So, what movie did you just watch? (Vol. 14)

It felt so weird watching this

 

Is that a porn film ? You could have put Ron Jeremy in that pic an it would have been just as fine

 

Not a bad movie but not as trippy as the Sherlock Holmes holodeck episodes of ST:TNG.

 

talk about a movie I hated.

 

A TSO double feature this weekend. Unifying theme: The road.



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Bridge to Terabithia ~ G. Csupo

Pretty blase for a kids film. I can totally understand having a crush on Zooey Deschanel, though.

 

Pilgrimage by John Ford

A mean old white trash woman from Arkansas drafts her son into World War 1 after he impregnates the daughter of the town drunk. Yes, this is a John Ford movie (pre-Code). Outstanding masterpiece.

 

Another unifying theme: my two favorite B movies from the 70s. What a kick-ass double feature.

 

Were you a virgin? Was it as good for you as it was for us?

The incredible thing about this film is that for the first 30 minutes, it pulls you in into thinking it's going to suck. And then Scott pulls out his best Peckinpah impersonation.

 

I'm sure the sci-fi geeks disowned it as soon as they knew Will Smith was starring, but not a bad flick.

 

I'm a "sci-fi" geek, and I quite like Will Smith. I thought I, Robot was OK, but it's been so long since I've read the original story that I can't even tell you how it deviated.

 

Even though it was 3 hours long, it felt like half of the movie had been left on the cutting room floor. All in all, it wasn't bad, but it also felt elliptical in ways that DeNiro surely didn't intend.

 

Bourne Ultimatum

Tired. Sick of looking at what's her name looking at Matt Damon looking forlorn.

Get over it. You are ********ing machine. Move to Vegas and get in the ********ing octogon already.

 

Was it bettter than Birth?

 

I don't see nothing.

 

It's The Band Wagon starring Fred Astaire and the lovely Cyd Charisse. It was much more fun than I anticipated.

 

At the time, this was a technically groundbreaking and conceptually important film. Today, the effects look quite ordinary yet the story is still valid and greatly so. In 30 years time, people will be amazed at how clever and philosophically challenging this movie was 40 years ago. If only the Wachowsky Bros had put some effort in finding 1) a credible Neo, 2) a womanly female counterpart, 3) a less apologetic Morpheus and had used less cheesy filler dialog, then this would have been a masterpiece (as I used to think when I first watched at the theaters).

 

for a monster movie it ticked most of the right boxes. a worthwhile trip to the cinema.