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V and V: The Final Battle.

It's twins! Good shows but they obviously left the smarter aliens, the ones that designed the ships, behind.

30 Seconds Over Tokyo.

Now I'm a firm believer that it's okay for men to cry at movies....

... as long as it's either Brian's Song or The Green Mile, but I've been having my moments lately. When Crowe gives his breakfast to his littler daughter in Cinderella Man. The "Let it Be" boy in "Across the Universe." The little chinese man that brings the gifts to the american soldiers in "30 Seconds" ... I bent but did not break.

Cinderella Man gives me (2) moments:
(1) the aforemented Crowe giving his breakfast to his daughter
(2) Braddock to Jay Gould: "Thanks. For all of it". Something else else about that bit of dialogue gets me all misty.

I love that movie.

I watched The Testament of Dr. Mabuse tonight.

Wow! What an incredible movie! It reminds me a lot of golden age comics in its basic feel and plot!

Agree on Cinderilla Man. Great stuff.

Re: Fritz Lang. As I said I have a Metropolis poster and my daughter asked what is that(after it being in the house for 2 years). I explained it was a silent film b&w. She was shocked. She couldn't understand how films could be "silent". She also saw rotary phone the other day for the first time...same shock.

I've seen a few good ones this last weekend. No Reservations. A romantic comedy but it's about the NYC restuarant scene with Catherine Zeta-Jones (me heart her). It was pretty good.

Saw Big Night again. Stanley Tucci, Shaloub, and a bunch of other great actors. I'm going to a film fest with a Tucci film and he will be in the audience. So I'm watching some of his films.

Superman Returns. Eh. I've never been a huge Supes fan but I did enjoy the original movies back as a kid. The guy who played Superman was pretty good not great. Lois Lane was a horribly cast IMO. I think it tried a bit too hard to be like Donner's films. I enjoyed it but thought it was flawed on many levels. It can't compare to any Spider-Man film. I just don't see it appealing to kids.

Agree. I didn't see it right away, so when I did I was left a little dissapointed. Upon a rewatch, only more so. Whereas, I liked the Spider-Man and X-Men films and have only grown to enjoy them more upon each watch (excluding X-Men 3, which overall I found very weak).

Superman Returns was horrible. Especially compared to Batman Begins, which was pretty much the best Bat-movie ever.

Didn't like Batman Begins at all the first time I saw it, at the theatre. It could have been one of those days, where not even bare Halle Berry boobs would have made me smile. Since have seen it on DVD and enjoyed it. Nothing to rave about for me but I enjoyed it. I get the feeling I will enjoy this a bit more everytime I watch it.

I could probably say the same for Superman Returns. The first time, the attempts at making Superman canon fell flat with me, leaving for five years, ditching the kid; we don't need a Superman, oops, guess we do.... The bullet to the eye thing I just found stupid.

Routh looks great and I enjoyed his Superman but Marston's character was great and he wouldn't have even been a character if not for the first two things occurring. So...

Speaking of Batman Bale.

I saw the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. A Brit and an Aussie doing the old west. Both actors were great. I can't think of a Russel Crowe movie I've not liked. Bale's choice of movies are a little more hit-or-miss with me but I generally enjoy his acting.

I haven't seen 3:10 to Yuma yet but its on my "must see" list right now. I love both actors and I agree 100% with you about Crowe. Just about everything he does is nothing short of spectacular.

I loved Batman Begins when it came out and each time I rewatch it, I love it more. At this point, its probably my favorite super-hero movie I've ever seen, or at least tied only with: X-Men 2, Spider-Man 2 and the Rocketeer. Its the definitive Batman performance (live action) for me.

Just watched Fritz Lang's Man Hunt. Highly recommended to Hitchcock fans.

EDE, I really gotta watch the other Lang films! darn it!

3:10 to Yuma was very good. I actually thought it was going to be more...spectacular. But in a way the fact that it wasn't was a pleasent suprise.

Went to the Sarasota film fest this last weekend. Saw 5 films in three days. Actually all of them were pretty good. Usually I watch one clunker!

The first (and worst) was "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar". It wasn't bad at all but it was very slow. Note to all...do not watch a french existialism flick as a late flick after dinner and drinks. I'm not a philistine so I did take something good from it. But much of the film had characters whispering in a dark room or them just staring at the wall.

Next was a Norwegian film called Gone With The Woman. It was great! A romantic comedy ala the Heartbreak Kid. Very funny! I may buy it. I knew very little about Norwegians and it's nice to see they are not that different. (no offense to the Norwegians )

Then saw a movie in Mongolian! In subtitles ofcourse. It was called Mongol and it was about Genghis Khan. It was his rise to power as a child to a young man. The guy suffered a ton but never gave up was basically the gist of it. I love history so I enjoyed it but my buddy fell asleep.

Blind Date by Stanley Tucci. Based on a film Theo van Gogh (dutch film maker killed by muslim extremist last year). The most depressing film I've ever seen. Parts of it got tedious but overall it was great. Great ending. Tucci did not attend though he was suppossed to. I was upset cause he's one of my favorite actors. But I soon forgot about Tucci when I was in the same room as Charline Theron!

Battle in Seattle was the last film I saw. Written and directed by Stuart Townsend. The guy is not just a pretty boy actor. One of the best written and directed film I've seen. He filmed it in 29 days for 7 million. Great acting also by a host of actors. Controversial subject matter...the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999. Certainly raised my awareness of the issue surrounding the WTO. I'm not going to join a protest but I will spread the word.

The highlight was Townsend, Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, and Martin Henderson were there. They hung out for about 30 minutes after the film to answer questions. I never get star struck and I admit I did.

Anyone see anything new? I haven't but I did meet CHARLIZE THERON!!! Ok, I wasn't officially introduced but I was in the same room as her!

Does anyone know if Damages is ever coming back?

Damagers is coming back from what I read. They are doing production now but no time table when it will air. I am guessing fall. There are two more "seasons" of 13 episodes each.

Now is CANE coming back?!

Currently watching BLACULA!

Er... the movie, not the Legion Worlder!

You know what I loved? Cloverfield. What a great, great movie.

If you're watching to see the monster then you'll be dissapointed even though its earliest appearances were cool. By far the really scary thing is the little spidery things in the sewers.

But more than anything it was definitely one of the best sets of characters I've seen in a long while. Great interaction, moments of pure courage, friendship and love and I was blown away by all of them. The love story was actually really great and the kid with the video camera ended up being one of the best parts of the movie after he initially seems annoying.

Blacula, lol. I always thought it was funny.

Cobie, I get motion sick easily...will Cloverfield make me barf?

Hard to say, Jorge. Has any movie you've seen with a lot of handheld camera action ever made you sick in the past?

In any case I'd imagine that effect would be lessened on the small screen. Obviously, this effect was a reported complaint about it, so it still might be risky for you.

...or you could take some Dramamine beforehand!

Hm, it didn't bother me much Jorg so you might be okay. Probably because its on the small screen you would be. Out of the entire movie probably only about 4 minutes or so have parts where the camera "bobbling" is intense.

I actually thought the hand-held camera was extremely useful here in building suspense. Its the most successful I've ever seen this format done in. It had the precision of Hitchcock and Tarrantino in regards to montage, but at a pace a thousand times faster.

Last week I watched Face in the Crowd, with Andy Griffith as the anti-Andy Griffith. Seriously, it's kind of disturbing watching him in a role where he's such an evil bastard. A pretty powerful film, however.

Blacula was pretty cool. I'm watching the sequel tonight!

Currently watching The Deadly Mantis! Mega-kewl 50s sci fi!

Major Academy Nominees watched so far:
American Gangster
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Eastern Promises
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Still to See:
Away from Her
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Gone Baby Gone
I’m Not There
In the Valley of Elah
Into the Wild
Juno
La Vie en Rose
The Savages
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Looking Most Forward to:
La Vie en Rose and a the Hoffman flicks: The Savages and Charlie Wilson's War.

However:
Favorite films so far have been Kite Runner and Across the Universe.

Just watched the last three episodes of Battlestar Galactica season 3 last night. Dragging my sleepy butt to work now. The season didn't end as strongly as it started, but still the best show in recent memory, imho.

I watched Atonement last night. I have to say--I was a bit dissapointed. Very slow film with not too much actually happening. Neither Knightly nor MacAvoy get to flex their acting chops until the last half hour of the film either. Not sure what all the hullaboo was about. The premise is interesting but we've seen it before and seen it done better.

Also watched Casino Royale. I'm not the biggest Bond fan in the world, but I like the character and franchise. I thought this was very well done and liked it a lot. It definitely gave a sense of danger moreso than 'fun', which was refreshing for Bond. I especially liked Vesper, perhaps my new favorite Bond girl (as I said, I'm not a huge fan and have only watched 20% of the films). Is that supposed to be Money-Penny, or somewhat similar?

Before going online, I watched Lucio Fulci's Zombie, a great, ground-breaking 1979 B-movie.

Not only gorier and with scarier-looking zombies than earlier zombie films, it's also refreshing in its refusal to draw heroes-and-villains lines. In Fulci's (and writers/spouses Elisa Brigati and Dardano Sachetti's) misanthropic view, dead or undead/opressors or opressed alike, all humanity is equally revolting, and even seemingly decent people are forced into killing to survive.