so does my sister in law.:eek::D

I know... hard to believe she married a Wonderlin.

-sc

Watched The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [Blu-ray] (2009) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LMV7Q6)
3.5/5
Not as good as the original 1974 film (Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw), but for a remake not bad. The details/history of the plot were sufficiently different to keep curiosity afloat.

Travolta was better in Swordfish, where he hijacked a bus and demanded millions of dollars and played cat and mouse with the cops;
than he was in Pelham, where he hijacked a subway car and demanded millions of dollars and played cat and mouse with the cops.

I prefer him in Broken Arrow where he hijacked a nuclear warhead and demanded millions of dollars and played cat and mouse with the cops

As opposed to him in Face off, where he hijacks somebody's face, and plays cat and mouse with a cop for millions of lives?

Glad to hear he's not type-cast!

-t

What about the punisher, where he played cat and mouse with a former cop after killing his family with millions of bullets?

Watched a couple more with the wife while she was getting her "rest" in..... but based on the above posts, I thought I'd throw in my $0.02


Wife had our daughter at 3:07 this morning....... after 30 hours of no-sleep, I decided to run home, get a hot meal, and some shut-eye..... well.... sure enough, Netflix had delivered the BD of "Transformers 2, Revenge of the Michael Mann"

Holy crap this was long..... and when I say a film is long, it doesn't mean it measures high in terms of total minutes of run-time, I'm talking about how long the movie FEELS like it is..... as if it's never going to end!!!!!!...... Barry Lyndon is a "Quick Flick" compared to this, because despite having a long run-time, Barry Lyndon is a great film!

Anyways.... I'm getting off-track....

I was falling asleep (I was, and still am, very sleep deprived right now..... so that could explain some of it...... imagine watching a World-Series game from start to finish, and then finding yourself watching the next one (currently the top of the 5th) and you've yet to go to sleep..... yeah.... that's where I am!) anyways, yeah, for good reason I was falling asleep, but nonetheless, no amount of of explosions could keep me from CONSTANTLY picking up the remote to find out how much time I had left in this one.....

At one point, I felt like the movie was "Wrapping up" and picked up the remote only to find out I was only 1 hour into the movie, with 1.5 hours remaining..... WHAT!!!!! Isn't this a mindless action movie...... give my eyes a rest, and cut this piece of junk down please!

I didn't like the first one, so I guess I deserved the pain and anguish of watching this one since I was dumb enough to Netflix it......

(I heard so many people defending this one, I felt the need to judge it for myself..... I should really learn to stick to my instincts)

In all honesty.... I wouldn't say the acting and plot were any worse than the first one...... JUST MUCH LONGER! They were equally bad In my opinion.

Watched a couple more with the wife while she was getting her "rest" in..... but based on the above posts, I thought I'd throw in my $0.02


Wife had our daughter at 3:07 this morning....... after 30 hours of no-sleep, I decided to run home, get a hot meal, and some shut-eye..... well.... sure enough, Netflix had delivered the BD of "Transformers 2, Revenge of the Michael Mann"

Holy crap this was long..... and when I say a film is long, it doesn't mean it measures high in terms of total minutes of run-time, I'm talking about how long the movie FEELS like it is..... as if it's never going to end!!!!!!...... Barry Lyndon is a "Quick Flick" compared to this, because despite having a long run-time, Barry Lyndon is a great film!

Anyways.... I'm getting off-track....

I was falling asleep (I was, and still am, very sleep deprived right now..... so that could explain some of it...... imagine watching a World-Series game from start to finish, and then finding yourself watching the next one (currently the top of the 5th) and you've yet to go to sleep..... yeah.... that's where I am!) anyways, yeah, for good reason I was falling asleep, but nonetheless, no amount of of explosions could keep me from CONSTANTLY picking up the remote to find out how much time I had left in this one.....

At one point, I felt like the movie was "Wrapping up" and picked up the remote only to find out I was only 1 hour into the movie, with 1.5 hours remaining..... WHAT!!!!! Isn't this a mindless action movie...... give my eyes a rest, and cut this piece of junk down please!

I didn't like the first one, so I guess I deserved the pain and anguish of watching this one since I was dumb enough to Netflix it......

(I heard so many people defending this one, I felt the need to judge it for myself..... I should really learn to stick to my instincts)

In all honesty.... I wouldn't say the acting and plot were any worse than the first one...... JUST MUCH LONGER! They were equally bad In my opinion.

Congratulations on your delivery! The daughter, not the movie...

At least you know how to get her to sleep if she's crying!

-t

Congratulations on your delivery! The daughter, not the movie...

At least you know how to get her to sleep if she's crying!

-t

Ditto!

Watched Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs last night with the family. Great movie! 4/5. These movies are so well done. Each one is as good as another. The storyline is great. The characters are terrific. I laugh my rear off all the time and they pull at your heart strings! PQ wasn't amazing, Pixar movies are much better in that department, but that shortfall is easily made up by all the other aspects of the movie.

As a side note, I love that Studios have decided to pair SD DVDs with BDs. We only have one Blu-Ray player in the house, but several DVD players. It is nice to be able to watch the BD as a family, but then still be able to stick the kids in the playroom with the SD DVD when we don't want to watch it over and over!

Watched a couple more with the wife while she was getting her "rest" in..... but based on the above posts, I thought I'd throw in my $0.02


Wife had our daughter at 3:07 this morning....... after 30 hours of no-sleep, I decided to run home, get a hot meal, and some shut-eye..... well.... sure enough, Netflix had delivered the BD of "Transformers 2, Revenge of the Michael Mann"

Holy crap this was long..... and when I say a film is long, it doesn't mean it measures high in terms of total minutes of run-time, I'm talking about how long the movie FEELS like it is..... as if it's never going to end!!!!!!...... Barry Lyndon is a "Quick Flick" compared to this, because despite having a long run-time, Barry Lyndon is a great film!

Anyways.... I'm getting off-track....

I was falling asleep (I was, and still am, very sleep deprived right now..... so that could explain some of it...... imagine watching a World-Series game from start to finish, and then finding yourself watching the next one (currently the top of the 5th) and you've yet to go to sleep..... yeah.... that's where I am!) anyways, yeah, for good reason I was falling asleep, but nonetheless, no amount of of explosions could keep me from CONSTANTLY picking up the remote to find out how much time I had left in this one.....

At one point, I felt like the movie was "Wrapping up" and picked up the remote only to find out I was only 1 hour into the movie, with 1.5 hours remaining..... WHAT!!!!! Isn't this a mindless action movie...... give my eyes a rest, and cut this piece of junk down please!

I didn't like the first one, so I guess I deserved the pain and anguish of watching this one since I was dumb enough to Netflix it......

(I heard so many people defending this one, I felt the need to judge it for myself..... I should really learn to stick to my instincts)

In all honesty.... I wouldn't say the acting and plot were any worse than the first one...... JUST MUCH LONGER! They were equally bad In my opinion.

Congrats, Beta Man, but you must really be sleep deprived or you might have resorted to that sure-fire way of avoiding bad movies: the "Off" button on your remote. :rolleyes:

The older I get, the less patient I get with letting a bad movie waste a couple hours of my life. Or the Yankees, for that matter. :cool:

Indeed congrats on hte new addition!

I tried to watch "Alice's Restaurant". Couldn't do it. Turned it iff 15 minutes in.

Scratch another "Classic I feel I should watch for the sake of having watched it" movie off the list...

-sc

well at least you're trying to be well rounded in your movie watching

Watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra [Blu-ray] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NXSRX4)
4/5. I see the amazon reviews are pretty much all over the map.
I never read the comic book nor saw the 1980 series.
The film is basically one CGI-laced battle after another. Gerry Anderson (http://homepages.tesco.net/d.sisson/tbirdpics/tb2hangar.jpg) would have been proud. Unimpressive script and No character development. Lots of faces you'll recognize, even in short bits. You'll recognize scenes from other movies: Black Hawk Down, Star Wars (jedi vs sith), Back To The Future (final fly out), Firefox (the Eastwood movie), etc. I see it's nicknamed "C.G.I. Joe".

You missed one. If you're going to shoot at something, kill it. Otherwise take up knitting.

Indeed congrats on hte new addition!

I tried to watch "Alice's Restaurant". Couldn't do it. Turned it iff 15 minutes in.


-sc

Thanks all...

I happen to love "Alice's Restaurant" I find it heart-felt, and funny at different times..... It might help to be a "Folk" fan too.


With the baby at home now, the wife and I watched "Brick Lane" a Hindi flick about a woman "Stuck" in an arranged marriage, in London.

4/5 My wife kept saying "this isn't your type of movie" but I found the story very strong.


Watched "Night Shift" for the 100th time too..... Needless to say, I enjoy it greatly!


My wife read something in a magazine, and said "Do you have a movie called Salo?" so I said.... "Yeah" now she wants to see it...... I tried to talk her out of it, but whatever she read has her very curious about it...... and this is the woman who said "A Clockwork Orange is a good movie, but it's too disturbing, and I can never watch it again"

I am betting she doesn't make it through the first 20 minutes!

Finally caught up on Mad Men. The wife is completely hooked and we haven't been able to watch anything else the last 3 weeks!

Randy

Wolf creek. Now I understand why it was only $1 at a local overstock store. Not good at all.

Watched Smokey and The Bandit on HD-DVD a couple of nights ago. It had been years since I had watched the movie. I had forgotten how funny the movie was. Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice makes the entire movie. There are so many "one liners" in this movie it is hard to remember them all. 4/5 for sheer humor and a trip down memory lane.

Regards,

RTROSE

Home sick yesterday so I watched a couple of movies.

21 - 4/5 stars - I really liked this movie. Perhaps it is just the card lover in me, but I thought it was pretty good (I really like Rounders too!). Cool storyline, some violence, some sex, and some partying. Oh yeah and they played cards too! I figured out the ending before it happened, but it was probably just a lucky guess.

Nature's Calling: Without a Paddle - 1.5/5 stars - Not a great movie. I laughed a little, but that was about all this movie did for me.

Transformers - 4/5 stars - This is the original one. I wanted to watch it again before I watch the second one (even after you guys all say it sucks :( ). I think I have tweaked my system some (I know I re-calibrated) since I last watched it because it sounded amazing, even better than before. If the second one is as bad as you guys say then I will be really disappointed because the first got my motor going again.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - 4/5 stars - Another good one! Had to watch it again after watching Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs last week. Buck reminded me of Johnny Depp for some reason. :) Other than a few goofy lines and scenes in the movie this has it all. A long movie, but it flows so well that you don't really notice the length.

Watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra [Blu-ray] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NXSRX4)
4/5. I see the amazon reviews are pretty much all over the map.
I never read the comic book nor saw the 1980 series.
The film is basically one CGI-laced battle after another. Gerry Anderson (http://homepages.tesco.net/d.sisson/tbirdpics/tb2hangar.jpg) would have been proud. Unimpressive script and No character development. Lots of faces you'll recognize, even in short bits. You'll recognize scenes from other movies: Black Hawk Down, Star Wars (jedi vs sith), Back To The Future (final fly out), Firefox (the Eastwood movie), etc. I see it's nicknamed "C.G.I. Joe".

You missed one. If you're going to shoot at something, kill it. Otherwise take up knitting.


Was that supposed to be ".4/5"??

Was that supposed to be "4/5"??
That's 4 out of 5 stars. My vote on the movie G.I. Joe watched on BluRay. Your mileage may vary.
Although it won't win any Oscars, and can easily be complained about on a variety of scales that a film critic frequently falls back upon, the non-stop action and abundance of super machines were enough to make the adventure geek in me like it.

EDIT: Did you mean .4/5 (as in 0.4 out of 5) -- that you hated it? :)
That would definately be your mileage may vary. :)

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3 star: (15)
2 star: (7)
1 star: (10)

Finally caught up on Mad Men. The wife is completely hooked and we haven't been able to watch anything else the last 3 weeks!

Randy

My wife and I added it to our rotation via on-demand over the summer for S1&2, and we've watched current for S3. Looking forward to the finale next week. Great show.

EDIT: Did you mean .4/5 (as in 0.4 out of 5) -- that you hated it? :)
That would definately be your mileage may vary. :)



You got it the second time around. ;)

-sc

(The large font sizes make a period look like a square....)

Jerry McGuire: 4/5 stars - Re-watch of a great Cruse/Gooding Jr./Zellwiger flick. All the cast turned in excellent performances, and a great story to back it up. Another plus is that it was filmed when Cruise was sane.

-sc

My girls have been DVRing Superman and Batman the animated series from the 90’s and really getting into. Well they have been home sick all week so I thought I would rent Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (animated) and the original Superman movie with Christopher Reeve both on Blu-ray. My girls and I loved both. With S&B PE it was great to see or hear that the voice actors Tim Daly as Superman, Kevin Conroy as Batman and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor reprise their roles for the movie. The only problem I had was it was too short a movie at 67 min. As far as Superman the movie goes what can I say about a classic that has not already been said. Also, I had no idea what the girls would think having grown up on top-notch special FX, but they LOVED it! I enjoy seeing that a well made movie from any decade can have an audience from any generation.

I've watched quite a few movies this past week... and I just realized that they were all kids movies! Yikes!

Nightmare Before Christmas (BD) - 3.5/5
Haven't watched this in ages, my wife had never seen it, and I heard great things about the blu-ray. We popped it in a few days before Halloween and enjoyed it. It's not the most amazing movie, but at less than 90 minutes it's a quick fun ride through a Tim Burton funhouse. Looked and sounded really good.

Where the Wild Things Are (Imax) - 4/5
As a big fan of Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, I was curious to see how they'd interpret the childrens' classic. In my opinion, they did a fantastic job. The movie was extremely well made. Beautiful cinematography and a good story as well. I also loved the childlike soundtrack by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur (BD) - 3/5
Babysitting for a freind who let us borrow this to watch in our theater room. Not a bad flick for a third-go-round - a typical, goofy, predictable kids movie. (The child we were babysitting seemed to enjoy it alot.)
I was impressed with the video (stunning animation, vivid colors) and the audio (good use of LFE and surround)

Monsters Vs Aliens (BD) - 3.5/5
Another typical kids movie - cute, but nothing spectacular storywise. However, the audio on this was just amazing. Fantastic use of LFE and surround. This was a rental, but I may purchase it just to use as demo material.

Watched "Taken" last night.

Pretty decent action flick.

Randy

Watched a "mixed bag" if you will......

The Bucket List (BD) 3/5 worth a view....had it's moments........ wife liked it. Nothing to write home about, and no major beefs with it.... better than I had expected, that's for sure! (It should get bonus points for narration by Freeman)


Monster's Inc (DVD) it's "on loan" from the neighbors.... Blu-ray has been ordered, as my kid keeps saying "Monster movie! Monster Movie! Monster Movie" 4/5 I think I prefer Ratatouili and some of the other Pixar fare..... but it's a good one.... I love the Harry Haussen reference too........


Madagascar (DVD) it's also "on loan" and also has been ordered on Blu-ray for the same reasons as above!!!! 3.75/5 Has some duller moments.... I keep hearing "The Penguins this...... The Penguins that...." blah blah blah.... the monkeys make the movie! The "Throwing Poop at Tom Wolfe" dialogue is worth the price of the movie alone! All though the "Oh Honey Sugar Iced Tea" was strange to say the least...... I'll have to put this one away when junior starts spelling!


Salo' (DVD) yeah.... I broke out my copy of Salo yet again...... I don't rate this one, because I still don't know what I think of it despite seeing it 8 or 9 times now....... I think it could have been toned down and been just as poignant...... but if it were, would I have discovered it........ who know.... hmmmm


I watched "Protagonist" recently...... and it's a 2.5/5 and as Forrest would say.... "That's all I have to say about that"

carry on!

GI Joe on BR

zomg at redhead in movie. her and Sienna Miller as a brunette are worth watching the movie for.

Its better then TF2 (i know, thats not saying much) and actually pretty decent. basically non stop action. I enjoyed it.

Well its a little late for horror, but i saw Trick r treat, really good and I hope to get the bluray soon.

Haven't watched these ones, but put them on and list a hope to see/buy them soon.
-Let The Right One In
-Martyrs
-Hardware
-Orphan.
BTW not a hororr weirdo, just trying to expand that genre in my movie watching and collecting, and the just passing holiday really got me in the mood.:rolleyes:

Well its a little late for horror, but i saw Trick r treat, really good and I hope to get the bluray soon.

Haven't watched these ones, but put them on and list a hope to see/buy them soon.
-Let The Right One In
-Martyrs
-Hardware
-Orphan.
BTW not a hororr weirdo, just trying to expand that genre in my movie watching and collecting, and the just passing holiday really got me in the mood.:rolleyes:

I wouldn't consider myself a huge horror buff......but I loved Let The Right One In, and bought it on Blu-ray (bad subtitles and all)

Well to surprise me my wife bought Transformers 2 for me. Thanks Honey! 8-) I waded through the film last night. I have suffered twice, once at the theater and now once at home. I still think the film is about an hour too long and the whole movie is much weaker than the first, but I did not find it as butt numbing here at home as I did in the theater. I also think the second is lacking in the "totally awesome" LFE, however this could be due to comparing the SD of TF2 against the HD-DVD of TF1. Any thoughts???? RTROSE rating 2.5/5

Regards,

RTROSE

Just watched Traffic (2000) for the first time. It was the HD DVD version...needed filler for Amazon and it was less than $4. While the transfer could have been better, the movie was very good.

I especially liked the use of filters (orange, blue) based on the location that you were watching. The ending left it open for a sequel and could have been better, but the overall tone of the movie was great. Great buy for $4.

I saw a pretty funny thing the other night. Many here are familiar with the movie Serenity and the excellent Firefly series it's based on. The lead actor, Nathan Fillion, has a current running crime drama series called Castle. My wife and I have been watching DVR'd episodes of this lately and at the very beginning of the Halloween episode, Nathan comes out of a bedroom sporting his Firefly/Serenity wardrobe that I instantly recognized. His daughter asks what he's supposed to be and his reply was "I'm a space cowboy", and you hear that little signature guitar twang from the Firefly series. His daughter says "you haven't worn that thing in at least 5 years." He says, "I like it." I busted a gut and tried to explain how funny that was to my wife, who didn't understand/appreciate the reference.

I just found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI

I saw a pretty funny thing the other night. Many here are familiar with the movie Serenity and the excellent Firefly series it's based on. The lead actor, Nathan Fillion, has a current running crime drama series called Castle. My wife and I have been watching DVR'd episodes of this lately and at the very beginning of the Halloween episode, Nathan comes out of a bedroom sporting his Firefly/Serenity wardrobe that I instantly recognized. His daughter asks what he's supposed to be and his reply was "I'm a space cowboy", and you hear that little signature guitar twang from the Firefly series. His daughter says "you haven't worn that thing in at least 5 years." He says, "I like it." I busted a gut and tried to explain how funny that was to my wife, who didn't understand/appreciate the reference.

I just found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI


That's a pretty cool little nod to Firefly fans...

I saw a pretty funny thing the other night. Many here are familiar with the movie Serenity and the excellent Firefly series it's based on. The lead actor, Nathan Fillion, has a current running crime drama series called Castle. My wife and I have been watching DVR'd episodes of this lately and at the very beginning of the Halloween episode, Nathan comes out of a bedroom sporting his Firefly/Serenity wardrobe that I instantly recognized. His daughter asks what he's supposed to be and his reply was "I'm a space cowboy", and you hear that little signature guitar twang from the Firefly series. His daughter says "you haven't worn that thing in at least 5 years." He says, "I like it." I busted a gut and tried to explain how funny that was to my wife, who didn't understand/appreciate the reference.

I just found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI

While I miss FireFly, Castle is a great show in it's own right. Very clever and funny, yet has almost as much suspense as CSI. Great cast and some memorable one-liners.

Watched Star Trek (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AVCFK6)
3.5/5
From all the hype, I was expecting more from this.
I didn't like "nemesis 2002" either, and this seems to be based a little on that.

Constitution class starships are the most powerful single mobile platform in the galaxy, capable of laying waste to the surface of whole planets with phasers only (not including the 400+ photon torpedoes), and pretty much undefeatable. So, in this film, Kirk, fresh out of the academy, stows away on board, and then instead of the official officers, eventually there's a moment where he basically says "well, if no one else wants to be captain, I'll do it" in much the same way that a plebe from Annapolis might sky dive onto the Nimitz and declare "I'll be captain if no one else wants it. We'll just ignore that whole experience, line of succession thing."

"Red matter". Enough said.

Watched Angels & Demons (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002O5M4SU)
4/5
I didn't read the book -- and apparently that helps.
The real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness.
The concrete in the Vatican Archive seemed unlikely to me, as was the conservation of energy ratio between the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the bomb/storage-container. It would take millions of years to produce that much antimatter. Lots of amusement at the non-physics at CERN. Apparently the author didn't read a physics book, so we're even. Nonetheless the images of CERN were inspiring -- more so I expect if you know a little of what you're looking at.

Watched GI Joe with my 8 yr old son yesterday. If you have the ability to suspend disbelief to some extent, this is a really fun movie. Spoiler alert....they make ice sink!! Like I said....suspend your disbelief. This move visually and audibly is great. Great LFE as well. It was pretty much non-stop action all that way through. We both enjoyed it a lot and I'll be adding this one to my Blu-Ray collection I believe.

Watched New In Town with my wife the other night. 4/5 stars. It was actually a very good movie! Romantic comedies are not always funny, but we laughed our tails off! Renee Zellweger looks kinda old in this movie. I think her days of gaining weight for a role have taken its toll. Harry Conick Jr is an underrated actor, he does a great job.

The wife and I watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Friday night. Or most of it. I think I drifted off there somewhere in the last five or ten minutes or so.

Randy

The wife and I watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Friday night. Or most of it. I think I drifted off there somewhere in the last five or ten minutes or so.

Randy

...or did you drift off during the first 5 or 10 minutes...guess it depends on which character they were following at the time :p

Tonight I watched "Moving McAllister" with Jon Heder and Mila Kunis, my wife and I enjoyed it. Light hearted comedy about a square guy falling in love with a eccentric girl.

They take an unwilling trip across country and laughs ensue.

Watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last night. 3.5/5 stars. I will go against the naysayers here and say that I enjoyed the movie. After all of the bad reviews here I was very leery about spending the 2 1/2 hours watching it. I thought the storyline was interesting and I was always wondering what was coming next. There were a few quirky lines that didn't add anything to the movie and "The Twins" were kind of annoying, but otherwise I was glad I spent the time. I didn't think the sound was as good as the first one though. It may have been that I just didn't have it loud enough (I watched it after the kids went to bed and I don't have a dedicated, isolated theater), but while dialogue sounded fine all the chaos and destruction seemed muted. I don't have any dynamic range compression or Dolby Volume turned on so not sure what is going on there.

Watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last night. 3.5/5 stars. I will go against the naysayers here and say that I enjoyed the movie. After all of the bad reviews here I was very leery about spending the 2 1/2 hours watching it. I thought the storyline was interesting and I was always wondering what was coming next. There were a few quirky lines that didn't add anything to the movie and "The Twins" were kind of annoying, but otherwise I was glad I spent the time. I didn't think the sound was as good as the first one though. It may have been that I just didn't have it loud enough (I watched it after the kids went to bed and I don't have a dedicated, isolated theater), but while dialogue sounded fine all the chaos and destruction seemed muted. I don't have any dynamic range compression or Dolby Volume turned on so not sure what is going on there.

I agree with you on a couple of points. I found the "twins" more annoying than funny/entertaining and that the sound/LFE was not on par with the original. I was comparing the HD-DVD to the DVD so I was not sure it was accurate comparison, but seems to be a theme....No? I did enjoy the movie more the second time I watched it and it did not seem as long. When I watched it in the theater it sure seemed a lot longer.

Regards,

RTROSE

Watched another "grab-bag"

Absurtania (sp?) SDVD. 3.5/5 Village has no really "rule" over it, consists of 12 families.... Women are the ones really doing the work and keeping the village "going" and they have a water pipe going through the mountains that eventually "Dries up" so the women with-hold sex until the village has water again. Has some pretty funny moments. I'd give it a rent...

Wings of Desire BD 5/5 Lovely Wim Wender's classic.... can't wait for Paris, Texas.


UP BD 3.75/5 I'll have to watch it a few more times..... very depressing for a Pixar flick.

North By Northwest BD 4.5/5 Not my favorite Hitchcock film, but there aren't many Hitchcock films that I would give less than 4/5 :D

Watched Brothers Bloom (http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002JT6AEA)
2/5 Lots of people give higher ratings than me though.
I'm a big Rachel Weisz fan, but she didn't save this one.
It has a plot, but it wasn't enough to pull me through.


Watched Rocket Robin Hood (http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002OHROO2)
Yes, the classic cartoon is finally available!
I've been waiting for this for years.
4/5 -- all nostalgia and the two songs. I hadn't seen the pilot episode before.
They didn't bother to clean up the image -- too bright then too dark, film scratches all over the place, hairs stuck in the projector ...
Audio's pretty good.