watched Bubba Ho-Tep tonight again, my Wife's first viewing. She is a Bruce fan.

Well, silver affects werewolves, and iron affects faeries. Maybe lead isn't so great for boar gods.

But I actually think it was the pain and rage that did it, not the bullet itself. The point was that an angry nature god is a dangerous nature god.

Shrine of the Morning Mist (Asagiri No Miko) Vol. 1 - More anime, I caught episodes 8 and 9 on OnDemand and wanted to see more. I'm not sure if I'll get volumes 2 and 3, at this point. I dropped them about 10 places on my Queue to think about it.

Munich - I was not terribly impressed by this movie. Given the subject matter and the number of things that blow up, I was very much looking forward to it. I expect that Spielberg had something to say with this movie, actually I think that's what the 3 minute intro was for, but it got missed in the storytelling somewhere. I also think the cinematography could have been handled better ... the shots were too tight, almost claustrophobic, and didn't really do much as far as conveying the mood. It was filmed like it was intended to be seen on TV, if you know what I mean.

Van Helsing - Why, oh why did I not go see this in a theater? This is a cool movie.

Ooooh. Forgot one, and it's a MUST SEE for absolutely everybody.

Scotland, PA.

Shakespeare probably never quite envisioned MacBeth like this. But I'm very glad that Billy Morrissette did. Tragedies aren't usually this funny, though.

I'm going to see Serenity on DVD soon. I love Firefly and Serenity so can't wait until I buy it (which will be soon).

I NEED the Firefly DVDs. Man, they oughtta bring that show back.

You know whats a horrible movie that I love anyway, that I want the DVD for? Underworld. I lessthanthree Kate Beckensale. She is hotttttttttt...

:confused: lessthanthree :confused:

<3 == :heart: rotated 90 deg

Wild Palms

A TV miniseries by Oliver Stone that showed up in 1993, ran once, and disappeared. Until now.

It's still pretty cool, but as usual for moderately sci-fi settings, they didn't move the timeline forward enough ... it's set in 2007, and technology hasn't caught up to the needs of the storyline.

The cameo appearance by William Gibson is mucho forced ... you shouldn't have to explain the punchline, you know? There was some pointless exposition regarding his coining of the term "Cyberpunk."

It's basically a goodguys/badguys tale, where the badguys are clearly bad and the goodguys bad, but with a noble cause. There's a clear dig at Scientology.

I totally agree on Underworld, bad but still so much fun. Although, it's better than Van Helsing...

Finished Stargate SG-1 Season 1, about to satrt on the Muppet Show Season 1.

You're gonna LOVE it. The opening act of the opening disc of the opening season is Mahna Mahna! It sets the tone perfectly.