Kate Bosworth is such a terrible actress. She ruined the whole movie. Even more so than Kumar being one of Luthor's goons, Luthor growing krytonite islands for cheap real estate or the fact Superman has a fucking kid. Yeah, despite all that- Kate Bosworth was a fucking travesty.

Popped this in, but I really keep thinking about Inland Empire. So I've stopped it half through and am now watching IE

Just watched Glengarry Glen Ross for the first time. Pretty good.

yeah, but that saving the airplane sequence was pretty good

Film takes forever to get its story in gear, not as good as I hoped. Friends watching with me agreed that there was just too many characters and plot threads to keep track of. Claire Danes is the sweetest thing, as always. Worth renting just to see DeNiro go queer.

best part of the movie. and yea, lol at kumar. what did he have...one line? one too many.

the very suggestion of Kumar being a 'goon' of sorts spells out that this was a poor casting choice any way you put it. I was also terribly underwhelmed by the prospect of this film.

kumar woulda worked really well if he was the computer geek or something but when he started kicking superman i stopped believing that he was a plausible goon

Kuuumaar was fucking awesome in this.

that movie was pretty good, but can't get past thinking, "hey Kumar!"

I don't know...I was really underwhelmed by this. His character annoyed me more than anything. There were so many predictably bland scenes, it could have passed as a lifetime movie.

Hellraiser screening featuring Clive Barker at the Music Box, midnight Friday. I'd totally go if I didn't have other plans.

i thought it was just kind of okay.....

prairie home companion

Kinda sad watching Altman's swan song turn out to be a badly sketched garrison keillor script.
I mean everything about the faces of radio being overshadowed by hollywood celebrity just junks the whole premise let alone the morbid underpinning of 'death' looming over this story which I can't imagine wasn't already on everyone's mind. The studio had PT Anderson sitting there 'on call' just in case Altman kicked the bucket.

Nothing about this was very refreshing. If anything it only brings up the idea that phc may very well end one of these days but that's garrison's bag and unfortunately for Altman while this cast was as varied as any of his previous works to some degree. The story was not very complex or involved.
thoroughly underwhelmed.



ghost rider

ha-ha! you made a deal with the devil! Your heads a flaming skull.. Peter Fonda? Yeah sure. He's evil looking.. Let's get him...

Cage was definitely hitting the gym for this effects showcase directed by the genius who wrote such gems as 'Grumpy Old Men' & 'Grumpier Old Men'. Oh yes and he's livin large on the whole comic book schtick cause he also wrote & directed 'Daredevil'.

I caught this on cable and I don't advise anyone to bother putting this in yer netflix que lest you end up being terribly disappointed.

best doc ever

this is sort of true, it's definitely not okay.


it's my favorite movie of the decade.

really?!
i guess i need to watch it again. i dont think i laughed at all and was bored through most of it.

Story-wise, maybe--but the animation was amazing.

ah, well on my 12 yr old tv where everything is green and reds flare, it looked blah.

Here's the thing though, if you are watching it as a comedy then it isn't amazing. No it is not funny, but as a piece of art that attempts to discuss why and how we create, our preconceived notions of what someone can do, and what we expect from certain members of society, and how great art comes from anywhere; Ratatouille is simply stunning. It is probably the most inspiring movie that i have seen.

Likewise the discussion of how people critique art, at the end of the film, is simply dead on.

In other words, it is a deeply, deeply philosophical film, that when I start full-time teaching English next year I plan on showing in the first week of school.

I had high hopes since I like the radio show, but I was greatly disappointed. It was a big waste of $9.

hmm, i thought it was a little too "message-y". like, total disney, kids you can do anything you want mumbo jumbo. hey kids, you know what? life sucks and youre going to die miserable and if movies like this keep telling you you are special, then your life is just going to be even more disappointing.

plus it was motherfucking patton oswalt. they made patton oswalt dull. thats the biggest crime of all.

admittedly, that last post was rather cranky.

It seemed rather normal for a post coming from you.

I think you misinterpreted the message. The movie's tagline (As Anton Ego explains in the single best speech about craft of criticism...ever) "anyone can cook" doesn't literally mean that anyone can cook if they put their mind to it. Rather, it means that great art can come from anywhere, even the most unlikely of sources. I honestly get a little teary eyed every time I hear that speech.

Apparently I was too blown away by the visuals to take in what they were saying.

Ratatouille is great. Too much dialogue and not enough farting in it to qualify it as a kids' movie, so a lot of people misunderstood it. My favourite movie of the year.



I wonder if you have to reach a certain age before this movie can really resonate with you. I mean, I know that lots of teenagers think this movie is amazing. They're not "wrong" or anything, and I don't want to start another "All My Friends" debate, but I'd seen this at least 3 times before now and always thought it was a confused and pointless piece of shit. Catching it at work while on my dinner break and then renting it again a few days later, suddenly everything in it feels really familiar, uncomfortably so.



I guess this was okay, I mean what was I expecting.



I've spent the last ten years covering up the fact that I'd never seen this movie. No longer. I still deserve a good beating for it, though.

3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
Once
The Bucket List
Gone Baby Gone
The Great Debaters
Wristcutters: A Love Story


Been a good week or whatever.

One of my Top 5 favorite films of all time. Such an incredible, unique experience. Almost mind-bogglingly idiosyncratic and riveting. If he had ever made a second film with half of the invention and ingenuity that Charles Laughton put into that, his first, he'd be my favorite director of all time. As it is, I can find hardly a fault, but I can't well put him above the Hitchcocks, Scorseses, Chaplins, Altmans, Wilders, Kubricks, Herzogs, and Murnaus with just *one* film to his credit, however amazing that one film is.

Come on, you make it sound like it was a "very special episode" of Winnie The Pooh on the Disney Channel or something. For a "message movie", the film was way more classier in executing its message than any other that I can remember.

Curse the marketers for trumpeting it as "PIXAR's FUNNIEST MOVIE ever!!"

Ratatouille ruled. And yeah, I agree with the one who said it failed because it wasn't Shrek and didn't draw its moneyshots from Matrix-slow-mo stuff.

Hell, the credits were enough to watch over and over again.

and it helps if you like to cook.
or make music
or art.

this is pretty much my favorite pixar

This was fucking great.

Liked the other Bourne films, but this one didn't do it for me.

isnt it?!!? alec baldwin is amazing. but it was disturbing to see whm naked. weird.


let it be stated, i hate hate hate shrek and the whole group of movies that steal from it, and all that. its a worthless pile as far as i am concerned.


now, ratatouille... okay, i cook, i make art. and sometimes music, but it didnt affect me. possibly because i went into it thinking "omg this is going to be stellar!" possibly becaus ei watched it in two parts. i'll watch it again, pay mopre attention and maybe ill "get it" but for now i prefer the incredibles FAR more.

9.0
The Incredibles
8.5
Toy Story (1 and 2)
Ratatouille
Finding Nemo
7.5
Monster's Inc
7.0
A Bug's Life
Cars

I haven't watched either. But while we're on the subject of Children's movies, I got this for Christmas from my mom and watched it just the other night:



Apparently my mom remembered some comment I made about my favorite childhood Disney movie. It turned out to be an excellent "going out on a limb" gift for me. Disney at the height of their powers. The art is just stellar and it was the first ever animated film done in widescreen so the background art is really pretty incredible. Sophisticated storytelling that doesn't talk down to the children or do stupid cheeky asides for adults. It's too rare these days.

Baldwin kicking the pregnant chick in the stomach was the greatest.

Lady & the Tramp is not a "children's movie". A childrens' movie is something that is unlikely to be enjoyed by any one over the age of eight.

lady and the tramp is a family movie. enjoyable by people of any age. so long as that person is not scrooge mcduck or forgo

yea, i hate that movie.

Fair enough.

Forgo, don't hate the movie just because it rightly points out that Cats are pure evil.

If you don't get the weepies during the "No Place Like Home" sequence, you have no heart. I kinda have mixed feelings about the ethnic portrayals in the film, but all in all it's a pretty good movie, much different from the usual Disney fairytales, with the added bonus of Peggy Lee's songs and vocals.

It's Siamese Cats, BTW, that are pure evil (but don't tell my wife that).

Walt Disney apparently hated cats. Pinnochio is another one with a bad cat.

I hope you didn't think I was indirectly "accusing" you of liking Shrek. I didn't mean it that way at all.

Rescue Dawn: Pretty great. I mean, I looked up all the innacuracies, and there are many, but, hey, I give Fargo a pass for the 'Based on A True Story' thing, so it would be pretty hypocritical of me to condemn this one. An amazing tale of survival. Steve Zahn is amazing here, basically playing a ghost of a man and deserves an Academy Award nomination. Also deserves the award for 'Most Hilarious Unexpected Comedy Moments in an Otherwise Grim Film' for the sequence where Toby Huss (Cotton from King of the Hill, or, as I first recognized him "Hey! Isn't that the Wiz from Seinfeld?") making a running commentary ala MST3K during a movie for the troops.


Alpha Dog: Follows in the bi-annual tradition of Hollywood movies about vapid rich teenagers being shitty to each other. That's not to say it isn't good; it's gripping, it's sad, and it's frustrating. I mean, really, at the center of it all, you don't really care about any of the characters (save one), as they're all assholes, but it's handled in such a way that some assholes are better than others. Also, Ben Foster turns in his second amazing performance of the year (The first one I saw being in 3:10 to Yuma) as the psychotic brother of the kidnapped kid. Seriously, who knew the guy who played lovable disabled kid Eli on Freaks and Geeks and Angel in X-Men III would turn in to riveting performances in one year?

Finally saw No Country last night. Should I read that huge thread? I feel like I should if for no other reason than I missed a lot of the dialogue. Either the theater speakers weren't cut out for mumbled baritone voices, or my ears are fucked.

oh my god. why does eddie murphy still make money?