Tamara -- just in a horror mood. This was entirely average in all ways though, except that I just added somebody else to my pretty girls lists. Well that and I liked the revenge the witch in the movie dropped on the two stereotypical jerk high school guys.
finally caught slumdog millionaire (at the theater...when the DVD already came out, doh). was a very good movie, and an original one when most of the mainstream stuff in theaters these days are not.
I enjoyed Haute Tension aka High Tension only problem is some people went ballistic about the ending.And I haven't seen Frontier, but Haute Tension is another good french horror flick. Very gory, but good I thought
Watched Twilight last night and the second disc this morning. Much different than I expected as I might well be the only person on the planet who wasn't at all familiar with the books.
A couple of inconsistencies with traditional vampire lore bothered me (you can't see vamps in mirrors, for example) but for the most part I enjoyed it and will actually be looking forward to the sequel.
finally caught slumdog millionaire (at the theater...when the DVD already came out, doh). was a very good movie, and an original one when most of the mainstream stuff in theaters these days are not.
Literally just finished watching The Changeling. Angelina Jolie did an incredible job and I cannot imagine how she lost out on the Oscar. Frightening story for a couple of reasons, among them that although it's 70+ years later you have to wonder if things have actually gotten any better with the Los Angeles law enforcement community...
John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.[2]
His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, widely considered to be his magnum opus, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous, if highly controversial, 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick. However, the author later dismissed it as one of his lesser works[3]. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the much loved Enderby quartet. He was also a prominent critic, authoring acclaimed studies of classic writers such as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway.
Aside from literature, Anthony Burgess was an accomplished musician[4] and linguist. He composed over 250 musical compositions, including his first symphony around age 18, wrote a number of libretti, and translated, amongst others, Cyrano de Bergerac,[5] Oedipus the King[6] and Carmen.
"A Clockwork Orange"
Having really never heard anything about it before I got it on a lark.
Oh, boy. What a strange piece of work. Who comes up with this stuff???
Good to hear. I am so looking forward to this movie. I have liked all the X-men movies.X-Men Origins: Wolverine
A friend had a "downloaded" copy so we grilled up some seasoned tri-tip and brats and made an evening of it. Of course, it is the infamous version with some of the sopecial effects missing, but still a good movie. They basically wrap it up to the point where it rolls into the first X-Men movie. There is a twist to it, and obviously I can't speak to the final special effects, but if you like the X-Men movies, you will like this.
Awake - Not the best. Of course, Jessica Alba is in it so it's not all that hard to watch. I didn't like the ending, and I don't think the role suited Alba, to be honest.
Doubt. Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour did a great acting job. I must admit that I am not a Seymour fan, however, his acting was excellent. I have never seen Viola Davis, but she really gave a fine performance too.
Tomorrow for me.Wolverine. Tonight at Midnight.
Tomorrow for me.
i don't understand all the wolverine hype...
apart from the cool claws, he's an extremely uninteresting superhero (as are so many of the x-men)...
his lack of depth makes him such a terrible lead. he's altogether blank--and perhaps indifferent to it--from a moral standpoint, and is motivated entirely by anger, which occasionally dissipates to a simmer, and often boils over into rage. but that's the entire range of his character. how boring...
he's a worthwhile addition to a collection of mutant gimmicks that add up to a more interesting whole (especially when coupled with bryan singer's commentary on the portrayal of minorities in x-men/x2), but, as a character, he certainly isn't deserving of his own film...