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10
Jul

King Kong – original version

We saw the trailer for the new King Kong movie from Peter Jackson coming this December. I didn’t know anything about it other than it was happening and I was excited to see that it is set in the 30s like the original. In fact, it seems like it will be a better made (effects-wise […]


10
Jul

Dark Water

Today we went to see Dark Water because Nicole likes ghost movies and I like movies in general. If you’re looking for a scary movie, this is not it. It’s not even really suspenseful or creepy. The acting is fine in it, there’s just no zing. Of course it’ll probably only be around another week […]


10
Jul

War of the Worlds

Nicole and I saw this yesterday afternoon. And it was pretty good! (Spoilers here) I like that the look of the invaders is pretty close to what’s in the original novel (at least as far as I can remember). I like that Tom Cruise isn’t very heroic. I like the scale of the things and […]


03
Jul

Wimbledon (the movie)

I just saw this at Julie & Fish’s house and I have to say that it was pretty good. Did you like Bull Durham and/or Tin Cup? Then you should like this movie since it’s like those except made by the English and …I won’t say. It was advertised as romance and drama, but they […]


27
Jun

I just finished reading Revenge of the Sith

The Revenge of the Sith novel I think it the longest of the novelization at just over 400 pages. It’s alsot he one that strays from the movie the most I think. I like reading the novelizations because you generally find out what had to be cut from the script. In this case it looks […]


24
Jun

Stripes

Last night I watched Stripes for the first time since before college? It’s been a long time. I bought it because I remember liking it and it had deleted scenes. Image quality isn’t the greatest, no remastering of the film print here. You get all the grainy glory of a 1981 film. So how did […]


20
Jun

Little Black Book

Saw this on Friday night. I’m not sure why it received such a low rating on the imdb. There are so many worse movie and this one is pretty fun. Especially when they are speaking in Ks. I guess the main complaint people might have is that the ending is a little weak. Something a […]


14
Jun

Garden State

What a fine and funny film! I really liked how you could see him wake up as the movie progressed and the drugs lost their hold over him and he found new things to enjoy. I know a sequel wouldn’t be the same, but I’d like to see what happens next to these characters. If […]


03
Jun

Star Wars – A Musical Journey

I finally watch this DVD that came with the CD soundtrack for “Revenge of the Sith.” This is a cool video! It leads you through all 6 movies by musical themes with video and bits of dialog showing each part. Each video can draw from the 6 movies and aren’t necessarily shown in the order […]


27
May

House of Wax

Tami and I just went to see this to see Paris Hilton get killed. We ended up seeing a movie that wasn’t nearly as bad as reviews would say. It does take a little while to get started but it’s faily interesting once it gets going. It’s never really scary, just interesting and looks cool. […]

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