I just watchedThe Godfather & half of part 2 with my family.

Great way to spend Mother's Day.

Waitress
(2007)

The Squid and the Whale

Odd, intresting film.

the life & death of peter sellers. it was so-so (an hbo movie). had its strong points but they fucking "symbolism" truly broke my nuts. what do i mean by this... hm... geoffrey rush playing peter sellers playing other characters in seller's life and "amending" history. very trite. also some dream sequences or whatever. fuck dream sequences. they are ok used sparingly and only when necessary but when used ham-handedly they are poor substitutes for a well-told story. like "this fantastic scene represents peter sellers dabbling with drugs". well fuck that shit. make the motherfucker get high, dont show him in sgt pepper costume with an animated background. fucks sakes...

bio movies usually look very cheap, watered down and suck.

kill bill vol 1 is on tv so that's what i'm watching.

this one looked slick and had a decent cast-- geoffrey rush is no shit-actor, and charlize theron was hot, emily watson was wonderful, there were other nice parts.

it was the screenplay that broke my balls. bad screenplay = bad movie no matter how well done. that, or maybe the director took some fucking shortcuts. fuck him.

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ps i just looked him up. he's the fuck who did "the reaping". well. no fucking wonder...

i don't know, for starters, can you make a person like peter sellers into a character? that's really tough.

well the man was nuts and lived through his characters (i've read that before), he was highly immature adn had a sick relationship with his mother, plus he went from star actor to make a bunch of stupid movies in the 70's, and he was certainly an interesting study in character disorders, the problem was cramming too much disjointed story with the fucking little "symbolic scenes" and trite narrative devices that killed it.

he was a sort of willy lohman is how i can best approximate it, though he was a lot more insane.

that's what i was talking about, getting that person and dumbing him down into a two dimension character, that sucks.

plus, add that he was an intensely charismatic fellow, a natural comedian and a hell of an actor and that calls for a fucking generation defining author to script this and an actor that can be intensely serious, unabashedly humorous and bearing a private disturbance just below the surface (to us people).

besides, most bio pics suck because they want to cram in decades of a person's life into a mere couple of hours and really hate how they mostly "fast forward" to "important" moments.

that's one of my favorite movies.

i watched Children of Men earlier. pretty cool.

Boogie Nights

"La Strada".

Smokin' Aces.

I watched My Architect last night which, for those that don't know, is about a man who is the illegitimate son of Louis Kahn and visits his fathers buildings and talks to people who knew him (he died in 1976 or so) in order to get a picture of what his father was like. It was a really nice film, quite moving and full of interesting characters.

the very disturbing and compelling audition.

4 minutes... very beautiful movie, I suggest you all to watch it.

28 Weeks Later

I loved the first, and although this had it's moments, it felt like the storytelling got lazier as the movie went along.

to top it off, the ending was horrible. it was as if they had a deadline to release the movie (and it was too long), so they chopped out 20 minutes.

it's a bad sign when you can compare ANY movie to Jaws 3.

that was a fake penis, oh i am so disappointed!

Watched this last night. D.A. Pennebaker has an excellent track record.
A must have for all Dylan fans.

Plot summary

Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan is playful and enigmatic.

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^^^ Great film. They've also re-released it in deluxe edition too.