Weeds Season 1

House Season 2

Weeds features Mary Louise-Parker as a suburban mother of two who resorts to selling marijuana after her husband suddenly dies in order to maintain the lifestyle she's grown accustom to.

The second season of House is exactly like the first season.  Someone gets sick.  About halfway through the episode House figures it out and they start to get better, then they start to get worse, and then some new variable is brought to light and then House solves the  case for real.

I really like both of these shows and I can't really explain why.  They're kind of like crackers that are just sitting there and you eat one then  another then you just keep eating them.   And it's not like crackers are that good but you can easily eat a whole box if you are bored/hungry.

both shows:

8/10

Harry and the Hendersons

See Jake's description below if you don't already know what this is about.   I agree that it is a bit too long.   Lots of cheesy 80's family movie humor that isn't really that funny, but Harry cracks me up.  But it is way better in my memory from when I first saw it, then from seeing it last week with "somebody"  bitching about being too fat.  

7/10  (average score of viewing at age 10 and 26.)

boooks

I've decided I don't really like  reviewing books.

The Life of Pi   by Yann Martel

Multi-religious Pi (he practices three) is traveling with his family and a whole bunch of zoo animals when the ship goes down.  He ends up on a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and a Bengal tiger.

I thought this was a good book when it was just Pi surviving on a lifeboat with a tiger (the other three get eaten).   Then there is a plot twist at the end to make you re-examine the whole story.  Pi talks about religion at the beginning before he ends up on the lifeboat, and you kind of forget about it  until the end.  But whatever you make of what the twist, and what it has to do with religion, it's a much better twist then you see in most movies these days, which are usually twists just for twists sake.  

9/10

Then there are these two books that I didn't finish and probably won't.  But I read more then half, so I'm going to count them as one.

Dubliners by James Joyce

One Hundred Years of Solitude  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dubliners is a bunch of short stories about  people in Dublin.  Some are pretty good.  Some are pretty boring.  They are unrelated, but similar.  Like a book about 20-40 year old middle class white people in Omaha would be.

I stopped reading that to read "Solitude" which is about a family who founds a city, and all their relatives and everyone in the city.  There are about 500 characters with 14 different names.  (Mixed and matched of course, like Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Jordan Jackson, Michael Michaels, etc.)  

The people in Dubliners are pretty mundane, the characters in Solitude are pretty eccentric.  But I just didn't care about any of them.  I much rather read about a kid stuck in a boat with a tiger for 227 days.

One Hundred Dubliners of Solitude

6/10

54/150

11/15

sure i'm sure

The Fly David Cronenberg

While testing his teleportation device, scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) accidentally merges his cells with those of a housefly. As his reporter girlfriend (Geena Davis) bears witness, Seth slowly -- and quite disgustingly -- morphs into an insect. David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the Vincent Price original achieves an unlikely concoction of horror, romance and pathos, thanks largely to Goldblum's strangely touching performance.

Jeff Goldblum is a goddamn legend, david cronenberg has a weird flesh problem. A pretty great 80s horror movie with twitchy ass goldblum, what more can you want

8/10

Harry and the Hendersons

Returning home from vacation, the Hendersons -- George (John Lithgow), Nancy (Melinda Dillon), daughter Sarah (Margaret Langrick) and son Ernie (Joshua Rudoy) -- accidentally run over a strange Bigfoot-type animal (Kevin Peter Hall). They decide to take the friendly "Harry" home and adopt him as a pet. But soon, they're scrambling to hide their new friend from authorities and Bigfoot hunters. This charming family film won a Best Makeup Oscar.

way to long and not as awesome as you remember. pretty vegan if you are into that stuff

5/10

Tokyo Zombies
While training to fulfill their dreams of being jujitsu champions, Fujio (Tadanobu Asano) and Mitsuo (Shô Aikawa) work in a fire extinguisher factory. But when a mob of zombies suddenly invade Tokyo, they'll have to employ their limited fighting skills to battle the undead. They soon join with other zombie fighters to try to reclaim the city. Directed by Sakichi Sato, this Japanese zombie-movie satire is based on the manga by Yusaku Hanakuma.

pretty awesome and goofy zombie movie in the vein of Shaun of the Dead but goofier. Afro ninja guy vs. zombies.

7/10

Annie Hall
Listen closely and you can actually hear the stress hormones pumping through the bodies of the characters in Annie Hall. Woody Allen's real, funny ode to love among twitchy city dwellers scooped up Oscars for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Actress (Diane Keaton) and Best Screenplay. And don't miss cameos of not-yet-stars Jeff Goldblum, Shelley Duvall and Sigourney Weaver.

Pretty lacking in my woody allen, i id not really know what to expect here. Lots of really witty and awkward but amazingly hilarious videos. After watching this i can see where lots of modern movies borrowed from his style with heavy cuts and amazing writing but no one has ever come close to capturing it.

10/10

118/300 movies

permanent midnight
Brace yourself for this emotionally riveting story about the dark side of success in Hollywood. Based on the highly praised autobiography of the same name, the story of a hot television writer who learns the high cost of fame first hand.

Ben Stiller in the only serious role i can recall him in. I don't really know how real this whole story is due the fact that Ben Stiller, who plays the part of a writer for the show Alf, is using heavy drugs and abusing everything but still comes out the good guy. Very well acted though and with this strong of a cast i am surprised this movie slipped through until now.

6/10
videodrome

The president of Civic TV Channel 83, Max Renn, is always looking for new cheap and erotic movies for his station. When his employee, Harlan, decodes a pirate video broadcast showing torture, murder, and mutilation called "Videodrome," Max becomes obsessed to get this series for his channel. He contacts his supplier, Masha, and asks her to find the party responsible for the transmission. A couple of days later, Masha tells that "Videodrome" is real snuff movies. Max's sado-masochistic girlfriend Nicki Brand decides to travel to Pittsburgh, where the show is based, to audition. Max investigates further, and through a video by the media prophet Brian O'Blivion, he learns that that TV screens are the retina of the mind's eye, being part of the brain, and "Videodrome" transmissions create a brain tumor in the viewer, changing the reality through video hallucination.

Another great movie from Cronenburg. Taking the strange and grotesque perversions of people to an extreme very successfully. Some very strange gore and some amazing stuff in Max's hallucinations make this easily my favorite Cronenburg. A must see. Long live the new flesh
9/10




Three Days of Condor
His name is Joe Turner -- code name, Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him. Robert Redford stars as the CIA researcher who returns from lunch to find all his co-workers murdered. Double-crossed and forced to go underground, he kidnaps a young woman (Faye Dunaway) and holds her hostage as he unravels the mystery. Conspiracy films don't come any better.

a solid spy movie that doesn't rely on explosions. Robert Redford was the real deal in the 70s

7/10

114/300

finally

i was moving and stuff so i have not watched many movies
but this weekend is for movie watching i do believe
look below at my half assed post for more in depth reviews



son of rambow
Forbidden to watch TV or go to the movies by his ultrareligious parents, young Will (Bill Milner) gets a hold of a camera, and his mind blossoms in this nostalgic comedy from the team behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Set in 1980s Britain, the film tells the tale of the friendship that blossoms between Will and class bully Lee (Will Poulter) when the latter recruits Will to help him make a home movie inspired by Rambo: First Blood.

an adorable feel good movie that doesn't make you feel like a wuss for watching it. Pretty straight forward no frills story telling for a family movie. In the vein of "millions". Kid actors can be a risky thing i think, but these were some of the best. I want to throw or atleast go to parties like the french kid (pictured above) throws.

9/10

somebody else post something.

Control   dir. Anton Corbijn

Starts off right before Curtis gets married and joins Warsaw, who would eventually become Joy Division and ends, well, you know where.  I guess if you don't know how it ends you probably don't care.   And if you do know, you'd probably guess correctly that this is a pretty dismal story.  Curtis struggles with his work and family right as his band is about to blow up and things just go from bleak to bleaker.

I was kind of falling asleep throughout this one.  Not that the movie is that bad or anything, but it is kind of slow.  I think Anton Corbijn did a good job of directing, and Sam Riley is great as Ian Curtis, but the story is just a slow, painful one about a very short musical career.  Not really anyone's fault, but there just isn't much of a story arc,  more like a story slope.  But, what can you do?

6.5/10

Funny Games   dir. Michael Haneke

Two preppy boys terrorize a family  when they arrive at their vacation home in this shot by shot remake of the Austrian movie by the same name by the same director from ten years ago.  I really don't know what the point of that was, other than what I read about Haneke wanting to specifically direct this movie at Americans.  Why you ask?  Well let's find out!

I was with this one at the beginning, as the movie starts out pretty suspenseful.  But after awhile it just gets boring.  I'm getting sick of these long takes in movies.  At least the shots in "Atonement" and "Children of Men" there is stuff going on.  There's an incredible amount of time spent on trying to get a cell phone to work when one of the characters has a chance to run for help (or get the other cell phone  out of the car.)  One of the kids keeps talking to the camera and at one point rewinds the movie.   I guess we are just like the kids doing the torturing because we're watching.....whoa..... I have more complaints but I'll just say this movie is just goddamn annoying.

4/10

51/150 movies.  

Things I Borrowed From Kevin

Y: The Last Man (comic books)  Brian K. Vaughan

I guess I'll just count all of them as one book.

Every single male is DEAD except for a man and his monkey, Yorick Brown (man) and Ampersand (monkey).  So he has to figure out what the F is going on, and find his fiancee who is in Australia.  Many different characters join him along the way, most notably a secret agent known only as 355 who was hired to protect Yorick, which proves to be a challenge.  Ninjas, pirates, Israeli's and one-boobed super lesbians are all after the only living man.  Or is he....???

This series is f-ing awesome.  It's funny, intriguing, never boring.  Awesome all the way through.  It is written by one of the writers of LOST, and it makes me realize how even though LOST is awesome, it would be even sweeter with an infinite budget, and no "seasons".  And if Walt could have stayed a little kid... but anyway back to Y.   I've never read any comic books before but this one has me wanting to explore more.  Must read.

10/10

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (TV show) seasons 1 & 2

As Jake Baby Jake would say, this is basically Battlestar Gallactica in a bar.  I read somewhere that it was "Seinfeld on crack" which I think is more accurate.  It's a lot like "Seinfeld", where a group of self-obsessed friends go on wacky adventures that usually come full circle to a hilarious ending.  I didn't pay much attention to this show back when it was first on cable because I thought it was just trying to get laughs by being offensive.  But after closer inspection the show is actually hilarious and offensive not just hilarious  because it is offensive, which usually isn't that hilarious.  But IASIP is hilarious.  

9.5/10

49/150 cinema

9/15 literature