The Doors (1991)

Watched 20140430 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
The Doors (1991) Oliver Stone. 140 min

Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer)

Relevant Links:
The Doors (IMDb.com)
The Doors (film) (Wikipedia.org)
The Doors (RottenTomatoes.com)

The Doors: Manzarek, Morrison, Krieger, and Densmore
(MacLachlan, Kilmer, Whaley, and Dillon)

20140430:
For the most part, I think this movie was a good watch. But I think its also important to read the Wikipedia article as to how the movie fails to represent actual events.

Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan)

Instant Comments:
"I followed you from the beach."
"I quit."
Light My Fire.

Damn. Fucking crazy drugs.
The End.

Patricia Kennealy (Kathleen Quinlan)

That improvisation is just awesome.
Oh wow. That scene with the blood and the sex was crazy.

What a trip.
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."

The Invisible Man (1933)

20140430:
I personally didn't like this movie much. In part, I recall reading the beginning of the book and the movie didn't meet my expectations with respect to how I imagined the protagonist.

However, if you enjoy classic horror films, then The Invisible Man should be good enough to consider watching.

[20140604]

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Instant Comments:
I wonder if they only had to use a green screen.
Such aggression.

That woman and her scream is undeniably the same actress as that in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Una O'Connor.
[paused about halfway in to go to the gym]
I'm not so interested in this movie. Maybe it feels dated to me.

I suppose the romance part is a bit interesting.
Damn, he's just plain crazy. And its interesting, since he wants to undo his invisible state, but if he does that, he makes himself vulnerable.
Dr. Kemp definitely didn't approach the situation correctly. Oh well.

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Watched 20140430 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
The Invisible Man: Special Edition (1933) James Whale. 71 min [botnotsn (1897) by H. G. Wells

Relevant Links:
The Invisible Man (IMDb.com)
The Invisible Man (film) (Wikipedia.org)
The Invisible Man (Wikipedia.org)
The Invisible Man (RottenTomatoes.com)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Watched 20140429 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges. 94 min [bots Two Bad Hats by Monckton Hoffe]

Relevant Links:
The Lady Eve (IMDb.com)
The Lady Eve (Wikipedia.org)
The Lady Eve (RottenTomatoes.com)

20140429:
While I enjoyed the characters and individual pieces of the story, I had trouble understanding the movie as a whole. In my opinion, the romance between the main characters in the movie is utterly blind and absurdly ridiculous.

Thankfully, the movie pulls itself together with the humorous ending line: "Positively the same dame." Furthermore, I think the movie was overall enjoying to watch and I would recommend this movie to anybody looking for a solid romance.

Instant Comments:
Huh. This actor's voice sounds familiar. Oh, he was Abraham Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)! In fact, he's Henry Fonda and he's been in three other movies I've seen: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) (Tom Joad), 12 Angry Men (1957) (Juror #8), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (Frank).

Ha. Here commentary is delightful.
Wow. I'm really curious about how this movie will end. One ending that would seem unlikely is that Charles (Henry Fonda) has the skills to be a swindler. The more likely ending would be that Jean falls in love with Charles.
"A snake!" Haha.

"I like him, too."
Ha. That back and forth of card underhanded card tricks.
Damn. Winning five in a row is suspicious. Assuming a fifty percent probability of winning, the probability of winning five in a row is less than four percent.

What a tragedy, when your dirty profession poisons your romantic life.
"I want him to ask me to be free."
Haha. That ending is a bit sudden, but I'll throw them a bone for the very last line. "Positively the same dame."

Marvin's Room (1996)

Watched 20140429 (Netflix, Instant, HD)(Streaming until 20140501)
Marvin's Room (1996) Jerry Zaks. 98 min [bot play otsn (1991) by Scott McPherson]

Marvin (Hume Cronyn) and Bessie (Diane Keaton)

Relevant Links:
Marvin's Room (IMDb.com)
Marvin's Room (RottenTomatoes.com)
Marvin's Room (film) (Wikipedia.org)
Marvin's Room (play) (Wikipedia.org)

Lee (Meryl Streep)

20140429:
[20140602]
Marvin's Room features a solid cast as well as a solid story. If you like dramas that are thematically family-based, then I would recommend you watch Marvin's Room.

Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio)

Note that Marvin's Room has a heavy moment or two, but overall its a light drama, especially compared to Ordinary People (1980), another drama which focuses on the family.

Instant Comments:
Yeah, that's a lot of tests.

Dr. Wally (Robert De Niro)

"He started it."
Ok. So far we see that both sisters basically ignore the other's existence.
Ha. "Charlie, here. Light this for him please."
Ha! "I think he thinks he's hallucinating."

Lee and her older son Hank

Twenty years!
Ha! "Eight-six!"
Hehe. That garage door.
Haha. The relationship between Lee and her sons.

The fight at the fifty-nine minute mark was intense.
Wow. That's quite a plot revelation.
"My feelings for you, Hank, are like a big bowl of... fish hooks. I can't just pick up one up at a time. I pick one up and they all come, so I just had to leave 'em alone."

Hank drives the car along the beach shoreline, splashing his Aunt Bessie

Haha. Goofy carried her to Mickey's house.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

"Josephine" (Tony Curtis) and "Daphne" (Jack Lemmon)

20140427:
After finishing the movie, I wrote: "This is a funny movie. Tired, I fell asleep through some parts, but it was funny." 20140428 12:34AM

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Instant Comments:
1a: Started the movie. 9:30PM ET
1a: Hahaha. Girls, sax and bass. 9:45PM ET
1a: Hahaha. They're so funny as girls.

Sugar (Marilyn Monroe)

1a: Ha: Daphne. 9:57PM ET
1a: Haha. "I'm a girl, I'm a girl."
1a: Hahahahahaha. Drinking Manhattans.
1a: Haha. "Party in number seven." 10:59PM ET
1a: [Fell asleep at some parts]; 1b: Today I determined that I had nodded on and off from about the 1 hour 10 minute mark to the 1 hour 26 minute mark. I rewatched this portion of the movie again.

Osgood (Joe E. Brown)

1a: Ha! That final scene:

Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn't matter.
Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
Osgood: I don't care.
Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player.

Joe and Sugar

Osgood: I forgive you.
Jerry: [tragically] I can never have children!
Osgood: We can adopt some.
Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh...
[Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig]
Jerry: [normal voice] I'm a man!
Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody's perfect!
[Jerry looks on with disbelief as Osgood continues smiling with indifference. Fade out]

Joe and Jerry

1a=20140428, 1b=20140428

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Watched 20140427 (Netflix, Instant, HD) (Streaming until 20140501)
Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder. 120 min

Relevant Links:
Some Like It Hot (IMDb.com)
Some Like It Hot (Wikipedia.org)
Some Like It Hot (RottenTomatoes.com)

Into the Wild (2007)

Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch)

20140427,9:
While I don't know anything about the actual events surrounding Christopher McCandless, I do know that I only like some parts of the story with regards to how they are portrayed in the movie. In particular, I liked the protagonist's idea of severing his ties with societies, but I disapproved of his approach.

To elaborate, McCandless runs away in part to hurt his parents, whose behavior throughout his life seemed less than satisfactory. Unfortunately and consequently, he also severs ties with his sister.

In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and find it to be thought provoking with respect to formation and maintenance of human relationships.

Rainey (Brian Dierker) and Jan Burres (Catherine Keener)

[20140601]

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Instant Comments:
1a: Damn, he's gone crazy! (talking to himself on the bus)
1a: The climatic battle to kill the false being within.
1a: Lost in the Wild.
1a: Alexander Supertramp
1a: Two years before "Magic" bus

1a: Wow. This conversation he has with his parents is so hard to watch. There's just so much tension that's captured.
1a: Even the fact that the father opened the conversation by pointing out that his sister shouldn't be driving already initiated a ton of tension.
1a: An unfortunate realization for a parent to make. The fact that your son is alive, yet intentionally doesn't want to be found.
1a: Vince Vaughn!
1a: Lol. What detail did I miss? Why was Vaughn's character taken? [Satellite piracy: " I warned Wayne about them little black boxes.."]
1a: The check was made out to Alex Candless. The smallest of paper trail that could possibly lead to him.
1a: Lol. Twelve years on a waitlist to paddle down a river. Such bureaucracy.

Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughn)

1a: "Helmet man!" Ha.
1a: "Come, join us. We have hot dogs." Haha. What a lovely couple.
1a: If the river patrol were smarter, they'd not have made any beeps.
1a: He definitely left his name as Alexander Supertramp at the mission. He must have left his name as Alexander Supertramp at the border also.
1a: Damn that's both intense and effective (beating up freight train freeloaders).
1a: He's reading The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
1a: Ah, Kristen Stewart.

1a: Damn. The parallel between him & his mom and Jan & her child.
1a: Conversation between Alex and Tracy:

Alex: Merry... Christmas... [finds Tracy in her underwear]
Tracy: Come in here. My parents went into town.
Alex: No.
Tracy: Yeah. They went to call my grandma for Christmas.
Alex: No, I mean, we can't do that.
Tracy: Why not?

Tracy Tatro (Kristen Stewart)

Alex: How old are you?
Tracy: Eighteen... seventeen.
Alex: What year were you born?
Tracy: So, I'm sixteen.

1a: Conversation between Alex and Ron:

Alex: Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.
Ron: In the dirt?
Alex: Yeah. In the dirt.

Ron Franz (Hal Holbrook)

Ron: Where's your family?
Alex: Don't have one anymore.
Ron: That's a shame.

1b: Damn. It was all good and fun until that mistake.
1b: Happiness only real when shared.
1b: The credit music that follows the song with lyrics made me so sleepy. I had to rewatch parts of the credits multiple times. Actually, I'm just gonna watch the credits again tomorrow. :p

1a=20140427, 1b=20140429

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Watched first half 20140427 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
Watched second half 20140429 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
Into the Wild (2007) Sean Penn. 148 min [aot non-fiction botsn (1996) by Jon Krakauer]

Relevant Links:
Into the Wild (IMDb.com)
Into the Wild (film) (Wikipedia.org)
Into the Wild (RottenTomatoes.com)
Into the Wild (Metacritic.com)

The Magic Bus

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Watched first two-thirds 20140425 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
Watched last third 20140427 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) Trey Parker. 81 min

Relevant Links:
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (IMDb.com)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Wikipedia.org)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (RottenTomatoes.com)

20140425,7:
In addition to the usual antics, the main selling point for this music is that its a musical. I really like that this movie is a musical. Otherwise, the jokes occasionally felt stale.

Instant Comments:
[20140425]
"Pig fucker."

"Shit-faced cock master."
"Uncle fucker."
Haha. "Who wants to touch me?"
Gets out the megaphone. "How would you like to suck my balls, Mr. Garrison?"

"That's easy, you just need to find the clitoris."
Haha. "...is to be sent home immediately." "Hooray!"
"It's easy m'kay?"
Ha. Stupid doctors.

"Blame Canada."
"What would Brian Boitano do?"
Wow. Kyle has hacking skills.
Oh my goodness. This army scene.

"La Resistance lives on!"
[Paused at first two-thirds]
[20140427]
Haha. They reference a South Park episode (that time I fell asleep and you put your dick in my mouth)

Hahahaha. I didn't see that coming. "What's a buttfor?" "For pooping silly."
Winona Rider ping pong ball trick. Lol.
"Damn, shit! Respect my fucking authoritah!"
"Blood-drenched frozen tampon Popsicle!"

"Fuck, shit, cock, ass, titties, boner, bitch, muff, pussy, cock, butthole, Barbra Streisand!!"
"Goodbye you guys." - Kenny

Mean Girls (2004)

Watched 20140423 (Netflix, Instant) (Streaming until 20140501)
Mean Girls (2004) Mark Waters. 97 min [based on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes (2002) by Rosalind Wiseman]

Relevant Links:
Mean Girls (IMDb.com)
Mean Girls (Wikipedia.org)
Queen Bees and Wannabes (Wikipedia.org)
Mean Girls (RottenTomatoes.com)

20140423:
It's my first time seeing this film and I had, on several occasions, heard it was a great movie. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to see it and I don't think I ever took anybody's praise for the movie seriously. In particular, I couldn't help but think that a movie about high school girls would surely be a terrible comedy.

However, after finishing the movie, I would have to agree that Mean Girls is a solid comedy. While some scenes here and there may be lackluster, the movie as a whole is definitely worth seeing at least once.

Instant Comments:
Haha. "Don't read ahead."
Haha. "Your mom's chest hair!"

Regina George.
Hahaha. "One time she punched me in the face... and it was awesome!"
The lack of intelligence is overwhelming. (Exaggerating, but... yeah.)
"Get out of here!" "Oh my God, Danny Devito I lover your work!"
"irregardless"
"Math Enthusiast/Bad-Ass M.C."

By this point in the movie I'm really hoping the story ends positively.
Haha. Amy Poehler. "Ouch."
Hahahahaha. (the dog biting Mrs. George's nipple)
Interesting, even Damien warns Cady that joining Mathletes is social suicide.
"Gruel." (great+cool)

"In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."
Hahahaha. First cousin.
Haha. She returned to her cousin despite her friend's attempt to thwart the silliness.
"Didn't anybody tell you, you're supposed to wear a costume."

Wow. Regina George literally ruins lives.
Huh, but fighting fire with fire is dangerous.
Hahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahahaha. Kevin G's rap.
Haha. Gretchen's Caesar diatribe.
Dumpster'd!
"I can put my whole fist in my mouth, want to see?"

Fifth sense. ESPN. My breasts can tell...
Oh no, Cady's becoming consumed!
"Is butter a carb?" Cady's eyes light up. "Yes."
Hahahaha. A girl tells Regina, "Watch where you're going fat ass!"
One hour mark: "You're a mean girl!"
"She is a fugly slut." Oh wow, the twist.

"The girls have gone wild." He grabs a bat.
Haha. Damien comes to the call of all Junior girls.
Hahaha. "heavy flow"
Hahaha. "Are they not allowed out when they're grounded?"
Oh jeez. That ending is beautiful.
The ending came as such a surprise that honestly a tear came to my eye.

Hahahahahahahahaha. "Let's just say we knew how to take care of it." "Ahhh!"