Black Christmas -- the original 1974 movie, not the remake. Despite some clunky acting and obviously Technicolor blood, an overall great scare. The ending is phenomenal.

Monsoon Wedding: it took me a while to get into this movie since they pretty much plunk you down in the middle of all of the action at the very beginning, and I kept getting all of the characters confused. But after a while, I started to find it very charming and lovely, and it featured a totally awesome wedding complete with lots of fun dancing at the end.

The thing I loved best about Monsoon Wedding was how dead on it was about a Punjabi wedding, the prep, and the weeks leading up to it.

I finally got around to watching Gangs of New York, after reading the book. I enjoyed it a lot, especially for Daniel Day Lewis, but I never quite felt that I forgot Leonardo Di Caprio and Cameran Diaz were movie stars playing a part. But the rest of the actors did fantastic jobs sinking into their roles and the time period.

I bawled at this movie and my friend didn't understand why.

Just got Season 1 MadTV discs and I'm dying of laughter from watching. They're a little more subtle than the Michael McDonald seasons, but just as hilarious! Gump Fiction, Lowered Expectations, Vancome lady, IPS man...Joe Walsh making a guest appearance. I guess Corky & the Blow Pigs don't make an appearances until later seasons.

He is AMAZING in that movie. And it will never, ever, ever, ever stop bothering me that that movie was up for ten Oscars and didn't win any. TEN. WTF.

I actually just got another D D-L movie from Netflix -- Last of the Mohicans, which I read in class. The book is rubbish, but I hear the movie's great.

OMG. I love that movie. Last of the Mohicans is one of those movies that my dad and I would watch whenever it was on TV, despite the fact that we owned it. My dad would turn it on, turn up the volume, I would hear the opening score and come running from wherever I was in the house to watch it with him. I enjoy it so much and have a huge crush on Daniel Day Lewis because of it.


I'm watching Thelma and Louise for the first time. I love it. I'm not sure I could put into words why, but I love it. I've spent the entire time so far trying to decide which woman I identify with more, and I think I've come to the conclusion that these two women represent everything we repress. They do and say everything the average woman wishes she could do and say. But perhaps I'm wrong, and that conclusion just relates to me.

Brad Pitt's hotness. Thats a reason. Theres many others, but I'm ashamed that thats my favorite part.

And I love Gangs of New York. Its a mess but its a gorgeous, beautiful mess. Also Liam Neeson! and John C. Reilly! You forget their in the movie and then they pop up all awesome like. It should have won the art direction oscar imo (I though "Road to Perdition" deserved cinematography, but it was a close second for GoNY) and it should have beaten Chicago for costumes.

Gangs of New York led me to do a lot of poking around about the time period, because things like the Draft Riot don't really get discussed a whole lot (at least, I'm pretty sure I never came across it in school, and I took an AP history class that ended at the Civil War). It's a fascinating time period and DD-L and Jim Broadbent just sank into it without a trace.

I have seen this movie probably ten times, and I always cry when >>Lalit is so torn up about what happened to Ria -- when he cries in bed with his wife, and when he goes to get her at her friend's house, and then when he finally kicks out Uncle Tej or whatever his name is. I want Lalit to be my dad. He's so awesome and grumpy.<<

This is one of my favorite movies ever. I'm not even sure why; I just love the hell out of it.

To me its the scene where he << asks Ria why she never told him, Naseeruddin Shah was heartwrenching in that speech, particularly when he says that biologically shes that his niece but he raised her and shes his child. He just so desperate. >>.

And also again as a Punjabi (albeit Punjabi-Canadian) it was cool to be able to watch a movie about a wedding and chuckle and go "True that."

Yup -- that's the part that makes me cry the most. He's so bewildered and sad.

Naseeruddin Shah is super awesome. I ALMOST went to see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because I heard he was in it. Buuuuuut I didn't.

I've also watched the commentary twice, I forgot to mention. I love how they did this thing in like 20 days, and a ton of their film got ruined and actors kept dropping out at the last minute. And then she'll be like, "Yeah, that's my cousin, he was hanging out on set so we made him be in the movie" or like, "This is my friend's yard."

Georgia Rule is on campus cable at the moment, and...Garrett Hedlund, why? You're so, so, so pretty. :(

I rented Lilya 4-ever because a friend recommended it ages ago, and I just got around to watching. The acting is amazing, but I am so depressed now. I mean when the "uplifting ending" is >>the main character's suicide <<you just know that you're in for something bad. I feel like I need to go look at puppies now...

I'm working my way through Supernatural's second season. On the whole I think this season is better than the first so far, but the clunkers are really clunky. I continue to find the plots of the week to be unsurprising and predictable, but the Winchesters are so awesome that I can forgive them for their little pea brains.