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Door to Door. Just outstanding--William Masey's performance. The sound track fit it like a glove.

Paul Blart Mall Cop. Hmmm...are we looking for another replacement for John Candy/Chris Farley? Is that what this was about? I thought it was pretty obvious.

Hot Tub Time Machine. Didn't work for me. Sorry-ass cliches, and really a dumb-ass premise.

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The Book of Eli. Denzel Washington as a postapocalyptic ultimate badass. I'm sure they meant well. The photography was kind of interesting.
Ugh. I agree. I paid to see it in the theatre. Bad move. Then end was decent, but you had to get through the whole rest of the movie to get to it. :rolleyes:

I watched The Wolfman last night. And I fell asleep. That's not a good sign. :(
 

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Inception.
As brilliant as I expected it to be, so this movie joins Nolan's Memento on the list of my absolute favorites. Now I only wished I could write a screenplay like that.
 

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Fantasia, the original and 'uncut' 1940 version. Still holds up, though I could have done without the live action orchestra scene at the beginning.
 

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A re-watch of The Incredibles. Even though I remembered how emotional I got the first time I watched it, it still got me. :) I love how the mother is as much a balanced main character as Mr. Incredible.
 

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A re-watch of The Incredibles. Even though I remembered how emotional I got the first time I watched it, it still got me. :) I love how the mother is as much a balanced main character as Mr. Incredible.


I enjoyed that too, hadn't seen it before.
I liked the digs at the insurance company and legal processes.
 

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Boom! (1968)

Very few movies really do qualify as "so bad it's good." Most of them are just bad. This one is awful, awful, over-the-top bad.
 

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Watched Ice Harvest tonight starring John Cusiak.

Very dark and very funny.

There is a alternate ending on the DVD extras that actually seemed to fit the film more than the ending that the real movie had.
 

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A re-watch of The Incredibles. Even though I remembered how emotional I got the first time I watched it, it still got me. :) I love how the mother is as much a balanced main character as Mr. Incredible.

The Incredibles is great. I actually wrote a paper on it in college, analyzing how both it and Mr. & Mrs. Smith utilize gender norms.
 

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Hou Hsiao Hsien's ravishing Millennium Mambo. Like much of his work this draws criticisms for being static, but in truth he is only extremely patient in this study of languor at the end of the millennium. To quote Walter Chaw: "the film is a precise versification ruled by the unbearable beauty of youth at its terminus and decisions for a lifetime made at the trembling moment of crisis."
 

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Network with Faye Dunaway, William Holden, and Peter Finch. It's the second time I've seen it, and it's still a brilliant, biting satire.
 

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Not exactly a movie, but last night I watched The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged). It's been a long time since I've laughed that hard at my TV. A few times I was worried I might poop my pants. That's how funny it was.
 

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In the Realm of the Senses - Criterion just released a remastered blu-ray - simply incredible performances, perhaps among the most naturalistic and engaging perfs from a Japanese cast I have ever seen. Gorgeous transfer (especially compared to the DVD which was 4:3) and the period production design is exquisite. Not a very common time period for films (early 1900s Japan).

However, the blu-ray either included a wider aspect ratio revealing much more graphic content, or some scenes were included that had been deleted from the DVD version because it certainly walked the fine line between racy foreign art film and porno. I'm no prude, but I found it shocking, even some 30 or 40 years after the original release. I would certainly recommend it, but it is absolutely not family friendly.
 

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Went with my son to watch The Last Airbender. The effects were nice, but the dialog was the dorkiest I've heard in a long time.
 

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The Runaways - I liked it, Dakota Fanning was incredible. And kudos to Kristen Stewart, who I usually despise.

ETA: It was a little wierd and hinky watching Dakota Fanning do girl-on-girl action. I mean she's Dakota Fanning for Christ's sake.
 
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Jean-Claude Brisseau's Secret Things. Not the porn film it's reputed to be, and I didn't find the sex scenes transgressive, but the characters are pretty repellent.
 

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Paul Blart Mall Cop. Hmmm...are we looking for another replacement for John Candy/Chris Farley? Is that what this was about? I thought it was pretty obvious.



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I was hovering over Mall Cop, actually, as the man next to me on the plane last year was laughing out loud at it.

Just saw 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. Hmm. To be honest, I've seen mysteries of that calibre on TV, sorry. Also, (WEE SPOILER HERE):

It's like they took this difficult female character in the beginning, with all her goth make-up etc, and gradually diluted her down to something more palatable, and I think the bit where she climbs on top of Male Protag, has sex and then buggers off back to her own room was pure cliched male fantasy. Disappointing.
 

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Not exactly a movie, but last night I watched The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged). It's been a long time since I've laughed that hard at my TV. A few times I was worried I might poop my pants. That's how funny it was.

Haven't seen that in years. It's brilliant.


On vacation, they showed Jackie Chan's The Spy Next Door. I love Chan, so I actually made it through 20 minutes of this stinker. "Stinker" isn't a strong enough word. Not one scene, plot point, line of dialogue or character was believable.
 

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Blake Edwards, I accept your apology for casting Mickey Rooney, the dimmest part of an otherwise wonderful movie.
 

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Dinner For Schmucks.

Much more enjoyable than I expected, and Steve Carrel as usual is awesome. He manages to make his character's hobby adorable, as opposed to horrific.

And Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords is in it, so bonus!

Not the best comedy in years, but a very pleasant distraction.
 

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The Lookout, from a couple years ago and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Bridges and Isla Fisher. Very good.