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5/23/04 at 10:24pm

Edwin Pereyra
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DreamWorks' Shrek 2

At Bat: Bon Voyage

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DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#152

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5/24/04 at 9:46am

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#43: The Saddest Music in the World -

½ - Guy Maddin, with memorable dialogue to match his visuals!
#44: Van Helsing -

¾ - Bad enough this is a bad movie. What makes it worse is seeing where Sommers buried a few nifty ideas.
#45: Io Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared in the USA) -

¾ - A nifty coming-of-age thriller
#46: Mean Girls -

- A smart teen movie that I felt only moderately pervy going to see.
#47: Games People Play: New York -

¼ - Either a wickedly good satire on unscripted television or the next step for the genre.
#48: Shrek 2 -

½ - Just about as funny as the original

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#153

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5/25/04 at 8:17pm

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Last movies seen:
05/16/04: Super-Size Me

05/20/04: *Touching the Void

05/23/04: *Oscar Shorts

05/25/04: Shrek 2

#154

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5/26/04 at 12:42am

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Added Soul Plane (2 out of 5), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (4 out of 5) and The Day After Tomorrow (3.5 out of 5).

#155

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5/26/04 at 1:28am

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Twentynine Palms Interesting for its depiction of a disturbed relationship and its views of sex as a violent and ridiculous act, whether performed out of love or hate. But director Bruno Dumont is more successful at portraying relationships than he is at mood setting or staging his violence.

Though they are done in completely opposite styles, I would equate this film with Irreversible. An intriguing portrait of a relationship paired with empty, shock value violent acts. B

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Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

#156

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5/27/04 at 9:25am

Edwin Pereyra
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Bon Voyage (France)

At Bat: Super Size Me

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#157

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5/27/04 at 9:45am

Edwin Pereyra
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Brook K on Bon Voyage:

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An entertaining film, but I must say that my expectations were skewed by all the reviews that this is a comedy and a wonderful farce, etc. I think I laughed 4-5 times total.

I guess, I'm with you on this one, Brook. While I didn't have any expectations, I wouldn't classify this as a comedy. Very little of it was funny. Oh well, on to the next one.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#158

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5/28/04 at 10:23pm

Edwin Pereyra
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Robert Luketic's Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! - Good natured, sweet and full of good intentions but invitingly calculated and oftentimes, glib. Young rising stars in admirable roles (especially Topher Grace) while two older and established stars (Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes) in insipid roles create the perfect imbalance.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#159

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5/28/04 at 11:55pm

Seth Paxton
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Troy
6.5 of 10
A real letdown since most of that 6.5 is due to the source material. Hard to believe that this direction was from the same guy who did Das Boot, it was sophmoric most of the time. The script bogged down in conveying the same sense of scope of the source and generally felt overtly Hollywoodized, despite, as I say, having a great foundation story to go off of. It was like they had no idea how to tell the story or what the greater themes of the story were. At best the writing just flat-out tells you what it wants to say rather than letting you pull the message from the story on your own.

Some of the acting was good, sometimes even great, but a lot of it was struggling with the script and the direction.

It was cool to see how some of these events might have looked (if any of them really even happened), but this is a film all about 1 battle that has half the power of any single battle in the LOTR films.

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5/30/04 at 8:32am

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Updated my list with The Day After Tomorrow, a pretty bad disaster film, but good enough in certain areas to make it worth my matinee price. 75% (though I may lower that to 65%).

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#161

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6/1/04 at 12:32pm

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I'm not liking the fact that this thread is constantly getting pushed onto the second page, so I thought I'd help out...

It's that time of the month again, and by that I mean an update to ye olde film list. I added the following:

Coffee and Cigarettes
The Corporation
I'm Not Scared
Mean Girls
Miracle
Saved!
Shrek 2
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
Super Size Me
Torque
Troy
Van Helsing
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman

Out of those, Coffee and Cigarettes was the best of the lot, but that is partially due to me being a Jarmusch fanboy; your mileage may vary. On the other end of the spectrum, Van Helsing may very well be one of the worst films I've ever seen; on top of that, it prompted the first audience member walkout I've seen since Solaris. A truly horrible movie, although Jackman will emerge unharmed--he's got too much talent and charisma not to.

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#162

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6/1/04 at 1:49pm

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Shrek 2
8.5 of 10
Perhaps funnier than the first film, the most impressive aspect is that they were able to create a STORY that would put these characters into similar situations and with similar problems without being redundent. Of course their must always be new characters to the main group for a sequel and this film has the hilarious Puss N' Boots. Another tried and true method is to give more screen time to some of the background characters from the first film, so if you liked Pinocchio or Gingerbread Man get ready to enjoy more of them.

I found the 2nd half funnier than the first half, but the whole film is thick with good references and lots of fun. The improvements with the animation are also noticeable as well.

I'd rate this sequel as a follow up to Shrek as being similar to how and how well Toy Story 2 followed up TS1. (I prefer the TS films)

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#163

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6/2/04 at 11:22am

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Starting Late... (All Scores out of 5)

Quick Key:

- Definite buy of all DVD versions (must see)

- Definite DVD buy (great film)

- Average Movie, will consider a DVD purchase

- Bad Movie

- Abysmal Film. The filmmakers stole those hours of my life.

Pre-May:
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The Ladykillers

Kill Bill Vol. 2

The Butterfly Effect

Bad Santa

Hidalgo

Secret Window

May:
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Paycheck

Torque

Hero (DVD)

Man On Fire

The Day After Tomorrow

Troy

Van-Helsing

June:
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Shrek 2

Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban

The Terminal

July:
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Spider-Man 2

I, Robot

The Bourne Supremacy

The Manchurian Candidate

August:
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Collateral

Hero (Theater)

October:
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Saw

The Grudge

November:
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After the Sunset

My DVD Collection

#164

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6/2/04 at 11:35am

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May saw a return to a more normal viewing amount with 30 plus 3 commentaries.

My recommendations:

The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang) (DVD Rent), A

The Return (2004), A-
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) (DVD Own), A-
The Lion In Winter (Anthony Harvey) (DVD Rent), A-
Lola (Jacques Demy) (DVD Rent), A-
A Story Of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) (DVD Own), A-
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorf) (DVD Rent), A-

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Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

#165

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6/2/04 at 2:11pm

Edwin Pereyra
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Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me

On Deck: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#166

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6/4/04 at 3:07pm

Edwin Pereyra
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Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (Korea)

At Bat: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#167

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6/6/04 at 8:50am

Edwin Pereyra
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Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Sadly, a Harry Potter formula has developed.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

#168

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6/9/04 at 7:48pm

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#49: Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie (documentary) -

¾ - Makes following a great team look like no fun whatsoever
#50: 13 Going On 30 -

¾ - Often falls on the wrong side of the line between cute and creepy
#51: Coffee and Cigarettes -

½ - A set of fairly funny vignettes
#52: Ella Enchanted -

- No reason not to enjoy this if you liked Shrek
#53: Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare in the USA) -

¼ - Too cruel for my tastes
#54: Kaena: La Prophétie (Kaena: The Prophecy in the US) (animated) -

- Frequently really pretty, but light on the story
#55: Dominator (animated) -

- Not even pretty

The latter two at the New England Animation Bash

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#169

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6/11/04 at 4:35pm

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#170

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6/14/04 at 10:04pm

Jason Seaver
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More updates:

#56: The Day After Tomorrow -

¼ - Emmerich wisely keeps his tongue out of his cheek.
#57: Baadasssss! -

¼ - I'm waiting for Mario Van Peebles's son to play his father in a movie about the making of this movie.
#58: Tasogare Seibei (Twilight Samurai in the USA) -

½ - Swept the Japanese Academy Awards. It's pretty good.
#59: The Chronicles Of Riddick -

- Give David Twohy $100M, I expect better than "pretty good"

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#171

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6/17/04 at 8:16pm

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#10: The Day After Tomorrow - *** Stars- While not as good as Independence Day, it's still a entertaining thrill ride. I do wish Sela Ward would have had something else to do. Her and the cancer kid just felt tacked on. It could have been excised with no loss.

#11: Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban - *** 1/2 Stars - The best Harry Potter yet. Finally a movie where I felt the magic of the books on the screen as well.

#12: Chronicles of Riddick - ** 1/2 stars - The "worst" movie of the year so far. I enjoyed some of it, just not enough to recommend going to drop the $$$ to see it in the theater.

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#172

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6/18/04 at 12:09pm

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Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Sadly, a Harry Potter formula has developed.

Or as I see it, thankfully a Harry Potter formula has developed and been improved upon.

I give it a 9 and enjoyed it all around more than the first 2 films, though not by a drastic amount. Cuaron's visual style at first seemed a little out of place for the opening scene, too "real" and it left the film feeling mean almost. That disappears as the fantasy aspects increase, and his visual style starts to give the film a much more earthy feel of nature.

The scope of the school and the grounds around the school increases dramatically from the first two films and this gives the entire situation an improved tone and touch of increased fantasy via a greater connection to reality (fantasy actions occurring in a real space rather than a fantasy world have a greater power of wonder).

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#173

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6/18/04 at 2:45pm

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Updated with the funny Dodgeball (****/*****).

#174

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6/20/04 at 4:14pm

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Just added: Control Room and Dodgeball

#175

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6/20/04 at 4:14pm

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Just added: Control Room and Dodgeball

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6/21/04 at 12:32pm

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Updated with the controversial Fahrenheit 9/11, the Turkish mood piece Distant, the string of non sequiturs that is Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and a slice of old-fashioned romance The Notebook. Added The Leopard to the "seen for the first time" pile.

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#177

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6/21/04 at 12:32pm

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Updated with the controversial Fahrenheit 9/11, the Turkish mood piece Distant, the string of non sequiturs that is Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and a slice of old-fashioned romance The Notebook. Added The Leopard to the "seen for the first time" pile.

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#178

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6/23/04 at 11:00pm

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Soul Plane - For much of its running time this is a fun romp in the raunchy, outrageous stereotypes-played-for-humor mode of Mel Brooks and ZAZ. I don't think I could identify anything outstanding about this movie, but it delivers plenty of laughs and fun set design gags along with the requisite assortment of scantily clad beautiful women. Unfortunately it pulls its punches at the end and goes for schmaltz and feel good cliches. Not entirely unexpected, but would some nudity, or at least thongs been too much to ask?

B

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Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

#179

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6/23/04 at 11:00pm

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Soul Plane - For much of its running time this is a fun romp in the raunchy, outrageous stereotypes-played-for-humor mode of Mel Brooks and ZAZ. I don't think I could identify anything outstanding about this movie, but it delivers plenty of laughs and fun set design gags along with the requisite assortment of scantily clad beautiful women. Unfortunately it pulls its punches at the end and goes for schmaltz and feel good cliches. Not entirely unexpected, but would some nudity, or at least thongs been too much to ask?

B

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318 Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

#180

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6/26/04 at 6:45am

Edwin Pereyra
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The posting activity in this thread sure has died down from last year's thread without the usual constraints and the race to get the label, "The person with the most number of watched films" that, in my view, plagued last year's thread.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country

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