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I watched US Marshals again on TV. I have to get the DVD because I can't stand all the stuff that they cut out. Oh, and I have to get The Fugitive too.

Currently, Hellboy .

Fun movie.

A Nightmare on Elm St. : I'm glad it was a hit and the saga started but for me is VERY so so. I don't find it scary or that good for that matter. The "music" is just loud and noisy ann there's nothing particularly scary about it.

After watching the original, I've now seen The Producers (2005) twice and love it! My first reaction was that the story changes and the addition of the music all worked wonderfully but that the acting (particularly Matthew Broderick) were fine but weak in comparison to the original. I still agree with that, but I had a more positive reaction to the acting performances on a second viewing. Absolutely hilarious and wonderful music. I enjoyed this as much as any other movie from 2005.

Lord of the Flies (1990) - Some of the acting was decent and there were some good shots, but this was more or less a bastardization of the fantastic book... the director/screenwriter took all sorts of liberties, which would have been fine if they were for the better, but they weren't at all. Underdevelopment, a very slow place and an abundance of pointless scenes kept this from capturing the novel's spirit.

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit - I always thoroughly enjoy myself when I watch this... one of my all-time favorites and I of course know every word. I watched it with a friend who also knows every word (and 2 others who don't... it was fun for us but probably not so much for them).

-Aaron

Just saw The Family Stone two nights ago. It was much better than I was expecting and very enjoyable. I'll be getting it once it comes out on DVD!

A Nightmare On Elm. St 2

... A Nightmare On Elm. St. 3 ; just starting

AWallaceUNC, you should watch the original "Lord of the Flies" from 1963. It follows the book a lot more closely and doesn't have the cop out ending that the 1990 version did. I think you will like it a lot more.

We watched a couple of just plain old popcorn movies:

Under Seige with Steven Seagal and Gary Busey with a fabulous supporting cast headed by Tommy Lee Jones. No great shakes as a movie but just plain enjoyable to watch.

Hard to Kill, probably the best of the movies that Steven Seagal made in his early career. I like the story, though it is predictable, and the cast is pretty good.

dvdjunkie wrote:AWallaceUNC, you should watch the original "Lord of the Flies" from 1963. It follows the book a lot more closely and doesn't have the cop out ending that the 1990 version did. I think you will like it a lot more.

Yes, I plan to soon, and I'm looking forward to it. Glad to hear another voice of support for it in comparison to the 1990 one.

-Aaron

Today I watched Ghostbusters and Spaceballs, two of my favorite comedies with Rick Moranis in both.

A Nightmare On Elm St. 4.

I've decided to watch them all (except for NEW NIGHTMARE because I already watched it recently).

So far after so many viewings:

... first part: very so so, can even say boring.

second part: although breaks with all the rules of the saga... it still entertaining.

third part: even though it is one of the best, I'm kind of getting tired of it.

NEW NIGHTMARE: very good, and well crafted movie. However, because t also breaks with what the series s all about (and because is longer) is one with the least replay value.

A Nightmare on Elm St. 5

One of my favorite of the series.

I think EGJ is having a marathon

The jacket

is not that bad, and fortunatelly even when it uses the formula of "The butterfly effect" itsn´t that weird or dizzy

I was watching Aliens last knight. The original is always the best if you know what I mean.

Freddy's Death: The Final Nightmare; always a favorite of mine; aside from the actual ending.


Spirited Away; an AWESOME movie. Can't wait for March and the new Ghibili batch; although I need to but the other ones... this last one looks to be the best of all.

I just watched Red Eye. I liked it even though I haven't been enjoying those types of movies lately, it kept me interested.

War of the worlds(the new one)

I buyed a new HT and I needed something loud to try it, I was thinking on LOTR or something with lots of bullets, then I think
"Let`s hear Dakota Fanning yell the hell out..."
the bad thing...it wasn`t so funny to the cops who arrived to my home because thought something was happening

Currently watched:
The House of Usher (1960)
A truely a great horror film starring Vincent Price and Mark Damon. This movie was based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. Wow! This film is truely amazing! I've never seen that Vincent Price was truely remarkable. Wow, just wow!
The good thing is we're going to read that story in English class next week.

I forgot to mention that I watched Mortal Kombat the other day.

I really like it, and the soundtrack is great. I mean, very well done techno music.


PS

I guess I'm going to watch Anihilation now. Yeah, I know is bad but the soundtrack is very good as well and the movie came free with the first part.

Yesterday was one of Westerns for me, though neither squarely fit into that category...

The Left Handed Gun - A decently entertaining but ultimately misguided movie. I wasn't all that wowed by it, to be honest. Underdevelopment and lack of direction/clarity may or may not have been intentional, but different for the sake of being different isn't always such a great thing and it didn't work.

Brokeback Mountain - I really wasn't sure what to expect here, but
I pushed aside all biases and expectations for the actual viewing and the final verdict is a positive one: overall, I liked it. The story is compelling, regardless of the value judgments surrounding the events, and the acting was absolutely incredible, fully deserving of an award. The movie itself (nor the director, the score, or the song), however, is not. It's not earth-shattering or all that touching, and it suffers from some severe pacing problems. As for all the baggage... clearly, this movie was made with an agenda somewhere behind it and takes a stance in the culture war. That's okay, even if I disagree with where it ultimately falls, so long as it doesn't pretend to be something else... though it wasn't quite the bold stance for the legitimacy of homosexual relationships that I had expected (but maybe a little more graphic than I thought). It does bother me, however, that the HFPA (and I'm sure the Academy will too) will look at this movie more favorably because they see it as an advancement of an agenda and not necessarily on its own merits.

Semi-spoiler: Now let's see how much work Disney gives Anne Hathaway in the future.

-Aaron

Just finishing Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero. Not a very good movie but still entertaining.

The worst of these movies is: Mystery of the Catwoman.