Hated 'Titanic'. Loved the sinking scene.

Love 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', hated 'Guess Who?'. Bleh. (Watched it on a flight from MA to CA. Bleh.)

'Ghost World' is a cool movie. I liked it. I loved the song at the beginning 'Jaan Pechann Ho'. I have it on my iPod.

I loved 'Spiderman 2', 'SW:ANH" and 'Return of the King'. I can't watch 'ET' anymore - burnout. I loved Jennifer Saunders in 'Shrek 2'.
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We watched Shopgirl a few nights ago. I liked it. I'm a big Jason Schwartzman fan, but I've liked him better in other movies. Claire Danes was fine and I've always had a soft spot for Steve Martin. I enjoyed the sparcity of the film. Not spectacular, but good enough.

Yeah, that opening scene was great.

Except I can't do that head shaking dance thing she does. When I break into her dance moves, I get dizzy spells. :D


Oh, I love 'Rushmore'. That movie is so much fun. That was Jason Schwartzman, right?

I've never seen Titanic. I have seen Ghost World 'cause I dig Thora Birch.

Ghost World was mostly great. I had a particular interest in how they portrayed her, as I also didn't go to college after high school, didn't get a job right away, and felt rather disaffected for a while. Not to mention feeling completely seperated from the interests of the stupid sheep around me. Spot on.

The relationship was awesome. Buschemi is amazing. I can't imagine making money off of being creepy and not killing myself, but he pulls it off, and well. I love him but I'd never touch him ;)

It was a bit slow in parts but I'd totally recommend it as a great offbeat movie.

I love how the taste of the movie-going public gets so much better if we account for the fact that movies cost $12.50 now vs. $0.50 then. I don't love every movie on the adjusted-for-inflation list, but note how there's not a single sequel or remake in the top ten.


I'm not a hater of Titanic. The story is cornball melodrama, but I just take it as a story in the style of the era being portrayed. I'm too big a Titanic geek to not appreciate the faithful recreation of the ship and the astounding way in which the sinking was portrayed. I've come to love the film more since the recent DVD release, which has some deleted scenes (one big action scene in particular) which I think actually make the film better ... albeit a bit longer.


As bad as Phantom Menace was (and it stank like last year's fish), it was Citizen Kane compared to the horror of Revenge of the Sith.

And Return of the King was a freaking mess. That series let me down so much. If only Fellowship of the Ring would have been the travesty that I expected of it. But, no. It had to go and be the most frelling awesome adaptation of LotR I could conceive. And the films went downhill from there. By the time of the last one, which made the most money and won all the awards, the series had devolved into trash. This might have been expected if the films were lensed consecutively. But bits and pieces of all the films were shot concurrently, and it's a mystery why the first one was so great, the middle was pretty bad, and the third one sucked curdled beans.



My movie pick of the week: A History of Violence. Sheer brilliance.

Sitting in my entertainment center, unopened are:

The Usual Suspects
Office Space
The Virgin Suicides
Garden State

And did you know they are making yet another Fast and the Furious? None of the original. And notice how very little of the cast has names while much of the cast is credited as "cheerleaders" or something similar.

Nick Barcelona .... Raver on the Street
April Betts .... Cheerleader
Lucas Black .... Sean Boswell
Daniel Booko .... Clay's buddy
Brandon Brendel .... Clay's Buddy #1
Zachery Ty Bryan .... Clay
Stefanie Budiman .... Cowgirl
Max Charles .... Stilts
Greg D'Agostino
Caroline de Souza Correa .... Isabella
Drew Michael Gallagher .... Student
Ashika Gogna .... Cheerleader
Nikki Griffin .... Cindy
Henry Jaderlund .... Jacob
Sung Kang
Masa Kanome .... Tea-Hair Gang
Nathalie Kelley
Keiko Kitagawa .... Reiko
Jamie D. Knee .... Cheerleader
Branden Weslee Kong .... Skateboarder
Masami Kosaka .... Announcer
Collin Leonard .... Blackie
Tara Louise .... Cheerleader
Joan May .... Blonde Ghetto Girl
Sandra McCurdy .... Model
Danny Ray McDonald II .... Bully #3
Leonardo Nam
Tyler Nelson .... Mascot
Eriq F. Prince .... Navy Working Class Officer
Trey Sanford .... Bully
Lindzi Scharf .... Cheerleader
Amber Stevens
Don Tai .... Basher
Brian Tee .... D.K.
David V. Thomas .... Clay's Buddy D
Dennis P. Thomas .... Egghead
Jason J. Tobin
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Bow Wow .... Twinkie
Jade Wu .... Tea-Hair Gang
Stuart W. Yee
Leila Zia .... Cheerleader

Oooooh, The Usual Suspects was my movie pick-of-the-week three weeks ago. Love it.

A History of Violence was pretty good but only because of Maria Bello. Take out her character and I don't know that I would have been much interested. A couple months later and I'm still working it out in my head what was going on with her.