Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[CoasterMatt]

I think after the Ducks game tonight, I'm gonna watch Turkish Star Wars.

[Not Afraid]

We saw Children of Men last night. It was a decent film and I enjoyed it - and Clive Owen is hot. I always seem to treat any story having to deal with the future as pure fantasy, so I'm not effected in the same way as I am with films that deal in the past .

[Not Afraid]

Netflix has used copies of Howl's Moving Castle on sale for $7.99.

[Gemini Cricket]

I second that Clive Owen is hot.

[CoasterMatt]

Who's Clive Owen?

[Perle]

Clive Owen on IMDB. He is hot!

[CoasterMatt]

I was just kidding... I met him just after the premiere of Children of Men, and it was kind of awkward cuz he looked familiar but I couldn't think of his name.

[Perle]

LOL. I shoulda realized. Well? Was he just as hot in person?

[Alex]

Let's see. The recent watchings.

Surf's Up. My MousePlanet review here. Recap: went in with low expectations and was very pleasantly suprised.

Brewster's Millions. The vagaries of life resulted in us no longer getting the $60 cable package at the $13 price. Of course, now we are used to the $60 package so I had to kick in, and while kicking in might as well get the basic digital package so now we have On Demand. Used my inaugural On Demand viewing to watch this. Stupid movie but I got a kick out of it when I was a kid.

Whispering Smith. I believe this was Alan Ladd's first western, from 1948. Ladd is, as far as I'm concerned, the Ben Affleck of the 1940's. I just don't understand the appeal he had for people. But it was a lot of fun to watch Robert Preston chew up the scenery. It is always interesting to see actors etched in my brain as old being young.

The African Queen. On the big screen at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto. Some sound issues and one really bad splice. I'd never seen the whole movie in one go (though I'd seen most of it in pieces) and I'd forgotten what a fun movie this is. It starts off pretty weak but, pardon the pun, builds up quite a head of steam by the end.

Oceans 13. Much better than the second one but still pretty pointless. I found it too predictable and too choppy for the style to come through (though it still did at points) but Lani had a lot of fun with it.

The Fortune Cookie. The first pairing of Matthau and Lemmon. It is interesting to think that I watched Whispering Smith form 1948 in Technicolor and The Fortune Cookie from 1966 in black and white ('66 was the last year of separate Academy Awards for color and b/w). Not a great movie and pretty much everybody in it is completely hateful with nothing to redeem them but when Matthau gets in a groove he was a thing to watch. Was surprised that "bitch" was used freely and had to remind myself repeatedly that it was 1966 even though my brain kept wanting to put it back a decade.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

Let's see. The recent watchings.

Surf's Up. My MousePlanet review here. Recap: went in with low expectations and was very pleasantly suprised.

I heard a review of it the other day that actually kinda make me want to see it...

Brewster's Millions. The vagaries of life resulted in us no longer getting the $60 cable package at the $13 price. Of course, now we are used to the $60 package so I had to kick in, and while kicking in might as well get the basic digital package so now we have On Demand. Used my inaugural On Demand viewing to watch this. Stupid movie but I got a kick out of it when I was a kid.

I'll admit to liking it, though I doubt I'd sit through it again having seen it twice.