Movies

Okay, I have an embarrassing confession to make. I actually own a copy of The Craft. Yes, that teen movie about the four witches. You must understand that it has sentimental value because my friend Dan and I saw that movie (in the theater no less) quite a few times in high school when we were going through our “dark” period.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I am a huge dork. There was a time in my life where I could have quoted the entirety of the movie Real Genius to you on demand.

I should preface this review by saying that I really really wanted to hate this movie. It had all the makings of a potential Hollywood raunch-fest, with a one-joke script. Originally I was not going to see it.

Here is a funny little video I found via Boing Boing featuring the top five voice over artists you’ve always heard in movie trailers. It is a lot of fun to have faces to put with the voices and the clip is delightfully tongue in cheek.

I just finished watching Elizabeth again. God, I love this movie. Seriously, it is one of my favorite movies, but I often forget about it, so it’s a special treat when I pull the DVD down off the shelf and pop it in again.

A short little clip from the upcoming movie Serenity has been leaked onto the Internet. It is certainly not a spoiler of any kind, but is definately “creepifying”. I am now even more weirded out by River than I was before.

I just got home from seeing The Island. Official Verdict: Meh. This was a mediocre action movie at best, with the potential for an interesting storyline, but the screenplay and directing strangles the concept.

Oh my God! Total fanboy moment! They have just posted the trailer for the film version of V for Vendetta, based off of the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore. I am so freaking excited now it’s ridiculous.

Gas to get to Best Buy and back: $0.75 Cost of a discount DVD: $9.99 Hearing “Greetings, Starfighter!” one more time: Priceless

A couple nights ago I went to see Howl's Moving Castle after work. I am lucky enough that Madison has elected to show the subtitled version with the original Japanese cast as opposed to Disney's dub-work.

Last night I attended the midnight showing of Batman Begins. All I have to say is: Holy shit! That movie had everything I ever wanted in a Batman movie, and effectively managed it all.

Today on a whim I picked up the DVD of Return to Oz. If you are not familiar with this film, it was based off of the next two books in the Oz series after the Wizard of Oz.