Evil Dead in any of its permutations is made of win. Although I don't think I've seen any of them sober.

Just rented Sweeney Todd in concert and it was terrific. For some reason I cried at the end...I'm saying because it was so well done.

Also rented Batman Begins and will watch later.

Polarbear, I don't think I've sesen any of the Evil Deads not sober. Sounds like a plan. BTW, what is "made of win"?

made of win = zombies/raping trees/huge amounts of fake gore = everything that is awesome and good upon the Earth (or, in this case, under it).

The New World

Malick's movies are always beautiful, and this was no exception. The acting was very good, esp the female lead (whom I've never seen before) and Colin Farrell, surprisingly, did not bug despite looking even greasier than usual.

I thought the early interactions between Smith and the Princess were really well-done, with Smith's longing for the girl being subtley equated with his longing for the sacred.

But I couldn't understand a damn thing ANYONE said, with the exception of Christopher Plummer. And at 1 hour,30 minutes I turned it off out of sheer boredom; I couldn't face another 45 minutes of...nothing.

Why did this get such great reviews?

I think Terrence Malick's movies usually rely on murmurs--I think it's intentional. Except for the young girl's narration in Days of Heaven, he characters' dialogue is often indecipherable, and kind of peripheral anyways. It's very slow going (Though that's something I've never minded in movies) but I always found the last ten minutes to be a surprising punch, considering it seemed to have no indication of wanting to give you a pay-off. It was a little blindsiding.

I just watched Idiocracy, and I loved it. A lot. It was equally hilarious and terrifying.

You forgot the chainsaw hand, which is the most made-of-win thing to ever appear in the movies.

I've got Superman Returns, which I didn't get to watch over the summer, but I can't watch it until Monday night after I finish my grad school applications. *grumble*

I didn't think it had.

I remember liking it, but it's definitely not one that I recommended to people at work (I used to manage a video store), because it's very... non-mainstream in its appeal. I just thought it was such a beautiful film, very understated, and really about the physical, not about the dialogue or even the plot (such as it was). And you know a lot of people went in expecting Disney's Pocahontas brought to life, which is very, very much is not. As long as I pretended Colin Farrell wasn't Colin Farrell, I was able to enjoy it. I'd like to see it again, actually.

We just got Nora, which was Ewan MacGregor playing James Joyce.

I really have to stop renting these British-made biopics about writers. They're always the same, and always empty. The movies always seem to be made with the presumption that the audience already knows the life story of its subject, so it doesn't explain anything that's going on, why people are going somewhere or doing something. It's like watching subtext with no text.

Oh, and one really bizarrely gratuitous sex scene. I mean, I'm all for gratuitous sex scenes, but this really seemed to be randomly inserted in there.

I remember the Nora gratuitous sex scene very well, I watched it with relatives... obscenely placed and yes, random!

I watched The Death of Mr. Lazarescu which was good, but I guess I failed to see the ueber brilliance most critics did. The Netflix description went on about slyly satirical metaphor and I'm all what metaphor, a gnarled failing health system isn't a metaphor for a failing institution, it IS a failing institution, and to be quite honest the Romanian system was quite a bit more functional than I anticipated. It was poignant and humorous but I never felt it rose to the level of sly satire.

I think The New World really has to be seen on the big screen to fully enjoy. It was so freaking gorgeous and that's what made me love it.

I can definitely see how it'd be slow and kind of boring at home.

I finally saw Little Miss Sunshine and feel so very meh about it. I'm sure part of it has to do with the fact that people have been raving about it for going on three years now, and I thought it was cute, but still....meh.

I second this. Very funny movie. I find it strange that it apparently got the most limited theater run ever.

Just finished with But I'm a Cheerleader. Not exactly the best movie in the world and it does tend to BASH you BLUNTLY with it's message, but it's very colorful and pretty and it has some decent acting (even Natasha Lyonne, from before she went crazy).