Monthly Archives: September 2003

——Waking Life—— (B+) This is a good film that could have been great had the plotting of the film been a little tighter. At first glance that sentence doesn’t really make much sense, since as a movie about dreaming the … Continue reading →

——Antwone Fisher—— (B-) This film was interesting, and yet very, very boring. The progress of the film was back breakingly slow, the dialog was said usually in whispers or hushed tones, and by the end I was having trouble keeping … Continue reading →

——Through a Glass Darkly—— (A) This 1961 Ingmar Bergman film is quite an amazing and beautiful film, shot perfectly with rich black and white compositions shot with natural lighting and using excellent use of depth of field. In it a … Continue reading →

I just remembered, I had two weird dreams last night. In the first I was climbing/walking down a mountain with Mike Marlin. He was ahead of me and stepped down this rock formation. I tried doing it in a little … Continue reading →

Is this not the coolest movie title ever? Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine Awesome! I’d see that. Also, more proof that I’m scary obsessive. —-2003 Movies Seen: 204 New Movies Seen: 120 Movies Seen in the Theater: 33 —-August … Continue reading →

Just in case there are any of you who don’t already do so, check out this blog: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/ It is frequently hilarious. ——Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers—— (A) OK, let’s get the bad out of the way to … Continue reading →

——The Doors—— (B) Watching this film is like getting a little too drunk or high: it starts out feeling great, you start grooving out to everything around you, but eventually you realize that you are really fucked up and you … Continue reading →

Besides watching lots of movies and writing about them I also went down in the basement yesterday and found my freshman year film textbook, The History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook, and I’ve been reading all the chapters … Continue reading →

——Nicolas Nickleby—— (B+) Like a cute puppy that you say you can’t take home because you don’t have the money or the space or the time to take care of it, Nicolas Nickleby will so charm the pants off of … Continue reading →

Did you know that they now have a Lego set where you can do ALL of the following: —You can land on the landing pad of cloud city after being accosted in the air by the cloud cars (sold separately) … Continue reading →