18 July 2005
Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yesterday: great movie. A lot has been written of Johnny Depp’s performance being reminiscient of Michael Jackson. Um, no. And further: who cares? It wouldn’t take away from the movie if he did. This is definitely a Tim Burton movie: the visuals are fantastic, cartoonish, and a little eerie. The performances [...] Read more »
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10 July 2005
Hey, memes are fun. Some are invite only, but this one doesn’t seem to be. Take the top 100 grossing movies: italicize the ones you’ve seen, bold the ones you liked. Appears I liked the ones I did see. I was surprised to see that there are roughly a quarter of the films I haven’t seen. I’m [...] Read more »
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12 June 2005
You done laughing? Let me tell you how I choose to see a movie, before you start laughing again. First, I have to be generally interested – that’s changing and getting harder to do as I get older. Second, when the movie comes out, I’ll read Roger Ebert’s review. He’s a candy man: he likes [...] Read more »
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20 May 2005
I saw the final episode in the second trilogy of the Star Wars Saga today. I liked it; it was a good end to the abysmal trilogy, and it filled in the only back story that anyone cared about: how Darth Vader came to be. I’d say that Lucas could have escaped all that ridicule [...] Read more »
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8 February 2005
I watched Ray on the weekend as part of an effort to see all the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars. I enjoyed the movie but I can’t figure out if I liked the movie or the life and the music of the man the movie tried to portray. I’m tending to the latter, implying that [...] Read more »
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