tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127938802011-07-28T08:57:22.720-04:00A place where I'll discuss movies I don't write full reviews for.SCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12793880.post-11046961385931727752010-06-10T19:53:00.000-04:002010-06-10T19:53:40.568-04:00

I'm not usually one for religious-themed thrillers... or maybe I am, I've forgotten what I like and don't like.  Anyway, I thought I'd give Legion a shot because the DVD is selling well for my company.  And really, it's not all that bad.  The action sequences are actually pretty good, but there are a few moments that are so dull the movie comes to a screeching halt.  But you have a movie with a

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The other day I was with a group of people (all Indian) and they turned on the TV to a Bollywood movie.  Now, while I'm not always against Bollywood, in this case it was on Indian TV so there were no subtitles.  I would have spent the next 2-3 hours having no idea what anyone was saying, so I asked if  I could find something else.  I started flipping through the HBO channels when Mamma Mia!

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Sometimes I wonder if Terry Gilliam makes weird movies just for the sake of making weird movies.  I just finished watching The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and all in all, it's not a bad movie.  The story is a little out there, but when you break it down to the basics, it's serviceable.  What's weird however is how Gilliam goes about showing the story.  At one point we see this massive temple

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I recently got my Netflix streaming DVD for the Wii and decided to test it out by watching Firefly.  I hadn't watched the show when it was on but everyone kept telling me I should.  I had watched Serenity when the movie came out a few years ago and I liked it.  I immediately got hooked on Firefly and watched all 14 episodes over the course of 2 weekends.  Then I decided to go back and watch

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With the remake coming out in a few days I thought I'd go back and watch the original.  And to me, out of the big 3 horror films of my youth (Elm Street, Halloween and Friday th 13th) Elm Street is the most dated.  I think a lot of that has to do with the cheesy synth music that plays over everything.  I also realized that Freddy doesn't really show up much in the movie.  He's more in the

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I watched 2 completely different movies last night. Mary & Max is an animated film that's most definitely not for kids. Based on a true story, it tells the tale of Mary, an 8-year-old from Australia who becomes pen pals with Max, a 40-something from New York. Mary is funny looking with two parents who stopped giving a damn before Mary was born. Max is an overweight loner who likes having

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Am I the only person who was bored silly by House of Flying Daggers? Did I go in expecting too much? All I know is, I hate starting a movie, then stopping it without finishing it, but the only way I made it through this movie was to fast forward the last half hour. That's the great thing about subtitled movies; you can fast forward and not miss much. Beyond music I suppose, but I didn't

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I bought this portable DVD player a couple weeks ago, and finally got to use it on a train trip back from DC yesterday. So the first movie I watched (beyond a short film I made) was Blade: Trinity, the movie that will most likely be the last in the Blade films. Wesley Snipes once again stars as the titular hero, this time bringing Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel along for the ride. It seems

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I think Pauly was on Howard Stern a few weeks back and I heard him talking about this new mockumentary he put together called Pauly Shore is Dead. Otherwise I'm not sure how I decided I wanted to rent this. The story is basically that back in 1997, after the disasterous debut of his Fox sitcom, Pauly Shore decides his career is dead. So, after discussing it with the late Sam Kinison, Pauly

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So I finally got around to watching Oceans 12 this weekend. I've had it from Netflix since it was released, but with all the TV on, and everything else I've been up to lately, I never had a chance to watch. I'd heard bad things about it, and most of what people said was true. The story wasn't great, the guys all seemed to be there to cash a paycheck... But I still thought it was fun.

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So I saw Eternal Sunshine for the second time this weekend. I had warned my family that it might be a little too complicated to understand immediately. At least that's how I felt the first time I saw it. But as I watched it again, I wondered what issues I had the first time around. First of all, I think it's a tremendously well made, well written love story. And the idea is fantastic. Who

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Just testing out a new blogging system where I'll talk about movies I've seen but haven't reviewed for one reason or another. For instance this past weekend on DVD/VHS I watched Tron, Meet the Fockers, Finding Neverland and a Hindi film called Hungama.I'd never seen Tron before and a friend at work told me I *had* to see it, so I borrowed her 20th anniversary collectors edition and watched it.

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