Urban Cowboy(Netflix)
Joe liked this a little more than me, although I didn't dislike it... I just thought the end wrap-up was a little too easy. I was very interested in the first half of the movie, and then heros became heros and villians became clear cut....
Ghost World(collection)
I have seen this before... but it really hit me this time. I felt a little less unique in the world when aenid pulled out her journal and it looked like one of mine...at least the cover. .....But I really felt something.... some connection. I understand watching the people who are odd fits in the world and kind of falling in love with them.
Wayne's World II I didn't like this.
Slumdog Millionaire
Midnight Hour
Arthur C. Clark Strange Powers - Stigmata episode
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Memorial Day Weekend
My Bloody Valentine (remake)-Netflix
There have been many "in name only" re-imaginings of 70's and 80's horror films..... and I try to view them for their own merits, but, I won't lie, I find myself naturally drawing comparisons to their namesakes.
The My Bloody Valentine remake took more than just the title from the original film. It followed the same basic story, and the three main characters in the movie keep a similar relationship. Having common ground it is difficult for me not to see how the two movies match up. And when I do compare them, this new movie falls way short of the original.
I don't want to boil everything down to I liked it or I didn't like it ..... If I have to pick I would say like it. However, I find it pretty forgettable .......and I might just be old ..... but there is a modern sensibility in horror movies that I don't find myself attached to. There was a lot of nice gore and nudity ,( I don't say that as a backhanded stab,I really like sex and nudity and violence playing off of one another in fiction). However the story seem bogged down in clever...and wrapped around some idea of reality... and it broke away from some of the formal experiences I really enjoy and appreciate about the slasher genera.
My Bloody Valentine-(Collection) Joe and I watch this movie every year for Valentines Day and that tradition means more to me than cards and flowers.
Staying Alive-Netflix
Two of a Kind-Netflix (direct download)
Way back when, I saw this movie in the theater because I was obsessed with Olivia Newton John. Even at the time I was disappointed with the movie.... but there were a few scenes and songs that pulled me through it, and I came out liking it enough to watch it every time it played on cable. So .... after watching Grease I convinced Joe that we should put it on the cue.....
It wasn't so good, I kind of thought that nostalgia would carry me through it .... but it wasn't absurd enough to be fun, or bad enough to be cheesy. It just wasn't so good.... and it was pretty boring to watch.
Wayne's World-Netflix
Impulse-Netflix
Prowler- collection
The town that feard sundown-
There have been many "in name only" re-imaginings of 70's and 80's horror films..... and I try to view them for their own merits, but, I won't lie, I find myself naturally drawing comparisons to their namesakes.
The My Bloody Valentine remake took more than just the title from the original film. It followed the same basic story, and the three main characters in the movie keep a similar relationship. Having common ground it is difficult for me not to see how the two movies match up. And when I do compare them, this new movie falls way short of the original.
I don't want to boil everything down to I liked it or I didn't like it ..... If I have to pick I would say like it. However, I find it pretty forgettable .......and I might just be old ..... but there is a modern sensibility in horror movies that I don't find myself attached to. There was a lot of nice gore and nudity ,( I don't say that as a backhanded stab,I really like sex and nudity and violence playing off of one another in fiction). However the story seem bogged down in clever...and wrapped around some idea of reality... and it broke away from some of the formal experiences I really enjoy and appreciate about the slasher genera.
My Bloody Valentine-(Collection) Joe and I watch this movie every year for Valentines Day and that tradition means more to me than cards and flowers.
Staying Alive-Netflix
Two of a Kind-Netflix (direct download)
Way back when, I saw this movie in the theater because I was obsessed with Olivia Newton John. Even at the time I was disappointed with the movie.... but there were a few scenes and songs that pulled me through it, and I came out liking it enough to watch it every time it played on cable. So .... after watching Grease I convinced Joe that we should put it on the cue.....
It wasn't so good, I kind of thought that nostalgia would carry me through it .... but it wasn't absurd enough to be fun, or bad enough to be cheesy. It just wasn't so good.... and it was pretty boring to watch.
Wayne's World-Netflix
Impulse-Netflix
Prowler- collection
The town that feard sundown-
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