my thoughts on some movies I recently saw for the first time

[VangelicSurgeon]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - the 3 kids can't act worth a shit, the movie was WAY too long, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branaugh were awesome, kenneth branaugh was an unexpected delight. Editing SUCKED.

Two Towers - an exciting and entertaining movie, but the changes they made to the plot were uncalled for, especially adding in the elf bullshit (not just arwen's scenes, but the whole elf/man thing - although I hate liv tyler more each day), the fucking faramir disaster - that pissed me off the most, the entmoot "we don't decide quickly and we are not going to war!!....Let's go to war!!!" Whatever. This movie dissapointed the hell out of me.

Lilo and Stitch - WAY better than the previews lead me to believe. Pretty funny. Glad I have little cousins.

Death to Smoochie - AWESOME! Only movie I've seen lately that I enjoyed all the way through.

OK I'm making lunch then hopping a plane back to Boston. See y'all later when I'm back on my blessed blessed dial-up.

 

[deadair]

i watched The Hustler for the first time...

damn good b/w film. paul newman is a damn good actor.

 

[Baliset]

I bought my Dad The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for Christmas and he had us all watch it Christmas night as a kind of bonding thing i think. It was actually a really awesome movie. Of course I waited for most of the movie before being able to tell my parents about Metallica using the music near the end for their opening music. It was also a long ass movie. I didn't realize it was more of a Western epic.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

it's THE western epic, dude!

 

[Baliset]

and i am now enlightened to that knowledge. i actually want a copy for myself now. good shit!

 

[goatschool]

i rented this two weeks ago, and loved it. Eli Wallach stole the movie.

 

[goatschool]

"Judas! You sold my hide! But you won't enjoy any of that money, not a penny. If there's justice in the world, that money will go to the undertakers, every penny of it, heh! Want to know whose son you are? You don't, I do, everybody does. You're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you!"

 

[Baliset]

Eli Wallach is my hero. i also liked the scenes with "THe Bad" at the beginning. He was so cool.

 

[avi]

all three movies from the Good, Bad, Ugly series are great.

I liked Harry Potter. It was entertaining.

Will be seeing 2 Towers later this week hopefully.

Saw Cries & Whispers (dir by Ingmar Bergman) last week. Brutal and good, but nowhere nearly as powerful as Autumn Sonata.

 

[minxnim]

i watched some movie with robert redford in it where he is a prison warden? my dad was all BOO YEA about the movie. i was sort of like 'well, at least he's easy on the eyes'.

 

[goatschool]

Originally posted by Baliset
Eli Wallach is my hero. i also liked the scenes with "THe Bad" at the beginning. He was so cool.

yeah, totally. Leone quickly establishes that he is no mere comic relief.

prep, you like RR? ew. paul newman destroys him.

 

[minxnim]

i am not saying i like redford more than a lot of other people, but he was pretty freakin cute back in the day.