Underworld: Evolution
Clerks 2
A Prairie Home Companion
V for Vendetta
An Inconvenient Truth
Beerfest
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Stranger Than Fiction
Inside Man
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
I saw the trailer before Beerfest, and was bored to tears. The trailer went something like:
JACK NICHOLSON: (talking into phone) There's a rat.
MATT DAMON: (talking into phone) Let me get the rat. I can get the rat.
JACK NICHOLSON: (talking into phone) Well, you'd better get that rat, then.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: DO YOU WANT HIM TO CHOP ME UP AND FEED ME TO THA POOOUR?!
MATT DAMON: (talking into phone) Trust me. I've got rats before. I will get this rat.
JACK NICHOLSON: (talking into phone) Good. Get the rat.
Boring, right? It was a poor indicator of the film's overall awesomeness.
And while some of these movies were stupid (Underworld) and disappointing, (Clerks II), I was pleased that none of them were "I wasted $8" terrible.
Movies I Netflixed, in reverse chronological order (*denotes Sunday Night Movie Night selection):
The Great New Wonderful
All the Real Girls
Swimming
Flirting with Disaster
Slither
Brick
Hoop Dreams
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Diner*
Storytelling
LolliLove
Blackboard Jungle*
Team America: World Police
Explorers*
Junebug*
Fever Pitch*
Comedian
Monty Python's Life of Brian*
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns
The Deer Hunter*
Kids
Existenz*
Again, I feel like none of these were a big waste of time. Brick and Junebug were the most surprisingly awesome.
Before I resubscribed with Netflix, I did rent some DVDs from Liberty Hall. I can't remember all of them, but the most memorable rental was Oldboy. Oldboy is a South Korean movie with subtitles, and it's, uh. It's really something. Just rent it. But not for a date night.
In conclusion, this is too many goddamn movies to watch in one year, especially considering I watched Wimbledon and Richie Rich on TBS this weekend. What the fuck am I doing with my life? I mean, I've heard of Unbearable Lightness, but this is fucking ridiculous. But whatever. Beats reading.
(Next up: my 2006 recap of books)
3 comments:
You forgot all of the 'film noir' stuff. Blood Simple? All the other bad movies you made me watch. Oh also, there's Lovely and Amazing...how could you forget Lovely and Amazing?
-Corinne
Right. Thanks so much for renting Lovely and Amazing. What a fantastically shitty experience that was.
Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Chinatown
and probably more
I just read The Onion AV Club's 2006 movie review, and I noticed that I neglected to mention CSA: The Confederate States of America. It was a little slow -- I mean, it IS a faux-documentary -- and a little disappointing, but a decent flick.
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