Die Hard is the grea-*test*-('") movie ever!! I thought I loved Bruce Willis before, but that love is nothing to the love I bear for him now.

Pan's Labyrinth was simply an amazing movie. I'm sad I didn't get to see in theatres. It was just... wow. The creatures and the creepy Captain were genuinely frightening. I'm still in awe.

Catch and Release, which should've been better. But it was kind of all over the place, trying to tell too many stories and be too many things, so that ultimately it was hard to care about any of it.

But Timothy Olyphant looked FINE. And Kevin Smith had some amusing moments.

I just rented Catch & Release also. Many of the kudos I've heard for Smith's performance puzzle me a bit--he was basically playing himself. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 50% of his dialogue was adlibbed, because much of it sounded just like the stuff he says in his Evening DVDs. Not that it was bad, because it wasn't at all. It just wasn't a big surprise to me that Kevin Smith could play a funny, insecure dude who likes Star Wars. The movie could have been better, but I liked it for being a more solid bit of fluff than I'd expected.

I also rented Fur. This movie... I enjoyed it, but it was truly bizarre. It's like Robert Downey Jr. and Nicole Kidman decided to do a Chloe Sevigny movie. Or something. It's a fictionalized portrait of a famous photographer, Diane Arbus, and documents her journey from staid housewife/photog assistant to weird artist. She befriends a dude with hypertrichinosis. It gets weirder after that. Much.

Deliver Us From Evil and Priest were both good bad Catholic movies, and both revolve around the same issue of chastity and how it sexualizes the priesthood. The documentary focuses more on sexualized violence (pedophilia, etc) while Priest covers consensual relationships. Interesting, compelling stuff.

I'll have to watch Catch and Release with the commentary again to make sure, but I think Kevin Smith ad-libbed a lot of stuff because, as he said, as a director he knows how much gets cut out during the editing, so he wanted to get in as much dialogue as possible.

Watched Imagine Me And You, which I loved, because it was sweet and funny, and imagine having to choose between Lena Headey and Matthew Goode? Lucky Piper Perabo.

I can't stop watching Strictly Ballroom. It's so beautiful, and the dancing is so sexy, particularly in the scene where they're dancing to Doris Day's "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps."

I have to say I hated Imagine Me and You mainly because something about Piper Perabo gives me hives (I've only ever liked her in The Prestige) and I just felt bad for Matthew Goode. And Lena Headley. Y'all can both do better.

Mmmm...yes. This is my favorite scene in the entire film. Everything about it is sexy and perfect.

Run Lola Run. What a kick-ass movie.

I'm going through the starring slack jawwed at the new Hi-Def phase and my DVD player crapped out. So shitloads of ondemmand.

I've Watched Dune Twice!

The 5th Element An incomprehensably goofy plot off set by it being visually stunning. I like Heavy Metal too and this movie was ripped from the pages.

I finally saw A Fish Called Wanda and understood immediately what all the fuss was about. Now I have to watch it a million more times. I love the Pythons soooo much, so it's quite a lot for me to say that Kevin Kline went and stole the movie from everyone else. Is Fierce Creatures as good, or if not, at least worth seeing?

It's got some laughs, but nothing aproaching the awesomeness that is Wanda.

"Asshoooolllllleeee!!!!"

I once dated a guy who thought that Fierce Creatures was superior to A Fish Called Wanda in every way. That relationship was doomed.

"Apes don't read philosophy."
"Yes, they do, Otto. They just don't understand it."

God, I love that movie so much.

Idlewild. The movie itself was pretty good but the music was surprisingly forgettable. I expected much better from OutKast.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend. So, so bad and boring. Rainn Wilson and Wanda Sykes were the only good things about it.

Finally saw Hard Candy. Wow, tense! Really reminded me of Death and the Maiden...

I usually don't enjoy films that are so talky (for example, I love Almodovar films but disliked Volver for its heavyhanded use of dialogue). However, there is enough tension between the characters to keep it interesting.

I love the sparseness of it -- how much they were able to do, narratively, with barely any cast or locations. The little camera tricks where great -- the color shifts, the eye lines, the stacatto frame rates. And both performers where strong. Ellen Page is, indeed, perfectly cast here: Innocent yet viscious.

Also, love how it's open to interpretation, such as >>> whether Jeff actually committed the rape/murder, or just stood by, or simply admitted to it in the hope that Hayley would let him live. I also like how we don't really know anything about Hayley -- is she Donna's friend? Is she really 14? It was also interesting that I felt a certain amout of pity for Jeff, even though he arguably deserved it <<<