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Movie #49: Sleepless in Seattle
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
And why wasn't her fiancé more upset? Like, really. -
Movie #48: Lost Boys
The Lost Boys (1987). Yes, I'm an oddball for having never seen it. I expected it to be crappy teenage schlock, but I was pleasantly surprised at how awesome it was. This film is an object lesson in "show, don't tell." Although, I admit that they do "tell" quite a bit as well. Still, great performances, great writing, great direction, great editing ( Read more... ) -
Movie #47: A Soldier's Story
I watched A Soldier's Story (1984). It was kind of earnest and overblown in that way that movies made from plays often are, but it was a movie made great by all the wonderful performances. I found Adolph Caesar's performance particularly captivating.
And it was my second Denzel Washington movie that day, after Cry Freedom, which I can't report on ( Read more... ) -
BSG
I'm not suggesting I could have written a better finale for Battlestar Galactica. But there were a few things that really ruined it, and I would have changed those, if I could have.
( A different ending. Spoilers ahead. ) -
Wishing for organization and communication is too much, it seems
At least municipal public servants are generally nice, because the organizations they're a part of sure aren't organized. No offense to anyone who works for any of them. You have great hearts, but there aren't organized people above you giving effective management.
There was a fire at 02:45 at the corner of Edmonton Trail and 41st Avenue NE (a map ( Read more... ) -
Movie #46: The Notebook
The Notebook (2004) was a good movie. A little pat at the end, but overall, very enjoyable ( Read more... ) -
Movie #45: Taxi (2004)
Taxi is the 2004 Queen Latifah comedy that pretty much everyone agreed sucked. However, I do disagree with Ebert on one account: he disliked the car chases for being too unrealistic. However, I loved how they were filmed. Sweeping crane shots that must have been done out of the back of a moving camera truck, the precision moves of the stunt drivers ( Read more... ) -
Blogging from the bus
I'm on the Red Arrow bus right now, posting to my LJ. Nice leather seats. Coffee. Cookies. However, still a crabby bus driver. But you get that anywhere, right?
I'm watching Queen Latifah's Taxi right now. I'll post more later.