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I watched Finding Neverland and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace over the weekend.

Finding Neverland was fantastic. I really enjoyed it, and it definitely is worth seeing, if you haven't already.

I watch SW: Episode I, because I want to watch both that and Episode II, before I go see Episode III tomorow.

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Ok, so got the James Dean collection today. Watched East of Eden for the first time and was soooo excited because it is my favorite book ever. If you haven't read it, stop everything and read it now! The movie was excellent also, but because the book is so epic and sprawling, they couldn't tell the whole story. So the movie basically focuses on the last third of the book. And in doing it succeeds but I knew everything they were missing, and because it is all so good, the movie wasn't as great as it could have been. We will have to wait and see what Ron Howard does in '06 with his adaptation. Until then, the movie is def worth seeing, but don't replace the book with it.

Then, to continue the James Dean theme, we watched "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" and... get this... it was on VHS! You can't find this movie ANYWHERE, certainly not on DVD... so we tracked one down and ordered it and it came today at the same time as the James Dean collection (coincidence!). So we found our VCR, dusted it off.. and watched. Such a great movie with AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING performances!

Anyway.. that's my rant.
 
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Films arent editted here. If a film has much violence or sex or whatever, it must be aired after 9 in the evening. Thats it.

I saw Elektra last night btw and boy does that movie suck!! Its really really boring. The only good thing in it is Jennifer Garner in a sexy outfit.
 
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I watched Mystic River and The Terminal the other day.

Mystic River was excellent. Great acting by Sean Penn.

I was pleasantly suprised by The Terminal. Thought it was pretty good.

Catherine Zeta Jones. :drool
 
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Gonna watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind tonight. Might go see Batman Begins tomorow.
 
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We really liked Batman too.

Went and saw an Australian zombie movie today called Undead. If you like zombie flicks, check it out. It was very good- different and clever, funny too. Inspired by PJ's Dead Alive and Evil Dead.
 
Well, last night I watched "Alien," my #9 favorite movie of all time.... then was so pumped I wanted to watch "Aliens" too. Couldn't remember how it started, and its a perfect Action Sci-Fi flick. With one of the best lines in movie history delivered from one of its biggest bad ass heroines!

Then tonight I watched a totally different breed of movie. "Gods and Monsters". There are SO few bioptics that translate well to screen. They are all so formulaic and dull... you would think given the fact that in order to warrant a bioptic, you would have had to lead an interesting life that would be easy to create an interesting story around. Sad fact is most fail. There are a few however that break free of that mold and become great movies as well as a good bioptic. "God's and Monsters" is, thankfully, a movie that belongs on the short list of good bioptics. In a year where the Oscars got most EVERYTHING wrong, Ian McKellan's performance is ASTOUNDING! A role that is very close to himself, McKellan is a revalation (not that we doubt his acting ability). Lynn Redgrave was also robbed of an Oscar by Dame Judi Dench's 10 mins of screentime in "Shakespeare In Love." Even Brendan Fraiser gives a memorable performance and is scarily perfectly cast as a handsome stud/metapohrical monster. I really really enjoyed this film, and it certainly deserves more attention than it recieved, especially for the actors.
 
Caught up on a few films lately:

Mr and Mrs Smith - For all the hype and rave reviews, I just didn't find this film all that funny/entertaining...BradJolie didn't really hit it off that well either. And I couldn't care less about either characters wellbeing (actually wanted them to blow each other up - and stay dead :lol ) . The dialogue just got increasingly dire, and the acting so wooden the pair ought to have come with their own ventriloquists! It is one of those frustrating movies that show all the 'best bits' in the trailer.

Rating: 2 out of 5

Herbie Fully Loaded - Completely Nauseating. Not even worth critiquing! :puke

Rating: 1 out of 5 (being generous here)

Flight of Phoenix - The premise was unrealistic, and in reality it wouldn't have been such a happy ending. But, I thought the film was served well by great direction and a great cast. Dennis Quaid / Miranda Otto are both excellent. It is predictable, but does offer good entertainment value.

Rating: 3 out of 5
 
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Batman Begins and Land of the Dead two awesome movies which have given me hope in a year of mediocracy in film.
 
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Just watched PJ's film Bad Taste. Very funny but bery very naucious inducing.
Also saw WOTW tonight. Great movie. Ending was weak but still excellent nontheless. Tom and dakota really shine in this film. Brilliant acting and I usually dont like Tom in any movie. :dance
 
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I was really impressed with War of the Worlds. It was brilliant not showing anything of the aliens in the marketing. It made it so much more impactful when you finally see it on screen.

This is Spielberg at his best - his best film since Schindler's.
 
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Also saw WOTW tonight.. Wow.. just dont' get this.

This was NOT a good movie. It had moments that were, even moments of greatness... great directin and great acting... but so what? It just didn't mean anything. It was just there. There was no point... there were SOOOO many plot holes it was rediculous. Most of which I could have forgiven.. but then the ending.. wow... it just brought all the negativity to the fore front. Just didn't like it. I much prefered Minority Report and would say that that was Spielbergs best since Schindler's List. This movie was just not good.... and i'm bummed because I really wanted it to be.
 
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Wow, worse than Minority Report? I'd have to say that film's in the bottom 5 of Spielberg movies for me. It tried to be smart where as Spielberg's strengths are emotion - which didn't serve A.I. all that well, but did work with WotW.
 
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Saw it last night. Excellent. Speilberg is back in his groove -- not that he was really too much out of it.
FX were great, but NOT overdone to the point of losing the plot, characters, etc. He kept it to the human level...everything was seen from Cruise's point of view. We saw nothing that he didn't see. The situation unfolds itself from his eyes. Liked it that he (nor other characters) did any superhuman, "save the world" heroics. He was just average Joe Citizen trying to cope with and survive in horrendous circumstances.
First hour and a half was mesmerizing....the first "entrance" of the tripod had me on the edge of my seat.
The editing was wonderful -- tight, tight, tight....not a wasted frame -- at least that I noticed. The ending was a bit abrupt perhaps, but only because the story of how Cruise and family managed to survive the attack; what happens to them afterwards is a topic for another movie perhaps.

I especially like his very subltle homage snippits/touches that remind you of previous films: Close Encounters, Alien, Jaws, Independence Day, Titanic. Just enough to give you that feel, but not enough to belabor the point and detract from the film.
 
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Well I just saw a whole bunch of movies. Some good, others not so much....

AVP
Oh boy....this movie was total shyte!! They made absolutely sure that my favourite aliens in the movieworld were reduced to crap, It was perhaps entertaining to watch but in a way you look at a carwreck with dead bodies next to it. Its ugly, but you cant help watching it anyway just so you can see the horror of it.

Batman Begins
Wouldnt have thought that after my favourite Burton Batman movies, there would be another Batman movie I would really like. I've never seen a comicbook hero been put to screen in such a human way. I really enjoyed watching this one

War of the Worlds
Wow, this movie blew me away! I really enjoyed this one!! OK, so its not 5 star material, but I loved the Aliens and there was no "we are Americans and we will defeat everything" attitude. Glad to see humans bite the dust ^^

The Girld Next Door
LOL, this movie was alot more fun then I expected it to be! But that was mainly thanx to the guy who watches pornvideo's all the time. That guy was hilarious!!

Robots
Well....this sure wasnt Pixar quality. It was nice to watch, but nothing much more then I like watching saturdaymorning cartoons on tv. Dreamworks just isnt a match for Pixar. They are just riding along on its wave of popularity.
 
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I'm so jealous of all of you that saw WOTW and liked it.... I really wanted to like it but there are just far too much stuff that prevents me from liking it...

For Instance... (Spoilers)

If the aliens planted the Tripods beneath the ground millions of years ago when there was nobody here... WHY did they do it? What, are they pyschic? Why go through all that trouble when this planet was nothing more than a garden and moultan mass....?

Also, if the Tripods had been benath the ground for millions of years, and there were clearly millions of THEM, how the hell are we supposed to believe that NOBODY, not ONCE in history did we uncover them? I get that they were deep, but we've dug plenty deep in many places... i just don't buy that we wouldn't have found at least ONE of them...

Then, why wait? They had this technology, they had there plans in order, they had the technology... why did they wait so long?

IF this had been real, Tom Cruise would have been dead the first time the Tripod rose from the ground. It zapped everything and everyone but him. Then when he's driving, the buildings are all blowing up around him.... and still, he manages to escape?

A lot of these things are similar to plot holes found in other movies, and had the movie been good enough to stand above them, I could have over looked them. But the ending prevented that. I mean, that was sooo bad. The germ thing was handled so quickly it was rediculous. IT was like they ran out of time and just had to put an ending together.

And the family reuninon. THe whole movie, Ray is keeping it togher because he is focusing on Boston. He has a destination, a goal. And that is what keeps him going. He can tell his kids that in Boston, everyhting will be ok. That Boston is this magical refuge from all this craziness. And I liked that. I liked that that was his thought process... it gave him hope and it allowed the kids to think that that was the case. BUT then they get there and it IS EXACTLY THAT? WTF? That was soooo stupid! They should have got there to see that Boston was exactly what it would have been... a pile of rubble. THey should have run through Miranda Otto's parents apartment building (what was left of it) to find the tripods in the back, and as they get there, they start bleeding Miranda dry. None of this happily ever after @#%$.....

There were some good things about it ... but the bad far outweighed the good for me :dunno
 
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yeah i was pretty disappointed in this movie as well. i thought it was so retarded that his son managed to survive in the end. come on he ran headfirst into the fight with the soldiers and they all got toasted but that little terd makes it out???
 
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The ending is straight from the book and it comes that quickly there as well. At first I'd hoped they would change it, but after seeing the film I don't think it matters since the aliens aren't the focus.
 
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I'll probably go see WotW later this week.

I really wanna like it.

The scene on the Ferry was filmed about 5 minutes from my house in Athens, NY.

I live in Catskill, NY.

I actually went up there the day of the extras casting last November for the scene. Couple people I know made it...

But, it was like 10 degrees outside, and you had to work 3 or 4 nights in a row, and it wouldn't have worked out with my job....

There was quite a buzz up here thou that week...
 
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