Omg he'll drink your milkshake. Really, he'll do it. I think there may have been a good movie here. But all I remember is that he'll drink your milkshake.
This was disappointing to me because I wanted the whole movie to be like the fantasy scenes on which the trailer focused. Also "Pan's Labyrinth" became a pronouncement of intention to crush a man's face with a bottle as was done in this movie.
I watched with in a theater in Bakersfield with my mom. I don't know if it was a rerelease or late after the release or if this is all they did in Bakersfield, but I seem to remember that it was only playing on this one screen in town and it was an abnormally small one.
I really enjoyed the animation and the fantasy of the whole setting.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)Releases on 2003-12-17
I saw this with Tim and his wife at the tail end of its theater run. Cute movie and the first half or so is another good example of how much can be communicated with no verbal dialog.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)Releases on 2001-12-19
I read half-way through the books, quit for a while, then finished right before this came out. I actually like the movies better. I enjoy all three movies, but one notable thing about this one was much fun it was that everyone around me was really into it at the time. The fact that the girls I was friends with and girlfriend at the time were drooling over the actors just added another reason for everyone to be enthusiastic and want to keep rewatching it. So yeah, fun times. :-)
The main thing I remember about this movie was that it had very pretty color. And I think I watched it with a few other people in the common room of our floor of my freshman dorm.
I remember getting mad because I was watching this at Alyson's house with a group where half of the people were really interested in the movie and the less interested half were making it hard to hear and enjoy it. Regardless it was fun. I always looked for more meaning in it than I was able to find though. But it created a great atmosphere and was a lot of fun to watch.
The joke is obvious but it's also the truth: I watched this movie over and over and over. This was one of a handful of movies we rewatched frequently growing up at my dad's house. I love Bill Murray and I love this movie.
I remember choosing to <i>not</i> watch this with Brett, then watching it maybe a year later and thinking I was stupid for missing out on it. Cool movie!
Probably spoiled for anyone who didn't see it soon after it came out, but a well done twist made this fun. Plus there's the iconic "I see dead people" line.
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
I was surprised to realize I had not actually seen this. It seemed like I must have, so I had already marked it as seen. Really really shows its age at this point, but still a decent movie. The second is much better though. Part of the problem is I already know everything about this from 2 sequels and part of a TV show. Glad I made sure I had seen this before T4 comes out.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)Releases on 2003-07-02
Pixar movies are pretty great. They do a great job of making either a kids movie that adults can enjoy or just a good movie which happens to be acceptable for kids as well.
That was a fantastic movie. Visually very pretty. The kid and the dog are a great counterpoint to the old man. Not many movies manage to be so happy and kid -friendly and actually be so amazing. I walked out of the theater happy!
I think this is one of the finest remakes ever. I saw the original Infernal Affairs several years prior and loved it. But this version was excellent in its own right.
I think I watched parts of this in my Physics class in high school, then came home and watched the rest. I think there was no justification other than that Mr Loritz just wanted to watch the movie.
There's so much that is cool about this movie. But mostly the impact of the reveal the first time you watch it. The sort of Sixth-Sense change where you can then rewatch it as an entirely different experience.
A lot of elements were over dramatized, like how the music in the beginning sounded like it should be at the climax of a movie... but I really enjoyed it. Later in the movie the sudden music went well with jarring scenes. Fun all around.
I remember thinking this was a really cool movie back when I watched it at Nick's house in high school. To be honest I can't remember much about it now, just the feeling that it was really cool... and seeing Spacey suddenly stop limping...
That was excellent. Brad Pitt is amazing as a crazy man and I always love Bruce Willis. Everything about the future scenes was so Terry Gilliam, although I was surprised to see no midgets. Time travel and insane prognostications blurring the lines between hallucinations and reality? Yes please.
Also, the creepy distorted "Merry Christmas!" at the end of her message was sampled in a very spooky sounding remix of Mario 64 haunted house music. I never knew what it was from until now, but I have always thought it was one of the most creepy distortions possible.
Not a bad movie, but since I was in junior high when this came out, I can only associate it with fawning girls. Though I don't think that was really limited to junior high.
This is an awesome movie. I had seen most of it before but bit by bit on tv. Finally watched it all together and liked it even more. See you at the party Richter!
I am very much a Star Wars fan. I've read about 40 books, played a handful of games, and seen most of what there is to see. There were some summers growing up where I was mostly watching the Star Wars trilogy and playing Mario 3.
2011-02-26 - Watched Star Wars Begins, the excellent fan-made documentary.
The "Choose life" intro sticks in my head. Crazy movie. I think I watched it because my high school English teacher Mr. Ruff had a poster of it. Come to think of it, I wanted to watch all the movies of which he had posters on the walls. That was the first movie list I aspired to complete, but I transposed it with the IMDb list because ease of access and significant overlap. Hmm.
We watched this movie in Mr. Ruff's English class as part of a style comparison of this and another western of a much different tone, Shane. For me, the style of Unforgiven comes down to the line "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." This was the first Western I have a distinct memory of watching. Prior to this I just had a vague assumption that I didn't care for Westerns, but this and a few others put me on the road to realizing how awesome they can be.
Especially in the beginning, some of this was really hard to watch because it was through his perspective and his vision would dim, his eye would wander, and of course he would blink a lot. But then there are worse ways to spend time than watching beautiful women smiling and making eye contact while reciting the alphabet in French. Interesting movie overall.
I remember thinking halfway through watching this movie that it had built a very interesting situation. And then it just lost my interest. It built an interesting world though. The death of the worlds youngest person in the beginning immediately grabbed my attention.
I watched this in my 9th grade history class. Liam Neeson back when his only power was being German. No force, no lightsaber. But seriously, this is a serious movie. I don't remember much of the specifics at this point, but watching Life is Beautiful more recently made me think of watching this.
I loved this movie. The only problem was it gave me a more specific scenario for my general paranoia to latch on to. Clearly my life is full of people behind the scenes watching and manipulating my life. If I tune my radio just right I might be able to hear their radio chatter...
I watched this and only thought it was ok. I found out later that the Director's Cut which I watched was lacking the narration of the original. I often really enjoy narration in movies and might have enjoyed this more if I had a clearer understanding of what was going on in some parts. Maybe someday I'll have to rewatch the original version.
Fantastic movie. Many good quotables. I tend to rather watch something new instead of rewatching anything, but if I see this on I'm completely unable to pull myself away.
I like Stewart, but I did not care much for this movie. Especially in comparison to other Hitchcock films I've seen: An ever increasing number as I go through the IMDB Top 250.
My parents (divorced) got in an argument over this movie. My dad wanted to take me to see it, but my mom, more strict at the time, didn't want it to happen. At some point she finally gave in, but then we had to go see it in the cheaper, crappier theater. It was still amazing, of course. And as Bob can attest, at any given time my dad's house on Mountain Oak probably had the DVD of this or Fifth Element playing. It's too bad they never made any sequels to this. <i>None. Never.</i>
I have mixed feelings about this. The style was very cool: they did a pretty good job of creating the feel of live action anime, and the choreography was good. But a lot of points throughout the movie were confusing. I think it is because they were trying to rush through a series worth of story in a movie length of time.
Also, the creator of of the Class Real Mindfuck Movies list seems to associate anime influence with mindfuck movies. I would say this was just anime-level weird, and not really mindfuck style.
Initially saw this in the theater with my dad and felt a little let down by it. I now think that might have been because I was watching it with him and knowing that he couldn't appreciate it.
Sometime later I rewatched the second half of this with another perspective and it was amazing.
Brad Pitt was fun but Col. Landa (Christoph Waltz) was great. Some of the violence was pretty gruesome even considering it was Terantino. It made me remember having read someone comparing the Nazis watching Nation's Pride cheering the violence against the Allied soldiers to the audience cheering the violence on screen against the Nazis. Anyway, the inferno was pretty impressive and the face projected on the smoke was creepy cool.
It was super exciting to go see this in the theater. I had watched other Tarantino movies over the previous year or two and introduced them to Brett sometime after we met. And seeing a movie like that in a theater down the street from a university makes for a fun crowd.
