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I watched the last 45 minutes of "Animal House" with my wife and the 6-year old and all laughed our @$$e$ off! "NO PRISONERS!"

Don't bother with 'Benjamin Button'
It had a good moment or two but it's not worth the time.
sigh

My husband's pick, 'Grand Torino' is WONDERFUL.
Boy, is HE crowing.
sigh

I did watch the entire NBA Playoffs. I'm a basketball fanatic and a big Orlando Magic fan (i live an hour away). Never had so much excitement and heartbreak.

ANYWAYS, just watched the Red Violin last night. Great movie! Very well done! I may buy the DVD.

enjoying weekend #2 of a Degrassi TNG marathon on the "N" network,..was a huge fan of the original Degrassi back in the day and i got hooked on the new show.
all month long the "N" has been running back to back episodes especially on the weekends from season 1 thru mid-season 8 gearing up for new episodes starting in July.
it's my new gulity pleasure.

I recently bought the complete series DVD set of Drak Pack, a cartoon I absolutely loved when I was eleven.

The premise was that young descendants of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the werewolf become super-heroes.

The dialogue is some of the best in the Saturday morning genre of the time, full of alliteration, puns and cleverly-turned phrases.

My problem with the series is that the three protagonists (Drak, Frankie and Howler) sometimes appear as humans and sometimes as the more recognizable forms. In human form they have no powers, yet they frequently go into dangerous situations. Even in human form they refer to each other as Drak, Frankie and Howler, so there seems no point in them having "secret identities".

I really enjoy watching it again, but the plot hole is just huge.

My husband, Chuck, is watching the latest Steven Seagal movie now.
I HATE the later Segal movies (however you spell his name.)


It's bad, because I won't watch it with him.
It's good, because he'll have to stop crowing that his movie picks are better than mine, which he's done since he chose Gran Torino and I picked Benjamin Button.

Watched two movies with the wife.

The Happening by M. Night with Marky Mark. (i still can't remember his real name). I liked it. It wasn't great but it kept us entertained. I think I read he wanted to do a B movie justice and he did exacly that. It felt like the Birds mixed with a zombie flick.

Donnie Wahlberg (just remembered) did pretty good. I like when movie stars don't act like THE MAN and all of that. I've said on this thread before that actors impress me when they act like a surburban dad, or a school teacher instead of a hitman, etc.


Fools Gold. Never really enjoyed Matthew McNaughey (though ofcourse my wife does). He's a bit too animated for me. BUT I kind of liked this film. I know he played Dirk Pitt in Sahara and now I kind of want to watch it. You know a friend of mine always debate who should be the next Indiana Jones. Matthew made an argument. With the right direction (Spielberg!) who knows? Ofcourse Nathan Fillon is our top choice.

It's a fun action/adventure story in the Carribean. The star of the movie is the YACHT!!! Holy moley! Kate Hudson does nothing for me. I mean she does more than Dunst or Maggie Gyllenhall (a whole of a lot more actually) but not much. I think she reminds me a friend's mom.

I recommend the Happening. If you are in the mood for summer escapism then I also recommend Fools Gold. If anything it will inspire you to work out more. (just finished. d'oh!)

TV wise, the new series 'Mental' is interesting.

The headguy is sort of a nice House (with the accent that they should have allowed Hugh Lorry to keep.)

Best Mark Wahlberg film, IMO, is The Corrupter, with Chow Yun-Fat. Awesome, but not a happy funtime movie.

For Wahlberg fun, The Big Hit dishes it up.

The Italian Job is also pretty neat, although the death-spiral void of emotional prescence that is Ed Norton drags it down. (Even with Norton doing his best job of sucking the life out of every scene he appears in, it's a better film than the Ocean's Eleventy-Billion franchise, IMO. Note that I'm biased by finding Charlize Theron about a googleplex better to watch than Julia 'watch me smile so grotesquely that you can see my face peel back and show off my skull' Roberts.)

If you ever get roped into seeing Wahlberg in Shooter, just rupture your ear-drums with a pencil or fake a heart attack or something. It's really that bad. Preachy, moralizing, condescending, screamingly offensively political, etc, etc.

It's like pain. Pain that hurts.

Very, very fun movie. Matt McWhoosywhatsis usually seems to be a little too 'intentionally charming' (and coming close to veering past charming into 'schmuck') for my taste, like he's hamming it up for the ladies (see also, Grant, Hugh), but Dirk Pitt *is* an over-the-top goofy James Bond pastiche, so it totally works in that movie.

I forgot The Corruptor! Love that movie!

I've seen parts of Italian Job and really liked what I saw.

I will check out Big Hit. And thanks for the heads up on Shooter.

Slum Dog: after watching the Academy Awards, which thankfully gave away nothing, I think I was expecting High School Musical: the India Years.

Totally blown away by this movie.

Nixon/Frost (I love our library): Was most impressed at how even handed it was and any movie that can keep the tension up when covering fairly recent events is okay by me. Maybe not so surprising, the other movie that comes to mind that did this was Apollo 13, same director.

Just saw Memento yesterday, and actually had an easier time following the plot than I expected to. Maybe I was just having a particularly lucid day. The DVD extras didn't really hold my interest, though. Guess I'm not enough of a cinema geek.

I resisted the urge to re-watch the scenes one-by-one in reverse-reverse order: just to see if I missed anything.

I guess the lack of shows right now has me watching tons of movies.

Raging Bull. Great movie! There was one or two parts that got a tad slow with long shots. Though when this film first came out that was revolutionary (in America atleast). Now I am used to it and want to fast foward. That is the only knock! DeNiro had an amazing performance! I believe he won the Oscar for it. Great movie. Maybe my favorite Scorsese film.

The Doors. Wow. Music is something I wish I was more into. I really enjoy the sixties and seventies music...always loved The Doors. Another great film. Stone did a great job of capturing the magic and then the disaster. Val Kilmer was pretty good. I don't give too much credit when an actor plays a drunk, druggie, crazy, or mentally challenged sometimes.

Meg Ryan was a horrible casting job. She was 29 or 30 years old and played a role of Pamela Courson between 18 to 24. The bangs were a tough sell as well.

Kyle MacLachlan did pretty good. (I'm a Twin Peaks fan ofcourse).

I still have some fond nostalgia for Real Genius and his character in Willow, but Kilmer's a total hit or miss. When he's on, he's close to Johnny Depp levels of on. When he's just there to cash a check, it shows...

Saw The Corporation last night. My favorite segments were those talking directly with people doing street-level actions against corporate takeovers: such as the Bolivian citizens who rebelled when water privatization forbade them from even gathering rainwater when they were too poor to pay inflated prices. (!! Thank You, World Bank. !!) There was a lot of filler, but stuff like this made up for it.

I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yesterday with my family. I was really dreading it from the advance reviews, but I was pretty much trapped, having two little boys who are obsessed with them.

Really, though, I found it better than expected. The story was better than I've heard it described, and there were some genuinely touching moments in there. But the main purpose was to entertain, and I felt it succeeded in that pretty well despite it running too long. Some of the jokes were definitely a little too racy and the humor a little too broad, but all of those moments drew big laughs in my packed cinema. And the Twins really were nowhere near Jar-Jar levels of annoyance.

That said, it's really not a film I'm anxious to see again. It was fun for one viewing but would offer little to nothing in repeating. Just a good popcorn flick--nothing inherently wrong with that.

Of course I'm not really what anyone would call a hardcore Trans-fan.

Yeah I think it's a testament to Nolan that he pulled this off and it wasn't hard to understand. Love that film.

<----------- Huge fan of Memento

<-----------Me, too!

I've kind of halfway watched the first two episodes of the Philanthropist (on NBC, I think?). Really just thought I'd check it out because of Neve Campbell. It seems like there's the potential for a halfway decent show there, but it doesn't really do anything for me.

What really sticks with me about Memento, other than the exciting storytelling method, is how utterly evil Carrie-Anne Moss's character is. I remember a shot of her smiling toward the end/beginning that just made me feel sick inside. Quite a brilliant turn on her part after having played the heroic Trinity in The Matrix trilogy!

Wonderfalls: DVD set

This one didn't last very long. Quirky humor, a little bit preachy but I'm enjoying it.

I'm buying the complete 'Beauty and the Beast' series with Ron Pearlman.
That was the most beautifully staged series that I can remember, truly lovely work.
I can't make the final payment until August, though.
sigh

That's a Bryan Fuller series, right? I'd like to see it based on that.

He has quite a resume: Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Heroes and Voyager.

The DVD set has shows never aired but I'm a bit concerned it will leave the end hanging.