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Just watched The devil wears Prada in theaters. I thought it was a nice flick to watch once, but not a secon time. Anne Hathaway was very good, but there's no, absolutely no plot!!! I ha been looking forward to this one, but now I'm kind of disappointed.
And the "Harry Potter 7" storyline was ridiculous!!! The book isn't even finished yet!!! All in all a nice flick, but I won't spend the money and buy it on DVD.

Mars Attacks. It's funny but at the same time you want to kick ET's ass.

Watching Scream in honor of Halloween. I'll probably finish off the trilogy over the next few days!

Watched Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery with Johnny Weissmuller and Johnny Sheffield. First two movies of the six movie box set The Tarzan Collection - Volume 2. Great classic adventure.

Tonight some friends and I put on our costumes and went to the movies. We saw Saw III and it was the most disgusting movie I've ever seen in my life! Whoever wrote that has serious issues...and I mean SERIOUS.

watched some of Hunchback of Notre Dame before getting bored with it. I liked it better as a kid.

Watched M:i:III - Love that movie.

Plan to see The Prestige, Flags Of Our Fathers or (most likely) The Departed again tonight with some other friends.

Cheers,
JM

Watched Alien and Aliens - both the extended cuts from the "Alien Quadrilogy". Plan on watching the other two later today.

The I am going to get started on the 56 hours of extras.

A hard day's night One of the wonderful Beatles movies!!!!

The Departed - Awesome. If I remember tomorrow I'll elaborate. For now my score: B++

Prince Ali wrote:Tonight some friends and I put on our costumes and went to the movies. We saw Saw III and it was the most disgusting movie I've ever seen in my life! Whoever wrote that has serious issues...and I mean SERIOUS.

Then you'd better step away from "Salo".

Escapay

I just finished Batman Begins - again, I love this movie

and MI3 as well, just great best of the 3

Escapay wrote:

Prince Ali wrote:Tonight some friends and I put on our costumes and went to the movies. We saw Saw III and it was the most disgusting movie I've ever seen in my life! Whoever wrote that has serious issues...and I mean SERIOUS.

Then you'd better step away from "Salo".

Agreed. Anyone who would be offended by a movie like that has no right watching it in the first place. And remember, the Saw series is honestly Pop gross-out / disgusting and there is a level to which one can experience the real thing.

And yes, Prince Ali, do remember to check out Salo - the 120 Days of Sodom before you've quite had the last say on Saw III. I think you'd probably change your mind for certain in the first 10-15 minutes. In fact, I still think A Clockwork Orange is technically more disturbing than any Saw movie.



as for the last movie I saw - I watched Safe (1995, Julianne Moore) yesterday evening... I am sort of in awe. Because it's half a great movie and half a pretty bad one. The movie is about a housewife who gets an illness that her doctor and psychiatrist can't find or tell what it is. Their tests say she is completely healthy, but she is having head pains, nose bleeds, vomiting, long coughing spells, and wheezing attacks. But she sees a flyer at her gym that automatically describes her symptoms and goes to a new doctor only to find out that she has a brand new affliction called Environmental Illness / Chemical Sensitivity. So now she has to change her entire life to protect herself from chemical attacks from gasses and chemically manifactured fragrences. However, she ends up in the hospital when she walks into her Drycleaners and they're spraying for something. In the hospital she sees a TV commercial for an Institution for Chemically Sensitive People called Wrenwood, where she can go to isolate herself in a completely chemical-free environment where she can learn about other people with Chemical Sensitivity and have counseling for the illness, recharge herself, and hopefully learn to cope in the Outside world of total chemical.

However, when she gets there and takes her first class, she learns that... no one really sort of leaves the institution, except dead. The Institution is a lot like a cult that has an entire life philosophy related to their illness. The 'inmates' basically either breakdown emotionally or they become just like the man who runs the institution, Peter Dunning (?), who is a lot like an actual cult leader, convincing the people at Wrenwood that they are only "Safe" while inside the institution, a place where there are also no smoking (??? - that's a chemical, isn't it? Goes without saying, I think), alcohol, drugs, crime, or promiscuous sex, while he keeps reminding them that the outside world is "sinful" and "doom" obsessed so they sort of get paranoid about the thought of ever leaving. All this while, Carol (Julianne Moore) who got sick and went to Wrenwood, she begins feeling sicker but loving the insitution while completely focusing on relocating her "Safe space" at the institution to an Igloo that one of the Dead chemically sensitives had built to isolate himself completely - it's a death sentence because the person is only Safe inside if no one else sets foot inside. Peter the cult leader is also busy telling the people there that they got sick because they wanted to and made themselves sick by being weak.

But none of this can be at all confirmed - because once she gets to Wrenwood for the movie's last 45-50 minutes, every scene has 2 different meanings and 2 completely different tones. This place may be a Cult, maybe not. The movie looks at it all very lovingly while some of Carol's expressions hint that she is honestly horrified to be there at times. At any rate, nothing really makes sense that last 45-50 minutes and the movie pretty much sucks from then on unless you love institution movies, are interested in new age philosophies, or enjoy watching boring movies with almost absolutely no point whatsoever. This is my first experience with filmmaker Todd Haynes, and I think I can SAFEly say, it will also be my last.

Failure to Launch - very good, very funny...

B

Watched Rumor Has It.... and was very disappointed. What could have been such a good movie turned out to be just plain awful.

For an uplift we watched To Die For with Nicole Kidman and just had a good time laughng. This is truly a very good movie and gets better with each viewing.

Santa Clause 3....

Good movie, on Par with the other 2

B

watched the little mermaid last night. I was just in the mood to watch it for some reason.

Dottie wrote:And the "Harry Potter 7" storyline was ridiculous!!! The book isn't even finished yet!!!

That was kind-of the point, Dottie. Priestley knew very well that the book wasn't finished yet-- she was ignorantly using her status to her own advantage, thinking that even if it wasn't finished that she could receive two copies of the manuscript for her daughters before the actual book was even published.

In the novel, I believe it's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that she requests, but, considering the fact that the time since it had been released has increased quite a bit, the screenwriters had to rearrange a bit making it the seventh and final chapter in the Harry Potter series.

*tlm

<b>Saving Face</b> - I stumbled across this one while browsing Netflix. It's the story of a Chinese lesbian, her pregnant mother, and the cultural taboos they must confront. It's different from the movies I usually watch, but I really liked it.

<b>Hocus Pocus</b> - I'm surprised the Disney Channel showed this after Halloween, but I didn't mind. Still good after thirteen years.

<b>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</b> - Bizarre, but strangely appealing. Must be seen to be believed.

Laughed my arse off today when I went with my son-in-law to see Borat. This is a highly offensive, and very funny film, and should be seen by anyone not easily offended. Great laughs, stupid story, but what the heck you laugh so hard, what story is there to tell? Look out for the scene with Pamela Anderson.