Best DVD Rentals

“i have ray from the library but i havent watched it yet”

“Watched the "Morotcycle Diaries" Saturday. It was really good. I had no idea what I was watching. I just thought it was a story about a road trip, in our era. Very good but I'll warn you, there are subtitles and it's long.”

“Finally saw Panic Room. Not too thrilled, maybe a 2.5 out of 5.”

“I watched the Day after Tomorrow, Saturday night - that was a terrible movie, kind of along the lines of AvP but not quite as bad.”

“ray was very good”

“watchd "american splendor" the other day. what a sweet little movie. defineite geek chic. if you liked "ghost world", youll like this movie. i liked how they blended the real harvey pekar and friends with the actors portraying them. john wayne doesnt come in and save everyone from the commies, there are no giant asteroids hurtling to earth, and nobody is killed by a roundhouse kick to the head, and its still a great movie”

“I have several of the American Splendor comics. The movie was quite good in intergrating the comic stories into a 'real life' movie. Enjoyed it a lot.


Saw Sideways this weekend. Kinda slow to get into but once in, laughed my a$$ off.
Great movie!
last edited: 4/17/05 10:58:16 AM”

“if anybody is familiar with the comic book series "strangers in paradise", paul giamatti would be the ideal actor to play francines schmuck boyfriend (whose name i cant think of at the moment)”

“rented closer, collateral, finding neverland, and star wars: clone wars (no, im not watching them all tonight, theyre 7-day rentals)

movie report to come”

“Napolean Dynamite is another good one.”

“closer: unrealistic in that everyone was brutally honest about their emotions. very downbeat movie. natalie portman has a nice butt, tho. worth it if you like serious, introspective talky pieces, but dont look for uplifting. as a matter of fact, dont watch it with a loaded gun in the house. very fine acting, especially clive owen. he plays a seething prick to perfection.”

“FUTURAMA rocks.”

“Sideways is not a comedy per say, but there are some very funny parts to it. It's a slice of life out of this guys days before he gets married. It's a drama, it's a comedy, it's just life with everything in it.

I recommend it!”

“clone wars: very exciting, my appetite is whetted for episode 3”

“rented Friday Night Lights and Ocean's twelve last night.

Oceans 12 I didn't really understand... I watched it once through and tried to watch it again to catch what I missed, but I couldn't make it through the second time, maybe I'm just slow, but I liked the first one much better.

and Friday Night Lights didn't hold my attention at all, I expected more from it. Just another football movie as far as I could tell, not much plot besides the game, some good field footage, but I couldn't stand how the "announcing" for the game happened exactly as the action did, I've watched enough games in my life to know that the announcers have to see the action before they can announceh what happened. The ending is the only thing that made it a decent movie...
last edited: 4/18/05 5:05:08 PM”

“What I got from Friday Nights Lights was how big High School Football is in small towns.
If you won the championship you would always be a winner in that town. If you lost...

I've known that High School Football, not college, not pro, is a big deal in small towns, but I hope it's not really THAT important.”

“just saw finding neverland. ive seen all of the movies nominated for best picture, except for aviator, and i liked neverland the best, but im biased towards fantasy and imagination pictures. i guess thats only fair as the academy is biased against fantasy and imagination. how else does one explain annie hall beating star wars for best picture and fight club not even being nominated?”

“I watched Sideways the other day as well. And I couldn't help but think of Stikmon in the Paul Giamatti character. It was totally him. :D


Oh, yeah. I laughed my butt off for most of it.





I've not seen Friday Night Lights, but I did grow up in a small Midwestern town that definitely placed the highest importance on the high school football and basketball teams/seasons. The year our b-ball team took state in '83 is (no lie here) still talked about. Absolutely nothing was more important to the townspeople than the high school sports.”

“Finding Neverland was much better than I thought it was going to be.

I thought Spanglish was a really good movie too! A must see.”

“im torn about spanglish. i think i might enjoy it, but there are so many other movies out there i want to see more. i generally hate adam sandler films, not so much for him, i just think he picks bad movies (see little nicky and 12 crazy nights if you think im wrong)”

“Aviator is 3 freakin hours long!!!! It didn't feel that long, so I guess it was okay. I found out more about Howard Hughes than I thought I knew, but I don't know if they really went into the worst of his OCD problem.”

“lord vader


rise
last edited: 4/18/05 11:31:52 PM”

“Ruby.... what town did you grow up in? I grew up in Anderson, Indiana. It wasn't really classified as a "small town" but living in California now, it would fit into one by my criteria. High School Basketball was everything.

Rob”

“hey i grew up in kokomo

as a matter of fact, thats where i am right now. sitting in my underwear in kokomo. thats right. thats what i said”

“I watched Swimming Pool last night. I'm not even sure what the movie was about, I think the whole thing was just an excuse to show off Ludivine Sagnier's body, and believe me that was worth the whole thing. Some of it was bordering on porn, ahhh... see for yourself

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“I watched Lemoni Snicket, Blade Trinity and The Hebrew Hammer this weekend.

Lemoni Snicket was good. I like these kind of dark gothic types of movies. Jim Carry has grown too predictable for me I think. The little baby was the funniest part.

Blade- Old worn out storyline but still a great ride.

Hebrew Hammer- This was hilarious. It’s a parody of the black cop exploitation movies like Shaft only it’s an orthodox Jew as the baddass cop. It was very campy. I don’t think there was a single stereotype they didn’t hit in this movie. Like when Hammer’s breaking into the enemy’s evil headquarters they had a Jew detector alarm and all he had to do was not act Jewish to slip in. He saw a penny on the floor and said, “Hey, a penny.” and picked it up setting off the alarm.


And I'm sad to say that I watched the last DVD available for Curb Your Enthusiasm. What am I going to do now?”

“I watched Twisted, which wasn't bad. De-Lovely, the Cole Porter musical, but couldn't finish it.”

“local rental place has good thing going: all rentals are 7-day rentals, rent 3 and 4th one is free, every movie returned by midnite the following day is good for a 1 dollar credit. so i usually get 4 when i go.

rented lemony snickets asoue, anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy, the hebrew hammer, and birth

lemony snickets was darker than what i expected (alot of implied violence towards children), still good. wouldve been better if it was longer so the plot couldve come together better. jim carrey makes an excellent villain and the character is perfect for his usual hammy acting. emily browning (violet)is a beautiful young woman. she is going to be turning heads in hollywood in a few years. yes, the baby was hilarious ("shes the mayor of crazytown")

anchorman was fricking hilarious. christina applegate, however was the star. she was by far the most skilled comedic actor on the set. but shell never be a superstar cuz she doesnt play ridiculous characters.
however, despite being one of the best movies ive seen in awhile, it had the worst commentary. they talked about everything but the movie. if youre interested in random stream-of-consciousness babbling of hollywood b-listers, listen to the commentary. if not, your time is better spent going on to the next movie. also, if you want to read the pointless random babble of a frustrated english major with an unfulfilling day job, continue reading my posts. thank you.

looking forward to hebrew hammer and birth. im betting hh is very funny, dont have a clue about birth. its got a weird premise. i like weird. it better not suck
last edited: 6/22/05 11:17:49 PM”

“what i really wanted to get when i went to the store was mean girls, constantine, freeway, and the life aquatic

mg and tla were checked out, constantine isnt out yet, and freeway has been out for years and was not a blockbuster, so its not in stores anymore
last edited: 6/22/05 11:24:32 PM”

“BB doesn't have the widescreen Chariots of Fire on DVD either which I'm waiting for.”

“i saw that ages ago. i think i liked it, but i dont remember”

“I've been watching Six Feet Under from season one. One of the best shows I have seen yet.”

“Hebrew Hammer is funny, but you have to be reasonably conversant with Jewishness to get a lot of the jokes. My wife and I watched a little of it once, and she thought it was hilarious, but I had to explain some of the humor to her.”

“I loved his "Jew Canoe" Caddy. there was so much funny stuff in that movie. Surprisingly the funniest thing in the whole movie was the subway sign that read "The Chood". The origanal short where he goes in and shoots up a Jews for Jesus center was hillarious too.”

“Saw 'Closer' last night.

One of the more depressing movies I've seem in a while.
Julia Roberts needs to fire the people that got her into this, she looks old and does not compare well with the much younger Natalie Portman.
This is one of the few adult roles I have seen Natalie in. Her 'acting' in this one stunk.
Speaking of adult roles, she plays a stripper, and can be seen in a very small g string in this movie, lots of 'bunage', still not enough to save this chunker of a movie.
None of the charactors are likeable and all are unhappy at the end, as was I.
last edited: 7/26/05 1:12:38 PM”

“Saw Constantine again this passed weekend. Even better than the first time I saw it.”

“Just added that to my NetFlix Queue, Nigal.”

“One bad thing about Netflix is the bonus dvd counts as a dvd. Bummer. 8( I'll be glad when the new dvd format comes out where they can fit it all on one disk.”

“Yep, that does suck.
The box sets are even worse.”

“One of the more depressing movies I've seem in a while.

Most depressing movie I ever saw..."House of Sand and Fog" Anybody see that piece of work?”

“Thanks for the heads up, Carlette!
I'm stay away from it. One depressing movie was enough for a week or two.”

“It won big awards I understand...but I sat there after thinking....DAMN, where are the razor blades?”

“gotta agree about closer, just plain sucked...now if you want to see a good natalie portman movie see garden state...one of my favorite movies

nigal, how's constantine compare to the devils advocate?...can't stand canoe reeves but loved that movie”

“Team America.

I laughed my bum off! gOT TO LOVE NAUGHTY LITTLE PUPPETS.”

“timecline - LOL, Garden State is supposed to be in my mailbox tomorrow from Netflix.

Dang, Twinky! ...and I bet you got to see the uncensured version! ;-) I saw it when it first came out.
last edited: 7/26/05 3:31:59 PM”

“"Canoe", lol...

Because his acting is so wooden? lol...”

“I enjoyed the book Sand & Fog, but didn't see the movie. I understand Jennifer Connelly got nekkid in it.”

“great movie...don't own very many but i do own garden state

team america is great...did you see the unrated dvd version?...the sex seen's like 5 minutes”

“sand and fog is geeeerate

sorry for going tony on ya”

“"nigal, how's constantine compare to the devils advocate?...can't stand canoe reeves but loved that movie”

Even better IMHO. :)”