Recently Watched DVDs/ DVD recommendations

It's liek comparing Lawrence of Arabia vs. Gladiator, real locations still beats CGI.  more epic looking.  Hands off though to the CGI creators, it looked realistic.

Try watching Godfather II & III for the life story of Michael Corleone.  It's like the rise and fall of an empire :-)

I watched The Eye with Jessica Alba for the first time, yesterday.

BTW, that's not where my ID came from.

It comes from a time when an artist or film maker with vision was called "The Eye." I belonged to a film makers club here in Charleston, SC over 2 decades ago -- but that's neither here nor there.

I'm sure most movie horror fans have already seen The Eye, long since, but I thought it worth noting since it scared the skin off me.

It takes me awhile to work up the nerve to watch psychological horror movies, which I actually like, though I detest slasher flicks.

I've bought Rampo Noir to watch, but so far have not been ready to crack it. Has anybody here, seen it? Tarken, maybe?

I also watched Australia , with Hugh Jackman & Nichol Kidman which is a brilliant film and has the works, humor, drama, romance, wonderful visuals, everything!

I watched Noise , with Tim Robbins. Based on real life events -- however loosely -- it was a kind of interesting study in human psychology and behavior.

I watched Mad Song , which was pretty good for a low-budget film, with just a touch of prurient interest with a little Alfred Hitchcock in the mix.

Then later I watched Hancock (Will Smith), which I found to be abysmally stupid and pointless -- even though I like the 3 main actors very much.

But I come from an age in which Super Heros were the strong silent type who saved lives, sucked up whatever existential pain and angst they might have suffered and spare the audience the trite boo-hoos.

Today, I watched Slipstream , which is right up my alley, so I enjoyed it very much. It's rather surreal, but I like that in a movie.

I also watched There Will Be Blood . Strange assembly of bastards amongst the characters and a really villainous anti-hero hero. But the movie was worth seeing the slice of life of that time, and also to see a false prophet get his earthly reward.

And finally I watched Elizabethtown , cute but stretches one's willing suspension of disbelief...

Hope I'm not overdoing it or being boring here with all the entries. I should probably put them in as parts of reviews on each...

This just seems a bit more interactive.

Tarkin,

The Caterpillar is actually the reason I bought Rampo Noir. I feel certain the story is very disturbing, but it sounded so darkly interesting and reminded me of a couple of things: One was a movie in which a man who was in good health wakes up in a hospital minus a leg, and the next time he goes to sleep & wakes up he's minus the other leg and every time he sleeps he awakes minus one more limb... that movie caused me to feel horror in every cell of my body.

Maybe I'll look into 3 Extremes, once I work up the je ne sais quoi to watch Rampo.

The hubby & I saw The Fighter & 127 Hours in the theater. 

I actually knew chicks like the Fighter's mother and sisters when we lived in CT for awhile -- trash-talkin', spoilin' for a fight, sittin' around, drinkin' smokin and knittin' baby booties -- a New England redneck thing maybe?  !;]

BTW, I adore James Franco and though he and Hathaway were really cute & funny as hosts, but in any case, my favorite line from 127 Hours was him saying the single word: "Oooops," the way he said it and it's meaningfulness in context, you know?

Oh, and I just watched [REC] the other night, just to see if it really was the same movie as Quarantine, and lo and behold, it was!  Yuck! If I may say so.  Don't believe I'll go any further with that sequence of flicks.