Recent Reels

This is beginning to become a recurring theme here on my little bloggie-poo. Here's a list of the recent movies I've seen since my last laundry list and what I thought of them. The Netflix account got bumped up to 3-at-a-time, and I'm tempted to step it up even more, actually.

Seen in Theatres

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Though the movie has some HUGE "Ah, com'on!" moments, you just have to forget that and just sit back and enjoy the nostalgia of Indiana Jones...all the first three were better, though I did enjoy this one.

WALL-E - Visually busy and interesting to watch. A few cute/romantic moments here and there. Kids may enjoy it, but the GREEN storyline is definitely intended for adults: trash, superstores, and obesity. Oh My!!

Recent Rentals

Into the Wild - Interesting kid, and I would say I have to agree with some of his ideas, however, I have to ask, "Why Alaska of all places?" One other beef: TOO LONG!! One can only drool over him for so long. (Pookie, have you found the full frontal yet? Hehehe)

Stephen King's The Shining - This shit pisses me off. I LOVE The Shining....the original by Stanley Kubrick, not this made-for-TV crap they slapped together is trash in comparison. Don't fuck with the classics!!

The Illusionist - Excellent movie! I had to go back and watch it again and see everything that I missed the first time around. You really have to pay attention to this one, but it's well worth it.

Resident Evil - Guns, zombies, and gory action scenes...maybe a little too gory for me. I never played the games, and now I'm debating whether or not I want to see the rest of them.... I might.

Lawrence of Arabia - I'd heard so much about this and I've always seen it on the top 5 movies of all time, so I had to see it... and I was disappointed after all the hype. First of all, it's almost FIVE HOURS LONG!! FIVE! One, two, three, four, FIVE! There's a friggin' intermission and even it's like 4 hours through the movie, which makes no sense to me. As for the movie itself, it seems alright to me. Watching this, I couldn't help but think the actual person on whom the character was based was a little bit gay if not bisexual. =)

Juno - What a great movie, if for nothing else than the fact that's so quotable. Love it!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - OMG! WTF has Tim Burton done to this CLASSIC?!? It's positively mutilated! The annoying children, the crappy scenery, the friggin' music makes me wanna shove some cacti in my ears just to make it stop!! This movie is absolute torture to watch.

Children of Men - Though it is a tad gory, I really enjoyed this one. I always love an alternate future science-fiction, especially if it's a dystopia; somehow they just feel more realistic as sad as that sounds. This one is just chock FULL of little morsels of our time's culture that have gone horribly wrong in their time. Loved it!

National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze - Talk about plot twists! It's just all over the place. It was an interesting movie, more so than Van Wilder, but you'd definitely have to be drinking to enjoy it.

National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze 2 - I liked this one better than the original for some reason. I think it's the murder mystery and the play within the movie. Still, I think you'd have to be drinking to really enjoy this one, too.

Documentaries

Who Killed the Electric Car? - Utterly fascinating. This documentary reminded me that I still have faith that generally people out there are working toward the greater good, only now I have a lot less of that to go around.

Super Size Me - Wow, I had no idea fast food was that bad for you. It made me want to eat more veggies, but then I realized, I don't like many veggies. Oh well, at least I can try to cook at home more often and save money in the process.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Allosaurus - It's really amazing that they can tell so much about the life of an animal that lived over 70 million years ago by its fossilized bones. Must see for dinosaur nerds.

Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project - The development of the atom bomb has always been a fascinating subject to me, but this show has really filled in the gaps of my knowledge about how it all works and some of the history of its use on Japan in WWII.

NOVA - Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold - Interesting chronology of the inventions that brought us ice and air conditioning.

Global Warming: The Signs and the Science - This didn't really tell me anything I hadn't already heard before about global warming...but it was weird coming from Alanis Morisette.

GLBT Movies

Big Eden - Meh. I seriously doubt every in a small Montana town would be hooking up the gays, so I didn't buy it. Besides, there aren't any hot guys in it.

Almost Normal - Meh. Back to the Future goes gay when this aging queer gets transported back to his high school to face his secret crush, though this time everyone's gay. I can see why some might like this one, but it didn't do much for me.

Sugar - The guys were kinda cute, but it was hard to watch with all the drugs and prostitution. It was okay, but it's not something I'd keep for any reason.

Open Cam - I remember seeing this at [heartless, corporate giant movie rental store] and was too embarrassed to rent it. The main character was really hot, but he was about it IMHO. Besides seeing him half naked most of the time, it was hard to watch at times. I'm just glad I stuck it out to see the ending.

Mysterious Skin - Though this one, too, was uncomfortable to watch at times, it was very realistic and well worth the insight. It's a believe able story surrounding a touchy subject that I think they handled well. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a pretty good job, too.

Boys Briefs - I don't know why I thought this might be good. The acting is corny, cheap, and cheesy. Looks like they spent a good weekend filming on a home camera. And, no, I don't plan on renting the other 18 volumes, thank you very much.

The Color Purple - "You sho' is ugly!" LOL Yes, I'd never seen this one. Watching it, I was wondering how on earth this was a gay movie. It wasn't until afterward when I thought about it that it kind of made some sense.

Happy Endings - This may or may not be a "gay movie," but there are two gay couples, and there's a kinda hot gay make out scene at the end. It's a tangled web of lives that all intersect at the end. There are lots of well-known actors in this one, too.

Defying Gravity - Here's a touching story about a couple of frat guys who are only just seeing each other when of them gets gay-bashed and put into a coma. The other has to come to terms with his relationship with the boy, his frat's homophobia and his own sexuality. That's quite a lot to deal with at once if you ask me! Definitely worth seeing.

New Movies I Want to See

Let me know if they are any good!

The Happening

The Dark Knight

Sex and the City