What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[phro37]

House-created by David Shore, starring Hugh Laurie

First Season (series)

This could become an obsession. The game's afoot!

one of my absolutely favorite shows! i worked with a guy like house once. knew his shit and expected everyone else to as well. if you didn't, you were beneath him. i hated that guy....

[Clash Cadillac]

The Cadillac family started watching the Blue Planet and Planet Earth documentaries this evening. Great imagery and lots of questions from the kids. It was great to watch their little minds soaking up the information.

[Clash Cadillac]

I'm watching Dodgeball right now. Dodge, duck, dip, dive and...dodge!

My girls loved this movie when it first came out on DVD. We must have watched it like 25 times. They always begged to watch the Milkshake song at the end of the credits. I am a big fan of Rip Torn who seems rather underrated as an actor.

[philipchevron]

The Cadillac family started watching the Blue Planet and Planet Earth documentaries this evening. Great imagery and lots of questions from the kids. It was great to watch their little minds soaking up the information.

David Attenborough is just the best kind of teacher too. Here is where the much-abused adjective "awesome" really comes into its own.

[DzM]

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

[Low D]

Sweet Dreams - The Patsy Cline Story, 'cause we love her in at least 3 generations of my family. I was so tense waiting for the car accident i knew was coming that when it was over, i forgot what was coming next.

And I'll take this moment to mention that if you love Patsy but you've never heard the Live At the Opry album, then you should be ashamed!

[O'Blivion]

Sweet Dreams - The Patsy Cline Story, 'cause we love her in at least 3 generations of my family. I was so tense waiting for the car accident i knew was coming that when it was over, i forgot what was coming next.

And I'll take this moment to mention that if you love Patsy but you've never heard the Live At the Opry album, then you should be ashamed!

I'm a big Patsy Cline fan too. In fact I once laid a rose on her grave in Winchester VA. (The name on the grave marker is "Virginia Dick", by the way)

I have a great/awful DVD comp of
Patsy Cline videos called "Sweet
Dreams Still" which has a bunch
of clips of Patsy from regional
TV shows of the 50s. It's hosted
by Robert K. Oermann ("the dean
of Nashville music writers", or so
claims the jacket blurb), who is
sooooo over the top in his praise
of Patsy that he's unintentionally
hilarious - kinda reminds you of
the old SNL character who loved
Pat Sajac.



The music is, of course, sublime,
but filmed on cheapo cardboard
sets. In one Patsy is seen in front
of a fake mantlepiece which has a
fake moosehead above it. The
camera is positioned so that it
looks like the antlers are sticking
out of Patsy's beehive.




Last night we watched "You're Gonna Miss Me".
WOW. What a scary family. Disfunctional doesn't
begin to describe it. It's hard to tell who's
manipulating who the most, although I'm left
thinking it might be the filmmaker.

[O'Blivion]

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Pia Zadora's finest cinematic moment!

[girlfromcountyhell]

Drop Dead Gorgeous. The one movie I can watch over and over and never get tired of.

[girlfromcountyhell]

The Cadillac family started watching the Blue Planet and Planet Earth documentaries this evening. Great imagery and lots of questions from the kids. It was great to watch their little minds soaking up the information.

I LOVE Planet Earth. Do you have HD?

[Clash Cadillac]

The Cadillac family started watching the Blue Planet and Planet Earth documentaries this evening. Great imagery and lots of questions from the kids. It was great to watch their little minds soaking up the information.

I LOVE Planet Earth. Do you have HD?

Yes, I understand Planet Earth was made for HD, however Blue planet looks great on it as well.

[philipchevron]

Song For A Raggy Boy (Aisling Walsh, 2003)

The Ryan Report highlighted once again the level of sexual, physical and emotional abuse by the religious congregations on Irish children from the 1930s to the 1980s. Though such crime was widespread in the day schools of the Christian Brothers etc, it was the residential "reform" or "industrial" schools which were the flagships for child rape, child torture and child slave labour. Song For A Raggy Boy, with Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen, dramatised the phenomenon well. Lest anybody be concerned that the level of violence and brutality is somehow exaggerated in this movie, rest assured it's not.

[MissWalshy]

Cars...

....That disney film. I'm babysitting and thought I'd entertain the kids and myself Got to love Pixar.

[DzM]

Tonight it was Sita Sings the Blues.

This is an entertaining retelling of a part of the Ramayana, a (the?) important myth in the Hindu faith. Entertaining animation, tongue-in-cheek story-telling, good music. It's worth watching. And if you enjoy it, it's worth making a donation to the film creator to help cover the costs of licensing the 1920s era tracks (11 of them) used in the film.

IrishRover, with your stance on "cultural terrorism" I'd be curious to read your thoughts on this film. It touches on a few points that may be relevant to your thesis. It's a white woman retelling a story from another culture. Some conservative nationalists and some very left-wing Hindus have declared that it is inherently racist and Yep More Neocolonialism. It also touches on the ~>95% of our shared culture that is locked up in copyright extensions granted to large media conglomerates (the film uses 11 recordings from 1929 by Annette Hanshaw, and the film maker was originally quoted ~$220,000 to license the songs for use - the conglomerates have since let her license the songs at the low low price of $50,000).

JennyLois, I'd also love to see your feedback. This film is essentially a one-woman production financed by donations. It is an artist telling a story (or several, really). I think your perspective would be interesting.

[Jon]

I've just re-watched The Wrestler, amazing what a low budget 'indie' film can acheive with the right hype and a decent cast and crew.