Hellboy

I saw HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY and I liked it okay. It didn't knock my socks off but I was entertained. Parts of it didn't quite click with me or grab my interest, but it had some neat monsters and it looked pretty. :)

Weird Movie Alert!

Turner Classic Movies is showing the movie SKIDOO this weekend (late Friday night/early Sat morning). What kinda movie is SKIDOO? Well, the cast includes Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Mickey Rooney and Groucho Marx, and it's directed by Otto Preminger. It's gotta be a winner, right?

Wait, there's more. It's a 1960's comedy about mobsters, hippies, and LSD. With a score by Harry Nilsson! How awesome is it?! Well, it's just plain awful... but it might be worth watching a little bit of just for the experience. :)

Delightful...

Hello, Mr. Bond

The first trailer for the latest James Bond movie, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, is out.

Check it out. www.moviefone.com/movie/quantum-of-solace/26922/main

Looks pretty darn good!

WALL*E = AWE*SOME

I saw WALL*E earlier today and really enjoyed it. It's one of the best of Pixar's movies, in my opinion. And "Presto", the short film before WALL*E, is awesome too. :)

AFI's 10 Top 10 - Part 3

Finishing up posting the lists...

Mystery

1 Vertigo
2 Chinatown
3 Rear Window
4 Laura
5 The Third Man
6 The Maltese Falcon
7 North by Northwest
8 Blue Velvet
9 Dial M for Murder
10 The Usual Suspects

Mostly okay. The Usual Suspects seems like it might belong more on the 'gangsters' list.

Romantic Comedies

1 City Lights
2 Annie Hall
3 It Happened One Night
4 Roman Holiday
5 The Philadelphia Story
6 When Harry Met Sally...
7 Adam's Rib
8 Moonstruck
9 Harold and Maude
10 Sleepless in Seattle

Harold and Maude?! I like Harold and Maude but I don't think I've ever considered it a romantic comedy.

Courtroom Drama

1 To Kill a Mockingbird
2 12 Angry Men
3 Kramer vs. Kramer
4 The Verdict
5 A Few Good Men
6 Witness for the Prosecution
7 Anatomy of a Murder
8 In Cold Blood
9 A Cry in the Dark
10 Judgment at Nuremberg

In Cold Blood should be on the 'gangsters' (i.e. crime movie) list. Kramer vs. Kramer doesn't really fit either. And where the heck is Inherit the Wind?!

Epics

1 Lawrence of Arabia
2 Ben-Hur
3 Schindler's List
4 Gone with the Wind
5 Spartacus
6 Titanic
7 All Quiet on the Western Front
8 Saving Private Ryan
9 Reds
10 The Ten Commandments

Another list that's no really a genre. And there's some weird stuff on this one too. Schindler's List? A good film, certainly, but an epic? I guess Titanic and Saving Private Ryan are close to what I'd call 'epic' but I don't think I would have included either one.

The really odd thing to me is that there's no 'Horror' list. They could have called it 'Suspense' if they wanted to separate themselves from today's horror movies but it really strikes me odd that there's a list of fantasy movies and no list of horror movies.

AFI's 10 Top 10 - Part 2

Continuing posting the latest AFI lists...

Sports

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet
10. Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire seems a little out of place on this list, as does The Hustler. And it just seems kind of weird that the top two movies are boxing movies.

Westerns

1 The Searchers
2 High Noon
3 Shane
4 Unforgiven
5 Red River
6 The Wild Bunch
7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9 Stagecoach
10 Cat Ballou

Each of these lists seem to have at least one odd choice on there. Cat Ballou and McCabe & Mrs Miller seem a little odd for this list but at least they're Westerns.

Gangsters

1 The Godfather
2 Goodfellas
3 The Godfather Part II
4 White Heat
5 Bonnie and Clyde
6 Scarface (1932)
7 Pulp Fiction
8 The Public Enemy
9 Little Caesar
10 Scarface (1983)

Seems like this one should really be called "Crime Movies" but they didn't ask me. My main problems with this list is that the way over-rated Scarface (1983 version) is on it. I just don't get the facination with the film.


To be continued...