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Depending on how my Saturday morning moods go (which will probably depend on how my Friday night drinking goes), I'm going to try and do one of these posts, if not weekly, at least bi-weekly. Now that I've got an affable computer at home (thanks, boyfriend!) I can manage some weekend blogging, it seems. So, what I'm gonna do is catch up with the movies I've watched recently, be they a first viewing (which I grade over to the right on the sidebar), or a ten thousandth (I rewatch movies I've seen before almost as much, if not more, than I watch new movies... a bad habit that's getting me nowhere.
But I've been bad reviewing or at least commenting upon things I've seen (or read or partook in) unless they strike me hard (like The Descent did), so these scraps will be about stuff I've seen but don't necesarrily have a lot to say about. Consider it a palette cleansing for the upcoming new week, if you will. These are the stringy bit left in my teeth! Yay! Never too early in the day for revolting imagery.
Depending on how my Saturday morning moods go (which will probably depend on how my Friday night drinking goes), I'm going to try and do one of these posts, if not weekly, at least bi-weekly. Now that I've got an affable computer at home (thanks, boyfriend!) I can manage some weekend blogging, it seems. So, what I'm gonna do is catch up with the movies I've watched recently, be they a first viewing (which I grade over to the right on the sidebar), or a ten thousandth (I rewatch movies I've seen before almost as much, if not more, than I watch new movies... a bad habit that's getting me nowhere.
But I've been bad reviewing or at least commenting upon things I've seen (or read or partook in) unless they strike me hard (like The Descent did), so these scraps will be about stuff I've seen but don't necesarrily have a lot to say about. Consider it a palette cleansing for the upcoming new week, if you will. These are the stringy bit left in my teeth! Yay! Never too early in the day for revolting imagery.
So without further ado, here's what I been partaking.

On par with Halloween, for me, as Carpenter's best work. The boyfriend was unimpressed... don't ask me how I can be with someone unimpressed by this film's greatness. Yes, the special effects and gore are pretty dated, but I love the look and design of all the horrific forms the "thing" takes. The defibulator scene makes me scream every time I see it, and the just plain wrongness of... well, so many parts, the spider-head creature, the sideways jaws on the beast at the end... it's all very effective.
I'm going to make some effort to catch up with this era of Kurt Russell movies (Escape From New York, here I come) so I can feel good about Russell replacing Mickey Rourke in Tarantino's Death Proof.




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3 comments:
re Brick:
If you have the chance to see it on-screen, take it. All the teensy bits get a little heightened & it makes the whole mood/mystery a little more involving... It's really good.
I'm becoming a little fascinated with Lukas Haas. He's such a freak.
I can't believe that people left during the make-out scene in Talladega nights... don't you live in NYC for christ's sake?!? I was at a full screening in Rochester and no one left or anything -- those new yorkers are turning into soggy old prudes! -bri
on Cinemania. It's easy to run into these people in the documentary. You just have to go to anything showing at either AMMI in Queens or any Film Forum retro.
you have me beat on laziness though. I actually do make the schedules out. But then I don't go. ha ha.
i'm halfway there!
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