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We were supposed to go catch this special anime show that had come through the movie theater, but on the night we decided to go, it was out.
He was taller than me, black. His name was Michael, we were in chemistry together. We looked at each other, looked at the movies that were available, and the one that was coming on soon was The Ring. He bought the tickets (I'm pretty sure) and we went and sat down.
I loved the music, and it was the first thing I really noticed. I thought the way the movie was shot was really beautiful, and I was genuinely creeped out.
The movie starts with two girls, Katie and Becca, being teenage girls. Gossiping, talking about a fun weekend, and discussing a video- a video that when you watch it, you have seven days to live. Katie reveals that she's seen this movie, nearly seven days ago.
Unsurprisingly, she is killed.
Cue Rachel Kellar and her son, Aidan. Katie was Rachel's niece, and Rachel (a reporter) begins to look into it. She watches the tape and gets the inevitable creepy phone call, but so does Aidan's father (her ex) and Aidan himself. That's when things become intense.
Rachel scrambles to find out who made the tape and how to prevent her son from dying.
It's really a very simple plot device, probably based off of those 'pass this on to ten people in two days or you die' chain letter you get in your inbox.
At the time I found the movie moody, and driving home I was checking my rearview mirror. I was also thankful that I didn't sleep in a room with a television.
I've watched it several times since, and it still holds up as a pretty damned scary movie. The scene, the one everyone talks about, where Samara crawls out of the television set- if I think about it too much, I get wigged.
I think it was a good movie, and it's a good kick off for my favorite month of the year.
September 26th 2008 01:57
Oh, this movie started out so well.
Bangkok Dangerous is a movie about an assassin who does everything by the rules, leaving no trace (except he has a bad habit of not wearing gloves whilst handling weapons, which means he's leaving fingerprints behind) and caring about nobody.
The movie starts off pretty good, with Joe laying waste to several people. I sort of was under the impression that it was going to be a cool action movie.
Er, no. It kind of is. I mean.. well, yes and no.
I was really undecided about this movie, and this was a movie where there was too much story, I think. My biggest nit-pick is that Joe has a bit of a romance with a Thai deaf-mute whose name means 'rain'. This could work, if the lead actor could act. But Nicholas Cage has two or three different faces, and they probably all have names.
It kind of creeped me out, there was no meaningful communication between Joe and his romantic interest. There actually doesn't seem to be anything in common- there was no chemistry, and that's SUPER important when the romantic interest does not speak.
There was an interesting dynamic between Joe and his errand boy Kong, who eventually sort of becomes his student. But this dynamic doesn't get leaned upon, and that's a crying shame.
There's no real tangible point to the movie, it starts and goes nowhere fast. Save your money, stay in and put on one of your favorites.
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September 24th 2008 17:11
I am currently combing my shelves and I really wanted to talk about this movie before October really gets here. Anybody who reads regularly knows I have a thing for horror, and although I'm trying to get away from that a little bit... when October comes, I'm probably gonna do a lot of horror. Halloween is my favorite time of year.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a movie about a couple, John and Jane Smith (it'd only be better if they were named Doe), who are having marriage problems. John Smith is played by Brad Pitt, and Jane played by Angelina. They're both bored, and the marriage is definitely on the rocks. Part of it is because secretly, they're both well-paid assassins.
And interestingly, this was something that was very obvious. There was no plot twist, and if you watched the trailers then you knew what this movie was gonna be about. Mostly, kicking face.
This movie is more a comedy, with constant back and forth between John, Jane and sometimes John and Eddie (a lonely Momma's Boy and fellow assassin played by Vince Vaughn).
I'm kind of interested in what they did with Angelina's make up, because while she was gorgeous, there were moments where she looked distinctly unlike herself. Interesting.
There's action, including an S&M laced fight scene between John and Jane (with the song "Express Yourself" in the background, I found that amusing). There's several explosions, lots of guns, but mostly the film is about a couple. It's amusing, entertaining, and has enough action to satisfy.
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September 20th 2008 19:22
I've been tossing around whether or not I should talk about this for a while now, because I like this trilogy. Really I do. But I kind of... don't. It's tricky. So I plan to ramble for a while.
Because I don't want to be a spoil-sport, I'm discussing the whole trilogy including pertinent plot points. If you still haven't seen them, then you want to avoid this
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September 17th 2008 18:02
I know it gets a lot of flack, but I find this movie... entertaining. It's nor more/less lame than any of the older Bond movies (in fact, that's the point). Same cheesy and impossible action sequences, a plot that doesn't make much sense on reflection, really bad bad-guys, sexy co-star (Asia Argento!)... I don't think it's a good movie, mind, just entertaining.
Of course, I feel the same about Die Another Day
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September 14th 2008 02:37
So, part of my early birthday present was to go out and buy some cheap movies. One was XXX (the Vin Diesel movie), we bought The Grudge, Resovoir Dogs, and Phantom of the Opera.
I watched Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera last night. When I finished, I started it over, and was up until 2 in the morning re-watching Phantom
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September 13th 2008 01:21
This movie just came out on DVD here (Tuesday, as a matter of fact) and we watched it. My boyfriend picked it up and we sat down and watched it- and maybe I missed this in the trailer, but we sat down expecting... something else. I guess we thought it was some kind of martial arts epic.
Michael Angarino stars as Jason Tripitikas, a dorky skinny white dude who's way into old Kung Fu movies. He goes to an old pawn shop run by Old Hop (Jackie Chan in make-up). While he's in the middle of getting his scrawny white ass roundly beaten by the gang of larger 'mean boys', he's knocked off a building... and into feudal Japan. Or something- I guess maybe it's the Forbidden Kingdom, it kind of reminded me of the Celestial Bureaucracy in the video game Jade Empire, if you've played that you probably get what I mean
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The very first review I did to for Orble was to talk about one of my favorite movies ever, The Princess Bride. Since then, I've been meaning to hit up a few other movies that I watched as a kid. I watched the Princess Bride often enough that I have it memorized. The same goes for another childhood favorite, Labyrinth.
Directed by Jim Henson, Labyrinth is a coming-of-age tale set around Sarah, a spoiled teenager who lives with her mother, step-father, and half-brother. The movie opens in the park, where Sarah is reciting lines from a favorite play- until she gets to the one that she always forgets. Sarah is played by a young Jennifer Connelly
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Produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, this Spanish flick tells an atmospheric and chilly story.
Laura, her husband Carlos, and her child Simón move to the orphanage where Laura spent her childhood. Laura has the intent of re-opening the orphanage as a small group home for special children, and has the place re-vamped with this goal in mind
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I've been slowly trying to make my way through the Masters of Horror series, and I had this one recommended to me by a friend of mine. I decided to wait to watch it until after I'd read the Lovecraft story by the same name, in order to have a good comparison.
This short (52 minute) movie is about Walter Gilman, a college student played by Ezra Godden, who moves into a room in an inexpensive and old creepy house. His room has an odd corner in it, being so close to the attic, and he's working on a string theory about a way angles can lead from one 'membrane' to another. Chelah Horsdal plays his next-door-neighbor Frances, who also has an infant named Danny
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Martian Movies
*sigh*