1408: it started out really creepy and unsettling, but devolved into a trippy mess by the end of the movie. I think it would have been more fun if Samuel L. Jackson had uttered "I have had it with these motherfucking ghosts in this motherfucking room!" sometime during the film.

The Venture Brothers and Flight of the Conchords made me rent Labrynth.

Reminded me of why my sisters were so obsessed with it. The songs were good and Jenifer Connely was always smokin hot.

I just finally got around to seeing this and... I agree completely.

What I don't get is the whole thing is set up as >> a predestination paradox... everything that was happening in the past happened that way because of the thigns they did, and sending him back. EXCEPT the way the girl died the "first" time wouldn't work, because she was killed beforehand... but she wasn't.

I also didn't like that it took Denzel FOREVER to realize that he wasn't changing anything, even when he was actively setting up her apartment the way he found it.

Actually, the last couple minutes didn't bug me. It was the ten minutes BEFORE that that did.
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The car chase was awesome, though.

Your sisters probably enjoyed this movie for one important reason: David Bowie as Jareth.

Disturbia.

I enjoyed it. Shia LeBeouf is very talented; I hadn't seen him in anything else. According the commentary, he improv'd (with guidance) a lot of the scenes, and a lesser actor couldn't have pulled that off. I also really liked his sidekick Aaron Yoo. The only part I disliked was the fact that the girl, Sarah Roemer, was clearly both written and cast to only be T&A. That was disappointing. She's on the commentary, and she whole-heartedly supports it.

I think teenage stupidity and making Kale's character have a reasonable expectation of hostility from the police was a good substitution for broken leg helplessness in the original. David Morse is awesome, as usual. And Carrie Anne Moss was good in her small role. So, overall, good acting, and mostly solid writing.

I have a lot more confidence in the 4th Indiana Jones now that I've seen Shia in action.

Well, at least she's not fooling herself.

Volver, which was not at all what I was expecting. I liked it, but didn't love it, and while Penelope Cruz was good, I thought the woman playing her sister was better. Not my favorite Almodovar film, but pretty good.

28 Weeks Later, which was good but I felt it really lacked the heart of the first one and that there wasn't enough meat on the bones of the story between set pieces for me to really care about the main characters. It just seemed to be lots of running around and really, would it have killed Rose Byrne's character to maybe tell the kids what she was suspecting about them and the virus? Because it might have saved some trouble at the very end.
But it was great to see Idris Elba in a film. I haven't seen him in anything since the TV series Ultraviolet.

I watched American Dreamz on the weekend and found it to be really, really average. It barely held my attention which was disappointing, because I normally really enjoy Mandy Moore's movies.

The lack of logic on the part of everyone involved in this movie about everything makes me so angry, it was impossible to enjoy everything.

And the soldier guy looked like Marc Blucas's twin.

The Wire. Rent it now, it's really excellent, and Idris is fan-bloody-tastic in it.

I rented Stephanie Daley and was surprised by how blah and wan it was. AmTam and Tilda Swinton and the rest of the cast did a great job, but for such an ostensibly controversial topic, it's a pretty thin script and the framing device is so contrived and it felt at root like dishonest politically motivated hyperbole, which is shame because something like this needs a raw bone honesty, precisely because the politics are so inflamed. Disappointing.

Finally saw Millions, that random Danny Boyle movie from a few years ago, and I have to say I loved it. The little boy in it was f'ing brilliant and the story was really layered. Everyone should see this.

I've been renting Babylon 5 and now am up to season 5. You know...I love G'Kar and Londo but it feels like their stories have been written by someone far more talented than the bastard who inflicted Byron and the telepaths of surprisingly shiny long hair for people on the run on the screen. The telepath sing along nearly traumatized me for life. Also I feel strongly that I should be able to write somewhere to pro-*test*-('") both Bryon and Lochley being inflicted on an unsuspecting world in one season.

My husband bought this movie this week (he LOVES zombie movies) and we watched it together last night (I hadn't seen it yet). While this movie certainly was entertaining enough, I didn't like it as much as 28 Days Later, either. The things that I liked most about that movie were that it ultimately wasn't about the non-infected vs. the infected at the end, especially when the army guys took the trio in, and that it was rather low-rent in production, which was part of the charm. The sequel had neither one of these things. It was also tough to sympathize and root for any of the characters, since they didn't give any backstory on either Jeremy Renner's army guy or Rose Byrne's doctor, and the kids >>were the ones who led to everything that happened throughout the entire movie.<<