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PeterPanfan wrote:Hairspray(2007)-Great, as always!

I had to watch it again after you mentioned it

plus I watched Hamlet (1948). And I can easily say Laurence Olivier is better than Kenneth Branag.

I saw "College Road Trip" today- I loved it. I don't understand why it's getting bad reviews (I haven't read any reviews, but I read that it's getting bad reviews), or why it's not in the top 5 movies for last week or this week. I had heart, it made me laugh (a lot). It was great, and I will definitely be getting the DVD!

Fantasia, I haven't seen this film in a long time and I decided to watch it. Totaly enjoyed the Night on Bald Mountain, Dance of the Hours, Nutcracker and Wizard's Apperienteince

1) I'm planning on seeing The Game Plan since it's just opened in theatres here. Mind you, I have absolutely no interest in the film - I'm only paying to watch 'How to Hook Up Your Home Theatre' before the start of the feature. Of course, while I'm there I might as well watch Dwayne fool around.

2) Amy, I'm really not surprised CRT got scathing reviews. Its trailer quite obviously made it look just like any other dumb comedy. I haven't seen it yet (and won't be able to even if I wanted to for now, seeing as it doesn't look like it will be opening in Malta for a quite some time), and I just don't really feel interested in it I'm afraid. Sorry Disney!

3) A quick question. Is there any logic behind the release dates of films outside the US? In Malta some films are released much later than in the US (ex. Ratatouille in November 2007), and some are released on the same day as the US (ex. Meet the Robinsons opened here on March 30th last year, just like in the 'States'). I have a feeling that in Malta our films are released on the same days as the UK, but I'm not entirely sure. I wish someone could confirm it for me.

My little sister showed me "Across the Universe" last weekend, which she is totally in love with. I didn't fall in love with it. It was okay, that's all I can say for it. To me, the story was just lacking something. The characters fall in love in a rather ho-hum way, and are torn apart just the same, and get back together just the same. No big moments or anything, in my opinion. At a couple of parts, you wonder if someone is dead or has been killed or whatever, but it's not used to any great effect. On top of that, the songs used were often lesser known Beatles songs from their less upbeat stuff. They're more suited for a musical but also less thrillingly recognizable for the casual fan. And, frankly, I've just never been that interested in films/shows/etc... with the Vietnam war backdrop. It's just something that has always turned me off. Still, there's some great singing and some beautiful moments, and it's worth a watch, but overall kinda bland. Just okay in my opinion, and "Hair" is much stronger in every way, even though I don't like hippies either, ha.

Wasted my $7 on "College Road Trip" this weekend and it's another 85 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Martin Lawrence plays the same character he has played in almost every movie since "Big Mama's House", and who ever told Rayven-Symone she could act just misguided her career in the dumpster. This movie was terrible, and I should have paid more attention to critics' reviews of this one. If this is "the don't miss comedy of the year", I hope more people miss it, so Disney has to come up with something more original.

If any of you have plans on seeing this horrible movie, I know that I am only one person, but take my advice and spend your hard-earned money on something a little more enjoyable - like "Penelope", or even go see the "Miley Cyrus" concert film again, even at its worst, it is ten times better than "CRT".

dvdjunkie wrote: Wasted my $7 on "College Road Trip" this weekend

It's interesting how people have different opinions of anything...I don't think I had ever seen Martin Lawrence in a film, so I can't say anything there, but I like Raven's acting...I thought that she was very believable as her character! I really, really loved CRT!

But, I'm glad you shared your opinion!

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 - Pure genius. It makes you think, but not to the point that it makes your head hurt,
unlike a lot of films under that genre. Tarantino is amazing, and that's really all there is to it.

Received "The Neverending Story" in the mail today from a friend. Hadn't seen it in years! I still find "Fantasia" a creepy place and Bastian a bit annoying, ha, but it was overall a better film than I though. However, when he was supposed to give the Empress a new name, I couldn't hear the name he came up with through all the thunder, and so I turned to the subtitles and it wasn't there either. I'm guessing we're not supposed to hear the name? They seemed to make it clear that it was supposed to be his mom's name though. Anyway, a pretty good '80's fantasy flashback experience. I wonder whatever happened to the strikingly lovely actress who played the empress. I'm amazed I didn't have a crush on her as a kid.

Also watched the Incredibles again at my niece's request. Still my favorite PIXAR film, though Ratatouille was amazing.

National Security (2003) - I don't really like Martin Lawrence at all. But, I liked this movie. It wasn't very funny. But as an action buddy comedy, which is a subgenre I never like (especially the Jackie Chan + Owen Wilson movies), it was very exciting and - whatever this is - entertaining. It kept my attention and I found myself groaning very little. Which is astounding.




The Eye (2002) - Before any remake, you should always see the original. Except in this case, I would advise most people to skip this one. At it's best, this is one exceptionally boring Asian horror film. I couldn't really tell whether the emotional stuff was working, but I did care about the characters, so - points for that. But there's also a lot of CGI in the movie. That, I am sure, never works. The film, though emotional, is never scary. It lacks a credible threat, until the ending, which actually throws in a scene of mass-affecting (big group of people) supernatural horror for the fact that they didn't have one anywhere else in the movie. The buildup is unbearable, the movie is overlong, and the "fake" first ending which you think is the true ending is terrible. The film also looks like it was made for television. Don't know why, but that does not help the film at all.

How the West Was Won (1963). I guess this was meant to be the Western to end all Westerns but the story is sometimes confusing and I started losing interest at the beginning of the final generation's story. That changed once the final train chase started and this was entertaining as a whole (especially when Robert Preston shows up) and I did really like it.

Outbreak- We had to watch this in science class. It was disgusting at parts, but I really liked Rene Russo's character.

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Definitely one of my top favorite movies. Possibly number two after Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I know Raiders is the better film, but I am way into toons.

Chicken Little.

Like Home on the Range I didn't hate this as much as I did the first time around. I'm still no fan, but I don't hate it anymore. I guess I'm indifferent about CL. It did get bumped up a few notches on my ranking list though. It now ranks 35th, up from 39th, overall.

re-watched the creepy



Because the last time I watched it, which for whatever reason I do more frequently than any single human being should, I remember getting this great vibe of the film being this ultimate nightmare portrayal of modern pregnancy. A great act of terrorism on "normal" couples having a baby that would turn anyone with a choice off from the experience. But of course that's not really what the movie's about. The movie is really about... nothing. And is very open to interpretation, just because the filmmakers were big names back then. But really, this is the kind of film that helps provide a solid argument that Home Alone was awful and Mrs. Doubtfire was a fluke. Chris Columbus must have been insane to make this movie. A big-budget American film, with Tom Arnold in it no less, about one of the most controversial subjects around, with a British guy in the lead, stabbing all the people they were catering to with Mrs. Doubtfire in the back... unless this is honestly not a misguided, half-assed satire of yuppie life - which the "Arnie loves you" scene blatantly suggests.

But at the same time, I scanned it for quality, and found some. Other than, of course, the very funny scenes after the Rebecca character goes into labor, there are some weirdly effective emotional moments too. The most important one being the final scene with Hugh Grant dancing with the baby.

It's freakishly uncomfortable but it's also a film that fires bullets with no names on them. Everyone is terrorized in this film. The only thing that could have made this movie better (in that regard), is if they had thrown in the Scrubs mentioned idea that women in labor... well... for lack of a better description: can't control their least appealing post-digestive bodily functions. Is it a fact? I don't know, but: Scrubs said it.



If there's any intelligence in the film, it's probably a mistaken inclusion.

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I also watched the second half of The Lake House with Sandra Bullock, which I haven't seen the whole way through. I didn't care enough about it to restart it.

101 Dalmatians (1961)- Great! I hadn't watched this forever, so it was a great watch!

Sky High was on The Disney Channel last night, so I watched it again. This is still a great feel-good fun movie. I really like it. I may get it on DVD someday...

I watched The Lion King last night- great as always!

The Princess Diaries
Just a real feel-good movie, funny, sweet and starring the fabulous Julie Andrews.

re-watched a few horror movies I really like:


Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)



American Psycho (2000)



Bride of Chucky (1998)