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MOVIE & RATING |
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| 12/30 |
Live and Let Die   |
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| 12/29 |
Return of the Jedi |
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| 12/28 |
Diamonds are Forever |
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| 12/27 |
The Tao of Steve |
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| 12/25 |
The Empire Strikes Back |
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| 12/24 |
A Christmas Story |
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| 12/19 |
Tomorrow Never DIes |
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| 12/17 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
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| 12/12 |
Thunderball |
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| 12/9 |
DIe Another Day |
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| 12/3 |
The Silencers |
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| 11/12 |
To Catch a Thief |
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| 11/5 |
The Man Who Knew Too Much |
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| 10/21 & 10/28 |
Myra Breckenridge |
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| 10/21 |
Arsenic and Old Lace |
Cary Grant sure was a great comic actor. |
| 10/12 |
The Seven Year Itch |
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| 9/28 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Last One That Took Forever to End |
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| 9/22 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
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| 9/21 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
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| 9/16 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
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| 9/15 |
When Harry Met Sally |
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| 9/9 |
School of Rock |
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| 8/24 |
Desperado |
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| 8/21 |
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon |
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| 8/19 |
The Philadelphia Story |
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| 8/14 |
Guys and Dolls |
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| 8/13 |
The Longest Yard |
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| 8/8 |
Primer |
Really, really weird. I don't really know what in the hell was going on. I could probably watch it five more times and pick up new stuff every time. |
| 8/6 |
Prozac Nation |
A real mess. |
| 8/4 |
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Really depressing. |
| 8/3 |
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Robin Williams is seriously creepy in this movie. |
| 8/1 |
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Lots of people rave about it, and while I appreciated the action sequences, it didn't amaze me. |
| 7/31 |
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A series of uneven vingettes from director Jim Jarmusch, a very strange guy in a sort of artsy way. |
| 7/29 |
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I don't know what I was thinking. I really don't. |
| 7/27 |
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| 7/18 |
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There are a few good moments in this movie, but it's hobbled by a seriously '70s feel (hard to describe, but if you watch anything George Roy Hill movie from that era, you'll know what I mean).
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| 7/15 |
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| 7/14 |
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Hard to believe it's Charlize Theron in the lead role. Not exactly a laff-riot. |
| 7/13 |
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| 7/8 |
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I kept on thinking, "maybe if Jennifer Tilly gets nude ..." but alas, I sat through this waste of film for nothing. |
| 7/7 |
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| 7/6 |
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The best zombie-comedy I've ever seen. |
| 7/5 |
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| 7/2 |
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It was like someone gave George Romero a few thousand dollars, a cast of dinner-theater regulars, and said, take a week or two to write a script and another few weeks to film the thing. |
| 6/28 |
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| 6/25 |
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| 6/11 |
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Another depressing Mike Nichols movie, but with some really hot-looking people. |
| 6/23 |
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I like zombie movies a lot, and I feel as though I should like Night of the Living Dead - the granddaddy of the modern zombie movie (and for all I know, the first real zombie movie) a lot more than I do. |
| 6/18 |
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I've watched and enjoyed The Wedding Singer many times, and so I thought that this second Adam Sandler / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy might be pretty good. I was wrong about that. (If you're in the mood for a romantic comedy with a similar spin, watch the far superior Groundhog Day. |
| 6/14 |
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A preposterous movie - which I was mostly okay with, since I was just about completely distracted by Angelina Jolie. But I couldn't buy the last action scene, which was way too over the top. It's as if the writers felt they had to wrap up the movie, but were clean out of even semi-clever ideas. |
| 6/13 |
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Not one of Neil Simon's better efforts, but the writing isn't half bad at times. I've probably seen this movie three or four times mainly for the pleasure of watching a pre-sitting on North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun Jane Fonda. |
| 6/9 |
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The half star is because I'm a Sinatra fan, and I have to give him something. The full star is for the scene where Raquel Welch emerges from a pool in a bikini. |
| 6/8 |
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Have Angelina Jolie run around in something clingy, and I don't really care what else is going on. |
| 6/7 |
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| 6/6 |
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| 6/4 |
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| 6/4 |
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I don't usually watch TV movies, but it was one of those Saturday afternoons I felt like kicking back and doing nothing in particular. There wasn't anything in our TiVo list that looked all that great, and since McCain is my favorite living politician (the movie is largely about his time in a North Vietnamese POW camp) I decided to check it out. |
| 6/1 |
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| 5/30 |
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| 5/29 |
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| 5/25 |
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One of my favorite movies. |
| 5/24 |
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| 5/23 |
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| 5/24 |
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(I taught a summer class on American Politics & Film, so lots of political movies follow below. Most of them weren't all that good.) |
| 5/23 |
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| 5/20 |
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| 5/19 |
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| 5/18 |
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| 5/17 |
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| 5/16 |
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| 5/12 |
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| 5/11 |
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One of my favorite movies. |
| 5/10 |
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Does anybody over-act more than Al Pacino? Strangely, the more he does it, the more I seem to like him. I should feel bad about this. |
| 5/9 |
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| 4/24 |
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A better rating than the movie really deserves, but I'm a sucker for the Hope / Crosby "Road" movies. |
| 4/23 |
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| 4/22 |
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| 3/10 |
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Kimberly really enjoys mysteries, and she'd heard some good things about The Thin Man. Neither of us were all that impressed. |
| 3/7 |
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The movie Kimberly and I saw on our flight back from Hawaii. (See below for the viewing conditions). Had I been even remotely comfortable while watching this movie, I might have enjoyed it even more than Sideways. |
| 2/25 |
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Friday Night Lights was playing on our trip to Hawaii, and since I didn't have anything better to do, I thought I'd watch for a while. The picture was horrible - I had to crane my neck to see it at all, and the tiny, low quality image on the screen wasn't exactly a treat for the eyes. But thanks to the $2.00 headphones I bought from the flight attendant, the sound was even worse. The fact that I actually enjoyed the movie given this viewing environment says a lot. |
| 2/12 |
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The best movie I've seen all year. It's nice to know that there are still occasionally smart, funny movies made for grown-ups. |
| 2/8 |
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One of Kimberly's favorite movies. It's one of those movies that I'll check out for a while when I'm flipping through the dial and see it's playing, but it's not something I'd make a point of watching. |
| 1/28 |
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A really well-made and well-acted movie that does really neat things with time and memory. If you don't much care for non-linear storytelling, you probably won't like it; but even so, you'd be able to appreciate how far Jim Carrey has come since his regrettable Ace Ventura days. |
| 1/27 |
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It was late and I'd had maybe two beers too many. An absolutely perfect time to break out The Blues Brothers - one of my favorite movies. |
| 1/13 |
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The best Woody Allen movie I've seen since 1996's Everyone Says I Love You. It looks like Woody has finally realized that putting himself in the romantic lead role is, at this point, more than a little creepy, and while Jason Biggs is no Woody Allen (circa 1977 or so, when Woody could - just barely - be a believable romantic lead, though somehow, "romantic" doesn't really seem to be the right word) he isn't half bad. I continue to be fascinated by and oddly attracted to Christina Ricci, who seems to be composed of many lovely parts that somehow don't fit together quite like they should.
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| 1/7 |
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One of my favorite movies, and my all-time champ when it comes to rewatchability. |
| 1/4 |
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I've considered putting Zulu on my favorite movies list on several occasions, but it's never made it. I think this is because I recognize that it's not really all that good of a movie. (Not that this is an automatic disqualifier - anyone who has been forced to watch 1776 during my regular 4th of July showing can tell you that) But there's something about it, probably related to the whole British Colonial / KIplingesque thing I find so fascinating, that's brought me back to Zulu many times.
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| 1/3 |
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My wife wonders why I watch movies as depressing as Requiem for a Dream (and, what's more important, why I subject her to them). I think it's because I'm curious about how people end up in some of the horrible states in which they end up. A lot of people avoid such bleak movies, but I usually come away from the best of them (I'd put Requiem in this group, along with Thirteen, Leaving Las Vegas, Glengarry GlenRoss, and Days of Wine & Roses) realizing how easily things can completely fall apart and grateful that to this point I've been lucky enough to have only experienced this vicariously. |
| 1/3 |
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When I watch movies like this, I feel old and out of touch with popular culture. This is because I'm old and out of touch with popular culture. Go is a fairly entertaining movie with some good performances, but from the very beginning it was clear that the people who made it weren't really interested in appealing to my demographic. |