It's been more than four months since I listed the movies & DVDs I've watched. Past time I did something about that.
- The West Wing - The Complete Second Season. I have heard the complaint that people don't actually talk the way that the characters in an Aaron Sorkin show do. My response to that is, "So what?"
- The Office - Season Two. I wish we'd discovered this show earlier.
- Persepolis. I think this works better as a movie than it does as a graphic novel, but in any case, this is a powerful story.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Secret Agent Double Dragon.
- The Bat.
- Invasion of the Bee Girls. Steve bought a set of 100 horror movies on DVD and had a bunch of us over to watch a couple of them. The Bat was surprisingly good. We joked all through it at the absurdities, but in the end it is a well-told story. Invasion of the Bee Girls was just cheesy 70s sexploitation.
- All That Jazz.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1: Water, vol. 2.
- No Country for Old Men. The Coen brothers are back in form.
- MST3K: The Rebel Set.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The movie. Pretty cheesy.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1: Water, vol. 3.
- The Office - Season Three.
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Nearly every comedian working in Hollywood in the early 60s appears in this movie. The ending doesn't really work, but the ride there is a lot of fun.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1: Water, vol. 4.
- MST3K: The Giant Gila Monster.
- Enchanted. Better than I expected.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1: Water, vol. 5. The last volume of the first season. We need to start getting season two from the library one of these days.
- Juno. We both liked this quite a bit, and I really liked the soundtrack, especially the cover of "Sea of Love."
- MST3K: Parts: The Clonus Horror. I am terribly amused by the fact that the producers of this movie successfully sued the producers of The Island for stealing the plot of their film.
- MST3K: Eegah. Watch out for snakes!
- Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. When Raiders first came out, three twelve year old kids loved it and decided to recreate the film. It took them seven years, but they did it. This was a blast to watch, to see the creative solutions they came up with (substituting a motor boat for a bi-plane, replacing the monkey with a dog). If you love the original and get a chance to see this, I highly recommend that you do so.
- Shortbus. This was...interesting. John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) made a movie featuring explicit sex that is not pornography. The thing is, I don't think the sex was absolutely necessary to the film. But the plot was created through improv workshops with the actors, who knew what they were getting into. So the sex isn't gratuitous, but I'm not sure it was essential.
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
- Twin Peaks. Man, this show was good, but it really did lose it in the second season.
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Not much in the way of answers here.
- The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo. This is a film that deserves MST3K-like treatment. It is supposedly about two tribes of people: one with good looking women & ugly men and another with good looking men and ugly women. These tribes have no contact with each other until a tribe of bestial ape men begin invading. The trouble is, it's not really possible to tell which tribe a person belongs to (including the ape men) by looking at them. With a couple of exceptions, everybody looks pretty normal.
- Dark Water. Another American remake of a Japanese horror movie. I saw most of the original on cable a while back, and it was better than this version. Much creepier.
- Topper. Cary Grant as a ghost.
- Modern Times.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. Much as I love MST3K, I have to admit that this doesn't work all that well, possibly because the movie they make fun of, This Island Earth, is actually pretty good.
Whew, that's quite a list. I really should do movie posts more frequently.
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