Surprisingly good!

I thought this was great.

One of my all time faves.

Felt Good to Burn always makes me think of it, for some reason.

What was that great exchange...

"I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love."
"I strangled mine."
"Did you love her???"
"She was okay!"

Pirates 3 was a thrill ride to say the least. It does set out to outdo Peter Jackson's Reurn of The King to tie up loose ends, settle old scores and give everyone their final dues. The scene with Jack Sparrow confronting himself in the desert is perhaps the most avant-garde cinematic moment ever devised by Disney or Jerry Bruckheimer. For its sheer ridiculousness and vision, this will land in my top 10 films of the year (not that I will be able to see that many).

EDIT: I cannot end this mini-review without mentioning that Keira Knightly is the sexiest woman alive.

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It's kind of ironic that for a movie about censorship, the original nude image was altered by digitally draping cloths over the Chicks.

was that movie any good?
i dont know if i could sit thru it without my fingers doing the "worlds smallest violin" everytime they speak

I haven't seen the movie, but I did see the hour+ interview that Howard Stern conducted with them on the subject. It was very compelling stuff (but then again, I love just about every Stern interview).

It was pretty interesting actually, and I'm not even a fan. The Chicks weren't too whiny either considering they'd received multiple death threats.

Natalie wore a shirt that said F.U.T.K. in reaction to some ignorant shit that Toby Keith said (big surprise).

There was a great scene with the DCs listening to an early mix of a song in Rick Rubin's house. The guy's such a nut. I'm convinced that he's the biggest "yes" man is the music industry.

. If that is the case, then I am gay.

Saw this over the weekend, and it was good to very good. Not great by any means.

But Jackie Earle Haley is incredible in the movie. The character's introduction is a doozy, and one of the best of recent years.

the good sheperd
pretty compelling movie, very well acted. Deniro did a nice job directing.
rent it!

i'm certainly curious to see how the movie is
do they talk about the "1st Amendment" a lot in the film?

i understand, it's out of line that people sent them death threats, but in interviews i saw, it seems the Dixie Chicks are confused about "freedom of speech." Congress did not pass any law saying they can't bash the Pres. but the Chicks feel that they can say whatever they want, while in reality- you have to deal w/ the consequences of what you say.

"My soul is imprisoned, bound to this ugly lump of blighted rock, beset by zombie Mentiads and interfering Doctors!"

disappointing. it certainly had some great moments, but when one of the 2 main characters is almost entirely unredeeming it makes for an awkward romantic comedy. you don't want them to end up together.

Over the Hedge
looked better than a lot of computer animated films
it was just all right. if you catch it on cable & you've got nothing else to do, it's better than watching Emeril on the food network

We really enjoyed this, as well. Actually thought this was more entertaining and interesting that the Departed.

thats disappointing. thx for the review. i'll wait for this on dvd if i still wanna see it

No they don't discuss the First Amendment in any depth. They make reference to it, but that's about it.
Might have been interesting if they had included a bit more of the legal perspective.

Wow I forgot all about Nancy Drew. I prolly read most of those books as a wee'un. I prolly will not watch this.


Uh...The Boys from Brazil?


I caught the last 30 minutes of it around that time. I feel as if I've seen the whole thing.


Even the zombie baby?


According to the spot on HBO, it was a massive set. The crew felt that they should operate it as a casino to recoup some of the production costs.

Couldn't sleep at 3:30 a.m. & this was on. I really liked it:


Stumbled upon Dead in the Water on Sundance yesterday, highly recommended (about the privatization of access to the world's water supply).

what a ridiculous movie. i liked it better than the second one, at least.

I haven't seen this one yet. I thought the first was seriously too long. There were 3 or 4 points where it could have finished and yet they kept carrying it on longer. The second suffers from that same unbearable timing and the fact that it ended the way it did suggests that they'd planned for the third one all along so long as the sequel made it's budget back. Not really thrilled by these that much at all.

Yeah, at this time last year we had a long Pirates 2 thread. This time, it's like "okay, another movie."

they filmed parts 2 & 3 at the same time. even if 2 had been a bomb, 3 would have been out this summer

I kinda thought this but I didn't know for sure... following the old Back to the Future plan..

I watched Reno 911: Miami last night. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes pretty meh. Not sure if it was helped or hurt by the sleeping pills rushing through my system, but it was a decent rental.

Dead Like Me, seasons 1 & 2.

^ Mandy Patinkin is a bad-ass

It's a shame he went on to do heartburn commercials. The cast as a whole was unfuckable with.

Bought this on a whim. Cool flick!

Great-looking picture quality, too.

The month of June in movies:

The Great New Wonderful
Little Miss Sunshine
A River Runs Through It
Kicking and Screaming (the good one)
The Full Monty
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Idiocracy
Shut Up And Sing
Raging Bull
Say Anything
The Queen
The Big Easy
Slacker
The Fisher King
Chet Atkins : A Life in Music
Steve Earle: Live from Austin
The Carter Family
I'm Your Man: Leonard Cohen
Masked and Anonymous
Best in Show
Three Times
I Trust You to Kill Me
The Departed
Out of Africa
Psycho
The Devil and Daniel Johnston



And in TV shows:

Dead Like Me
Alias
Hogan's Heroes
SOAP
Doctor Who
Pinky and the Brain
Pete And Pete
and I keep trying to get The Wire and Tom Goes to the Mayor, but my library continues to mix up the discs.

Last night's viewing on the new 40" TV was



Dear Lord.

I never saw this when I was a kid (didn't have cable) but this show is great. Must be one of the all time great kid shows.

The entire show used for their Austin City Limits appearance. Fucking band was shitfaced drunk on national TV.

Classy.

So, I finally got around to this. Still stewing in a mixed reaction. On the one hand, Big Boi was a much better actor than I'd anticipated, and Andre acquits himself nicely as ever. There's a lot of spectacularly creative touches, especially some cool animation techniques that somehow don't feel out of place, given the overall whimsical pastiche that's going on. Sadly, it's all scattered across a story that seems cobbled together from about ten different better movies. Terrence Howard gives his usual stellar turn, but it's not enough to make this something I'd recommend. Still, it's easy to see how someone could enjoy this.

great show, i still cant believe all the guest stars that showed up. Michael Stipe appeared on that show.

Fav character is still Artie: the Strongest Man in the Worrrrld!

Babylon 5 - the Complete 3rd Season

The first season was pretty weak.
The second season got exponentially better with every episode.
Now, the show's gettin' pretty good.
Of course, the CGI + makeup's still pretty weak, but whatyagonnado?

what's are those? stakes/pig tongues crawling into a bath?!

just a ridiculously fun movie.

This was how I felt watching this bloated sack of a movie.



Speaking of bloated...

Yeah, something like that. They are some sort of maggot-like organism that crawls into the victim's mouth and turn them into meat-craving zombies.

i watched Mystic River while hungover yesterday morning. it was OK. didn't do much to cure the hangover though

Marginally better than expected, which isn't saying much:


Spoiled for me by religious co-worker's overzealous hype, but Georgie Henley is the cutest little girl ever:


Interesting & unsettling. Russell Crowe wasn't even mentioned in the cable guide: