I have noticed a disturbing trend recently, and I'm sure some of you have found it as well, but I have noticed that I've been on a bit of a 'Watch movies from my childhood' binge recently. On top of that, I find that I'm not branching out as much as I should be, but rather, am watching alot of movies I've seen many times before, even though I've got a big pile of DVDs to watch which I keep putting off, and haven't actually seen before.
Is this sort of thing happening to anyone else? I really should be expanding my viewing, and I have watched something new everynow and then, but I seem to be a bit stagnant in that area of late.
Anyway, here's some of the films I've re-watched recently:
Pretty much every Star Wars related media: A couple of friends of mine and I have been ploughing through every Star Wars movie, including the excellent cartoon series Clone Wars, and the not so excellent cartoon series Droids and Ewoks [plus the two Ewoks live action movies]
It's been nice revisiting movies I hadn't watched properly in a while [the two Ewoks and Droids cartoons were vague memories from childhood which I wanted to watch] and it's all been alot of fun really.
Flash Gordon [aah aah, he'll save every one of us!] Fun Sci-fi adventure, full of Bore worms and generally stupid things going on. Flash annoyed the hell out of me: especially in the scene where he 'plays football' with Ming's guards. The actor himself is also annoying. A friend of mine commented that he would be the ultimate Nazi Pin-up boy, and as such he gave me the s**ts for the rest of the movie.
But still it's loads of fun, and was nice to revisit another film I hadn't seen in years.
Robin Williams Live at New York:
Good stand up comedy act. Robin Williams is a nutter, and it's always fun to hear him swear alot when you consider most of his movies [family fare after all] Lots of fun.
Orgazmo:
Nice Trey Parker and Matt Stone effort about a Mormon in the porn industry. I remember a couple of friends of mine at a karaoke party getting really drunk and singing the main theme song from this movie without any music. That alway is fun.
Anyway I've watched a lot of crap, so I kind of forget where I'm at with my viewings so here's some of my newer 'haven't seen before' viewings:
Rollerball [Chris Klien version]
Plot, what plot? Character development? Someone is speaking some crazy language I think. This movie was stupid. I thought it was made with almost no effort whatsoever, and Chris Klien isn't exactly a great lead actor. Even if he was, he would have been facing an uphill battle in trying to give his character any credibility at all.
Anyways, first rule of film: If you are going to do an extreme sports movie, at least make that sport interesting. Sure there's lots of blood, but really, people riding around on motorbikes and going in circles just wasn't very interesting.
For some reason, the Dean Cain semi rip-off of the original Rollerball,
FutureSport is alot more fun for me, since I actually liked it, whereas this one has not alot going for it. Other than, of course, the very fine Rebecca Romjin-Stamos strutting around [though the whole 'I'm ugly and shy because I have a strategically placed scar over one eye yet am still beautiful' plot point was useless.]
Syriana:
Enjoyed this film about oil in the Middle East, and the different stories of people affected by it.
Sure it kind of makes you hate all big business people, and by extension, American big business and Govt policy [regardless of how true, or untrue this movie actually is], it is still a well made film which I quite enjoyed. To anyone who has seen it, a friend of mine was telling me about a documentary on the film and how the director got inspiration from something that actually happened to him from the scene where Clooney's character lands in Beiruit and is pulled over at a checkpoint, had his head covered in a black bag and taken away to see some Hezbollah people.
Date Movie:
Went to check out a new cinema in the city [in which one of the screens has bean bags as chairs, but I haven't gone there yet] and saw this piece of trash. Sure the movie itself is ok, but it's really 'by-the-book' predictable comedy, and it was more fun listening to the couple in front of us saying 'that part's from Sleepless in Seattle. oh now it's You've Got Mail.'
The movie is just a bit of fluff really: there's not a whole lot going for it, and as a comedy it's kind of hit and miss, but really it's too nice to work like the Scary Movie movies worked [they were crap too, but they fired so many dirty jokes at you it kept you pretty interested] so in places it was relatively slow going. But it may be good for a dvd rent and a quiet, bored night.
Anyways that's all I can think of off the top of my head for now.
