SD, you can count on the fact that whereever you look, they're making laws just outside your field of view. Bank on it. 's why we need to watch each other's backs 'round here...

But back to the movies!

I borrowed from the library and watched last night Whale Rider. I give it four stars. It really was a lovely little film. SonofV enjoyed it too and asked several questions throughout, almost to the point of distraction, but he mostly focused on the thread of the movie. Watch it if you can, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Road to Singapore. Can you believe Bob Hope gets third billing beneath Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour? Hmmph. Anyway, it's a sweet little romp, and leads neatly into the other three Road to... movies in the boxed set Santa got for MrsV this Christmas. A fun little movie.

Jonah -- A Veggie Tales Movie. Another delightful movie. The animation is quite good, the characters are funny and engaging. I find the story and the moral appealing (though others certainly may feel otherwise). SonofV really likes it too. It does justice to the Veggie Tales shorts. This feat is all the more impressive given that the shorts are very good and to carry it off in the much longer movie format requires at a minimum, a lot more jokes. An carry it off, they do. Recommended.

Audition - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/combined
An uplifting love story.

The Passion of the Christ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/combined
After I watched it, I felt like a Christian - I laughed, I cried, I hit a Jew...

I got my wife March of the Penguins for Christmas. She popped it into the player on Christmas afternoon. Curiously, I felt the need for a blanket. So I wrapped myself up and promptly fell asleep. Now, whenever she needs a break from the kids, she pops it into the DVD player, and they fall asleep.

That movie is awesome!

Just finished watching Pink Floyd "The Wall".

It syncs up great with "The Wizard of Oz" soundtrack.

If you get the joke, reply to Pink at the funny farm, Chelsea...

"Little Britain"... Hmmm... Not sure about this one.

Just started watching "Prime Suspect" with Helen Mirren. So far, I've seen the first two episodes and it's outstanding...

Just watched "The Hillz" With Paris Hilton in it.

- I have never in my life sat through a more pathetic and stupid movie as this. I had to get up and wipe my dvd player when it was over because of how much shit my tv dribbled out of it while playing the movie. Who the hell funds this bullshit?

:lol: If you're such a Paris fan you should watch The Simple Life. At first I thought this was going to be some kind of packaged Hollywood thing where "in the end, the girls learn something." It soon became obvious that nobody was learning anything.

(Yeah, I watched it. :redface: )

You were just hoping for a wardrobe malfunction. Admit it.

No, not really. (Though I'm surprised they didn't do it at some point for the PR--it could have been fuzzed over for the broadcast and left in unedited for an "unrated" DVD.)

Collateral

I'm sorry it took me this long to get around to watching it.

Good movie, but there are a couple of shots where Tom Cruise's beard just looks too fake.

Airplane! (The Stop Calling Me Shirley Edition)

Must be watched many times, not just because the movie is so darn funny ... the extras are that good ... pop-up trivia and director's commentary are both very funny. The 'Long Haul' version with added commentary and deleted scenes inserted into appropriate spaces is a little choppy to watch, but interesting and informative.

The main menu for the DVD is set up like a safety card ... watch it all the way through, it's also quite amusing.

The most uplifting extreme B&D/Snuff film ever made, IMHO.

Just watched the Ring 2 - much better than I expected
Watching The Wire with my dad - Probably the best cop show ever made.
Watching Six Feet Under with my mom - I love HBO
Watching Red Dwarf Season 7 all on my lonesome - Extended, remastered episodes are interesting, since I've seen the originals so much.

Tonight I intend to start on Dark Angel, Season One. I don't know if I'm going to bother getting Season Two. I thought that the story lagged too much.

Well since we got a new TV for a belated Xmas present ,

Check this out , its a late Xmas present !!!!

42" of Big screen HD plasma Goodness !!!!!

Here is Old -v- New
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Here is the new Tv ,
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and a side view
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8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

We have been reviewing some clasics ,

Last nite it was Blazing Saddels , you ain't seen ( or heard ) Nuthin untill you have seen ( and Heard ) the Fart sceen on a wide screen ( and suround sound ) !!!!!

Tonite it was The Blues Brothers Extended version .
DAMN it ROCKED !!!!!!!

Oh and Full Metal Jacket , is a WHOLE new experence as well !!!!

As I type this I'm watching the final chapter of The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.

Its 2:52 am. Eight minutes till 3:00 am.

:ghost:

Zippy, I totally need one of those.

I am continuing to watch Season One of Dark Angel.

I do not like chicks (that way) and tend not to comment on them, but even I think Jessica Alba is hot.

We watched Kingdom of Heaven last night. I was really moved by it. Especially the bit at the end where Saladin picks up the cross and places it back on the table. It was beautifully shot as well.

Did you watch the pop up historical trivia track yet? Pretty interesting stuff.

watching The Weatherman....
not what I expected but interesting none the less.....

I watched Pretty Persuasion last night. Pretty messed up.. kind of like Heathers or Election, but not as nice.

That was really good, thanks for the tip. I was digging through a couple of books here trying to draw the fact v fiction line.

The Barbarian Invasions. There was a lot to this movie. I'm still trying to figure out who the Barbarians are. This was actually recommended to me by my Mother-in-Law (reflexive lefty) despite its unflattering portrayal of socialized medicine.

I found the Rambo-Trilogy on DVD yesterday evening... Lucky lucky :)

I Heart Huckabees...great for triggering a little discussion on the nature of reality, as well as a laugh fest.

Going through an Indiana Jones phase. It's action dvd time. I go through phases you know.

The extras on "The Aristocrats". :eek: :worried: :thepain3: :eek:

I've been watching The Boondock Saints fairly obsessively lately. Before that was Firefly/Serenity.

:thumb:

Is that any good?? I'm not sure if I want to go to the trouble of getting it. Though I'm tempted by the fact that one of the people is Sarah Silverman, whom I :love: .

Sarah Silverman is one of the highlights. It's probably worth it just for her. But Gilbert Gottfried, Whoopee Goldberg, and Bob Saget are also pretty good.

Arrested Development, season 2

School of Rock, for the bazillionth time.

Uh, now...Just Friends. :o

I used to think Ryan Reynolds was damn smarmy cute, but now I'm just disgusted.

a dear friend, whose cinema tastes i respect has suggested Les Invasions Barbares, (The Barbarian Invasion) . . . im happy as a piglet in her warm, mushy trough on this saturday morning another rainy day in which i will practice the fine art of the idle moment. *believe me, it's not as eas it it sounds ;) )

A History of Violence

I was interested in this when I saw the ads, but at that time did not realize that this was a David Cronenberg film.

Ooh, yeah, baby.

Great performances from all the actors, but Ed Harris is just chilling.

Just watched The Triplets of Belleville. Extraordinary animation. Amazing caricatures of french women, mobsters, and waiters. Truly a do-not-miss...

I watched "Paint Your Wagon" last night. Hearing Clint Eastwood sing was the low point of the movie. Lee Marvin pretty much stole the show.

I have Triplets of Belleville but haven't watchined it yet.

I just watched Cinema Paradiso, one of the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Steve Dallas Cinema.

West wing season one. with the occasional break for doctor who.

Which bits of Doctor Who? Which Doctor, or which episodes?

Right now its Tom Baker (4th) and I just bought Horror at Fang Rock on dvd. I am slowly buying every dvd I can. The newest season Is available from Canada and will be US released in july I think it was.

Finally got around to watching Serenity. I had seen a few episodes of Firefly, and enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Serenity. My wife said she liked it, but I could tell she was indifferent.


Triplets of Bellville is a fun movie. Paint Your Wagon is a neat movie to watch. Very different. Which is good.

Capote

Slow moving, but fascinating if you've read In Cold Blood.

Crash...deserved the hype and awards it got.

It DID? Man, I thought every self-respecting critic panned this movie. Is the premise really that we are so alienated from one another that we're willing to crash our cars into each other? My insurance is just not that good!

:driving:

That's not really the premise. The premise is that everyone sucks.

Crash is a horrible movie. If you haven't seen it, don't bother.

Huff, season 1. Outstanding!

^ ^ +1 . yay for oliver platt!

in my dvd player from sunday night, March of the Penguins.

Band of Brothers. One of the best films/series of WWII and war in general. And btw Damian Lewis (Lt Winters) played a lead in an ther top film called Warriors.

I don't think Crash was that negative. If anything, I think it encouraged folks to step back and chill a minute and better appreciate each other.

Crash seems to be like the pessimist/optimist glass...

Crash got good reviews though. It definitely wasn't panned.

I think part of the reason I'm so strongly against Crash is that it had an all star cast, and got some good reviews. It was the letdown after a buildup of expectations.

The good thing about Crash is what Sycamore mentions. We should all just get along, because we are all the same inside. Kinda obvious.

The bad thing about Crash is that while every character has some good and some bad in them, the bad outweighs the good something like 10 to 1. Of the dozen or so characters in the movie, Brendon Frazier's character was the only one that I felt was as decent as most average human beings are. The rest of the characters were horrible people. And the movie seemed to be preaching that they were supposed to represent us all. I know I am better than all the characters in that movie. Everyone I know is also better than all the characters in that movie. The characters sucked, and the film was trying to say that we all suck. We don't. Therefore the film is bad.

The locksmith was good. And the daughter of the shop owner.

Saw it a long time ago. I forgot about the locksmith. He was good. Don't remember the sister. Is she the one who bought the blanks?

Yeah.

I think we are very much like the characters in the movie. I think we all possess the meanness that the characters presented. Some of us just show it more often than others. And in some instances, we happen to show our bad sides at the same time.

I believe that people are generally good, but have some inner meanness that has been passed down through evolution. But some people are just born sociopaths. And most of the time, we learn our hate.

Crash reminds me of Higher Learning (a 1995 John Singleton film), except Higher Learning was on a college campus. I really enjoyed the movie when it came out. Looking back at it now, I still like the movie, though some of the incidents in the movie border on ridiculous.