Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Get That Kid Off My Ice You Little Wankers!

Robert Altman, 1925 - 2006

New
Babel - 1/2
Borat - **1/2
Casino Royale - ***
Fast Food Nation - **
Flushed Away - ***1/2
Gridiron Gang - *
The Grudge 2 - 1/2
The Guardian - ** '
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol - *** '
Little Man - Zero!
Neil Young: Heart of Gold - **1/2 '
The Prestige - ***
Running With Scissors - Zero!
Stranger than Fiction - **1/2

Older
Beerfest - *
The Departed - **1/2 '
District B-13 - **1/2 '
Flyboys - *1/2
Little Children - Zero!
Stormbreaker - ** '

Recently Viewed
City of God - * (15) (Music by far the most telltale give-away of this turgid, 85% exposition, kitchen-sink crime saga; gogo gangsta trumpets ba-ba-ba-ba-bom-BRAOOOOOOOOOOO, or a little gee-tar to romanticize the glorious hold-up wiki wiki WOWEYOWEYOEEEEEEEEE! Complete silence for the en masse death pan-overs, olol we're so happy about that we'll do it twice! Most Pathetic Stab at Badass Irony Award: Everybody wuz kung fu fighting - cue shoot-out. What the lame?)
Dark Water (2002) - **1/2 (53)
The Day the Earth Stood Still - **1/2 (53)
Fruits Basket - *** ' (74) (Preliminary, 50% watched)
The Great Escape - *** ' (72)
Groundhog Day - ***1/2 (75) (Most Unforseeably Awesome Punches Dept, take two, after The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and "Who says I ain't civilised?" ... Ned????? Do we have a third, anybody?)
Howl's Moving Castle - ***1/2 ' (88) (Man's got a gift...)
In the Company of Men - *** (65)
Intacto - ** ' (46)
The Maltese Falcon - *** ' (73)
The Man Who Wasn't There - **1/2 (53)
Manhattan - ***1/2 (79)
Mulholland Drive - **1/2 ' (59)
Ninja Scroll - **1/2 ' (56)
Pet Sematary - 1/2 (10) (You uh, well, um, something seems to be, ah, misspelled. On a related note, can you spell ... NEDM?!?)
Puddle Cruiser - 1/2 (11)
Raiders of the Lost Ark - ***1/2 (77)
Run Lola Run - *1/2 (29) (You mean different events cause different outcomes o rly? Life's juz a gamble, the only tangible thing to be gained is helping others - guess that's legitimate, but can we stop with all the bullshit when Thing 1 asks of Thing 2 "what if you don't know what you think you know?" Give it a rest, mein fruend)
The Seventh Seal - ** ' (47)
The Thing (1982) - **1/2 (49) (Need a light?)
The Twilight Samurai - **1/2 ' (56)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - *** ' (70)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman - **1/2 ' (55)

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