Just watched Lords of Dogtown. AWESOME! Can't wait to re-watch it with the commentary with the original, real, guys.
The rash of remakes shows a real lack of balls and brains in Hollywood, why I left. They are terrified of taking a risk on a new script/writer/director... hell, now they are afraid to even take a risk on a new story from an established writer. It is a sickness and I can't wait for other countries to start to kick our ass in the theaters for doing it.
Remaking Harvey... that has got to be a sin. It is certainly an abomination.

Cars--*yawn*. I stopped watching after about 20 minutes or so. Maybe I need to lay off the computer-animated movies for a while.

House of D--great!! I wish Frank Langella had taught my religion class; his explanation of "Lot and his salty wife" was precious.

We started our inevitable trip to movie Hell when they remade Topper as a Made-for-TV movie starring? Kate Jackson and Andrew Stevens.

The Lost City- Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, and Bill Murray Cuba 1958-59. Garcia tries to keep his family together with Battista killing his enemies followed by Fidel and Che killing even more indescriminately. good flick visual and musical feast about personal freedom

Oldboy, as recommended by wolf, finally made its way to the top of my Netflix queue--and it absolutely did not dissappoint! An incredible movie. I was practically unable to blink for the entire last half-hour or so.

Not sure if I'm up for Oldboy just yet. Still recovering from Audition.

I've never actually seen Audition, but from what I've heard it's way more graphic than Oldboy. There were only two bits I can think of where I had to look away (and I'm a big pansy when it comes to up close, realistic violence.) Oldboy is really all about the mystery.

If you ever have to look away from a movie, for any reason, I advise you not to watch Audition - because you won't see most of it anyway.

The Breakup - The ads make it look like a comedy for some reason, but it's not. Doesn't really try to be. Even if you haven't just broken up with someone, it's depressing--but it's not bad.

Got an advance copy (no, not bootleg) of You, Me and Dupree. I can't really say it's worth putting in your queue, but it was not as dumb as I thought it would be. One of those movies that's like a slo-mo trainwreck you can't look away from. I didn't realize Michael Douglas was in it until he showed up; he was nice and evil.

Just watched O Brother Where Art Thou last night.


Loved it. Everything I would expect from the Coens.

The Wall Live at Earl's Court 1980

Hedwig and the Angry Inch!

Is that the first time you've seen it, Ibram? It's great, isn't it. I quote it all the time! I LOVE the Coen brothers. :)

I liked it too, but can't think of any quotes from it. What do you quote?

"he's bonafide"
"he's a suitor"
"we're in a tight spot"
"oh, my hair"
"I don't want no Fop, I"m a Dapper Dan man"
"Ain't this place a geographical oddity...two weeks from everywhere."
"Lots of respectable people been hit by trains"
"Mister, some of your foldin' money has come unstowed."

I manage to fit these and more into conversation from time to time.

The Wire season 3. The best show on TV.

The Constant Gardener. Either we had too much wine with dinner or were just too tired but it seemed hard to follow and a bit confusing.

The Transporter

The Fog of War.

Robert S. Macnamara is interviewed with such finesse that he begin to talk about himself in the third person (or maybe that's normal for him...) Excellent movie. Please note that it was released in May of 2001, before the world changed. I swear, some of the segments we pure Donald Rumsfeld. If you looked away from the screen and just listened to the dialog, you couldn't tell the difference in some places. Example: "Never answer the question. When asked, answer the question you wish was asked." Gawd. I got heebiejeebie chills.

Watched The Green Street Hooligans last night, what a cool friggin movie! Reminded me of Snatch mixed with Fight Club. Had a great soundtrack also.

The wine actually made it less so.

It was worse than the book.

Kagemusha

Yes, I know I'm supposed to be all excited about this movie because it's an artistic classic yadda, yadda, yadda. It was long, boring, and confusing. I did like some of the visual imagery, but that wasn't enough to sustain my attention for over three hours.

Just finished season two of House in two days.


Fuckin' fuck, this show is good.

The Devil Wears Pradha.
The Pirates of the Carribean. ( of which I didn't like so much, Or hated her for chaining him to the mast or leaving it a cliff hanger)
Pride and Prejudice which I absolutly loved because it was a smart love story.

I was really looking forward to part II of Pirates of the Caribbean, but was disappointed. I even fell asleep 2/3 of the way through. :(

The Devil Wears Prada was better than expected--loved Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, although he was not quite the deliciously evil queen that he could've been.

Yes Meryl was wonderful and Stanley. IRonically, You are the second person to comment on him in that way tonight! My curiosity is piqued!

I love Stanley Tucci. Have you seen Big Night? One of my favorite Tucci flicks, and Tony Shalhoub was great, too. They seem like they could really be brothers.

I watched "What the Bleep" last night. That was easily the dumbest movie I have seen in a while.

J.Z. Knight channels Ramtha who explains Quantum Physics.

NOT.

Pretty much.

Some cool dirt ...

What the Bleep is basically a recruiting film for the Ramtha cult.

And has nothing to do with Quantum Mechanics.

At least one of the speakers has been declared as sort of a heretic by the Ramtha organization, and a couple of the real scientists they interviewed were sold a bill of goods as far as how their interviews would be used, what type of film was being made, etc.

Dude at work is a cult exit counsellor and filled me in on all kinds of goodies.

Snakes on a Plane--B-movie extraordinaire...forget everything you think you know about snakes and planes, and enjoy it. Maybe have a few cocktails beforehand.

Scoop--your typical Woody Allen fare. The only thing I didn't like about it was being reminded of a rumor that Scarlett Johanssen and Mr. Allen were romantically involved...eww.

Luther - Joseph Fiennes oozes angst, but it's a pretty decent overview of the 95 theses, first vernacular Bible, and a lot of charges of heresey. Neat film.

Portrait of Hell - Japanese, 1969. Interesting interplay of light and shadow, both in the human psyche and in the director's vision of how the story should be told. Freaky.

Just rented Fight Club for the first time. The title had always put me off. I'm not into gratuitous violence at all. And I always thought it was supposed to be some sort of brutal and creepy movie.

But I kept hearing good reviews for it, so my wife and I finally watched it over the weekend.

Well, if you've seen it, you already know that it's a great movie. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and rent it this weekend.

We saw it on Saturday night, and I'm still thinking about it on Monday afternoon.

I loved Fight Club. Thought it was well-constructed and followed the book fairly well. The book is much creepier. After that, read everything else Chuck Pahalnuik (or however you spell it) has ever written. Brilliant. Awesomely brilliant.

My latest was a Double Feature of Hercules and the Amazon Women and Hercules and the Lost Kingdom.

I got hoodwinked. From the Netflix description it was supposed to be the Xena spinoff episodes, instead Lucy Lawless had a small part in the first one, and Renee O'Connor was the female lead in the second.

I've been watching some Simpsons DVDs my brother got me, and some he got himself. Did you know that Milhouse's debut was a Butterfinger commercial?

Whoever said Bubba Ho-tep was a good movie is a damned dirty liar.

That thing should have been 20 minutes long, tops. SO INCREDIBLY BORING.

+1 Think I'll watch Fight Club tonight. I wish I had Arlington Road on DVD, too.

I bought that Black Dahlia movie and didn't much care for it, really. It didn't live up to my expectations in any sense. Recently I've also watched The Four Feathers, Gattaca for the hundredth time, and did my monthly viewing of Swingers. The Matrix, Shakespeare in Love, Garden State and Goodwill Hunting are coming up for their monthly viewings.

I also bought the first season of Sleeper Cell and it totally blew me away. That's about all I can say about that.

We showed Raiders of the Lost Ark to the kids last night. It still works.

Veronica Mars Season 1 - Good show!

Gothic Bellydance. Hawaiian Wave Dreams. Harry Potters overandoverandover

recently:

Drunken Master
Baraka
Return of the Pink Panther
Bicentennial Man
Open Season

not a dvd, but Die Hard on HBO. classic! so many good moments--the music, yippi-kay-ay mother fucker (can I say that here?); "HANS!", Alan Rickman falling away. The music!

I like that quote about Alexander seeing the breadth of his world he wept for he saw there were no more worlds to conquer.

Kind of sad most of the quotes I remember are from movies, really.

Just watched the classic Seven Samurai over the weekend. Black and white. Subtitles. Film was so decayed it was all flickery all the time. But it was pretty good, if a little long. My wife thought it was boring.

just got done watching 'lady in the water'.. interesting flick. I actually liked it.. although I am not all that much of a fanof m.night.shamalama(it's a twist!)-ding-dong, it was cool seeing a fairy tale done without the schmaltz that usually accompany them on film.

Thought I was the only one who called him that...

I've been watching Season 1 of Arrested Development. I never caught the show while it was on-air. It's too bad it was canceled because it's some of the funniest writing I've heard, and the entire cast delivers it brilliantly. I can't wait to get Season 2.

That's why it was canceled.

I loved that show.

I've been watching some Stargate that I peerflixed. The episode where Baal tortures O'Neil is pretty good.

A friend of mine and I traded DVD sets: she lent me The Sandbaggers in exchange for the first 2-and-a-half seasons of (the new) Battlestar Galactica. So far I'm thinking she got the better deal, but I'm going to keep watching and see if I get a little more into it.

Although his storytelling relies rather too heavily on the single surprise twist thing, his visual style is incredibly good...best since Hitchcock, IMHO.

Perth! You're back!

Oh yeah, and can I borrow that from you?

Yeah, okay. :)

Watched Goldfinger last night.
Again.
Wanted to see if Pussy Galore's implied straightness irritated me quite so much as it used to.
It did.
She's GAY, okay?
Sexy aeroplane gun running mama with her own harem of hotties.
And she throws it all away after watching Bond sleep in a plane.
Sheesh.

Regardless of the 'all a lesbian needs is a good man' overtones, Goldfinger is still the best Bond movie, by far.

Mine are Moulin Rouge, The Mexican, Shrek 2.

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I'm in utter agreement with you, Ibram.
And I have deep sentimental fondness for Dr No.

Watched that new horror movie the other night called "The Descent"...I`m a tough critic...but this was a gem.

'Akeesha and the Bee' nice family movie...

I have just watched Tom Hanks in Ladykillers for the second time. Tom does a great job, but the obscene language used by (mostly) the black actor who is part of Tom's team, gets in the way of being able to truly enjoy the movie. Does anyone else think that the language is over the top? It is a shame, because if you can ignore the bad language, it is quite a funny film.