Spoiler: Movies Seen in January through July Playback - Netflix Instant Parenthood (1989) - DVD Young Adult - Netflix Instant Django (1966) - free admission Django Unchained (2012) - free admission Housesitter - DVD The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - YouTube The Sting - free admission This is 40 - free admission The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D/HFR - free admission/free admission Parental Guidance - free admission The Sting II - Netflix Instant Abduction - Netflix Instant Dial M for Murder 3D - free admission Gangster Squad - free admission Zero Dark Thirty - free admission Treasure Planet - Netflix Instant The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption - Netflix Instant Commando - Netflix Instant Battle Royale II - Netflix Instant The Invisible War - Netflix Instant Texas Chainsaw 3D - free admission Lawrence of Arabia - free admission Ron White: A Little Unprofessional - DVD Valkyrie - DVD Our Man Flint - DVD Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap - Netflix Instant Margin Call - Netflix Instant In Like Flint - DVD Purple Rain - free admission Mama - free admission The High and the Mighty - DVD Dave Chappelle's Block Party - DVD Black X-Mas (2006) - DVD Bad Teacher - DVD They Live - free admission Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Inglourious Basterds - DVD The Last Stand - free admission The Night of the Hunter - free admission Warm Bodies - free admission P.S. I Love You - DVD The Lake House - DVD Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention? - Netflix Instant Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 - Netflix Instant Side by Side - free admission Pennies from Heaven - free admission Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid- DVD The Lonely Guy - DVD Batman: The Dark Knigth Returns, Part Two - DVD Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt - DVD Side Effects - free admission Funny Girl - free admission Christopher Titus: Neverlution - YouTube Ralphie May: Just Correct - YouTube Top Gun 3D - IMAX Fourplay: Tales of Sexual Intimacy - free admission 'Salem's Lot(2004) - DVD Body of Lies - DVD 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Animated - free admission 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Live Action - free admission A Good Day to Die Hard - free admission Last Chance Harvey - DVD Paul Williams Still Alive - free admission The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - DVD Invasion of the Blood Farmers - free admission Safety Not Guaranteed - Netflix Instant One Life - free admission Identity Thief - free admission The Switch - Netflix Instant John Dies at the End - free admission Singin' in the Rain - free admission Benny & Joon - free admission Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater - Netflix Instant I'm No Dummy - Netflix Instant The Adventures of Tintin - Netflix Instant Beautiful Creatures - free admission Snitch - free admission Dark Skies - free admission The Queen - USA Network A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III - free admission Safe - DVD The Mechanic - DVD Jack the Giand Slayer 3D - free admission Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - free admission The Wiz - free admission Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - Unrated Exteded Edition - DVD Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under - Netflix Instant Lewis Black: In God We Rust - Netflix Instant Jackass: The Movie - Unrated - Netflix Instant Mardi Gras Massacre - free admission Battle Beyond the Stars - Netflix Instant Oz the Great and Powerful 3D - free admission Nashville - free admission Fat Man Little Boy - Netflix Instant Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help - Netflix Instant Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - free admission Josie and the Pussycats - free admission Millennium - Netflix Instant Trek Nation - Netflix Instant Indecent Proposal - Netflix Instant This Film is Not Yet Rated - Netflix Instant The People vs George Lucas - Netflix Instant Everybody's Fine - Netflix Instant The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - free admission The Call- free admission Spring Breakers - employee screening Mad Dog and Glory - Netflix Instant The Wild Bunch - free admission Trekkies - Netflix Instant Bad Teacher - Unrated - DVD Salt - Unrated Director's Cut - DVD 30 Minutes or Less - DVD Burn After Reading - DVD Straw Dogs(2011) - DVD The Croods 3D - free admission The ABC's of Death - free admission G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Admission - free admission Come Out and Play - free admission The Host - free admission The Buddy Holly Story - free admission Trekkies 2 - Netflix Instant Machete Maidens Unleashed! - Netflix Instant Aisha Tyler is Lit: Live at the Fillmore - Netflix Instant Wrong - free admission Winnebago Man - Netflix Instant Kevin Nealon: Now Hear Me Out - Netflix Instant Pocahontas - Netflix Instant Barbarella - Netflix Instant Girls Gone Dead - Netflix Instant Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Netflix Instant Bill Burr: Let It Go - Netflix Instant Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe - Netflix Instant Stolen- Netflix Instant Jurassic Park 3D - free admission Faire: An American Renaissance - free admission Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don't Look the Same Either - Netflix Instant The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie - Netflix Instant Doctor Detroit - Netflix Instant C.H.U.D. - Netflix Instant Evil Dead (2013) - free admission Bully - Netflix Instant Trance - free admission Bye Bye Birdie - free admission Rise of the Zombies - Netflix Instant In Time - DVD The Place Beyond the Pines - free admission 42 - free admission Leviathan (1989) - Netflix Instant The Conversation - Netflix Instant London's West End: Great Expectations - free admission Oblivion - free admission Upstream Color - free admission Cars 2 - Starz on Demand Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds - Fathom Events Anonymous - Starz on Demand Year of the Dragon - free admission Heaven's Gate - free admission Mud - free admission To the Wonder - free admission Graceland - free admission Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - HBO on Demand Pain & Gain - free admission Iron Man Three 2D/3D - free admission/free admission On the Town - free admission Public Enemies - DVD New York, I Love You - DVD The World Before Her - free admission The Legend of Billy John - free admission Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX/3D/2D - free screening/free admission/free admission The Great Gatsby 3D (2013) - free admission Iron Man: Rise of Technovore - DVD Cabaret - free admission The Source Family - free admission Detention (2011) - free admission Turkish Star Trek (1973) - free admission Pieta - free admission Superman Unbound - DVD Behind the Candelabra - HBO Inhumans - DVD The Hangover Part III - free admission Enter the Dragon - free admission Nightmares in a Damaged Brain - free admission Epic 2D - free admission The Jensen Project - DVD Risky Business - free admission Screwballs - free admission Stay Tuned - free admission 12 Angry Men - DVD Fast & Furious 6 - free admission Now You See Me - free admission After Earth - free admission The Last Unicorn - blu ray The Internship - free admission The Purge - free admission The Deadly Spawn - free admission Before Midnight - free admission Wargames - free admission Man of Steel 2D/3D - employee screening/free admission Les Miserables (1998) - DVD Letters from Iwo Jima - DVD Sexy Beast - DVD Jaws 3-D - free admission King Arthur: Extended Unrated Director's Cut - DVD Joysticks - free admission The Keep - free admission Mortuary - free admission White House Down - free admission The Heat - free admission Finding Neverland - free admission A Band Called Death - free admission Godzilla vs the Smog Monster - free admission Valley Girl - free admission Scarface - free admission Downloaded - free admission This is the End - free admission Much Ado About Nothing (2013) - free admission The Lone Ranger (2013) - free admission Despicable Me 2 3D - free admission The Man Who Wasn't There - matinee Super - Netflix Instant Dead Like Me: Life After Death - Netflix Instant Johnny Carson: King of Late Night - NEtflix Instant Yankee Doodle Dandy - free admission Playing for Keeps - Netflix Instant Monsters University 2D - free admission World War Z 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Tower Heist - DVD Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - HBO on Demand Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic - Showtime on Demand Puss in Boots - HBO on Demand Crazy on the Outside - Netflix Instant Pacific Rim 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Grown Ups 2 - free admission The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - Netflix Instant Mulan - Netflix Instant Hercules (1997) - Netflix Instant The Conjuring - free admission R.I.P.D. 3D - free admission Red 2 - free admission Drive - Netflix Instant Only God Forgives - free admission Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone - free admission The Wolverine2D/3D - free admission/free admission The Iron Lady - Showtime on Demand Judge Dredd (1995) - Showtime on Demand Fruitvale Station - free admission Cheap Thrills - employee screenin' Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - DVD Before Sunrise - Encore on Demand The Way, Way Back - free admission Turbo 2D - free admission The Smurfs 2 3D - free admission The Sitter - HBO on Demand Mean Girls - Showtime on Demand Carnage - Starz on Demand Ghost Story of Yotsuya- free admission Ghost Cat of Otama Pond- free admission Trainspotting - free admission Charlie Bartlett - Netflix Instant Pitch Black: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury - DVD The Chronicles of Riddick - bluray The Canyons - free admission The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Act of Killing - free admission Flesh Pier - free admission The Horizon Glitters - free admission Adjust Your Tracking - free admission Planes 2D - free admission 2 Guns - free admission Elysium - free admission Kick-Ass 2 - free admission I was able to get into the first showin' of Kick-Ass 2 earlier tonight with my buddy Christopher. Pretty good movie with an interestin' continuation of what started in the first movie, especially Jim Carrey's "Colonel Stars & Stripes," a born-again Christian hero who used to be a mob enforcer. The fight sequences were well staged and easy to follow. Dark, twisted humor. And the shadow of Nicolas Cage's "Big Daddy" was used throughout the film. If ya go see it, stay through the end credits for a bonus scene!
A rare visit to the cinema last night to see The World's End, which was great! Simon Pegg seems to have stolen Jim Swallow's beard and my wardrobe, and Martin Freeman is ever more obviously playing Martin Freeman in everything - seriously, the guy is a bit like Roger Moore that way - and the story could have been a Dr Who episode with swearing, but that latter especially is a good thing, and overall we loved it!
I still have to watch that. I wouldn't mind checking out the extended version and I didn't mind the fx. I liked the world-building and the lavish look it gave us.
Spoiler: The rest of my list. January 1. You Again (✩✩½) - Live TV 2. Vanishing Point (✩✩✩½) - DVD 3. Cyrus (✩✩✩✩) - DVD 4. The Thing (✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 5. Zero Dark Thirty (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 6. Django Unchained (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 7. Inglourious Basterds (✩✩✩) - Live TV 8. American Splendor (✩✩✩✩) - DVD 9. Soul Surfer (✩✩✩) - DVD 10. 30 Minutes or Less (✩✩✩✩) - DVD 11. To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (✩✩✩½) - Live TV 12. Moby Dick (✩✩✩½) - Live TV 13. Just Go With It (✩✩✩) - Live TV 14. Battle Los Angeles (✩) - Download 15. Mama (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 16. Gangster Squad (✩✩✩½) - Theatre February 17. The Lucky Ones (✩✩✩) - Live TV 18. The Tourist (✩✩½) - Live TV 19. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (✩✩) - Live TV 20. The Watcher (✩✩✩) - Live TV 21. After Sex (✩✩✩) - Download 22. Sex and Breakfast (✩✩✩) - Download 23. Textuality (✩✩✩½) - Download 24. I Am Number Four (✩✩½) - DVD 25. Waiting for "Superman" (✩✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 26. A Good Day to Die Hard (✩✩✩) - Theatre 27. Dorian Gray (✩✩✩) - DVD 28. Cougars Inc. (✩✩✩✩) - DVD 29. Tasmanian Devils (✩) - Live TV 30. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (✩✩✩½) - Blu-ray 31. The Promotion (✩✩) - DVD 32. Barney's Version (✩✩✩½) - DVD 33. The Best and the Brightest (✩✩½) - Download 34. Upside Down (✩✩✩✩) - Download March 35. Seven Psychopaths (✩✩½) - Download 36. Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle (✩✩✩½) - YouTube 37. Oz the Great and Powerful (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 38. And Soon the Darkness (2010) (✩✩½) - DVD 39. And Soon The Darkness (1970) (✩✩✩✩) - Download 40. Jack (✩✩✩½) - Live TV 41. Please Give (✩✩✩½) - Blu-ray 42. Compliance (✩✩✩) - Download 43. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part I (✩✩✩) - Download 44. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part II (✩✩✩) - Download 45. Midnight in Paris (✩✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 46. Happy Accidents (✩✩✩½) - DVD 47. All Good Things (✩✩✩) - Live TV 48. This Is 40 (✩✩✩) - Download 49. The Good Guy (✩✩✩) - Download 50. Running Scared (✩✩✩) - DVD 51. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (✩✩✩) - Theatre April 52. Everything Must Go (✩✩✩✩) - Download 53. My Awkward Sexual Adventure (✩✩✩✩) - Download 54. The Oh in Ohio (✩✩) - DVD 55. Surviving My Mother (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD 56. Oblivion (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 57. Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (✩✩✩) - Download 58. Premium Rush (✩✩✩½) - Download 59. The Pill (✩✩✩✩) - Download 60. The Grey (✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 61. Robot & Frank (✩✩✩✩) - Download 62. The Last House on the Left (✩✩✩) - DVD 63. Womb (✩✩✩✩) - Download 64. Life Happens (✩✩½) - Download 65. Smashed (✩✩✩✩) - Download 66. Step Up Revolution (✩✩✩) - Download 67. Trust (✩✩✩) - Download May 68. The Oranges (✩✩✩½) - Download 69. Iron Man 3 (✩✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 70. The High Cost of Living (✩✩✩✩) - Download 71. The Mechanic (✩✩✩) - Live TV 72. Vanishing on 7th Street (✩✩✩½) - DVD 73. Uncertainty (✩✩✩½) - Download 74. 10 Years (✩✩) - Download 75. The Darkest Hour (✩✩✩) - Download 76. The First Time (✩✩✩½) - Download 77. Your Sister's Sister (✩✩✩) - Download 78. The Bouquet (✩½) - Live TV 79. Blue Valentine (✩✩✩) - DVD 80. Star Trek Into Darkness (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 81. Cosmopolis (✩✩) - Download 82. Margaret (✩✩✩½) - Download 83. The Fast and the Furious (✩✩✩) - Download 84. Turbo-Charged Prelude (to 2 Fast 2 Furious) (✩✩✩✩) - YouTube 85. 2 Fast 2 Furious (✩✩) - Download 86. Los Bandoleros (✩✩✩) - Download 87. Fast & Furious (✩✩✩½) - Download 88. Fast Five (✩✩✩✩) - Download 89. Furious 6 (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 90. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (✩✩✩½) - Download 91. The Hangover Part III (✩✩✩) - Theatre 92. Starflight One (✩✩✩✩) - Download 93. Floored (✩✩✩½) - YouTube 94. Side Effects (✩✩✩✩½) - Download 95. Parker (✩✩✩½) - Download 96. I Am a Sex Addict (✩✩✩) - Download 97. Snitch (✩✩✩✩) - Download 98. Now is Good (✩✩✩½) - Download June 99. Now You See Me (✩✩✩✩½) - Theatre 100. After Earth (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 101. Bride of Frankenstein (✩✩✩) - Live TV 102. Creature from the Black Lagoon (✩✩✩½) - Live TV 103. Predators (✩✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 104. Starter for 10 (✩✩✩) - DVD 105. This Is the End (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 106. Super (✩✩✩✩) - Download 107. Superman: Unbound (✩✩✩½) - Download 108. Man of Steel (✩✩✩✩✩) - Theatre 109. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (✩✩) - Download 110. Identity Thief (✩✩½) - Download 111. Bad Teacher (✩✩✩) - Download 112. World War Z (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 113. Death Defying Acts (✩✩) - Download July 114. Inside Job (✩✩✩) - DVD 115. The Kids Are All Right (✩✩✩✩) - DVD 116. Cashback (✩✩✩) - Netflix 117. The Lone Ranger (✩✩✩½) - Theatre 118. Superman (The Expanded Edition) (✩✩✩✩) - Blu-ray 119. Superman II (The Donner Cut) (✩✩½) - Blu-ray 120. The Host (✩✩✩✩) - Download 121. Pacific Rim (✩✩✩✩½) - Theatre 122. Doomsday Prophecy (✩) - Live TV 123. The Sessions (✩✩✩✩) - Netflix 124. Spring Breakers (✩✩✩✩) - Download 125. Hesher (✩✩✩✩½) - Download 126. Tiny Furniture (✩✩✩) - Netflix 127. The Wolverine (✩✩✩) - Theatre 128. Upstream Color (✩✩✩) - Download 129. 13 (✩✩✩½) - Download 130. Jack Reacher (✩✩✩✩½) - Download August 131. Twilight (✩✩✩) - Download 132. New Moon (✩✩½) - Download 133. Eclipse (✩✩½) - Download 134. Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (✩✩✩✩) - Download 135. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (✩✩✩✩) - Download 136. The Apparition (✩✩✩½) - Download 137. The Surrogacy Trap (✩✩✩) - Download 138. Elysium (✩✩✩✩½) - Theatre 139. Limitless (Unrated Extended Cut) (✩✩✩✩½) - Blu-ray - I saw this movie in the theatre, but I'm reviewing it now because I have the unrated extended cut on blu-ray. I'm told that there are several additions here and there, but the only thing that stood out was an extra sex scene that I don't believe was in the theatrical cut. There was also an alternate ending. Anyway, as someone who's always been fascinated with the development of the mind, I loved this movie. And what I especially loved was that it's not a cliched story about the pitfalls of gaining power. If you haven't seen it, do so. 140. Charly (✩✩✩✩½) - Download - A 1968 movie based on the novel Flowers for Algernon about a mentally and emotionally arrested man who volunteers to undergo an experimental treatment that makes him smarter. Stars Cliff Robertson. After watching the movie, I read that Robertson got an academy award for best actor for this part and I think he deserved it. His progression from slow child-like man to genius was well performed. Another thing I liked about the movie was how it presented sexuality. With a lead actress (Claire Bloom) who was attractive, the right shots and some creative montage work, it got its point across in a wink-wink, nudge, nidge manner quite well. Apparently Robertson wrote a sequel, but that never got made. As for the title, I wonder if it's supposed to be a misspelling of "Charlie". The character's name in the credits does read "Charly", but I still wonder. 141. Flowers for Algernon (✩✩✩½) - Download - A 2000 TV movie remake of Charly starring Matthew Modine. A great job by Modine, but as a TV movie, it's pretty sentimental and sanitized. Still, it's a nice compliment to Charly. If you're wondering who Algernon is, it's the experimental mouse that became Charlie's friend. What did I learn from these three movies? That getting smarter also gets you laid. Also, here's a fun fact… Matthew Modine and Cliff Robertson were in a movie together called Wind. 142. Wind (✩✩✩½) - Netflix - The epic 1992 Matthew Modine vehicle about sailing. Also starred Jennifer Grey. It tried to be grand and intense and it showed. Not great, but not bad either. I don't have much else to say about it, I just felt like watching it after Charly and Flowers for Algernon. 143. Kick-Ass 2 (✩✩✩½) - Theatre - My review is here. Chloe Moretz stole the show and Christopher Mintz-Plasse was fantastic. Those two are reasons to watch the movie. Theatre: 22 Blu-ray: 10 DVD: 21 Netflix: 4 Live TV: 17 Download: 66 YouTube: 3
Spoiler: The rest of my list... 1. Jack Reacher (C+) 2. The Help (B+) 3. The Silver Linings Playbook (A-) 4. Kramer vs. Kramer (A-) 5. Super 8 (B+) 6. Hugo (B+) 7. Zero Dark Thirty (A) 8. Miss Bala (A-) 9. Monsieur Lazhar (A) 10. Trainspotting (B+) 11. True Grit (A) 12. Casino Royale (A-) 13. Le Mepris (D) 14. On the Road (B) 15. Barbara (B+) 16. Side Effects (B+) 17. Tom Jones (B+) 18. Les Miserables: Part 1: Tempest in a Skull (A-) 19. Les Miserables: Part 2: The Thenardiers (A-) 20. Les Miserables: Part 3: Liberty, Sweet Liberty (A) 21. Rust and Bone (B) 22. GoldenEye (A+) 23. Argo (A) 24. Cool Hand Luke (B+) 25. The Wild Bunch (A) 26. Quantum of Solace (B-) 27. Contact (B+) 28. Wooden Crosses (A-) 29. American Graffiti (A-) 30. The Silence of the Lambs (A) 31. Gone Baby, Gone (A) 32. A Royal Affair (A-) 33. Exotica (B+) 34. Peter Pan (B) 35. Amour (A-) 36. Moulin Rouge (B) 37. The Artist (A-) 38. Les Miserables (A+) 39. A Serious Man (A) 40. Slumdog Millionaire (A) 41. Mulan (A-) 42. Pitch Perfect (B) 43. Schindler's List (A+) 44. Iron Man 3 (B+) 45. Man of Steel (B+) 46. Lincoln (A-) 47. Beautiful Creatures (C-) 48. Pacific Rim (B+) 49. Apocalypse Now (B) 50. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (A-) 51. The Sapphires (B) 52. The Wolverine (B+) 53. Much Ado About Nothing (B+) 54. Elysium (C+) 55. Kick-Ass 2 (B) This has gotten pilloried on Rotten Tomatoes, but this is a rare instance where I disagree. It does have tonal issues, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson is really not charismatic enough to be a film lead, but it's highly watchable, and Chloe Moretz is terrific (reprising the part that first brought her notice). Cinema: 17 (+1) Home Video: 34 Computer: 4
Spoiler: 2010 viewed movies I didn't start in the thread till August that year, partial list Piranha 3D: C+ Book of Eli: B Lethal Weapon: A Lethal Weapon 2: A- Lethal Weapon 3: B Lethal Weapon 4: C+ The Crow: A Clash of the Titans: B+ Prince of Persia: B The Fountain: D Resident Evil: A- Resident Evil: Apocalypse: B Resident Evil: Extinction: B- Resident Evil: Afterlife: B Resident Evil: Degeneration(animated): B Bad Boys: B+ Zombieland: B The Evil Dead: B- R.E.D.: B 30 Days of Night: Dark Days: B+ Conviction: A- Crazies(2010): A- Paranormal Activity: A+ Paranormal Activity 2: A Shutter Island: B- Gamer: F Last House on the Left(orig): D+ Thirst(asian film): C- The Hills Have Eyes: B When In Rome: B- Dr.Horrible Sing-A-Long: A Expelled No Intelligence Allowed(doc): B Zombie Strippers: D Mammoth: D+ Everyone Else: D Dark Ages(doc): A Batman vs Dracula(anim): A- Independence Day: A Robin Hood(2010-Crowe): B Taken: A Only You: B- Momma Mia: C High Plains Drifter: C Joe Kid: A- Tron Legacy: B Voyage of the DawnTreader: B+ Tourist: B Duchess: B Blade Runner: B+ Men In Black: A Jumper: B- Interview with the Vampire: A- Brideshead Revisted: B Wizard of Oz: A Gone With the Wind: A True Grit: A Spoiler: 2011 viewed movies 1. The Fighter: B- 2. Batman(90's saga): A-,B-,C-,D 3. Star Wars OT-Special Edition: B+, A, B 4. The Green Hornet: B 5. True Grit(1969): C+ 6. Lord of the Rings saga: (A,A,A) 7. The Machinist: A- 8. Season of the Witch: B 9. Frozen: A- 10. Due Date: B+ 11. Planet of the Apes(2001): B- 12. Faster: C 13. Romance: D (French film, subtitled) 14. YPF: C- (YPF=Young People F*&^ing) 15. The Beautiful Truth: B- 16. Strictly Sexual: C+ 17. DOOM: C 18. Brothers: B+ 19. Men In Black II: B- 20. The Crow: Wicked Prayer: C- 21. The Soloist: C 22. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love: C+ 23. I Now Pronounce you Chuck & Larry: B- 24. Battle in Heaven: C+ (Mexican film, subtitled) 25. Legion: B- 26. Battle: LA: B+ 27. Righteous Kill: B 28. Dracula II: Ascension: B- 29. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: D 30. You Don't Mess With the Zohan: C+ 31. Finding Bliss: C 32. Dracula III: Legacy: B- 33. Tangled: B+ 34. Paul Blart Mall Cop: C- 35. Chloe: B 36. Kung Fu Panda: B- 37. Centurion: B 38. The People I've Slept With: C 39. Grown Ups: B- 40. The Conspirator: A- 41. XXX: State of the Union: C+ 42. Fast Five: B+ 43. THOR: A- 44. Priest: D+ 45. The Fourth Kind: B+ 46. POTC: On Stranger Tides: B- 47. Turtles Forever: A- 48. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story: B+ 49. Easy A: A 50. Inception: B 51. #1 Cheerleader Camp: D 52. Freakanomics: C+ 53. Green Lantern: C 54. The American: C- 55. Super 8: A 56. Green Lantern: First Flight: B 57. Transformers: Dark of the Moon: B- 58. 9 Songs: F 59. Kings Speech: A- 60. Whiteout: C+ 61. Passion Play: D+ 62. Captain America: The First Avenger: A- 63. Marley & Me: A 64. Date Night: C+ 65. Frantic: B+ 66. Presumed Innocent: A 67. Invictus: A 68. Rocky: A 69. Hurt Locker: A+ 70. Rocky II: C+ 71. Rocky III: B+ 72. Rocky IV: A 73. Cowboys & Aliens: B 74. Wonder Woman (DC Animated): B+ 75. Rocky V: B- 76. Conan The Barbarian('11): B- 77. Dinner for Schmucks: D 78. Nothing But the Truth: B 79. Snow Angels: B+ 80. Everybody's Fine: C- 81. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: A+ 82. Fragments: C+ 83. Fright Night ('11): A- 84. Cold Comfort Farm: D 85. Machete: C- 86. The Queen: A 87. Public Enemies: B+ 88. Drive Angry: D 89. Red Riding Hood: C+ 90. Fright Night ('85): B 91. Love & Other Drugs: B 92. X-Files: I Want to Believe - B+ 93. Source Code: A- 94. Paranormal Activity 3: A 95. Rachel Getting Married: C 96. Love Guru: F 97. Funny People: C- 98. Win Win: B+ 99. Everything Must Go: B 100. Scott Pilgrim vs The World: D+ 101. American Ninja: D 102. Revenge of the Ninja: D 103. Lonesome Dove: A 104. Black Swan: B 105. Westworld: B 106. Fireproof: A- 107. Mission Impossible(4):Ghost Protocol: A 108. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A 109. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: A- 110. Belly: D- 111. Despicable Me: B+ Spoiler: 2012 viewed movies Kicking off my 2012 list: 1. Edge of Darkness: A 2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture: B+ 3. Repo Men: B- 4. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: B- 5. Underworld: Awakening: B 6. Lost City Raiders: C+ 7. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist: B+ 8. Contraband: B+ 9. Kick-Ass: B+ 10. Hereafter: A- 11. Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance: B 12. Act of Valor: C+ 13. John Carter: B 14. Hunger Games: B+ 15. Wrath of the Titans: C 16. Cabin In the Woods: B+ 17. The Rum Diary: C 18. The Eagle: C+ 19. The Avengers: A+ 20. The Adjustment Bureau: A 21. Sucker Punch: B- 22. Knight & Day: C+ 23. Mechanic: B 24. Devil: A 25. Dark Shadows: C+ 26. Men In Black 3: B- 27. Columbiana: B 28. Haywire: C 29. Snow White and the Huntsman: B- 30. Meet the Parents: A- 31. Meet the Fockers: B 32. Prometheus: B 33. Chernobyl Dairies: B- 34. Little Fockers: B- 35. Halloween III: Season of the Witch: B+ 36. Winters Bone: B+ 37. Battleship: A- 38. Much Ado About Nothing: B+ 39. Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs: B 40. Beauty & the Beast: A+ 41. Bambi: A- 42. Sex & the City 2: D+ 43. Top Gun: B 44. Abraham Lincoln-Vampire Hunter: B- 45. Brave: B+ 46. Kill Bill vol.1: A- 47. Kill Bill vol.2: B 48. The Amazing Spider-man: B- 49. Virgin Territory: C- 50. 21 Jump Street: B+ 51. The Dark Knight Rises: A- 52. Sicko: C 53. Capitalism A Love Story: C 54. Seven Pounds: B 55. Hot Fuzz: B 56. Total Recall (2012): A- 57. Total Recall (1990): B+ 58. Hardware: D+ 59. The Bourne Legacy: A- 60. Once Upon A Time in the West: B- 61. Expendables 2: B+ 62. Hangover 2: C 63. Moneyball: A- 64. Adventures of Tin Tin: B- 65. 2016 Obama's America: A- 66. Unknown: B 67. No Strings Attached: B+ 68. Megamind: A- 69. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies: A- 70. Halloween 4:Return of Michael Myers: A- 71. Halloween 5:Revenge of Michael Myers: B+ 72. Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers: B 73. Halloween H2O: A 74. Halloween Resurrection: C+ 75. The Day the Earth Stood Still(2008): B 76. Looper: A- 77. Smart People: C- 78. Atlas Shrugged-Part One: B 79. Dredd: A- 80. Bridesmaids: C- 81. Taken 2: B 82. Atlas Shrugged-Part Two: C+ 83. Alex Cross: A- 84. RockNRolla: B- 85. Paranormal Activity 4: B 86. Argo: A+ 87. Skyline: F 88. Cop Out: D 89. Skyfall: A 90. Red Dawn (2012): B- 91. Dracula (1979): B 92. Dracula (2009): C+ 93. Slither: B- 94. Your Highness: F 95. Goldeneye: A 96. Whistleblower: B+ 97. The Town: A+ 98. Ted: A 99. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: B+ 100. Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: A 101. Jack Reacher: A- 102. Django Unchained: B+ Spoiler: Movies viewed first time in 2013 The 2013 list: 1. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas: C- 2. Les Miserables(2012): B 3. Lincoln: A+ 4. Parental Guidance: C+ 5. Warm Bodies: B 6. Waiting for Superman: B 7. Grindhouse: Planet Terror: B- 8. Grindhouse: Death Proof: C+ 9. Zero Dark Thirty: A 10. Last Stand: B 11. Red Tails: A- 12. Hansel & Gretel-Witch Hunters: C- 13. Parker: B- 14. Bullet to the Head: B+ 15. Judge Dredd(1995): C 16. The Mist: B+ 17. A Good Day to Die Hard: B- 18. Fired Up: C+ 19. Fling: C 20. Ask the Dust: D+ 21. Mulan: A- 22. The Lovely Bones: B 23. The Initiation of Sarah: D 24. Jack the Giant Slayer: C+ 25. Oz the Great and Powerful: B+ 26. Olympus Has Fallen: A- 27. The Lives of Others: B+ (German film) 28. The Croods: B+ 29. Jennifers Body: D+ 30. Evil Dead (2013 remake): B+ 31. G.I. Joe: Retaliation: B 32. The Dark Knight Returns pt.1: A+ 33. The Dark Knight Returns pt.2: A+ 34. Batman: Gotham Knight: B 35. Superman/Shazam: Return of Black Adam: A- 36. Batman: Year One: B 37. Batman/Superman: Apocalypse: A+ 38. Superman vs The Elite: B+ 39. Justice League: Doom: A 40. Green Lantern First Flight: A 41. Oblivion: B+ 42. Iron Man 3: B- 43. Planet Hulk: A- 44. Welcome to the Jungle: F 45. The Time Travelers Wife: B+ 46. Star Trek into Darkness: A- 47. The Lost Tomb of Jesus: B 48. The Heat: C+ 49. Fast and Furious 6: A- 50. Hangover III: C- 51. Now You See Me: A 52. Boot Camp: B- 53. Green Zone: C 54. Ninja Assassin: B 55. Mr&Mrs. Smith: A- 56. Silver Linings Playbook: A- 57. Man of Steel: B+ 58. Doubt: A 59. Godfather: A 60. World War Z: B 61. Much Ado About Nothing: A- 62. The Lone Ranger: C+ 63. Godfather pt.II: A+ 64. Godfather pt.III: B 65. Beyond Sherwood Forest: D 66. R.E.D. 2: B- 67. The Wolverine: B+ 68. R.I.P.D.: C+ 69. Proof of Life: B- 70. The Conjuring: B 71. Pacific Rim: B- 72. Alone in the Dark: D 73. Apocalypto: A I found this to be well told, with some nice cinematography and I barely noticed it was subtitled. The emotional resonance of all actors involved conveyed with the addition of facial and body language a well paced and tense story about the closing days of the Mayan civilization, outlying tribes and introduction of European explorers. Glad I stuck with this cause the first time Netflix delivered it the disc was unplayable. Mel Gibson may have shown his ass the last few years but professionally he still delivered a well done movie here. Next up: The two Stargate SG-1 tele films to wrap up my viewing of the saga.
✩Legion [2010] ✩Hypnotisören ✩✩Predator 2 ✩✩The Mummy [1999] ✩✩Manderlay ✩✩The Hills Have Eyes 2 ✩✩Revolution [2009] ✩✩Resident Evil: Afterlife ✩✩The Last Stand [2013] ✩✩A Good Day to Die Hard ✩✩8-pallo ✩✩Olympus Has Fallen ✩✩Iron Man 3 ✩✩Fast & Furious 6 ✩✩The Hangover Part III ✩✩Man of Steel ✩✩The Wolverine ✩✩✩The Beast of Yucca Flats ✩✩✩Epidemic ✩✩✩Robocop 3 ✩✩✩Idioterne ✩✩✩Direktøren for det hele ✩✩✩Shrink ✩✩✩Valhalla Rising ✩✩✩Melancholia ✩✩✩Vuosaari ✩✩✩Jagten ✩✩✩Cloud Atlas ✩✩✩Life of Pi ✩✩✩To the Wonder ✩✩✩G.I. Joe: Retaliation ✩✩✩Oblivion [2013] ✩✩✩Star Trek Into Darkness ✩✩✩The Lone Ranger ✩✩✩Pain & Gain ✩✩✩✩Dogville ✩✩✩✩Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo ✩✩✩✩Django Unchained ✩✩✩✩Pacific Rim ✩✩✩✩Elysium ✩✩✩✩✩Freddy Got Fingered ✩✩✩✩✩Reflections of Evil [shorter cut] ✩✩✩✩✩Love Exposure ✩✩✩✩✩Antichrist ✩✩✩✩✩A Serbian Film ✩✩✩✩✩Only God Forgives dunno Shadow of a Doubt Rope Vertigo Winter Kills Alien Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Men Behind the Sun Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Europa Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Lost Highway Love & Pop The Prestige Beasts of the Southern Wild The Master [2012]
Ben Hur (1959) ★★★★ - One of my top 10 favorite movies now. Just an outstanding masterpiece The Island ★★ - Too long, too Michael Bayish Death on the Diamond ★★★ - Corny, but still enjoyable. It's about a Cardinals pitcher who tries to solve a series of murders (and still get the girl)
1) This Is 40 - C+ 2) Easy A - A- 3) The Bounty Hunter - B+ 4) Crazy, Stupid, Love. - B- 5) What To Expect When You're Expecting - B+ 6) Contagion - C 7) Identity Thief - A 8) We Bought A Zoo - A- 9) The Ides of March - B+ 10) Top Gun - C+ 11) It Could Happen To You - B+ 12) Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - A+ 13) Mirror, Mirror - A 14) Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World - A 15) Inglorious Basterds - B+ 16) Independence Day - B+ 17) Star Trek – Into Darkness - B+ 18) Kick-Ass - B 19) The Heat - B- 20) Monsters Inc. - B+ 21) White House Down - B+ 22) Saving Private Ryan - A 23) Air Force One - A- 24) MASH - B+ 25) Airplane! - B+ 26) The Island - B It had a decent idea, who doesn't love a good dystopia? But it falls flat on it's face by not exploring the idea of what Sean Bean is doing? There's no talk about how someone could be unique or how the clone could be a person in itself (Yes, the clones do ask that, but they think they are supposed to be alive from conception) Instead we get a bunch of action scenes where McGregor and Johansson magically escape every single time they should be dead (like falling one hundred stories off the face of a building). And why exactly does she follow him out in the first place? Add in some jittery camera shooting and you've taken an idea that could say something profound about the human existence and turned it into an action plot. The actors do well with what they are given. McGregor and Johannson do well as the clones that somehow figure it all out. I have only seen Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond, so I kept waiting for him to start shouting "Where Is The Diamond!" at any moment. Ethan Phillips shows up, basically playing Neelix without make-up. This one only gets a B, because spending the action sequences wishing I was getting a more intellectual movie was exhausting.
Oblivion - on Demand - Going into the movie I was aware of the major spoiler, I wanted to see how it played out. They decided to go fully Duncan Idaho Ghola on us. I liked the movie but it was like eating rice puffs, it fills you up but doesn't satisfy. There is a disconnect somewhere with Joseph Kosinski direction. Both with Tron Legacy and Oblivion, they were pretty to watch, have amazing world building, good actors, yet the final product lacks any heart. I think he is an incredibly talented director, that has made two good (average) movies. Sand Pebbles - AMC - What an incredible movie, so rich and textured. The color and framing of shots, just majestic. I have seen bits and pieces of this before but this was the first time I got to see it as a whole. The movie was riveting from beginning to end. Excellent performances from Richard Crenna as the Captain slipping into madness, Steve McQueen as the anxious ships engineer and Richard Attenborough as love lorn Frenchy. Disney Planes - Movie Theater - Was able to take my two boys, 4 & 3 year olds to see Disney's latest from the world of Cars. For my younger son, this was his first trip to a movie theater. Seeing how my older sons first trip to a movie theater was with Cars 2, very nice symmetry going on. My boys are unabashed Cars lovers, they have almost every toy. Even before going to see Planes, they already had several of the characters toys already. So for them, this was a hit. They were talking about it after for hours, they played with their Planes toys and everything was right with the world for them. For me, not so much. While I talked about there being no heart in Oblivion, it goes double for Planes. This is a mash up of Cars 1 & 2, it was like they didn't even try. These are paint by number characters, that have no real depth. There is no real point to the story and no real character development beyond some lip service. I love Cars, I have watched or half watched it with my boys hundred of times. I love the simple take on the true nature of friendship and finding yourself. It teaches a good life lesson without banging you of the head with it. I don't enjoy Cars 2 as much as Cars 1 because I thought it was a lost opportunity, with the passing of Paul Newman. They could have really explored the meaning of loss and being lost and finding yourself again done in the same sweet way as Cars 1. In Cars 2 we got a makeshift environmental trope that didn't go anywhere and a ham-handed fish out of water story, oh and the nature of friendship. Overall Planes was mediocre at best, probably should have stayed a Direct to DVD offering. I know I will be watching this a lot once it hits Blu-Ray, so I have that to look forward to...not.
Spoiler: Movies Seen in January through July Playback - Netflix Instant Parenthood (1989) - DVD Young Adult - Netflix Instant Django (1966) - free admission Django Unchained (2012) - free admission Housesitter - DVD The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - YouTube The Sting - free admission This is 40 - free admission The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D/HFR - free admission/free admission Parental Guidance - free admission The Sting II - Netflix Instant Abduction - Netflix Instant Dial M for Murder 3D - free admission Gangster Squad - free admission Zero Dark Thirty - free admission Treasure Planet - Netflix Instant The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption - Netflix Instant Commando - Netflix Instant Battle Royale II - Netflix Instant The Invisible War - Netflix Instant Texas Chainsaw 3D - free admission Lawrence of Arabia - free admission Ron White: A Little Unprofessional - DVD Valkyrie - DVD Our Man Flint - DVD Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap - Netflix Instant Margin Call - Netflix Instant In Like Flint - DVD Purple Rain - free admission Mama - free admission The High and the Mighty - DVD Dave Chappelle's Block Party - DVD Black X-Mas (2006) - DVD Bad Teacher - DVD They Live - free admission Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Inglourious Basterds - DVD The Last Stand - free admission The Night of the Hunter - free admission Warm Bodies - free admission P.S. I Love You - DVD The Lake House - DVD Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention? - Netflix Instant Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 - Netflix Instant Side by Side - free admission Pennies from Heaven - free admission Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid- DVD The Lonely Guy - DVD Batman: The Dark Knigth Returns, Part Two - DVD Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt - DVD Side Effects - free admission Funny Girl - free admission Christopher Titus: Neverlution - YouTube Ralphie May: Just Correct - YouTube Top Gun 3D - IMAX Fourplay: Tales of Sexual Intimacy - free admission 'Salem's Lot(2004) - DVD Body of Lies - DVD 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Animated - free admission 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Live Action - free admission A Good Day to Die Hard - free admission Last Chance Harvey - DVD Paul Williams Still Alive - free admission The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - DVD Invasion of the Blood Farmers - free admission Safety Not Guaranteed - Netflix Instant One Life - free admission Identity Thief - free admission The Switch - Netflix Instant John Dies at the End - free admission Singin' in the Rain - free admission Benny & Joon - free admission Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater - Netflix Instant I'm No Dummy - Netflix Instant The Adventures of Tintin - Netflix Instant Beautiful Creatures - free admission Snitch - free admission Dark Skies - free admission The Queen - USA Network A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III - free admission Safe - DVD The Mechanic - DVD Jack the Giand Slayer 3D - free admission Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - free admission The Wiz - free admission Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - Unrated Exteded Edition - DVD Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under - Netflix Instant Lewis Black: In God We Rust - Netflix Instant Jackass: The Movie - Unrated - Netflix Instant Mardi Gras Massacre - free admission Battle Beyond the Stars - Netflix Instant Oz the Great and Powerful 3D - free admission Nashville - free admission Fat Man Little Boy - Netflix Instant Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help - Netflix Instant Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - free admission Josie and the Pussycats - free admission Millennium - Netflix Instant Trek Nation - Netflix Instant Indecent Proposal - Netflix Instant This Film is Not Yet Rated - Netflix Instant The People vs George Lucas - Netflix Instant Everybody's Fine - Netflix Instant The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - free admission The Call- free admission Spring Breakers - employee screening Mad Dog and Glory - Netflix Instant The Wild Bunch - free admission Trekkies - Netflix Instant Bad Teacher - Unrated - DVD Salt - Unrated Director's Cut - DVD 30 Minutes or Less - DVD Burn After Reading - DVD Straw Dogs(2011) - DVD The Croods 3D - free admission The ABC's of Death - free admission G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Admission - free admission Come Out and Play - free admission The Host - free admission The Buddy Holly Story - free admission Trekkies 2 - Netflix Instant Machete Maidens Unleashed! - Netflix Instant Aisha Tyler is Lit: Live at the Fillmore - Netflix Instant Wrong - free admission Winnebago Man - Netflix Instant Kevin Nealon: Now Hear Me Out - Netflix Instant Pocahontas - Netflix Instant Barbarella - Netflix Instant Girls Gone Dead - Netflix Instant Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Netflix Instant Bill Burr: Let It Go - Netflix Instant Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe - Netflix Instant Stolen- Netflix Instant Jurassic Park 3D - free admission Faire: An American Renaissance - free admission Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don't Look the Same Either - Netflix Instant The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie - Netflix Instant Doctor Detroit - Netflix Instant C.H.U.D. - Netflix Instant Evil Dead (2013) - free admission Bully - Netflix Instant Trance - free admission Bye Bye Birdie - free admission Rise of the Zombies - Netflix Instant In Time - DVD The Place Beyond the Pines - free admission 42 - free admission Leviathan (1989) - Netflix Instant The Conversation - Netflix Instant London's West End: Great Expectations - free admission Oblivion - free admission Upstream Color - free admission Cars 2 - Starz on Demand Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds - Fathom Events Anonymous - Starz on Demand Year of the Dragon - free admission Heaven's Gate - free admission Mud - free admission To the Wonder - free admission Graceland - free admission Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - HBO on Demand Pain & Gain - free admission Iron Man Three 2D/3D - free admission/free admission On the Town - free admission Public Enemies - DVD New York, I Love You - DVD The World Before Her - free admission The Legend of Billy John - free admission Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX/3D/2D - free screening/free admission/free admission The Great Gatsby 3D (2013) - free admission Iron Man: Rise of Technovore - DVD Cabaret - free admission The Source Family - free admission Detention (2011) - free admission Turkish Star Trek (1973) - free admission Pieta - free admission Superman Unbound - DVD Behind the Candelabra - HBO Inhumans - DVD The Hangover Part III - free admission Enter the Dragon - free admission Nightmares in a Damaged Brain - free admission Epic 2D - free admission The Jensen Project - DVD Risky Business - free admission Screwballs - free admission Stay Tuned - free admission 12 Angry Men - DVD Fast & Furious 6 - free admission Now You See Me - free admission After Earth - free admission The Last Unicorn - blu ray The Internship - free admission The Purge - free admission The Deadly Spawn - free admission Before Midnight - free admission Wargames - free admission Man of Steel 2D/3D - employee screening/free admission Les Miserables (1998) - DVD Letters from Iwo Jima - DVD Sexy Beast - DVD Jaws 3-D - free admission King Arthur: Extended Unrated Director's Cut - DVD Joysticks - free admission The Keep - free admission Mortuary - free admission White House Down - free admission The Heat - free admission Finding Neverland - free admission A Band Called Death - free admission Godzilla vs the Smog Monster - free admission Valley Girl - free admission Scarface - free admission Downloaded - free admission This is the End - free admission Much Ado About Nothing (2013) - free admission The Lone Ranger (2013) - free admission Despicable Me 2 3D - free admission The Man Who Wasn't There - matinee Super - Netflix Instant Dead Like Me: Life After Death - Netflix Instant Johnny Carson: King of Late Night - NEtflix Instant Yankee Doodle Dandy - free admission Playing for Keeps - Netflix Instant Monsters University 2D - free admission World War Z 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Tower Heist - DVD Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - HBO on Demand Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic - Showtime on Demand Puss in Boots - HBO on Demand Crazy on the Outside - Netflix Instant Pacific Rim 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Grown Ups 2 - free admission The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - Netflix Instant Mulan - Netflix Instant Hercules (1997) - Netflix Instant The Conjuring - free admission R.I.P.D. 3D - free admission Red 2 - free admission Drive - Netflix Instant Only God Forgives - free admission Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone - free admission The Wolverine2D/3D - free admission/free admission The Iron Lady - Showtime on Demand Judge Dredd (1995) - Showtime on Demand Fruitvale Station - free admission Cheap Thrills - employee screenin' Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - DVD Before Sunrise - Encore on Demand The Way, Way Back - free admission Turbo 2D - free admission The Smurfs 2 3D - free admission The Sitter - HBO on Demand Mean Girls - Showtime on Demand Carnage - Starz on Demand Ghost Story of Yotsuya- free admission Ghost Cat of Otama Pond- free admission Trainspotting - free admission Charlie Bartlett - Netflix Instant Pitch Black: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury - DVD The Chronicles of Riddick - bluray The Canyons - free admission The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Act of Killing - free admission Flesh Pier - free admission The Horizon Glitters - free admission Adjust Your Tracking - free admission Planes 2D - free admission 2 Guns - free admission Elysium - free admission Kick-Ass 2 - free admission Five Easy Pieces - free admission Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 2D - free admission Jobs - free admission Paranoia - free admission Lee Daniels' The Butler - free admission We're the Millers - free admission Blue Jasmine - free admission I went over to the Ritz Sunday with a plan to see four movies, but wound up sittin' through just the first one. FEP was the Karen Black memorial screenin', and the movie was just so damn slow, I couldn't stay awake for it. When it ended, my whole mood was kinda ruined, so I turned in my three other tickets so they could be sold to payin' customers, and left. Did a four-movie marathon at the new Lakeline location yesterday. The Percy Jackson sequel (the 275th "new to me" movie of the year) was alright, not great. Nathan Fillion's role is almost completely in the trailer, which kinda sucked, and Anthony Stewart Head takes over for Pierce Brosnan. Stanley Tucci got a couple of good lines...and while I imagine a couple of the sequences would look pretty cool in 3D, I'm glad the Drafthouse didn't have it as an option, since the bulk of the climax takes place at night, or in a cave, which would be really, really dark with the glasses on. Ashton Kutcher did a really good job as Steve Jobs in the biopic that focusses on the foundin' of Apple Computers in the late '70s/early '80s. And while it tells you a lot about the business, there seems to be very little about the man. I still can't figure out how ya such a great roster of genre actors in a movie and it still be duller than dirty dishwater...Paranoia sucked all kinds of ass. And the last one of the night was the "based on a true story" The Butler. Oscar bait, obviously, and it completely glossed over service durin' the Ford & Carter administrations, since there didn't seem to be a way to tie it in with the civil rights movement/actions of the butler's oldest son, who went from pacifist to Black Panther in just over a decade. Forest Whitaker carries the movie through the decades, and the supportin' cast was really good, too, though aside from John Cusack's Nixon & James Marsden's JFK, seems to me that most every other president was a cameo. Still gotta see We're the Millers & Blue Jasmine in the next couple of days, before this weekend's big releases open on Thursday night. - edit, to add - Came into work early to see a couple of movies this afternoon. WtM was actually pretty funny, enjoyed it quite a bit. And the bloopers at the end were good, too. BJ wasn't as good, but still an interestin' look at a woman who changes the details of her life to suit what she wants it to be instead of what it actually is....yeah. Good movie, but the stoner-ish comedy was better.
Spoiler: Full 2013 List 009 Re;Cyborg (10) After Earth (8) Asura (4) Batman: The Mystery of the Batwoman (7) Beck-Mongolian Chop Squad (2010) (10) Berserk: The Golden Age I: The Egg of the King (7) Berserk: The Golden Age II: Battle for Doldrey (7) Berserk: The Golden Age III: Decent (7) Bleach Movie 4: Hell Verse (9) Blood-C: The Last Dark (6) Blue Exorcist: The Movie (8) Broken City (7) Bullet to the Head (7) Children Who Chase Lost Voices (7) Dead Man Down (8) Dragon Lord (6) Elysium (8) Evangelion 3.33: You Can [Not] Redo (9) Fafner: Heaven and Earth (8) Fairy Tail: Priestess of the Pheonix (8) Fast and Furious 6 (9) Gangster Squad (8) GI Joe: Retaliation (8) A Good Day to Die Hard (7) The Grey (8) Hoshizora Kiseki (7) The Illusionist (10) Initial D: 3rd Stage (9) Iron Man 3 (9) Jack Reacher (8) K-ON: The Movie (8) The Last Stand (8) Library War: Wings of Revolution (9) The Lone Ranger (6) Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A's (9) Man of Steel (9) The Man With the Iron Fists (6) Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion-Theatrical version (9) Metal Skin Panic: Madox 01 (6) Nerawareta Gakuen (Psychic School Wars) (10) Niji-iro Hotaru (Rainbow Fireflies) (9) Now You See Me (9) Oblivion (8) Olympus Has Fallen (8) Operation Condor (7) Operation Condor 2: Armour of God (5) Pacific Rim (8) Parker (8) Puela Magi Madoka Magica I: Beginnings (9) Puela Magi Madoka Magica II: Eternal (9) RED 2 (10) Rurouni Kenshin (2012) (8) Star Trek: Into Darkness (10) Tripping the Rift: The Movie (6) Tucker and Dale VS Evil (6) Twin Dragons (7) Why Worry? (1923) (8) The Wolverine (8) Updates: Initial D: Drift Racer (7) Phantom (2013) (8) Current Total: 60
Spoiler: The rest of my list... 1. Jack Reacher (C+) 2. The Help (B+) 3. The Silver Linings Playbook (A-) 4. Kramer vs. Kramer (A-) 5. Super 8 (B+) 6. Hugo (B+) 7. Zero Dark Thirty (A) 8. Miss Bala (A-) 9. Monsieur Lazhar (A) 10. Trainspotting (B+) 11. True Grit (A) 12. Casino Royale (A-) 13. Le Mepris (D) 14. On the Road (B) 15. Barbara (B+) 16. Side Effects (B+) 17. Tom Jones (B+) 18. Les Miserables: Part 1: Tempest in a Skull (A-) 19. Les Miserables: Part 2: The Thenardiers (A-) 20. Les Miserables: Part 3: Liberty, Sweet Liberty (A) 21. Rust and Bone (B) 22. GoldenEye (A+) 23. Argo (A) 24. Cool Hand Luke (B+) 25. The Wild Bunch (A) 26. Quantum of Solace (B-) 27. Contact (B+) 28. Wooden Crosses (A-) 29. American Graffiti (A-) 30. The Silence of the Lambs (A) 31. Gone Baby, Gone (A) 32. A Royal Affair (A-) 33. Exotica (B+) 34. Peter Pan (B) 35. Amour (A-) 36. Moulin Rouge (B) 37. The Artist (A-) 38. Les Miserables (A+) 39. A Serious Man (A) 40. Slumdog Millionaire (A) 41. Mulan (A-) 42. Pitch Perfect (B) 43. Schindler's List (A+) 44. Iron Man 3 (B+) 45. Man of Steel (B+) 46. Lincoln (A-) 47. Beautiful Creatures (C-) 48. Pacific Rim (B+) 49. Apocalypse Now (B) 50. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (A-) 51. The Sapphires (B) 52. The Wolverine (B+) 53. Much Ado About Nothing (B+) 54. Elysium (C+) 55. Kick-Ass 2 (B) 56. Before Midnight (A+) I've seen some entertaining movies this year, but in truth, 2013 pales in comparison to 2012 so far. Before Midnight is the first great film of the year. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke return to the characters they know so intimately, and deliver what feels like the perfectly logical followup to the relationship we saw in the previous two movies. They vary things up a bit here: the film doesn't have a ticking clock, and features a reasonable amount of Jesse and Celine interacting with other characters, which never happened in the first two. Cinema: 18 (+1) Home Video: 34 Computer: 4
Spoiler: Movies Seen in January through July Playback - Netflix Instant Parenthood (1989) - DVD Young Adult - Netflix Instant Django (1966) - free admission Django Unchained (2012) - free admission Housesitter - DVD The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - YouTube The Sting - free admission This is 40 - free admission The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D/HFR - free admission/free admission Parental Guidance - free admission The Sting II - Netflix Instant Abduction - Netflix Instant Dial M for Murder 3D - free admission Gangster Squad - free admission Zero Dark Thirty - free admission Treasure Planet - Netflix Instant The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption - Netflix Instant Commando - Netflix Instant Battle Royale II - Netflix Instant The Invisible War - Netflix Instant Texas Chainsaw 3D - free admission Lawrence of Arabia - free admission Ron White: A Little Unprofessional - DVD Valkyrie - DVD Our Man Flint - DVD Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap - Netflix Instant Margin Call - Netflix Instant In Like Flint - DVD Purple Rain - free admission Mama - free admission The High and the Mighty - DVD Dave Chappelle's Block Party - DVD Black X-Mas (2006) - DVD Bad Teacher - DVD They Live - free admission Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Inglourious Basterds - DVD The Last Stand - free admission The Night of the Hunter - free admission Warm Bodies - free admission P.S. I Love You - DVD The Lake House - DVD Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention? - Netflix Instant Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 - Netflix Instant Side by Side - free admission Pennies from Heaven - free admission Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid- DVD The Lonely Guy - DVD Batman: The Dark Knigth Returns, Part Two - DVD Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt - DVD Side Effects - free admission Funny Girl - free admission Christopher Titus: Neverlution - YouTube Ralphie May: Just Correct - YouTube Top Gun 3D - IMAX Fourplay: Tales of Sexual Intimacy - free admission 'Salem's Lot(2004) - DVD Body of Lies - DVD 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Animated - free admission 2013 Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Live Action - free admission A Good Day to Die Hard - free admission Last Chance Harvey - DVD Paul Williams Still Alive - free admission The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - DVD Invasion of the Blood Farmers - free admission Safety Not Guaranteed - Netflix Instant One Life - free admission Identity Thief - free admission The Switch - Netflix Instant John Dies at the End - free admission Singin' in the Rain - free admission Benny & Joon - free admission Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater - Netflix Instant I'm No Dummy - Netflix Instant The Adventures of Tintin - Netflix Instant Beautiful Creatures - free admission Snitch - free admission Dark Skies - free admission The Queen - USA Network A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III - free admission Safe - DVD The Mechanic - DVD Jack the Giand Slayer 3D - free admission Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - free admission The Wiz - free admission Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - Unrated Exteded Edition - DVD Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under - Netflix Instant Lewis Black: In God We Rust - Netflix Instant Jackass: The Movie - Unrated - Netflix Instant Mardi Gras Massacre - free admission Battle Beyond the Stars - Netflix Instant Oz the Great and Powerful 3D - free admission Nashville - free admission Fat Man Little Boy - Netflix Instant Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help - Netflix Instant Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - free admission Josie and the Pussycats - free admission Millennium - Netflix Instant Trek Nation - Netflix Instant Indecent Proposal - Netflix Instant This Film is Not Yet Rated - Netflix Instant The People vs George Lucas - Netflix Instant Everybody's Fine - Netflix Instant The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - free admission The Call- free admission Spring Breakers - employee screening Mad Dog and Glory - Netflix Instant The Wild Bunch - free admission Trekkies - Netflix Instant Bad Teacher - Unrated - DVD Salt - Unrated Director's Cut - DVD 30 Minutes or Less - DVD Burn After Reading - DVD Straw Dogs(2011) - DVD The Croods 3D - free admission The ABC's of Death - free admission G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D/2D - free admission/free admission Admission - free admission Come Out and Play - free admission The Host - free admission The Buddy Holly Story - free admission Trekkies 2 - Netflix Instant Machete Maidens Unleashed! - Netflix Instant Aisha Tyler is Lit: Live at the Fillmore - Netflix Instant Wrong - free admission Winnebago Man - Netflix Instant Kevin Nealon: Now Hear Me Out - Netflix Instant Pocahontas - Netflix Instant Barbarella - Netflix Instant Girls Gone Dead - Netflix Instant Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Netflix Instant Bill Burr: Let It Go - Netflix Instant Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe - Netflix Instant Stolen- Netflix Instant Jurassic Park 3D - free admission Faire: An American Renaissance - free admission Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don't Look the Same Either - Netflix Instant The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie - Netflix Instant Doctor Detroit - Netflix Instant C.H.U.D. - Netflix Instant Evil Dead (2013) - free admission Bully - Netflix Instant Trance - free admission Bye Bye Birdie - free admission Rise of the Zombies - Netflix Instant In Time - DVD The Place Beyond the Pines - free admission 42 - free admission Leviathan (1989) - Netflix Instant The Conversation - Netflix Instant London's West End: Great Expectations - free admission Oblivion - free admission Upstream Color - free admission Cars 2 - Starz on Demand Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds - Fathom Events Anonymous - Starz on Demand Year of the Dragon - free admission Heaven's Gate - free admission Mud - free admission To the Wonder - free admission Graceland - free admission Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - HBO on Demand Pain & Gain - free admission Iron Man Three 2D/3D - free admission/free admission On the Town - free admission Public Enemies - DVD New York, I Love You - DVD The World Before Her - free admission The Legend of Billy John - free admission Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX/3D/2D - free screening/free admission/free admission The Great Gatsby 3D (2013) - free admission Iron Man: Rise of Technovore - 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free admission Mortuary - free admission White House Down - free admission The Heat - free admission Finding Neverland - free admission A Band Called Death - free admission Godzilla vs the Smog Monster - free admission Valley Girl - free admission Scarface - free admission Downloaded - free admission This is the End - free admission Much Ado About Nothing (2013) - free admission The Lone Ranger (2013) - free admission Despicable Me 2 3D - free admission The Man Who Wasn't There - matinee Super - Netflix Instant Dead Like Me: Life After Death - Netflix Instant Johnny Carson: King of Late Night - NEtflix Instant Yankee Doodle Dandy - free admission Playing for Keeps - Netflix Instant Monsters University 2D - free admission World War Z 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Tower Heist - DVD Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - HBO on Demand Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic - Showtime on Demand Puss in Boots - HBO on Demand Crazy on the Outside - Netflix Instant Pacific Rim 2D/3D - free admission/free admission Grown Ups 2 - free admission The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - Netflix Instant Mulan - Netflix Instant Hercules (1997) - Netflix Instant The Conjuring - free admission R.I.P.D. 3D - free admission Red 2 - free admission Drive - Netflix Instant Only God Forgives - free admission Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone - free admission The Wolverine2D/3D - free admission/free admission The Iron Lady - Showtime on Demand Judge Dredd (1995) - Showtime on Demand Fruitvale Station - free admission Cheap Thrills - employee screenin' Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - DVD Before Sunrise - Encore on Demand The Way, Way Back - free admission Turbo 2D - free admission The Smurfs 2 3D - free admission The Sitter - HBO on Demand Mean Girls - Showtime on Demand Carnage - Starz on Demand Ghost Story of Yotsuya- free admission Ghost Cat of Otama Pond- free admission Trainspotting - free admission Charlie Bartlett - Netflix Instant Pitch Black: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury - DVD The Chronicles of Riddick - bluray The Canyons - free admission The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director's Cut - bluray The Act of Killing - free admission Flesh Pier - free admission The Horizon Glitters - free admission Adjust Your Tracking - free admission Planes 2D - free admission 2 Guns - free admission Elysium - free admission Kick-Ass 2 - free admission Five Easy Pieces - free admission Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 2D - free admission Jobs - free admission Paranoia- free admission Lee Daniels' The Butler - free admission We're the Millers - free admission Blue Jasmine - free admission Clear History - HBO The Apparition - HBO Hung out at the motel yesterday, watched a couple of movies on HBO and napped a lot. Clear History was about a guy (Larry David) who ridicules the idea of an electric car model named "the Howard" and refuses to be a part of its marketin'. So, he resigns...and the Howard becomes a huge success and David's character changes his name and hides out in Martha's Vineyard for a decade. When the creator of the Howard (Jon Hamm) comes to M'sV, David begins to plot his revenge. Really good cast that included Eve Mendes, Michael Keaton, and Kate Hudson, but the movie was off the wall stupid, especially Larry David's rants, which reminded me of why I don't like Seinfeld and never watched his series on HBO. Followed that up with The Apparition, which suggests that if ya don't believe in ghosts, you can't be hurt by ghosts, even if the ghosts are doin' everything they can to make ya believe in 'em so they can kill ya and stuff. Terrible freakin' movie. And if ya watch the trailer, they include the last scene of the movie in it, which makes no sense at all.
1) This Is 40 - C+ 2) Easy A - A- 3) The Bounty Hunter - B+ 4) Crazy, Stupid, Love. - B- 5) What To Expect When You're Expecting - B+ 6) Contagion - C 7) Identity Thief - A 8) We Bought A Zoo - A- 9) The Ides of March - B+ 10) Top Gun - C+ 11) It Could Happen To You - B+ 12) Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - A+ 13) Mirror, Mirror - A 14) Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World - A 15) Inglorious Basterds - B+ 16) Independence Day - B+ 17) Star Trek – Into Darkness - B+ 18) Kick-Ass - B 19) The Heat - B- 20) Monsters Inc. - B+ 21) White House Down - B+ 22) Saving Private Ryan - A 23) Air Force One - A- 24) MASH - B+ 25) Airplane! - B+ 26) The Island - B 27) Love, Actually - A- Yes, it's a chick flick, but I think knowing that going in and expecting it to be awful helped increase it's grade when it surprised me. There is real heart in this movie, unlike a lot of American made ones, where you just know that even if they fight, cheat, break-up with each other, they will get back together. Yes there is some of that here, but to even have a storyline like Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson's is groundbreaking, at least in my opinion. Showing that not everything perfect in a movie like this helped it out in my view. But it also has some great humor. Martin Freeman and Joanna Page having small talk while doubling for sex scenes was perfect humor. And who doesn't love Rowan Atkinson? Guys, if your girlfriend/wife is bugging you to watch a chick flick, make her throw this one in.
I've already talked about this film early in the year but Life of Pi was on HBO tonight and I ended up watching most of it. Man what an incredible film this was. Maybe it was light on story, but the visual effects and what they did with the Tiger is nothing short of movie mastery. If I have one regret, it was I didn't see this film in 3D because if there was ever a movie where it was still worth going to the movie theater just for the experience, this movie was it. Avatar may say they were they best visual effects movie of the last several years, but I say Life of Pi was better. Wasn't there some controversy over the visual effects company who did this movie? I remember something about the visual effects people being pulled off the stage at the Oscars but I wasn't sure if it was for this movie or another one.
Life Of Pi? Rhythm & Hues put so much into that they ended up going bankrupt when it was released. At the Oscars - which they won for best visual effects - their boss's microphone was cut off and the band started playing over him when he tried to bring up the company's fate during his acceptance speech. Director Ang Lee leapt straight to their defence by complaining that the effects cost too much, and thanking everybody except* the visual effects crew at his acceptance speech... Oh, wait.
Spoiler: The rest of my list... 1. Jack Reacher (C+) 2. The Help (B+) 3. The Silver Linings Playbook (A-) 4. Kramer vs. Kramer (A-) 5. Super 8 (B+) 6. Hugo (B+) 7. Zero Dark Thirty (A) 8. Miss Bala (A-) 9. Monsieur Lazhar (A) 10. Trainspotting (B+) 11. True Grit (A) 12. Casino Royale (A-) 13. Le Mepris (D) 14. On the Road (B) 15. Barbara (B+) 16. Side Effects (B+) 17. Tom Jones (B+) 18. Les Miserables: Part 1: Tempest in a Skull (A-) 19. Les Miserables: Part 2: The Thenardiers (A-) 20. Les Miserables: Part 3: Liberty, Sweet Liberty (A) 21. Rust and Bone (B) 22. GoldenEye (A+) 23. Argo (A) 24. Cool Hand Luke (B+) 25. The Wild Bunch (A) 26. Quantum of Solace (B-) 27. Contact (B+) 28. Wooden Crosses (A-) 29. American Graffiti (A-) 30. The Silence of the Lambs (A) 31. Gone Baby, Gone (A) 32. A Royal Affair (A-) 33. Exotica (B+) 34. Peter Pan (B) 35. Amour (A-) 36. Moulin Rouge (B) 37. The Artist (A-) 38. Les Miserables (A+) 39. A Serious Man (A) 40. Slumdog Millionaire (A) 41. Mulan (A-) 42. Pitch Perfect (B) 43. Schindler's List (A+) 44. Iron Man 3 (B+) 45. Man of Steel (B+) 46. Lincoln (A-) 47. Beautiful Creatures (C-) 48. Pacific Rim (B+) 49. Apocalypse Now (B) 50. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (A-) 51. The Sapphires (B) 52. The Wolverine (B+) 53. Much Ado About Nothing (B+) 54. Elysium (C+) 55. Kick-Ass 2 (B) 56. Before Midnight (A+) 57. The Butler (B) A highly atypical film from director Lee Daniels, at times remarkably restrained (particularly in its central performance), though the enormous timespan covered by the film still leads to a lot of eras being summed up in really on-the-nose ways. The casting of the film is by times highly effective and strange. The whole story really would be better-served by a miniseries, but it's still a decent movie. The makeup used on the actors is superb; some of the best I've seen in recent years. Cinema: 19 (+1) Home Video: 34 Computer: 4