Treasure of the Sierra Madre is wonderful, and I've found it's a good "starter" classic for younger people wary of anything made before they were born.

Speaking of declining standards on cable channels - we happened to watch most of Little Miss Sunshine today on A&E (still one of the best movies of recent memory and among the best films I've ever seen period). The commercials were for A&E's shows, including Paranormal Cops, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Hoarders, Intervention...it's just shocking. Whatever happened to Arts and Entertainment? I'm reminded of a joke in an old Wayne's World sketch - "A&E is the WWII channel". Hmm, not so much anymore.

No one should have to sit through a Dog the Bounty Hunter commercial, much less an episode. Talk about hitting a nerve... I find his show personally insulting. A big idiot not from here trying to talk pidgin. Like Edward Scissorhand's "hands" on a chalkboard.

I can never watch feature films on TV if they're censored and cut up for commercials. I feel so strongly that I want to send GD and CP a DVD copy of that movie so they can enjoy it properly.
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I love Hoarders and Intervention.

Wouldn't watch it for the first time there, but we saw Little Miss Sunshine in the theaters, so this was just a rewatch to pass a Saturday afternoon.

Hope you were inspired. You have a few years to get Theo into pageants before it'll be obvious he's the wrong gender.

Just watched the original 3:10 to Yuma. I liked the remake a couple years ago very much and I like this one very much as well, and in different ways.

I liked this bit of dialogue:

The Evil Dead was mentioned in another thread but I'll mention it here. I saw it was available by Netflix streaming (though II and Army of Darkness are not). So I watched it since football is boring me.

Did not like it. Which isn't much of a surprise since straight up horror movies have never really done anything for me. I know the humor element is ramped up in the sequels so I'll still eventually give them a shot.

But this one was just boring screaming, splatter, and early '80s makeup effects. For people who can like that I can see why this is such a cult classic, though.

Part II is the best, Alex. It's basically a revisionist history do-over of part 1, but with lots more comedy :)

Oh, in other news, I'm usually not an idiot about what's happening in a movie.

But it was only in discussion afterward that Lani and I realized that the ending of The Book of Eli had gone completely over my head.

Also, if you think you're interested in seeing it I would recommend avoiding ANY discussion of the movie. There's an obvious movie reference to be made and simply seeing it referenced will immediately spoil the movie.