YOUR year of living OCD - Page 2

More or less... Except it seemed you had some kind of expectation with Captain Ron. I expected Old Dogs to suck. It was still worse than I could have possibly imagined.

Are you referring to the scene where he comforts his mother or the scene where he speaks to the masses?

I actually really liked this movie a lot.

.....

Your "discovery" of the Death Wish series is heartening. Shame you weren't sold on IV. I admit it isn't quite as exhuberant as III, but it still has the delightful "sandwich" scene and that gem where the amazingly lifelike mannequin of Danny Trejo is blown to smithereens in one of the true highlights of 80s cinema.

Not to mention:

I TOLD you... I WARNED you, I'd KILL her. I TOLD y-- KERBLAMMMM!!!!

Finally got up over 200 movies seen this year. Currently at 168 new viewings.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...kQ&output=html

The mother scene. I couldn't believe someone got away with putting that in a mainstream comedy.

That scene just makes me think of the film that could have been. It's really brilliant. The rest... less so.

That scene is great for several reasons. It keys you in right away on what the "message" of the movie is. Also, it's genuinely moving. And it also shows that Ricky Gervais is more than a persona. He's actually a very good actor. The whole movie is a showcase of this. The scene towards the end where he's morphed into a fat Jesus and he's trying to convince Jenny Garner not to marry Rob Lowe is also very good.

I will accept any criticism that says the movie could have been better directed. It lacks almost any sense of style and feels like a sitcom pilot. But the writing and acting are, for the most part, very solid. Louis CK disappoints. But he's not a very good actor in any case. Just a terrific stand-up.

Don't forget to eat!

I'm just editing my initial post as I add films. You'd never hear from me if I did it in batches of 20...

Jesus christ, Tati. How's the colostomy bag holding up?

(also, good work)

I'm never going to have time to watch as many as Tati, but I have found that keeping a list has for some weird reason motivated me to watch more movies. I'm only averaging two a week but that's way up from where I'd been. The list is a nice reminder to keep up.

Solid plan. I hope you're not getting fucking huge over there, but it's impressive to see you go after so many quality films. I'd want to let them marinate a bit myself, but whatever works for ya.

Yeah, I worry you're becoming a sedentary blob watching five movies a day.

Watch French Connection on DVD, not Blu-Ray.

Friedkin insists the Bluray is an accurate representation of what the movie should look like. So what's wrong with it?

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1127075

The bleeding red is especially heinous.

Tati, How do you watch all of these? Is there some kind of Argentinian Netflix? Serious question, I'm just trying to work out how to watch more movies without paying shedloads of cash.

If you rent all these individually it must cost you a bomb.

Here's my last ten, fell off a bit this week:

60.Crime And Punishment In Suburbia - fucking horrible
61.1990: The Bronx Warriors - Rewatch. Castellari does dystopia. Pretty stupid, but stylish.
62.Angels In Disguise - Pretty sure Mean Streets is like a Nolan-ized version of The Bowery Boys. Like Abbott & Costello with pistol whippings.
63.Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All – “lost” animated film from 1979. I love rotoscoping.
64.Daybreakers – my second favorite film set in 2019.
65. Telefon - Don Siegel and Charles Bronson. Compelling story, Bronson doesn't DO a whole lot.
66. A Clockwork Orange - first rewtach in 17 years. It's politically and sexually juvenile, but what a beautiful looking and sounding film. Truly a musical!
67. Flash Gordon - rewatch. The colors, man. The COLORS. Great cast, and Sam Jones.
68.Five Easy Pieces - Rewatch. The end of the Sixties, the beginning of nihilism. A sympathetic portrait of a man shedding his humanity.
69.Dog Day Afternoon - Rewatch. So deceptively simple. For some reason I was near tears for most of the running time.
70. The Monster Squad - First rewatch since the 80s! If I were five years younger, this would be my Goonies.

I'm late to the parade, I guess.

Started a list on my laptop yesterday called "Movies Watched, Starting July 2, 2010". I'm planning on going until at least July 2, 2011, of course. (By the way, my list does count movies I've seen before. My goal is to get to 500 films again this year. I had a light schedule last year and did nothing but watch film, but it was the year I really, really fell in love with film.)

So, my list starts like this:

1. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage - Excellent. As an enormous fan already, this just solidified everything I knew.
2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - I knew I should listen to the Chewers more often. Fucking awesome.

I'll only update in lists of at least 30 from now on.

Bumped.

WHERE EAGLES DARE? It's lying on the floor in my bedroom.

Kurosawa's STRAY DOG tonight (#112). Updated my list on page 1.

Oh Man, if you haven't seen the The Apartment then you owe it to yourself to get on that ASAP.

I'm a sucker for It's A Wonderful Life.

But...but....it's July.

Only the end is set at Christmas.

NOTORIOUS! The film that inspired MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II!

Ten more:

71.Miami Vice - Sizzle > Steak
72.Cyrus - Nowhere near as broad as depicted in the trailers. There's a bumpy third act shift but it's a sweet little story.
73.St. Ives - Bronson is all breezy fun one last time before Cannon turns him into the 80s angel of death.
74.Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein – one franchise’ best meets several franchise’s worst.
75.Scarface (1932) – X marks the spot! Surprised at how much of a remake the remake was.
76.Black Dynamite – probably made Tarantino jealous
77.Amer – Giallo homage that missed the pure joy of film the real ones had.
78.Confessions of a Superhero – compelling but I felt like I was laughing at real pain and real issues a little too much.
79.Inception –
80. The Phenix City Story – weird blend of film noir, redneck revenge flick, and documentary. Very unusual film, incredibly harsh in parts for 1955.

Why the blank spot after Inception, Phil? Still mulling it over?

Yeah. I'm real curious to see if the blockbuster has turned (or walked up, wokka wokka) a corner with that movie. But I'm still thinking about its place in a list of movies I watched this year.

Reading these makes me regret not starting my own at the outset of this year. I really think it'd be the kick in the pants I often need to watch more films.

ETA: And then I could write a witty sentence regarding my thoughts on Pollyanna. I know. I know.

Wow Tati, you're really tearing through these movies.
As much as I would like to watch that many, I like the films to "marinate" as Phil mentioned earlier. Just kind of percolate in my brain.

Here's my list so far (I'll leave out the comments, since their kind of dopey "Amazing! Whatta classic!" type stuff):

1.Julie and Julia
2.Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
3.Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
4.Gunga Din
Commentary: Rudy Behlmer, film historian
5.Inside Deep Throat
6.Inside Man
7.Lord of the Rings, The: Two Towers (Disc Two)
8.White Lightning
9.Hostel Part II
10.Casino
11.Where the Wild Things Are
12.Vampyr
13.World's Greatest Dad
14.Gremlins
15.Don't Look Now
16.Get Smart
17.Cape Fear
18.High and Low
19.Escape From New York
20.Little Shop of Horrors
21.Year One
22.Who's That Knocking At My Door
23.Rebel Without a Cause
24.Mars Attacks!
25.99 River Street
26.Big Sleep, The
27.Do the Right Thing
28.Howl's Moving Castle
29.M
30.Phantasm
31.This Film Is Not Yet Rated
32.Red Shoes, The
33.Charley Varrick
34.From Beyond
35.Peeping Tom
36.Iron Man 2
37.Surrogates
38.Torn Curtain
39.General, The
40.Beyond, The
41.Rules of the Game, The
42.Dirty Harry
43.Get Him to the Greek
44.Defending Your Life
45.Batman Returns
46.From Here to Eternity
47.Frankenstein (1931)
48.Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
49.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
50.Observe and Report
51.Brokeback Mountain
52.Last Airbender, The
53.Splice
54.Inception
55.Apartment, The
56.Pusher
57.Jeepers Creepers 2
58.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
59.Inception
60.Blue Velvet
61.D.O.A.
62.La Dolce Vita
63.Scott Pilgrim vs The World
64.Rolling Thunder
65.Cube
66.Zatoichi's Vengeance
67. The Big Racket

My pace has somewhat slowed the past couple of months. I'm too lazy to post comments.

112.The Mechanic
113.48 Hrs.
114.Back to the Future
115.Lives of Others
116.Back the Future Part II
117.Maniac
118.Back to the Future Part III
119.Witness
120.Iron Man 2
121.Training Day
122.Land of the Lost
123.40 Year Old Virgin
124.Night Moves
125.Dolores Claiborne
126.Glory
127.Crimson Tide
128.Food, Inc.
129.Fright Night
130.Primer
131.Them!
132.Funny People
133.Bad Taste
134.High and Low
135.Street Fight
136.Cobra
137.Death Wish
138.Robin Hood
139.District 9
140.Werewolf of London
141.Used Cars
142.Manhattan
143.Thieves’ Highway
144.Hotel Rwanda
145.Quantum of Solace
146.Ginger Snaps Back
147.The Long Goodbye
148.The Seven-Ups
149.The Man Who Knew Too Much
150.World’s Greatest Dad
151.Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
152.The Maltese Falcon
153.Candyman
154.Black Snake Moan
155.Confessions of a Superhero
156.Emperor of the North
157.A Nightmare on Elm Street 4
158.A Nightmare on Elm Street 5
159.From Paris with Love
160.Gone Baby Gone
161.The Special Relationship
162.Freddy’s Dead
163.Daybreakers
164.Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
165.The Gauntlet
166.Three O’clock High
167.Inside Deep Throat
168.Big Fan
169.The People Under the Stairs
170.Lolita
171.Never Sleep Again
172.Wild at Heart
173.Get Shorty
174.Mr. Majestyk
175.Red Desert
176.Kind Hearts and Coronets
177.Zombieland
178.Crank
179.Assassination of Richard Nixon
180.Amistad
181.Sea of Love
182.Night Falls on Manhattan
183.The Crazies (2010)
184.Seven Days in May
185.The Last Boy Scout
186.Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
187.Silver Bullet
188.Mister Frost
189.Revolutionary Road
190.The Thin Blue Line
191.A Single Man
192.Speed Racer
193.Descent Part 2
194.The Hurricane
195.Book of Eli
196.Angel Heart
197.Inception
198.The Hustler
199.Cinema Paradiso
200.Jennifer’s Body
201.Taken
202.The Fountain
203.Death Wish 2
204.King of New York
205.Reds
206.Predators
207.Hot Tub Time Machine
208.Cujo
209.Star 80
210.Hard Times
211.Panic Room
212.Dracula’s Daughter
213.Cat’s Eye
214.North by Northwest
215.Hi, Mom!
216.A Prophet
217.Orphan
218.Heartbreak Ridge
219.Tailor of Panama
220.Following
221.Lady in White
222.Death Wish 3
223.The Final Destination
224.Black Book
225.Princess Bride
226.A Bullet for the General
227.The Expendables
228.Heathers
229.The Informant
230.Christine
231.The Box
232.Felecia’s Journey

Latest batch:

81. True Believer – rewatch. Fun late 80s courtroom potboiler. Great score.
82. Winnebago Man - The director is too present, and tries too hard to separate himself from the people laughing at the youtube video. Still compelling.
83. Macbeth - Roman Polanski's first movie after his wife's murder. About as grim as you'd expect, and twice as bloody.
84. Scotland, PA – Flawed but clever and charming.
85. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – Wright is three for three. Loved the influences.
86. The Other Guys - There Goes My Hero
87. Piranha 3D - Why God made 3D
88. Mad Max - Scrappy fun. Gibson's a kid!
89. The Road Warrior – The perfect car chase film, and when the smoke clears, maybe Gibson’s best movie overall.
90. Lethal Weapon – I was too cool for school in 1987, but I’ve come to appreciate it.
91. Animal Kingdom – solid but I was reminded of the dour crime indies of the 90s.

Oh shit you dudes are keeping up with rewatches too? I'm only listing the "new" ones. Up to almost 70 so far!

Many of my rewatches are the first rewatch in over a decade, and in many cases two decades. I'm not listing every time I pop in a commentary track as background audio and the like. And I saw Piranha 3D twice but only listed it once.

Groovy. Not that I'd want my list to have BEE MOVIE on it multiple times, anyway.

Ahhh, this is essentially a movie tracker thread, something I've done for years, in some form or fashion.

So, I'll share my LJ tracker, starting with this past August. If you want to check out this year's prior months, you can access them rather easily through my LJ.

I list all my viewings, and I don't watch movies/shows in pieces or listen to them as background noise. Full, proper viewings.

Here is last month's movie section of my tracker:

August 2010 Tracker

8/02 - Kick-Ass (2010) (DVD) **** "Take cover child! Now, switch to Kryptoniteee!"
8/03 - 'Gator Bait (1974) (VHS) ** Swamp rat, Desiree (former Playboy Playmate of the Year, Claudia Jennings), is framed for an accidental murder and hunted by a posse of inbreds and lawmen, all of whom become hard to tell apart from one another, save for the badges and uniforms. This is your standard rape/revenge flick, done at an absolute crawl. Jennings is short on acting chops and even shorter on her clothing throughout the affair.
Gatorbait II : Cajun Justice (1988) (VHS) * Former G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) girl, Jan MacKenzie, takes over the lead female in peril spot this go-around. This sequel's only merit is that it makes the original look (marginally) better by comparison. MacKenzie is an attractive lady, but one would be better served ogling her fine form on the VHS cover art, instead of wasting their time with this mess.
8/04 - Warlock Moon (Joe Bob Briggs audio commentary) (1975) (DVD) ****
8/05 - Scared to Death (1981) (VHS) ** Bored to Tears. Alien rip-off with lots of cat and mouse stalking filler between hapless actors...er...victims...and a man in a suit....er, The Syngenor (SYNthesized GENetic ORganism), a science experiment gone horribly wrong. Rick Springfield was to play the male lead, but Lady Luck smiled upon him and he was replaced in the eleventh hour.
8/06 - Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) (DVD) ***1/2 "Okay, lay down. We got a stupid baby to make."
Three O' Clock High (1987) (DVD) **** "You know what Mitchell? You're the biggest pussy I've ever met in my life. You didn't even try. How does that feel?"
8/12 - Friday the 13th (Killer Cut) (2009) (DVD) *** Manfredini's music is sorely missed.
8/13 - Friday the 13th (1980) (BD) **** The ending scene, in the canoe, with all the colors from the trees bouncing off the lake water, and "Sail Away, Tiny Sparrow" soaring on the soundtrack, looks and sounds so good on Blu that I was tempted to raise a lighter in salute. A lighter I don't even own.
"Fresh Cuts: New Tales from Friday the 13th" (2009) (BD) ****
“A Friday the 13th Reunion” (2009) (BD) *** Adrienne King can still scream. Bless her!
“The Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham” (2009) (BD) ***
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (DVD) ***
8/14 - Friday the 13th Part III (Anaglyphic 3-D) (1982) (DVD) ***
8/15 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) (DVD) *** The Citizen Kane of Slasher in the Woods films. Trish is tied with Alice for my favorite Final Survivor girl of the series.
8/18 - Piranha (1995) (DVD) ** Alexandra Paul reminds me that I love her not so much for her acting skills.
8/20 - Piranha 3-D (2010) (Regal White Oak Stadium 14 Garner, NC) ** It's like being stuck with a Girls Gone Wild tape that had 12 minutes of a KNB effects reel accidentally taped over it. No exploitation film, with this much nudity and violence (and there is a ton of both), should be so lifeless and limp as this effort.
8/21 - Welcome to Spring Break (1988) (DVD) *** A slasher, incognito underneath a visored-helmet, is electrocuting Spring Breaking teens with his motorcycle. Meanwhile, John Saxon is being John Saxon.
8/25 - Clash of the Titans (2010) (BD) *** Dare I say "Better than the original!"? The CGI is so impressive throughout, that I actually felt that the creatures were occupying the same space as the actors. The Kraken sequence is one for the books. You want a giant monster movie, this is it. The only real quibble is Sam Worthington's anachronistic hairstyle (or lack, thereof), which really sticks out, distractingly so.
8/26 - The Naughty Stewardesses (1975) (DVD) *** Of course a film with the marquee allure of "The Naughty Stewardesses" manages to pretty much deliver everything but the titular promise. Young, naive Connie shacks up at a stewardess pad to start her career with the airline, and is shocked by the sexually open nature of her new sky buddies. Before long though, Connie is out and about on the town, hooking up with a brooding photographer (who apparently is searching for the woman to cure his longstanding impotence), and shacking down with a sugar daddy, who has designs on flexing his pent-up militia skills and basket sex prowess. That this all culminates in a laughable kidnapping/ransom finale didn't surprise me in the least.
8/28 - Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) (BD) *** Solid animation and great voicework really enhance this DC Animation effort. The highest compliment I can give this film is that it makes me want to read the original source material. Looking forward to other works from this creative group.
8/29 - DC Showcase: Jonah Hex (2010) (BD) **** Effectively captures the feel of the comic book with an animation style that I didn't think would. Thomas Jane and Linda Hamilton lend voice work to this great short of Jonah crossing paths with a homicidal woman of the night.
8/30 - Halloween II (1981) (DVD) *** An out-of-season viewing in honor of the Weinstein scheduling prowess.
8/31 - Deep Blue Sea (1999) (BD) *** "Einstein's theory of relativity. Grab hold of a hot pan, second can seem like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a second. It's all relative."
Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin and Samuel Jackson commentary) (1999) (BD) ****
"The Sharks of The Deep Blue Sea" (1999) (DVD) ****
"When Sharks Attack! The Making of Deep Blue Sea" (1999) (DVD) ****


Ratings:

**** = Excellent
*** = Good
** = Fair
* = Poor

All titles in bold represent first-time viewings.

Glad to see DEATH WISH 3 has turned up on at least three lists (including my own).

I will try to continue what I started long time ago.

51. The Lovely Bones – I had way too many problems with the film to enjoy or appreciate it even a little bit.
52. It Might Get Loud – It’s not a great documentary mostly because the concept of getting them all in one room doesn’t really work, but separate stories about them are great. After the film, I practiced my guitar for the first time in many years.
53. Armored – It’s sad that Nimrod Antal hasn’t made anything to rival his debut Kontroll. Great cast mostly wasted here.
54. The Square – Nice little crime film from Australia. It did wet my appetite for Animal Kingdom even more.
55. The Road – I really liked The Proposition, but this one doesn’t really work. It looks great and a few scenes are terrific, but as a whole it left me cold.
56. The Men Who Stare at Goats – A couple of months have passed since I saw it and it seems I have totally forgotten about it, but I remember not having any major complaints while watching the movie.
57. Looking For Eric – It’s pretty good, especially when Cantona and Evets share the screen.
58. The Ghost Writer – Romanski hasn’t been this good in decades. It has been said many time before, but I loved how pleasantly old fashioned it was.
59. A Prophet – So good. Tahar Rahim’s performance is perfect.
60. The Cove – Brilliant and heartbreaking documentary. I really like the way it was put together.
61. Gentlemen Broncos – Not very good, but I chuckled at some of the jokes.
62. Let it Ride – Dreyfuss is on fire here. Actually, the film is still a lot of fun.
63. Shutter Island – It was creepy, scary, pulpy yet appropriately serious. Loved every minute of it. Even the end.
64. Bloody Sunday – Nice to see how Greengrass started using his trademark style. He was still learning it, but emotionally film works.
65. Hausu – Another film I discovered thanks to CHUD. It has been a party favorite ever since.
66. Mister Roberts – It’s pretty good, I guess. Lemmon’s performance was interesting, the ending not so much – even though it made sense and was obvious.
67. Curse of the Demon - It’s enjoyable, but Tourneur has made better films.
68. Spies Like Us – A childhood favorite that still managed to make me laugh all the way through.
69. Detour – All that sexual tension between the main characters really surprised me in this low budget film noir. Really good film.
70. Weird Science – Saw it for the first time. It’s OK, but I have already forgotten about it.