Movies I've Been Watching
10 stars are reserved for a startlingly exceptional movie
American Dreamz 9
The Da Vinci Code 6
Take the Lead 5
Nanny McPhee 10
Chronicles of Narnia 3
Memoirs of a Geisha 8
Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 8 The tunnel scene was not nearly so freaky--thank goodness. Johnny Depp is damned good--not freaky in the same way Gene Wilder was--but entertainingly effeminate and mad. The Oompa-Loompa race was reduced to one guy with a funny hairdo, and, though I missed the halting old-man walk out to the gate with the harrowing fall-turned-flip, the newly added Puppet Hospital and Burn Center was brilliant. And who can resist such logic as "But I couldn't see the show from up there"? The stuff about the dentist father made me want to read the book to see what's there in the original. Annd you still need to be stoned when you watch this movie. Definitely a keeper.
The Interpreter, 7 Kidman is brilliant with accents. And I loved the Ku philosophy of mourning and justice. Though I'd hoped she was going to sneak into the UN to stop the assasian and give up her grief that way instead of how it actually happened.
Road to El Dorado, 7 Not the kiddie flick I was expecting--so even better.
The Brothers Grimm, 7
The Forgotten 7 stars
Mulan II 6 stars (it loses a point for not being as good as the first)
House of Clouds 8 stars
King Author 4 stars (a disappointment)
Finding Neverland 6 stars
Possession 9 stars
The Other Side of Heaven 4 stars
Spanglish 5 stars
Being Julia 9.5 stars
The Human Stain 8 stars
The Reckoning (2004) 9 stars
Stage Beauty 8
The I Inside 3 stars
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 6 stars
A Series of Unfortunate Events 10 stars!
I, Robot 7 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 11, at least ;-)
A Day Without a Mexican 8 stars
Spaceballs 5 stars
War Stories 7 stars
Silver City
Bewitched, 6.5
Constantine, 7
Taxi, 7
The Pacifier, 6
Terminal Error, 7
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 9 stars
Bride & Prejudice, 8
Anchorman, 6.5
Punch Drunk Love, 4
Monty Python: Search for the Holy Grail, 7
An Ideal Husband, 8
Alexander, 7 stars
Man of the House, 9
Final Cut, 6.5
In Good Company, 8