What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Eckhard]

I just bought the "Winds of War" DVD box. I loved the show and the book when I was a kid. I know it's a soap opera like Dynast, but nonetheless It sparked my interest in WWII history and I became a fan of Robert Mitchum.

While waiting for the delivery by amazon I did some research about the cast and stumbled upon fairly recent ( 2007 ) footage of Jan-Michael Vincent on youtube. I always found him somehow creepy, but nowadays at 65 there is nothing left of his former self. Scary. Sad.

[moose]

Rocknrolla, Guy Ritchies latest offering. Not in the same league as "Snatch" but I enjoyed it anyway.

[Clash Cadillac]

Double feature last night:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I Love You Man

[CraigBatty]

...[i]Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Always a fave... "What're ye going to do? Bleed on me?!?" HAH!

Me: "Angels & Demons" - some mindless fun. Evil, little Ewen. Evil.

[Guest]

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come

[O'Blivion]

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come

DANG! "guest" had a nifty weekend of viewing pleasure!

We watched "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" tonight. My Sweetheart's thinking about trying that for a Halloween costume. I don't think she can make herself look as scary as Bette, though.

[philipchevron]

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come

DANG! "guest" had a nifty weekend of viewing pleasure!

We watched "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" tonight. My Sweetheart's thinking about trying that for a Halloween costume. I don't think she can make herself look as scary as Bette, though.

Joanie's always more manageable, I find.

[Low D]

We attempted to go see Where the Wild Things Are last night (Saturday). Thought it opened the previous week, not the day before. Yikes. Sold out, and a tearful six year old wondering at the unfairness. My older two sweetly offered to put off seeing Zombieland and come home with us for a some home-viewing as a family. Some hot chocolate, two episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures & a promise to return to the theatre on a quieter weekday evening made all well.

[O'Blivion]

We attempted to go see Where the Wild Things Are last night (Saturday). Thought it opened the previous week, not the day before. Yikes. Sold out, and a tearful six year old wondering at the unfairness. My older two sweetly offered to put off seeing Zombieland and come home with us for a some home-viewing as a family. Some hot chocolate, two episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures & a promise to return to the theatre on a quieter weekday evening made all well.

My Sweetheart and a few girlfriends took their kids to see Wild Things this weekend. All found it to be fairly depressing...good, but depressing.


Philip - heck yes, all you need is eyebrows drawn on with a sharpie to do Ms. Crawford.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Just watched The Spiderwick Chronicles with my two boys. Never heard of it before. Was pretty good.

[CraigBatty]

Land Of The Lost w. Will Ferrell - very good so far. Will complete after work. (Is he? )

[MissWalshy]

To ruin the Michael Jackson film for everyone - He dies at the end

[Heather]

Watched Shakespeare In Love last night all the way through for the first time. It was mentioned briefly in my OU coursework, as we are doing Macbeth, so I could not believe my luck that it was on. I thought that it was quite good, but one problem, after reading Macbeth in the day and watching that in the night, I dreamed that various members of The Pogues were performing one of Shakespeare's plays at a local theatre, which was quite bizarre.

[CraigBatty]

Watched Shakespeare In Love last night all the way through for the first time. It was mentioned briefly in my OU coursework, as we are doing Macbeth, so I could not believe my luck that it was on. I thought that it was quite good, but one problem, after reading Macbeth in the day and watching that in the night, I dreamed that various members of The Pogues were performing one of Shakespeare's plays at a local theatre, which was quite bizarre.

Cool.

Was Geoffrey Rush on drums or keyboards?
And was Shane Oberon (Northern Irish King Of The Fairies), or MacBethowan?

[DzM]

Watched Shakespeare In Love last night all the way through for the first time. It was mentioned briefly in my OU coursework, as we are doing Macbeth, so I could not believe my luck that it was on. I thought that it was quite good, but one problem, after reading Macbeth in the day and watching that in the night, I dreamed that various members of The Pogues were performing one of Shakespeare's plays at a local theatre, which was quite bizarre.

Just for fun you should try to pick up Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. An amusing retelling of Hamlet. Throne of Blood is a feudal Japan retelling of MacBeth. Forbidden Planet makes for an amusing retelling of Tempest. These should help you nerd-out to All Shakespeare All The Time.


The other night I watched the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. This movie angered me in far too many ways. I could go with the indignant "why remake this classic? Some things are not to be touched." I could go with "How does Keanu Reeves manage to be the worst thing about every single movie he's in?" I could go with "Gort was obviously intended to be written out, but then at the last minute they added him back in. WTF? And the military named him GORT as some kind of acronym? Really? And Gort was in fact a giant swarm of nanobots? Seriously? And the whole thing had to be turned into some crappy morality play about not destroying the environment? 'We can change!'" And so on. Just fricken terrible. TERRIBLE.

This movie offended more than it normally would warrant, but that's because they "rebooted" (read "destroyed everything good about the original that they decided to remake") a classic AND put Keanu Reeves in as the lead. It is clear that Hollywood has dangerously over scraped the bottom of the idea barrel and has moved on to eating their own young. Again. Some more.