I remember watching that when my mom was still getting me into older movies by renting a lot of Hitchcock. I fell asleep, it was so dull.

Just saw Marie Antoinette. I hated Lost in Translation. But this movie really worked for me. The montages were a skotch too long in some places, but I found the movie to be both haunting and light. While I watched it I wasn't all angst out. But afterwards, I kept thinking about what I had seen and what I knew of MA's grisly ending. And then I bought myself a pair of baroque type shoes. So, there's that. Brainwashing and all.

Colour Me Kubrick. Funny, a little sad, but maddening in a good way. I just can't fathom how someone can live a con like that for ten years and never know more than the barest of bare essentials about the person they claim to be. I kinda wish, though, that they'd let us know more about Kubrick's reaction to this man using his name beyond just that no one was willing to -*test*-('")ify against him.

And The Devil Wears Prada. I really thought the only positive thing I would be able to say with it is that I think Anne Hathaway is just ridiculously pretty. But I actually really enjoyed it. But only because Meryl Streep's character was such a cartoon - I know there are really people like that in real life, but she just felt so safe and harmless compared to my boss.

Heh. It was tempting, but I couldn't fall asleep because I had to see it for a class. I did flip through some comic books for a little bit there in the middle, though.

I don't particularly care for the movie because I read the book first. I think the book is amazing while the movie... not so much.

I'll be all by myself in the corner absolutely loving Rebecca. :(

Nah, I'm there with you, cal. I love it lots and lots.

No worries. The other people in my class love it too. I'm the odd woman out!

I love Rebecca too. How awesomely creepy is Laurence Olivier in that movie?

I enjoyed the movie, but I think Miranda in the movie was much less bitchier than she was in the book. My mom and I watched it together, and she really didn't understand why (spoiled just in case) >>Andi quits at the end <<since she hadn't read the book. I filled her in on the changes, and she thought the original version made much more sense.

Deja Vu.

Oh man, I... I don't want to hate this movie. I'm a time travel story junkie - I've never understood the Trekkies who complain that Trek does too many of them.

And it has the single most awesome car chase EVER.

So why do the last five minutes have to make me hate it so very very much????

I adore Rebecca! It's probably my second favorite Hitchcock film (tied with the original Man Who Knew Too Much) after The 39 Steps. I couldn't love Judith Anderson more if I tried.

I rented the most recent Masterpiece Theatre Jane Eyre because I'd missed big chunks of it when it aired. I recently re-read the book, and I found that the miniseries was truer to the book than I had previously thought. I could also believe, based on these performances, that Jane could actually fall in love with such a jackass. What IS it with the Brontes and their jackass "heroes?" I liked her look, too. Delightfully average, with pretty skin.

Also, Pan's Labyrinth. This is the kind of pleasantly dark movie that is normally my bread and butter, but it just didn't do much for me. The fantastical elements were gorgeously designed and filmed, but I found the "fairy tale" predictable and not terribly moving. My expectations were REALLY high, though, because of the praise I'd seen lavished upon it everywhere, so it could be that I just built myself up for it too much. I did rather enjoy the graphic, frank violence. No choreography to dress it up. No glorification. Very un-American, which is refreshing.

Last, but not least, The Queen. I enjoyed it quite a lot, and I loved the scene where Her Majesty gets her jeep stuck in the river that she's fording (alone, no less) and diagnoses the front axle problem because she was a mechanic in WWII.

March of the Penguins: my husband and I have been on a documentary kick lately, and thought this would be fun after seeing penguins on Planet Earth. Penguins have it extremely tough and there are so many different ways that they can die throughout their lives due to their harsh living conditions. All of the baby penguins were adorable and I cheered for the ones who were able to avoid the scary bird predator who came after them.

Alpha Dog: the basic story was interesting enough when I saw it on Unsolved Mysteries, but they had to Hollywood-ize the story by adding extra elements of drama and backstory that weren't completely necessary. I also didn't think that the documentary-style bits added anything, either. And can someone explain to me why Alan Thicke, of all people, was in this? While I like Emile Hirsch, I didn't find him convincing enough as the main thug character. But I was very surprised at how well Justin Timberlake acted.

Finally got around to The Queen. That is an amazing movie. I felt it did a good job of presenting the tension between tradition and modernization and how what happened was inevitable and bittersweet.

It also made me laugh more than a few times, which I wasn't expecting.