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Not quite what I expected, but I liked it a lot. The wolves were basically just monsters (even the director admitted that they behaved unusually), but they were great monsters - even when only their howling was heard.
And it has a perfect ending. A few minutes before it happened, I thought "wouldn't it be great if..." and then it actually happened. Simply perfect.
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First new movie of the month, and its John Wayne in Hatari!. Found it in the five dollar bin at Wal-Mart this mornin'...
My dad was a big fan of the Duke, but usually just in Westersn, so I haven't seen this one.
Just over an hour into it right now...and John Wayne does what he did back in the day, and it is a bit odd to see him in a semi-modern settin', ridin' in trucks & jeeps instead of on horses or wagons.
May go see a couple of movies before my shift tomorrow...
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Went to Drafthouse S Lamar for Bachelorette today...and I blame Bridesmaids for this movie. A disparate group of women that make ya wonder why they are friends gather together for a weddin', they use foul language, and one of 'em is overweight.
...ugh...
At Drafthouse Slaughter now, waitin' for Hotel Transylvania 3D. It'll let out before my shift starts this evenin'.
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
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+
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-
This 2008 indie film with Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Hayden Church and Ellen Page seems to have a cast that would deliver a good movie. Given any other script and director they likely would have. I give it the low C grade cause I did find their performances good. With exception to THC who's playing the low brow brother and not a "smart person" the rest of the cast are displayed as being socially awkward and outcast due to their own intelligence. Some of the may be their own self perception, some cast onto them by others but the film takes us down a path where they seemingly choose to not be so socially inept. I could probably elaborate more on each character but most of it's a variation on that theme. Has anyone else seen this? Had a different take on it.
1. Holy Rollers (B-)
2. The Kids Are All Right (B)
3. History of the World, Part 1 (C-)
4. Blazing Saddles (A+)
5. Scarface [1932] (B-)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (A)
7. Rampart (B+)
8. We Need To Talk About Kevin (A+)
9. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (B+)
10. They Live (B-)
11. Darling Companion (D)
12. A Dangerous Method (B-)
13. Haywire (C+)
14. Mission: Impossible (B+)
15. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (B+)
16. Twixt (C+)
17. Burn After Reading (B+)
18. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (B-)
19. Drive (A)
20. Crazy Stupid Love (A)
21. The Omega Man (D)
22. The Adjustment Bureau (B+)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. Lady and the Tramp (B)
25. Hugo (A-)
26. The Secret World of Arrietty (B)
27. Twelve Angry Men (A)
28. Act of Valor (F)
29. Walker (A)
30. Lonely Are The Brave (A-)
31. Executive Action (C)
32. Three Colors: Blue (A)
33. Bright Leaves (A)
34. Photographic Memory (A)
35. The People Vs. George Lucas (C-)
36. Avatar (B-)
37. The Life of Reilly (A-)
38. Limitless (B-)
39. Star Wars (A)
40. The Empire Strikes Back (A)
41. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (A)
42. Machete (C+)
43. Unmasking The Idol (D-)
44. Alien (A+)
45. The Raid: Redemption (B-)
46. Attenberg (B)
47. 21 Jump Street (C+)
48. Piranha 3D (C+)
49. The Hunger Games (C-)
50. This Filthy World (B)
51. Bad Fever (C-)
52. The Conspirator (C)
53. We The Party (C-)
54. My Darling Clementine (C+)
55. Freakonomics (C+)
56. Sound of My Voice (A-)
57. Tales from the Script (C-)
58. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
59. Me and Orson Welles (B)
60. Everything Must Go (B+)
61. The Avengers (C)
62. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (B)
63. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (B)
64. Starship Troopers (A)
65. Alien (A+)
66. Aliens (A)
67. Into the Abyss (B)
68. The Expendables (D)
69. Dumbo (B+)
70. Bullet in the Head (B-)
71. City Streets (D)
72. Hard Boiled (A)
73. Burn After Reading (B+)
74. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
75. A Few Good Men (B)
76. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (A)
77. RoboCop (A-)
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A-)
79. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (C-)
80. Your Sister's Sister (A)
81. The Gunfighter (B+)
82. The Sting (A-)
83. The Thin Blue Line (A)
84. Rango (A)
85. The Killing (B+)
86. The Order of the Black Eagle (F)
87. Jaws (A)
88. Marley & Me (B-)
89. Dominick Dunne: After The Party (B)
90. Prometheus (B-)
91. Collaborator (B-)
92. The Island of Lost Souls (B)
93. The Taking of Pelham 123 [1974] (B+)
94. High Anxiety (C+)
95. Carlos (A-)
96. Stargate (B)
97. Ben-Hur (B+)
98. Bringing up Baby (A)
99. The Trip (B+)
100. Observe and Report (D-)
101. The Conversation (A)
102. TRON (C)
103. Cat Ballou (B)
104. Monsters, Inc. (B)
105. Torn Curtain (C)
106. Marnie (A-)
107. Three Colors: White (A-)
108. Logan's Run (C+)
109. Horrible Bosses (B+)
110. Hotel for Dogs (C)
111. Election (B)
112. Independence Day (A)
113. Batman Begins (A-)
114. The Dark Knight Rises (B+)
115. Winnie the Pooh (A)
116. Sleeper (B)
117. Total Recall [1990] (B+)
118. Topaz (C-)
119. Stealth (F)
120. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (A)
121. Frenzy (B)
122. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (C+)
123. Primary (B-)
124. Kick-Ass (C-)
125. The Puffy Chair (C+)
126. Hopscotch (B)
127. Visioneers (C-)
128. Vertigo (A)
129. Che (B)
130. Spin (B-)
131. My Dinner with Andre (B)
132. District 9 (B+)
133. The Rescuers (B-)
134. Anatomy of a Murder (A)
135. The Tigger Movie (B-)
136. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (A)
137. Three Colors: Red (A)
138. The Tourist (D)
139. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (C+)
140. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (B)
141. Spies Like Us (D)
142. Mr. Mom (F)
143. Inside Man (B+)
144. 12 Monkeys (B+)
145. North by Northwest (A)
146. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (B+)
147. Bottle Rocket (B)
148. From Dusk Till Dawn (C-)
149. Some Like It Hot (A)
150. The Joneses (C+)
151. The House I Live In (B+)
Some Like It Hot: Even funnier with an audience, I can only think of a single thing I don't like about this movie (George Raft, one of my least favorite actors ever), but even he can't bring this down. Marilyn Monroe may have been dumber than a box of rocks, but she's impossible to take your eyes off of on screen. Lemmon and Curtis are awfully good, too.
The Joneses: Nearly every review I read suggested this film took an interesting premise (a family moves into town, but it turns out they're just employees of a "stealth marketing" company getting the community to buy stuff) and then wasted it in the second half. I didn't really see that. Rather, this struck me as an aggressively middlebrow, meat and potatoes kind of movie through and through. The climax was melodramatic, surely, but nearly every other scene was, too. Duchovny and Moore made the most of the material, as did the supporting cast, including a nice turn from Gary Cole. A worthwhile rental.
The House I Live In: Eugene Jarecki's latest documentary, which tackles the war on drugs, doesn't contain a lot of information that will be new to people who have payed close attention to these policy issues, but what it does do is distill the important information into two hour form extremely well. It doesn't break much stylistic ground, but it's a well-made, compelling documentary with a large scope. The Holocaust-in-slow-motion argument that it ultimately makes might be offensive to some people, but to anyone who actually listens to the it, it shouldn't be.
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Got together with some friends tonight for Looper.
'twas awesome!
And Jeff Daniels had the best line in the whole thing!
Tried to see House at the End of the Street, too, but my friend & I were denied free tickets because no one else had paid to see the last show of the night.
This could have been much better, but the films changes tone from scene to scene - in one moment being a (not very funny) comedy, the next a drama - and for me the transitions didn't work that well.
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Went to see Won't Back Down this afternoon...it was about as bad as I expected it to be.
While based on actual events, it was very clear the story had "good guys" and "bad guys" with no real shade of gray between 'em, and even though it was hammered on over & over again about how plans like their's fail, there was no coda at the end to say if they succeeded or not, or even how long ago the story takes place, though it would be recent, since the music teacher was puttin' a Walk the Line movie poster up in his classroom.
1. Holy Rollers (B-)
2. The Kids Are All Right (B)
3. History of the World, Part 1 (C-)
4. Blazing Saddles (A+)
5. Scarface [1932] (B-)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (A)
7. Rampart (B+)
8. We Need To Talk About Kevin (A+)
9. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (B+)
10. They Live (B-)
11. Darling Companion (D)
12. A Dangerous Method (B-)
13. Haywire (C+)
14. Mission: Impossible (B+)
15. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (B+)
16. Twixt (C+)
17. Burn After Reading (B+)
18. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (B-)
19. Drive (A)
20. Crazy Stupid Love (A)
21. The Omega Man (D)
22. The Adjustment Bureau (B+)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. Lady and the Tramp (B)
25. Hugo (A-)
26. The Secret World of Arrietty (B)
27. Twelve Angry Men (A)
28. Act of Valor (F)
29. Walker (A)
30. Lonely Are The Brave (A-)
31. Executive Action (C)
32. Three Colors: Blue (A)
33. Bright Leaves (A)
34. Photographic Memory (A)
35. The People Vs. George Lucas (C-)
36. Avatar (B-)
37. The Life of Reilly (A-)
38. Limitless (B-)
39. Star Wars (A)
40. The Empire Strikes Back (A)
41. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (A)
42. Machete (C+)
43. Unmasking The Idol (D-)
44. Alien (A+)
45. The Raid: Redemption (B-)
46. Attenberg (B)
47. 21 Jump Street (C+)
48. Piranha 3D (C+)
49. The Hunger Games (C-)
50. This Filthy World (B)
51. Bad Fever (C-)
52. The Conspirator (C)
53. We The Party (C-)
54. My Darling Clementine (C+)
55. Freakonomics (C+)
56. Sound of My Voice (A-)
57. Tales from the Script (C-)
58. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
59. Me and Orson Welles (B)
60. Everything Must Go (B+)
61. The Avengers (C)
62. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (B)
63. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (B)
64. Starship Troopers (A)
65. Alien (A+)
66. Aliens (A)
67. Into the Abyss (B)
68. The Expendables (D)
69. Dumbo (B+)
70. Bullet in the Head (B-)
71. City Streets (D)
72. Hard Boiled (A)
73. Burn After Reading (B+)
74. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
75. A Few Good Men (B)
76. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (A)
77. RoboCop (A-)
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A-)
79. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (C-)
80. Your Sister's Sister (A)
81. The Gunfighter (B+)
82. The Sting (A-)
83. The Thin Blue Line (A)
84. Rango (A)
85. The Killing (B+)
86. The Order of the Black Eagle (F)
87. Jaws (A)
88. Marley & Me (B-)
89. Dominick Dunne: After The Party (B)
90. Prometheus (B-)
91. Collaborator (B-)
92. The Island of Lost Souls (B)
93. The Taking of Pelham 123 [1974] (B+)
94. High Anxiety (C+)
95. Carlos (A-)
96. Stargate (B)
97. Ben-Hur (B+)
98. Bringing up Baby (A)
99. The Trip (B+)
100. Observe and Report (D-)
101. The Conversation (A)
102. TRON (C)
103. Cat Ballou (B)
104. Monsters, Inc. (B)
105. Torn Curtain (C)
106. Marnie (A-)
107. Three Colors: White (A-)
108. Logan's Run (C+)
109. Horrible Bosses (B+)
110. Hotel for Dogs (C)
111. Election (B)
112. Independence Day (A)
113. Batman Begins (A-)
114. The Dark Knight Rises (B+)
115. Winnie the Pooh (A)
116. Sleeper (B)
117. Total Recall [1990] (B+)
118. Topaz (C-)
119. Stealth (F)
120. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (A)
121. Frenzy (B)
122. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (C+)
123. Primary (B-)
124. Kick-Ass (C-)
125. The Puffy Chair (C+)
126. Hopscotch (B)
127. Visioneers (C-)
128. Vertigo (A)
129. Che (B)
130. Spin (B-)
131. My Dinner with Andre (B)
132. District 9 (B+)
133. The Rescuers (B-)
134. Anatomy of a Murder (A)
135. The Tigger Movie (B-)
136. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (A)
137. Three Colors: Red (A)
138. The Tourist (D)
139. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (C+)
140. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (B)
141. Spies Like Us (D)
142. Mr. Mom (F)
143. Inside Man (B+)
144. 12 Monkeys (B+)
145. North by Northwest (A)
146. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (B+)
147. Bottle Rocket (B)
148. From Dusk Till Dawn (C-)
149. Some Like It Hot (A)
150. The Joneses (C+)
151. The House I Live In (B+)
152. Troll 2 (F)
153. The Right Stuff (A-)
Troll 2: Can a movie exist that is the worst ever made? Probably not, but this one is, by all standards, horrible. (Also, hilarious). The popcorn scene might be one of my favorite moments in (bad) cinema.
The Right Stuff: I think this falls short of being a masterpiece for two reasons. One, Bill Conti's score feels a bit dated, especially when it goes heavily into synthesizers. Two, I don't care for the way the movie stretches a few of the facts (particularly what happens to Gus Grissom). There's obviously dramatic license being taken, but the drama that's extracted from the sequence seems unnecessary to the whole. Other than that, though, it's a damned good movie about the transition from test pilots to the early space program. It's also a three hour and twelve minute movie that hardly feels like it's two hours long. I only intended to watch half of it, but it was impossible to turn it off at that point.
1. My Week With Marilyn (B-)
2. Fantasia 2000 (B+)
3. Blade Runner (B)
4. The Hidden Fortress (A-)
5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (B+)
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (A+)
7. The Descendants (A-)
8. Monsieur Lazhar (A)
9. The Prestige (A+)
10. Blood Simple (A-)
11. The Big Lebowski (B+)
12. West Side Story (A-)
13. The Hours (A-)
14. Lady and the Tramp (B)
15. An Officer and a Gentleman (B)
16. All Quiet On The Western Front (A)
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (B-)
18. Spellbound (B+)
19. Seven Samurai (A+)
20. X-Men: First Class (A)
21. Do The Right Thing (N/A)
22. Martha Marcy May Marlene (B)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. LA Confidential (A)
25. Young Adult (B)
26. Children of Men (B+)
27. Gaslight (B+)
28. North By Northwest (A+)
29. American Beauty (A-)
30. Revolutionary Road (A-)
31. Being There (B)
32. Coriolanus (C+)
33. To Catch A Thief (B+)
34. A Separation (A+)
35. The Hunger Games (B+)
36. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (A)
37. Saturday Night Fever (A-)
38. The Tree of Life (A-)
39. Hero (B-)
40. Boogie Nights (A+)
41. Magnolia (A-)
42. The Lives of Others (A)
43. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (A-)
44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (A)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (A)
46. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A)
47. Downfall (A+)
48. In Darkness (B+)
49. Cabaret (C+)
50. The Avengers (A)
51. The Incredible Hulk (B)
52. The Last of the Mohicans (A-)
53. Alien (A)
54. Mystic River (A)
55. Amadeus (A+)
56. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (B)
57. Snow White and the Huntsman (C)
58. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (B+)
59. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (B)
60. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (A-)
61. Field of Dreams (A+)
62. The Conversation (B)
63. American Gangster (A)
64. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (B+)
65. Damsels in Distress (B+)
66. 3 Days of the Condor (B+)
67. Star Trek (A)
68. Thelma & Louise (A)
69. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (B)
70. Brave (B+)
71. The Grapes of Wrath (A-)
72. Where Do We Go Now? (B)
73. The Night of the Hunter (C)
74. Dangerous Liasons (A)
75. Amelie (A)
76. Glory (A)
77. Savages (B)
78. The Amazing Spider-Man (B+)
79. There Will Be Blood (A)
80. Memento (A)
81. Nine (C)
82. Insomnia (B)
83. Batman Begins (A+)
84. Margaret (A-)
85. The Dark Knight (A+)
86. The Dark Knight Rises (A)
87. Inception (A)
88. Moonrise Kingdom (A+)
89. The Aviator (A-)
90. Safety Not Guaranteed (B+)
91. The Quiet American (B+)
92. The Piano (B)
93. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (B)
94. Intouchables (A-)
95. The Seven Year Itch (B+)
96. Born on the Fourth of July (B)
97. 12 Angry Men (A+)
98. Wild Strawberries (A)
99. Broadcast News (A-)
100. Jaws (A)
101. Ikiru (A-)
102. Beasts of the Southern Wild (B+)
103. Lawless (B-)
104. The Rules of the Game (B+)
105. Tokyo Story (B+)
106. Burn After Reading (B+)
107. Brokeback Mountain (A+)
108. Looper (A+)
109. The Master (B+)
Paul Thomas Anderson's much-anticipated return to cinema features strong lead performances and an intelligent story, but it's hindered by a lack of especially memorable characters (beyond the thematic elements they embody). This is by design, to a great extent, but I think it limits the film somewhat.
1) The Artist (2011) - A+
2) Midnight in Paris (2011) - B
3) Tree of Life (2011) - F
4) The Descendants (2011) - B
5) Drive (2011) - B
6) Hanna (2011) - C
7) Take Shelter (2011) - A-
8) 50/50 (2011) - B
9) Baby Mama (2008) - B-
10) United 93 (2006)
11) Rango (2011) - B
12) The Hunger Games (2012) - B+
13) 21 Jump Street (2012) - B+
14) Goon (2012) - A-
15) The Avengers (2012) - B
16) Cars 2 (2011) - C+
17) Men in Black 3 (2012) - B+
18) Prometheus (2012) - D+
19) The Iron Lady (2011) - C-
20) Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) - B+
21) Moonrise Kingdom - (2012) - A
22) Fantastic Mr. Fox - (2009) - B+
23) The Dark Knight Rises - (2012) - B+
24) Contagion - (2011) - B
25) Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) - C
26) Premium Rush (2012) - B-
27) The Bourne Legacy (2012) - C
28) Haywire (2012) - B
29) LA Confidential - A (1997) 30) Boogie Nights - A- (1997)
Thanks to a podcast, which did an episode about PT Anderson, that I listen to, and the release of "The Master" (Which I would like to see one of these days), I felt it was time to watch another 1997 classic to most people, Boogie Nights. This was a great movie, but I'm not sure if it was better than the other PT Anderson film I've seen, There Will Be Blood. Even though I find that one overrated too, I still liked it because Daniel Day-Lewis just commanded the screen and that movie was excellent because of the actor, not inspite of the actor. Boogie Nights has an impressive cast, but they all seemed to just blend into the film rather than stand out. Still, I'm not sure this movie was about the cast (Even as star studded as this one) but more about the rise and fall of the porn industry from the last 70s to the 80s and then rising again at the end.
This movie, maybe because of it's length, felt like 2 movies in one. The first half was Dirk Diggler becoming a star, and that fun Saturday Night Fever attitude with all the disco music and showing life as this simple and fun thing. I think the reason it get's an A- from me instead of the full fledged A is because I didn't think the movie got really excellent until the screen flipped to the 80s and the film took a much serious tone. It really was an interesting juxtaposition and something that had a much greater emotional impact than it should have had. We like these characters (And I applaud this film for being about the Porn industry but not over-sensationalizing it) and we see the 3-dimensionality of these character turn in the 80s from just star pornstars to people who really fell on some dark dark times.
Theater: 11
BluRay: 9 On Demand/TV: 4 (+1)
Itunes: 6
I do have a question regarding Mark Wahlberg though. It seemed when Planet of the Apes came out, people where making fun of him for his "Marky Mark" moniker and I thought it was because people didn't like him for his acting. I know he started out as a musician and that I think is where the Moniker comes from and I know bringing up the remake of Planet of the Apes isn't a strong argument, but my question is this. Do people overall hate Wahlberg as an actor? It seems like everything I've seen him in (except for POTA) has been a good movie, and this one, The Fighter and The Departed are great movies. I think he's a great actor.
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Well, I went to see four movies today, two at one Drafthouse, two at another, just 'cause I could...and also 'cause my other two days off this week are fillin' up fast with other stuff to do.
First up, Taken 2...which was disappointin'. Seemed to me that it was just too bloodless, no consequences to the violence. And, really, who can lob grenades around a major Middle Eastern city and then storm the American embassy in a possibly bulletproof taxi cab? Such an obvious cash grab of a sequel.
Pitch Perfect was next, and it was lamely predictable, except for the Asian girl in the a cappela group. She said the most random shit it was hysterical. And I liked how two characters, glorified background extras with almost no lines & no development at all, got a pretty good joke about how they were just glorified background extras.
Frankenweenie 3D was next...it was quite a bit shorter than I expected, and there was some good humor to it, too, especially the science teacher's speech to the PTA.
And, finally, the best of the four movies I watched today, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a high school teen angst drama set in the mid 1980s & starrin' Emma Watson from the Harry Potter franchise. I thought the movie was pretty awesome, but that may just be in comparison to the other stuff I sat through today.
Think I'll be takin' tomorrow off from movie watchin', since I'm helpin' some friends move in the mornin' & have to work in the evenin'.
But there is an employee screenin' of Drafthouse Films' next release, Miami Connection, Monday night!
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2 Fast 2 Furious (8)
47 Ronin (7)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (8)
The Amazing Spider-man (7)
The Avengers (10)
Bad Boys (8)
Battle of Los Angles (9)
Battleship (9)
Blade of the Phantom Master (8)
The Bourne Legacy (9)
The Dark Knight Rises (10)
Daybreakers (5)
Die Hard (9)
Die Hard II (8)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (8)
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (7)
The Expendables 2 (8)
Fargo (6)
The Fast and the Furious (8)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (7)
Fast and Furious (2009) (8)
Fast Five (10)
First Blood (8)
First Squad: The Moment of Truth (8)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (8)
Gantz: Perfect Answer (7)
Garasu no Usagi (Glass Rabbit) (7)
Gattaca (8)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence (6)
Golgo 13: The Professional (6)
Golgo 13: Queen Bee (6)
Green Hornet (6)
.hack//The Movie: Beyond The World (7)
Haywire (7)
Heaven's Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork (5)
Hellboy: Blood and Iron (8)
Hellboy: Sword of Storms (6)
Hunger Games (4)
John Carter (9) Justice League: Doom (7)
Justice League: Starcrossed (8)
King of Thorn (9)
K-ON!: The Movie (8)
L.A. Confidential (9)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (9)
Legend of the Millennium Dragon (7)
Lockout (8) Looper (8)
Lupin the 3rd: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid (9)
Lupin the 3rd: Return of Pycal (7)
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Director's Cut) (9)
Men In Black III (8)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (7)
Mercury Rising (7)
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Negima!: Final (7)
Nydenion (7)
Prometheus (5)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (8)
Rambo III (8)
The Raven (9)
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Robotech II: The Sentinels (6)
Safe House (2012) (8)
Salt (7)
Scott Pilgrim VS The World (8)
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Time Traveler: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (8)
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Underworld: Awakening (8)
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1. Daddy Day Care (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
2. Wild Child (✩✩) - Live TV
3. Fling (✩✩✩½) - DVD
4. Arthur 2: On the Rocks (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
5. Havoc (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
6. Contagion (✩✩✩✩½) - On Demand
7. The Blind Side (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
8. Batman: Under the Red Hood (✩✩✩✩½) - Live TV
9. The Andromeda Strain (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
10. The Last Man on Earth (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
11. Network (✩✩½) - Live TV
12. Normal Adolescent Behavior: Havoc 2 (✩) - DVD
13. Starsky & Hutch (✩✩½) - Live TV
14. The Rundown (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
15. Mallrats (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
16. My Sister's Keeper (✩✩✩✩½) - Live TV
17. Valkyrie (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
18. The Anderson Tapes (✩✩✩) - Live TV
19. Jack Goes Boating (✩✩✩½) - DVD
20. Margin Call (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
21. Away We Go (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
22. Girl Fight (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
23. Superman & Batman: Apocalypse (✩✩✩✩) - Recorded TV
24. Pandorum (✩✩½) - Live TV
25. Paper Man (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD
26. In Like Flint (✩✩½) - Live TV
27. Blood Diamond (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
28. The Invisible Man (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
29. Frankenstein (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
30. The Dilemma (✩✩✩½) - DVD
February
31. That One Night (✩✩✩½) - Internet
32. Sex Drive (✩✩½) - DVD
33. Chronicle (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
34. Couples Retreat (✩✩✩) - DVD
35. RV (✩✩✩) - Live TV
36. Chaos Theory (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
37. Black Swan (✩✩✩✩✩) - DVD
38. One Missed Call (✩) - DVD
39. Kramer vs. Kramer (✩✩✩✩½) - Live TV
40. When in Rome (✩✩½) - Live TV
41. Love to Kill (✩✩✩) - TV
42. Possession (✩✩) - Recorded TV
43. Sex and the City 2 (✩✩✩½) - DVD
44. Little Fockers (✩✩✩½) - DVD
45. Breach: (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
46. Broken Flowers (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD
47. Bronson (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
48. Edge of Darkness (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
49. In & Out (✩✩✩) - Live TV
50. Secrets of Eden (✩✩½) - Live TV
51. Shooter (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
52. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
March
53. 10 Items or Less (✩✩✩½) - DVD
54. The Old Man and the Sea (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
55. The Reader (✩✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
56. The Stunt Man (✩✩) - Recorded TV
57. Nine (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
58. Untraceable (✩✩½) - DVD
59. The Quiet (✩✩✩½) - DVD
60. My Mother's Secret (✩✩½) - Live TV
61. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (✩✩✩½) - DVD
62. Sex and Death 101 (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
63. The Human Contract (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
64. The Craigslist Killer (✩✩✩) - Live TV
65. Life As We Know It (✩✩✩½) - DVD
66. She's the Man (✩✩✩) - Live TV
67. Witchslayer Gretl (✩½) - Live TV
68. The Adjustment Bureau (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
69. Young Adult (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
70. My Silent Partner (✩✩) - Live TV
71. Middle Men (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
72. The Rebound (✩✩) - On Demand
73. The Descendants (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
74. Melancholia (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
75. Walking the Halls (✩✩✩) - Live TV
76. Hoodwinked! (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
77. 21 Jump Street (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
78. Clerks II (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
79. Henry's Crime (✩✩✩½) - DVD
80. Hannah Montana: The Movie (✩✩✩½) - DVD
81. Chasing Amy (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
82. The Hunger Games (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre
83. Like Crazy (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
84. Newlyweds (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
85. Dear John (✩✩✩) - Live TV
86. Carriers (✩✩½) - Live TV
87. The Karate Kid (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
88. Vertical Limit (✩✩✩) - DVD
89. Killers (✩✩½) - DVD
90. Cyberbully (✩✩½) - On Demand
91. The Change-Up (✩✩✩) - On Demand
92. 50/50 (✩✩✩✩½) - On Demand
93. The Seven Year Itch (✩✩✩) - Live TV
94. Confined (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
95. Love Happens (✩✩✩) - Live TV
April
96. La Jetée (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
97. Some Like It Hot (✩✩✩) - Live TV
98. Starman (✩✩✩) - DVD
99. Adam (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD
100. The Other Woman (✩✩½) - DVD
101. The Good Night (✩✩✩) - DVD
102. The Spy Next Door (✩✩) - Live TV
103. Paranormal Activity (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
104. Breakaway (✩✩½) - Live TV
105. Moneyball (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
106. The Iron Lady (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
107. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
108. American Reunion (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
109. Bedazzled (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
110. Picture This (✩✩½) - Live TV
111. Hall Pass (✩✩✩) - DVD
112. Field of Dreams (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
113. Thirst (✩✩½) - Live TV
114. Saint John of Las Vegas (✩✩✩) - DVD
115. Shame (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
116. The Men Who Stare at Goats (✩✩½) - DVD
117. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
118. The Company Men (✩✩✩½) - DVD
119. This Movie is Broken (✩✩) - DVD
120. Finding a Family (✩✩✩) - Live TV
121. Cop Out (✩✩✩) - Live TV
122. The Fantastic Four (✩✩✩) - Internet
123. The Illustrated Man (✩✩✩) - Recorded TV
124. Winter's Bone (✩✩½) - DVD
125. Never Cry Werewolf (✩✩½) - Live TV
126. The Astronaut Farmer (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
May
127. The Road (✩✩✩½) - DVD
128. Unstoppable (✩✩✩½) - DVD
129. The Avengers (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
130. The Runaways (✩✩✩) - Live TV
131. Anonymous (✩✩✩) - On Demand
132. The Hangover (✩✩✩) - Live TV
133. The Hangover Part II (✩✩✩) - On Demand
134. Duplicity (✩✩½) - Live TV
135. Leap Year (✩✩✩) - Live TV
136. Puncture (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
137. Amelia (✩✩½) - DVD
138. Lymelife (✩✩½) - DVD
139. Raising Helen (✩✩½) - Live TV
140. Waiting... (✩✩) - DVD
141. Still Waiting... (✩✩½) - DVD
142. Lemonade Mouth (✩✩✩) - Live TV
143. Justice League: Doom (✩✩✩) - On Demand
144. One for the Money (✩✩) - On Demand
145. One Day (✩✩✩½) - DVD
146. Red Riding Hood (✩✩✩) - DVD
147. Hollywoodland (✩✩✩½) - DVD
148. Whip It (✩✩✩) - Live TV
149. The Young Victoria (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
150. Trapped (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
151. DOA: Dead or Alive (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
152. Chernobyl Diaries (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
153. Harry and the Hendersons (✩✩½) - Live TV
154. The Last Song (✩✩✩) - Live TV
155. Women in Trouble (✩✩✩½) - DVD
156. Elektra Luxx (✩✩✩) - DVD
157. The China Syndrome (✩✩✩½) - Recorded TV
158. Men in Black 3 (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
159. The Way Back (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
160. It's Complicated (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
161. The Note (✩✩) - Internet
June
162. The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love (✩✩) - DVD
163. The Vow (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
164. Helen (✩✩✩) - Live TV
165. Snow White and the Huntsman (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre
166. Living with the Enemy (✩✩✩) - Live TV
167. Insidious (✩✩✩) - DVD
168. How Do You Know (✩✩✩) - DVD
169. She Drives Me Crazy (✩✩½) - Live TV
170. Flirting With Disaster (✩✩✩) - Live TV
171. Earthquake (✩✩✩) - Live TV
172. 17 Again (✩✩✩½) - DVD
173. Prometheus (✩✩✩✩) - Theatre
174. How to Make Love to a Woman (✩✩✩✩) - Internet
175. Good Dick (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
176. Gojira (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
177. Rodan (✩✩½) - Live TV
178. Mothra (✩✩✩) - Live TV
179. Adoration (✩½) - Live TV
180. Love, Wedding, Marriage (✩✩✩) - Live TV
181. The Ghost Writer (✩✩✩) - Live TV
182. 3000 Miles to Graceland (✩✩✩½) - DVD
183. Spartacus (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
184. Last Night (✩✩✩) - DVD
185. Shutter Island (✩✩✩) - DVD
186. Hereafter (✩✩✩) - DVD
187. Waitress (✩✩✩) - Live TV
188. Bridesmaids (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
189. The Back-Up Plan (✩✩✩) - Live TV
190. Triage (✩✩✩) - DVD
191. Easy A (✩✩✩) - DVD
192. The Switch (✩✩✩) - DVD
193. Horrible Bosses (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
194. Hot Tub Time Machine (✩✩½) - Live TV
195. Eat Pray Love (✩✩✩½) - DVD
July
196. Columbus Circle (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
197. The Next Three Days (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD
198. The Amazing Spider-Man (✩✩✩) - Theatre
199. Date Night (✩✩✩) - DVD
200. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
201. It Came from Beneath the Sea (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
202. Fugitive at 17 (✩✩½) - Live TV
203. The Adventures of Robin Hood (✩✩✩) - Live TV
204. The Three Musketeers (✩✩½) - Live TV
205. Ninja Assassin (✩✩✩) - Live TV
206. The Rival (✩✩½) - Live TV
207. Brokeback Mountain (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
208. Due Date (✩✩✩) - DVD
209. Something Borrowed (✩✩✩) - DVD
210. Something New (✩✩✩) - DVD
211. The Dark Knight Rises (✩✩✩✩½) - Theatre
212. Faster (✩✩✩) - DVD
213. This Means War (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
214. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
215. Heavenly Creatures (✩✩✩½) - DVD
216. Knight and Day (✩✩✩) - DVD
217. Gettin' It (✩✩½) - DVD
August
218. The Hoax (✩✩✩✩) - DVD
219. The Invention of Lying (✩✩✩✩½) - DVD
220. Total Recall (✩✩✩) - Theatre
221. Hanna (✩✩½) - DVD
222. Tower Heist (✩✩✩) - DVD
223. Friends with Kids (✩✩✩) - On Demand
224. Gone (✩✩✩) - On Demand
225. Wanderlust (✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
226. Brick (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
227. The Bourne Legacy (✩✩✩) -Theatre
228. Defendor (✩✩✩) - Live TV
229. The Lookout (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
230. I Could Never Be Your Woman (✩✩✩) - On Demand
231. Fast Food Nation (✩✩✩) - On Demand
232. 88 Minutes (✩✩✩) - On Demand
233. The Terrorist Next Door (✩✩✩) - Live TV
234. The Expendables 2 (✩✩✩) - Theatre
235. The Losers (✩✩✩½) - DVD
236. Bangkok Dangerous (✩✩✩½) - DVD
237. The Pleasure Drivers (✩✩½) - DVD
238. The Butterfly Effect 2 (✩✩✩) - DVD
239. D.E.B.S. (✩✩✩) - DVD
240. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (✩✩✩) - Live TV
241. Prozac Nation (✩✩✩) - DVD
September
242. Thunderbirds Are Go (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
243. Fail-Safe (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
244. Robin Hood (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
245. The Other Guys (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
246. The Pregnancy Project (✩✩½) - Live TV
247. The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (✩✩✩) - DVD
248. The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. (✩✩✩½) - DVD
249. Unknown (✩✩✩½) - DVD
250. Thunderbird 6 (✩✩✩) - Live TV
251. Resident Evil: Afterlife (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
252. Extraordinary Measures (✩✩✩) - Live TV
253. The Five-Year Engagement (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
254. Deception (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
255. Fail Safe (✩✩✩½) - DVD
256. Answers to Nothing (✩✩✩½) - On Demand
257. Capitalism: A Love Story (✩✩✩✩½) - Live TV
258. The Notorious Bettie Page (✩✩✩½) - Live TV
259. Resident Evil: Retribution (✩✩½) - Theatre
260. Grown Ups (✩✩✩) - Live TV
261. Extract (✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
262. Niagara (✩✩✩) - Live TV
263. New York, I Love You (✩✩✩✩✩) - Live TV
264. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (✩✩✩) - DVD
265. Katy Perry: Part of Me (✩✩✩) - On Demand
266. Take This Waltz (✩✩✩✩✩) - On Demand
267. Management (✩✩✩) - DVD
268. Too Big to Fail (✩½) - Live TV
269. Dredd (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
270. talhotblond: (✩✩½) - Live TV
271. The Cabin in the Woods (✩✩✩✩½) - On Demand
272. The A-Team (✩✩✩) - DVD
273. Easy Virtue (✩✩✩) - DVD
274. The Bounty Hunter (✩✩½) - DVD
275. Say Anything... (✩✩✩) - Live TV
276. Looper (✩✩✩½) - Theatre
277. Salt (✩✩✩) - Live TV
278. Whiteout (✩½) - DVD - Kate Beckinsale has to solve a murder at an outpost in Antarctica. I thought this would be a great thriller, but it was pretty boring.
279. The Game (✩✩✩) - DVD - Michael Douglas plays a wealthy investment banker who gets a voucher as a gift from his brother. The voucher, when redeemed, puts him into a deadly game where his life is placed in jeopardy and his finaces are up for grabs. At the beginning of the movie, he talks with other wealthy people who played the game and talked fondly about how it changed their lives, so it made me wonder where this would go and in the end, I was pleasantly surprised. Still, I'm not giving this a high score because events in the movie don't follow any kind of rhyme or reason.
280. Law Abiding Citizen (✩✩✩) - DVD - A man is attacked in his own home and his wife and daughter are killed. The perpetrators get light sentences, so our man takes it upon himself to exact justice by going after the criminals as well as the legal team that didn't do enough. Stars Gerard Butler and Jaime Foxx. The movie seems pretty clever at first because our guy cleverly takes down the perps while using loopholes in the law to get away with his obvious crimes. Unfortunately, things start to fall apart and the intended message about flaws in the legal system gets lost. Still, it's a pretty engaging thriller.
281. Taken 2 (✩✩✩) - Theatre - It looks like Maggie Grace and Famke Janseen have more to do this time around. Some of the action was a bit over the top for the sake of excitement and a few things were contrived to keep the plot going, but it was an enjoyable action movie none the less. I read that there are no plans for a third installment, but it did look like they set things up for one.
282. The Fourth Kind (✩✩✩) - Live TV - Milla Jovovich plays a psychologist in Alaska who's patients are reporting strange visitations while in their sleep. This isn't a "found footage movie", it's a re-enactment of recordings of a real event. Real as in fictitious. It plays like it's part movie/part documentary and seemed to have only a tenuous connection to alien abductions. It wasn't scary, but it was quite watchable.
283. All About Steve (✩✩✩) - Live TV - Sandra Bullock plays an eccentric woman who falls for a cameraman named Steve and follows him around as he does his job as part of a news crew. Also stars Bradley Cooper. This was a terrible movie, but it got considerabley better in the third act once the movie changed direction and became all about something else. Also, the woman from Speed who tried to jump off the bus and got blown up plays her mother in this one.
Theatre: 18
DVD/Blu-Ray: 104
Live TV: 112
Recorded TV: 5
On Demand: 40
Internet: 4
Cowboys & Aliens- DVD Rise of the Planet of the Apes - DVD Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - free screenin' Limitless - Netflix Instant The Next Three Days - Netflix Instant Man on a Ledge - free screenin' Red State - Netflix Instant Mars Needs Moms - Netflix Instant S.W.A.T.: Firefight - Netflix Instant Red Tails - free screenin' Resident Evil: Degeneration - Netflix Instant The Last Exorcism - Netflix Instant Frozen - Netflix Instant The Perfect Host - Netflix Instant Tucker & Dale vs Evil - Netflix Instant Brooklyn's Finest - Netflix Instant Stone - Netflix Instant The Woman in Black - free screenin' Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - free screenin' Haywire - free admission The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - free admission The Artist - free admission Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - free admission Ted & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - tech screenin' Hugo - free admission Safe House - free screenin' The Captains - Netflix Instant Troll Hunter - Netflix Instant The Evil Dead (1981) - Netflix Instant Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D - tech screenin' Underworld Awakening 3D - free admission We Need to Talk About Kevin - free admission The Innkeepers - free admission Big Miracle - free admission Chronicle - free admission Underworld: Unrated Extended Cut - DVD The Grey - free admission Contraband - free admission Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D - free admission One for the Money - free admission The Ouija Experiment - free admission Ghost Rider - Extended Cut - DVD The Secret World of Arrietty - free admission Bullhead - free admission Underworld Evolution - DVD Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D- free admission Castle in the Sky - free admission
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Hilarious - Netflix Instant Gamer - Netflix Instant Rising Sun - Netflix Instant Death Race 2000 - Netflix Instant Beverly Hills Cop III - Netflix Instant Inferno: The Making of The Expendables - Netflix Instant Street Kings - DVD Kiki's Delivery Service - free admission Dark Country - DVD Wrath of the Titans 3D - free admission Jiro Dreams of Sushi - free admission The Raid: Redemption - free admission The Incredible Hulk Returns - DVD Titanic 3D - free admission The Hunger Games - free admission Mirror, Mirror - free admission American Reunion - free admission Justice League: Doom - DVD W. - DVD Night of the Running Man - Netflix Instant The Trial of the Incredible Hulk - DVD The Hunter - free admission An Education - DVD Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two - DVD The Prophecy - DVD Them Idiots Whirled Tour - DVD The Prophecy II - DVD Cabin in the Woods - free admission Juan of the Dead - free admission Lockout - free admission Get the Gringo - free screenin' Only Yesterday - free admission Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D - free screenin' Street Kings 2: Motor City - Unrated - DVD The Cat Returns - free admission The Prophecy 3: The Ascent - DVD Marley - free admission The Lucky One - free admission Cool Hand Luke - free admission The Grudge 2: Unrated Director's Cut - DVD Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - DVD The Raven - free admission Colombiana - Unrated - DVD Princess Mononoke - free admission The Five-Year Engagement - free admission Last Days Here - free admission The Three Stooges - free admission The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter - DVD The Avengers 3D/2D - free admission Damsels in Distress - free admission Sound of My Voice - free admission Yellow Submarine - free admission The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - free screenin' The Skulls - DVD Dark Shadows - free admission The Skulls II - DVD Sleepless Night - free admission Conan the Barbarian (1982) - DVD Battleship - free admission The Skulls III - DVD The Dictator - free admission What to Expect When You're Expecting - free admission Men in Black 3 3D - free screenin' Chernobyl Diaries - free screenin' Batman: Year One/Catwoman - DVD The Batma vs Dracula - DVD Seven Pounds - DVD He's Just Not That Into You - DVD Final Destination - DVD The Black Six (1973) - free admission Final Destination 2 - DVD Snow White and the Huntsman - free admission Final Destination 3 - DVD Piranha 3DD - free admission The Final Destination - DVD Final Destination 5 - DVD Conan the Destroyer - Netflix Instant Jesse Stone: Stone Cold - Netflix Instant Ralphie May: Austin-tatious - Netflix Instant Ralphie May: Too Big to Ignore - Netflix Instant Shark Night 3D - Netflix Instant Jesse Stone: Night Passage - Netflix Instant Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell - Netflix Instant Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise - Netflix Instant Jesse Stone: Sea Change - Netflix Instant Moonrise Kingdom - free admission God Bless America - free admission Prometheus 3D/2D - free admission Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - free admission Rock of Ages - free admission That's My Boy - free admission Cursed - DVD Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter 3D/2D - free screenin' Escape 2000 (1982) - free admission Brave 3D/2D - free screenin' Dracula 2000 - DVD The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) - free admission Superman vs The Elite - DVD Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - matinee Mr. Popper's Penquins - HBO The Hangover Part II - HBO Ted - free admission The Amazing Spider-Man 3D - free admission Powder Blue - DVD Crazy, Stupid Love - HBO To Rome With Love - free admission The Do Deca Pentathlon - free admission ZAAT! - free admission Manhattan - free admission Extraterrestre - free admission Magic Mike - free admission Coraline 3D - free admission Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D - free admission Beasts of the Southern Wild - free admission The Dark Knight Rises - matinee Savages - matinee Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - DVD Class of 1984 (1982) - free admission Dracula II: Ascension - DVD Dracula III: Legacy - DVD The Watch - free admission The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - DVD Klovn: The Movie - free admission The Watcher - DVD Silver Bullet - free admission Logan's Run (1976) - DVD 17 Again - DVD Total Recall (2012) - free admission The Queen of Versailles - free admission Adventureland - DVD The Campaign - free admission Hope Springs - free admission The Bourne Legacy - free admission Killer Joe - free admission The Odd Life of Timothy Green - free screenin' The Box - DVD Short Circuit - free admission Ruby Sparks - free admission American Reunion: Unrated - DVD Moneyball - DVD The Expendables 2 - free admission Into the Blue 2: The Reef - Unrated - DVD Take This Waltz - free admission Resident Evil: Afterlife - DVD ParaNorman 3D - free admission Pets (1974) - free admission Hit & Run - matinee Premium Rush - free admission Sparkle - free admission Celeste and Jesse Forever - free admission Cosmopolis - free admission Reno 911!: Miami - Unrated Cut - DVD Bedevilled - free admission The Revenant - free admission The Ambassador - free admission Lawless - free admission Punisher: War Zone - DVD Trouble with the Curve - free screenin' Deja Vu - DVD Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D - free admission Compliance - free admission Red Hook Summer - free admission The Words - free admission Bright Lights, Big City - DVD For a Good Time, Call - free admission The Cold Light of Day - matinee Ms. 45 - free admission Resident Evil: Retribution 3D - free admission Finding Nemo 3D - free admission The Bad News Bears (1976) - DVD The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D - free admission Arbitrage - free admission Hostage - DVD The Bodyguard - DVD Hausu - free admission The Guy from Harlem - free admission Dredd 3D - free admission The Master - free admission The Possession - matinee Knuckleball! - free admission Samsara - free admission Liberal Arts - free screenin' Voodoo Black Exorcist - free admission Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part One - DVD
Hatari! - DVD Bachelorette - free admission Hotel Transylvania 3D - free admission Looper - free admission Won't Back Down - free admission Taken 2 - free admission Pitch Perfect - free admission Frankenweenie 3D - free admission The Perks of Being a Wallflower - free admission Miami Connection (1987) - employee screenin'
Went to Drafthouse S Lamar last night for the employee-only screenin' of the next movie from Drafthouse Films, Miami Connection. It got an introduction from Tim League himself, explainin' that after a copy of it was bought for $50 off of eBay, he spent six months tryin' to acquire the distribution rights. It took that long 'cause Y.K. Kim, the movie's star, writer, producer & director, thought Tim was a crankcaller.
The movie itself is B-grade stupid, and I kept imaginin' how much fun the guys with Master Pancake would have with it, or maybe even a special Hecklevision showin'....
When the DVD/blu ray comes out, it will include deleted scenes from the work print Y.K. Kim still had, too.
Started to watch Salt, the Angelina Jolie spy movie, last night, but fell asleep durin' it. May try again tonight.
And there's a plan to get together with my friend Maeby to see House at the End of the Street tomorrow night.
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
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+
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-
Both films involve a take on a dystopian world, both were good in their own hyper-stylized take on various themes.
I've never read Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. I picked it up, tried but the sheer scope and page count would end up deterring me eventually. I also felt the narrative in the book drug on tediously the times I've tried.
I'm going to place my write up in Spoiler Code even though it's over a year(plus it'll save some space in the thread) old but Part II opens this weekend which is part of what prompted me to view this.
I found the first 1/3 of the film to move a bit slower than I'd like. The establishing of characters, their motives, the world they inhabit and attitudes of all involved. The world has fallen into a fight for limited resources. Oil being that resource. The Middle East has cut off ties to the Western World and corporations have begun drilling more. You'd think the book was written in the last few years, a brief news snipet shows how wells have busted and are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico only further raising the price of a gallon of gas---which is $35 a gallon!! Or thirty more than it is in California right now. Rail travel has once again become the main travel and shipping method. However, rail lines haven't been kept up and the recent years of extra use have taken their toll. One main line out of Colorado has collapsed and needs to be repaired. Various government and competitors to that line conspire together to keep them down.
The government is seen as being an oppressive, over regulating, over reaching one that has done more to hinder than help the population. They sell their regulations as helping to balance things out for all. Taggart Transcontiental is that railway that needs to be rebuilt but is falling apart fiscally itself. If it can't get up and running soon it's biggest client Rearden Steel will pull out. Rearden also happens to own it's own Ore plant, Manufacturing, Textiles and others so it has the capital it needs. Rearden has a new type of steel that is proven better than ever. However, the government fears Rearden expanding it's monopoly and sets about sabotaging reports of its reliability, ergo no one is eager to use it.
Rearden and Taggart, while normally a customer/client, now need each other. They(Dagby Taggart) need affordable steel to rebuild the track, he needs a positive PR his steel is reliable. They strike a deal and build the railroad. Meanwhile the Government passes new laws saying no one company can own more than one operation. Hoping to slow Rearden down by making him choose between keeping the Ore mines or the steel smelting plant. This part was basically foreshadowing back in the day of how the government broke up AT&T actually.
The undercurrent of the film is a third party man named John Gault. Fearing the government is going to squelch and oppress the talented and entrepreneurial he is ferreting away the best and brightest to a place he calls "Atlantis".
The film ends with a succesful run of the Transcontinental Railway reopened but Rearden and Taggart lost one of their own to John Gault. Who they haven't yet determined is friend or foe but they know they are losing brilliant men to him.
Oh, also there is essentially a plot involving a new power source that creates energy from atmospheric discharge(think 'engine that runs on water'). It was an urban myth of industry allegedly created by 20th Century Motors Corp. Rearden and Taggart are trying to uncover the fact/fiction on that as well.
Despite the movie starting a little slow I was engaged and curious about where the film was going after the first act set up was over.
Now, for part II which opens Oct 12 they had to recast every role. I looked that up on IMDB. Too bad since I was liking this cast.
I have a more thorough review in the Dredd thread here. Suffice to say I'm of the opinion this film was not given a fair shake by the moviegoing public. If you like gritty, action, shoot 'em up films you should see this film. The surprising bit of heart the film has is a bonus.
Wonderful film about James Whales, perfectly played by Ian McKellen. Although it's about the time before his death, there is some nice humour in it.
Ironically, the only films they show him working on are the Frankenstein films, everything else only gets a mention, which is something Whale himself complains about.
1. Holy Rollers (B-)
2. The Kids Are All Right (B)
3. History of the World, Part 1 (C-)
4. Blazing Saddles (A+)
5. Scarface [1932] (B-)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (A)
7. Rampart (B+)
8. We Need To Talk About Kevin (A+)
9. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (B+)
10. They Live (B-)
11. Darling Companion (D)
12. A Dangerous Method (B-)
13. Haywire (C+)
14. Mission: Impossible (B+)
15. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (B+)
16. Twixt (C+)
17. Burn After Reading (B+)
18. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (B-)
19. Drive (A)
20. Crazy Stupid Love (A)
21. The Omega Man (D)
22. The Adjustment Bureau (B+)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. Lady and the Tramp (B)
25. Hugo (A-)
26. The Secret World of Arrietty (B)
27. Twelve Angry Men (A)
28. Act of Valor (F)
29. Walker (A)
30. Lonely Are The Brave (A-)
31. Executive Action (C)
32. Three Colors: Blue (A)
33. Bright Leaves (A)
34. Photographic Memory (A)
35. The People Vs. George Lucas (C-)
36. Avatar (B-)
37. The Life of Reilly (A-)
38. Limitless (B-)
39. Star Wars (A)
40. The Empire Strikes Back (A)
41. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (A)
42. Machete (C+)
43. Unmasking The Idol (D-)
44. Alien (A+)
45. The Raid: Redemption (B-)
46. Attenberg (B)
47. 21 Jump Street (C+)
48. Piranha 3D (C+)
49. The Hunger Games (C-)
50. This Filthy World (B)
51. Bad Fever (C-)
52. The Conspirator (C)
53. We The Party (C-)
54. My Darling Clementine (C+)
55. Freakonomics (C+)
56. Sound of My Voice (A-)
57. Tales from the Script (C-)
58. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (B+)
59. Me and Orson Welles (B)
60. Everything Must Go (B+)
61. The Avengers (C)
62. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (B)
63. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (B)
64. Starship Troopers (A)
65. Alien (A+)
66. Aliens (A)
67. Into the Abyss (B)
68. The Expendables (D)
69. Dumbo (B+)
70. Bullet in the Head (B-)
71. City Streets (D)
72. Hard Boiled (A)
73. Burn After Reading (B+)
74. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
75. A Few Good Men (B)
76. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (A)
77. RoboCop (A-)
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A-)
79. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (C-)
80. Your Sister's Sister (A)
81. The Gunfighter (B+)
82. The Sting (A-)
83. The Thin Blue Line (A)
84. Rango (A)
85. The Killing (B+)
86. The Order of the Black Eagle (F)
87. Jaws (A)
88. Marley & Me (B-)
89. Dominick Dunne: After The Party (B)
90. Prometheus (B-)
91. Collaborator (B-)
92. The Island of Lost Souls (B)
93. The Taking of Pelham 123 [1974] (B+)
94. High Anxiety (C+)
95. Carlos (A-)
96. Stargate (B)
97. Ben-Hur (B+)
98. Bringing up Baby (A)
99. The Trip (B+)
100. Observe and Report (D-)
101. The Conversation (A)
102. TRON (C)
103. Cat Ballou (B)
104. Monsters, Inc. (B)
105. Torn Curtain (C)
106. Marnie (A-)
107. Three Colors: White (A-)
108. Logan's Run (C+)
109. Horrible Bosses (B+)
110. Hotel for Dogs (C)
111. Election (B)
112. Independence Day (A)
113. Batman Begins (A-)
114. The Dark Knight Rises (B+)
115. Winnie the Pooh (A)
116. Sleeper (B)
117. Total Recall [1990] (B+)
118. Topaz (C-)
119. Stealth (F)
120. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (A)
121. Frenzy (B)
122. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (C+)
123. Primary (B-)
124. Kick-Ass (C-)
125. The Puffy Chair (C+)
126. Hopscotch (B)
127. Visioneers (C-)
128. Vertigo (A)
129. Che (B)
130. Spin (B-)
131. My Dinner with Andre (B)
132. District 9 (B+)
133. The Rescuers (B-)
134. Anatomy of a Murder (A)
135. The Tigger Movie (B-)
136. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (A)
137. Three Colors: Red (A)
138. The Tourist (D)
139. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (C+)
140. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (B)
141. Spies Like Us (D)
142. Mr. Mom (F)
143. Inside Man (B+)
144. 12 Monkeys (B+)
145. North by Northwest (A)
146. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (B+)
147. Bottle Rocket (B)
148. From Dusk Till Dawn (C-)
149. Some Like It Hot (A)
150. The Joneses (C+)
151. The House I Live In (B+)
152. Troll 2 (F)
153. The Right Stuff (A-)
154. Shadows and Fog (B-)
155. A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (C+)
156. The Front Page (B-)
Shadows and Fog: This is a beautifully photographed, but inconsistent tribute to German expression (with, I think, a healthy dose of Bergman thrown in) from writer/director Woody Allen. Allen's script grapples with a lot of ideas and characters, but is never able to fully develop any of them. The movie has a great cast, of course, but it's inessential as far as Allen's films go.
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures: Frequently, it's hard to sympathize with the filmmaker/protagonist, who is such a sad sack that it's hard to believe he's not putting on (a little bit of) an act in this very personal documentary. Nevertheless, it's an engaging film that is as often disturbing as it is funny. Apparently, it's being made into a fiction film, although I can't imagine that working without watering down much of the content (there's a BDSM dungeon that is one of the film's most shocking yet memorable scenes -- and there's no way that's getting into a mainstream feature without being diluted in a major way).
The Front Page: A competent, if sometimes stage-bound adaptation of the play of the same name (also made, with more changes, as the earlier film His Girl Friday). Jack Lemmon is slightly too old for his part, but it's a small price to pay for having him paired up with Walter Matthau. Well shot, I suppose, although you'd never guess that this was from the DP who photographed Blade Runner and Altered States.
Amusingly enough, since you just watched Allen's Murnau tribute film:
1. My Week With Marilyn (B-)
2. Fantasia 2000 (B+)
3. Blade Runner (B)
4. The Hidden Fortress (A-)
5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (B+)
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (A+)
7. The Descendants (A-)
8. Monsieur Lazhar (A)
9. The Prestige (A+)
10. Blood Simple (A-)
11. The Big Lebowski (B+)
12. West Side Story (A-)
13. The Hours (A-)
14. Lady and the Tramp (B)
15. An Officer and a Gentleman (B)
16. All Quiet On The Western Front (A)
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (B-)
18. Spellbound (B+)
19. Seven Samurai (A+)
20. X-Men: First Class (A)
21. Do The Right Thing (N/A)
22. Martha Marcy May Marlene (B)
23. The Artist (A-)
24. LA Confidential (A)
25. Young Adult (B)
26. Children of Men (B+)
27. Gaslight (B+)
28. North By Northwest (A+)
29. American Beauty (A-)
30. Revolutionary Road (A-)
31. Being There (B)
32. Coriolanus (C+)
33. To Catch A Thief (B+)
34. A Separation (A+)
35. The Hunger Games (B+)
36. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (A)
37. Saturday Night Fever (A-)
38. The Tree of Life (A-)
39. Hero (B-)
40. Boogie Nights (A+)
41. Magnolia (A-)
42. The Lives of Others (A)
43. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (A-)
44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (A)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (A)
46. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A)
47. Downfall (A+)
48. In Darkness (B+)
49. Cabaret (C+)
50. The Avengers (A)
51. The Incredible Hulk (B)
52. The Last of the Mohicans (A-)
53. Alien (A)
54. Mystic River (A)
55. Amadeus (A+)
56. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (B)
57. Snow White and the Huntsman (C)
58. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (B+)
59. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (B)
60. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (A-)
61. Field of Dreams (A+)
62. The Conversation (B)
63. American Gangster (A)
64. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (B+)
65. Damsels in Distress (B+)
66. 3 Days of the Condor (B+)
67. Star Trek (A)
68. Thelma & Louise (A)
69. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (B)
70. Brave (B+)
71. The Grapes of Wrath (A-)
72. Where Do We Go Now? (B)
73. The Night of the Hunter (C)
74. Dangerous Liasons (A)
75. Amelie (A)
76. Glory (A)
77. Savages (B)
78. The Amazing Spider-Man (B+)
79. There Will Be Blood (A)
80. Memento (A)
81. Nine (C)
82. Insomnia (B)
83. Batman Begins (A+)
84. Margaret (A-)
85. The Dark Knight (A+)
86. The Dark Knight Rises (A)
87. Inception (A)
88. Moonrise Kingdom (A+)
89. The Aviator (A-)
90. Safety Not Guaranteed (B+)
91. The Quiet American (B+)
92. The Piano (B)
93. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (B)
94. Intouchables (A-)
95. The Seven Year Itch (B+)
96. Born on the Fourth of July (B)
97. 12 Angry Men (A+)
98. Wild Strawberries (A)
99. Broadcast News (A-)
100. Jaws (A)
101. Ikiru (A-)
102. Beasts of the Southern Wild (B+)
103. Lawless (B-)
104. The Rules of the Game (B+)
105. Tokyo Story (B+)
106. Burn After Reading (B+)
107. Brokeback Mountain (A+)
108. Looper (A+)
109. The Master (B+)
110. Nosferatu (N/A)
Kingston's indie cinema is running a "birth of horror" feature on the three Wednesdays leading up to Halloween, beginning with Nosferatu (accompanied, in an attempt to mimic the 20s theatregoing experience, by the Felix the Cat cartoon Felix in Hollywood and Buster Keaton's The Haunted House; the former leans pretty heavily on pop culture references that don't mean anything today, the latter is a lot of fun).
I didn't give this a rating, because it's hard to evaluate. From a 2012 perspective, it's certainly not scary for an instant, and the acting (particularly from the guy playing the ersatz Jonathan Harker) is laughably over the top. But it's an undeniably enormous part of film history, and quite an achievement for its day. Definitely worth seeing. I do like how Murnau really makes "Ellen" the hero of the story.
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Took two tries, but I got through the theatrical cut of Salt this mornin'. Not too bad a movie...I mainly wanted to watch it for some Tomb Raider vs the Operative & Sabretooth action, and in that regard, it wasn't too disappointin'.
Started to watch the extended director's cut, and did notice a couple of differences in the first twenty-ish minutes, but switched it off before finishin'.
Got together with my friend Maeby to see The House at the End of the Street. Had to pay $20 for our tickets, too. Payin' for movies sucks! She bought the snacks though, so it evened out. But I am so gonna pick the next movie, 'cause this one sucked, despite ample Jennifer Lawrence cleavage.
