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June 2008

Movie Blog
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Dark City Movie Review spoilers!

June 29, 2008

Freaking hilarious Dark City review. She totally gets the ending. TOTALLY. And she gets the trailer, too, which is both the best and the worst movie trailer ever—the best, because it has the BEST. SOUNDTRACK. EVER., and the worst because it gives away half of the story and looks dorky as hell with the Copperplate Gothic and the sickly-green clouds. But the SOUNDTRACK. The soundtrack is win.

(And yes, this is turning into the Dark City Movie Blog. At least until the director’s cut comes out. Hey, if you think it’s bad here, take a look at my del.icio.us account…)

Alex Proyas Interview: Dark City Director’s Cut and More

June 24, 2008

“I’m really happy with it! You’re allowed into the world more and you have more time with its characters. Literally almost every scene has another line of dialogue or stuff at the beginning or end. Some people may not notice a difference, but I think you should still feel a difference.” OH BELIEVE ME, I will notice a difference. And now I need to go stock up on junk food and soda, because I am planting my ass on the couch and not getting up for at least a week when I get the DVD—which, by the way, is now available for preorder at Best Buy. (I’m torn—should I preorder, or should I give myself the pleasure of buying it the day it comes out? Also the Freeway DVD I ordered got kind of battered in the mail, so I’m a little wary of letting my most favorite movie ever get its beautiful new self all bruised up by UPS.)

The Quiet American

June 22, 2008

Details:
2002 / R /
Genre: Drama

Rocked my freakin’ socks—but then, I have never been disappointed by a Graham Greene story. Brendan Fraser always surprises me; he seems like a total lightweight at first glance, but has some real acting chops under that puppy-dog face. Also: second best Awkward Love Declaration scene ever (with the first place going to The Last Great Wilderness, of course).

No More Netflix Profiles

June 16, 2008

Starting September 1st, Netflix will be eliminating its Profiles feature. For my household, this means that we won’t be able to have our own individual movie queues; we’ll have to share one and arrange our movies very carefully to make sure everyone gets the film they want. I assume many other families are in the same boat, as well as individuals who like having separate queues for different genres. The only reason I can see for this move is that Netflix wants to eke every last penny out of their subscribers (and boost the subscriber count while they’re at it) by not-so-subtly encouraging their customers to purchase a separate subscription for each family member, rather than saving money by having a household account with multiple queues. Methinks (and mehopes) their plan will backfire, with numerous customers preferring to eliminate a disc from their multiple-discs-at-a-time subscription rather than deal with the hassle of one profile for multiple people. It’s just a theory, but I can’t think of any other reason why Netflix would mess with their fine-as-it-was setup.

And I haven’t even begun to discuss how this will affect the rating history of my family’s subaccounts. Suffice it to say that I’m loading the Blockbuster site right now to see what they have to offer…

The A.V. Club Review: The Happening

June 16, 2008

“The spectacularly ill-conceived, tension-free The Happening will have audiences on the edge of the their seats, contemplating whether to bail out early or see Shyamalan’s latest grab-bag of ineptly executed bad ideas through to the bitter end.” As if anyone really expected better after Lady in the Water. I used to be a (very) mild Shyamalan fan—hated The Sixth Sense, but thought Signs was a solid flick, and The Village wasn’t as bad as everyone made it out to be—but then that last movie of his came out, and it is the worst. Movie. Ever. Seriously—it made The Wicker Man remake look like Citizen Kane. Which means that, in a sick and masochistic way, I kind of want to see this new Shyamalan flick, just to see if he can top (bottom?) the badness that was Lady in the Water.

Cloverfield

June 11, 2008

Details:
2008 / R
Genre: Science Fiction

Not as bad as I’d expected, but not really good, either. J. J. Abrams has quite an ego to imply he’s made the definitive American monster movie; you can’t make a monster into a Godzilla-like icon unless you show the monster, and there’s not a single good close look at the thing in the entire movie. (Which actually is fine by me, since it’s always scarier not knowing what’s after you.) The characters were very cardboard, and the plot was entirely predictable. It was fun to watch once, in a trashy Blair Witch-meets-Godzilla kind of way, but it’s not the best monster movie I’ve seen lately—that would definitely be The Host.

Buying: Freeway and The Killing Time

June 9, 2008

Details:
1996 / R
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Barnes & Noble is having a buy-2-get-1-free DVD sale, so I picked up Freeway and The Killing Time for $9.99 each, and my husband got Sphere for $12.99. Now I can look forward to owning two of my favorite creepy films (which also happen to be two of my favorite Kiefer Sutherland films)! Yay!

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