Movie journal time. I didn't watch a heck of a lot of movies this month. Probably something to do with being in graduate school and being a busy person, both professionally and socially. Still I managed to waste a lot of time watching bad movies on TV. I probably watched Rush Hour 2 more than the one time I have listed here if you count all the fragments I've sat and watched on TBS on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. And would I ever actually go and pay money to watch Armageddon? No, but it's one of those compulsively watchable films even as you know it's absolute shit. One could almost consider it a camp classic. Oh, and I rewatched The Matrix the other evening on TV as well. It holds up pretty well. I think it is a great movie (hence the four-star rating), but not one of the best of all time. Not by a long shot. Perhaps I'll have to revisit the sequels sometime. Or maybe not.
My theatre going was somewhat limited this month. I did catch Terrence Malick's The New World and it was easily my favourite first viewing of March. It's a shame it didn't get more recognition. It is one of the most beautiful films I've seen in ages. Visual poetry is what some people have called it, and I agree. I also caught V for Vendetta, since I'll pretty much watch anything with Natalie Portman in it and it's based on one of my favourite graphic novels. It's a solid adaptation. I also got to see The Big Lebowski in theatres at a midnight screening. Clearly one of the greatest cult films of all time. I also bought a few DVDs this month. One of them was American Psycho, which is a fantastic film that is a brilliant work of satire. And of course I bought Peter Jackson's King Kong. Do I need to remind you all that I love that film?
*First Viewing
March
3.05.06 Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005) DVD, ***½
3.08.06 *The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) Theatre, ****
3.11.06 Rush Hour 2 (Bret Ratner, 2000) TV, ***
Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998) TV, **
3.18.06 *V for Vendetta (James McTiegue, 2006) Theatre, ***
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000) DVD, ****
3.19.06 *Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) DVD, ***
3.24.06 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998) Theatre, ****
3.26.06 *The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) DVD, ***½
3.27.06 Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin, 2005) DVD, ***
3.30.06 The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999) TV, ****
King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005) DVD, ****
3.31.06 American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) DVD, ****
3 comments:
I watched about 25 films this month but I doubt that I will watch as many in the month coming, mainly because I have a few essays due and a project in history.
You really gave a lot of **** ratings.
The number of **** ratings is due to the fact that I watched a lot of repeat films this month: films I already knew I liked a lot.
If you notice, out of all the new films I saw, I only gave a single **** rating to The New World.
Also, the **** rating covers a lot; in your IMDb 10 pt scale, it would be everything that is an 8 and up. Or A- and up in the EW scale.
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