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paprika - 5.5/10. anime about hijacking dreams, blurring line between reality and fantasy, etc, etc. recommended to this guy by this girl. that's about right. some interesting ideas floating around, but that's all they really do. tended to over-complicate things, but that just may be me being dumb. i could like it more with another watch but, yeah, i'm not really going to do that.

Phil Anselmo's Pain

Burns In The Heart Of My Little Brother

- Charles Bronson

Try the priest.

juno - 6.5. it was better than i hoped it would be. i want to defend it, because the story has a human side to it, it's just buried beneath a main character who you have no affection for. all of the supporting characters are fun and, surprisingly, human, even and especially michael cera, who doesn't have to put on any tics in order to be interesting. its unfortunate that the movie had to try to be a comedy.

down by law - 6.5/10. again, not a bad movie. there's a lot i like, the inability for two people to realize that they can be friends even though they lose the link that made them friends in the first place, it's just that it has this college play feel to the story and acting. good god, the acting.

sweeney todd - 8/10. yo, this was some serious shit, all right?

such bad things to such good people.

gone baby gone - 8.5/10. mystic river is an easy, and appropriate, comparison, but i'd put it along the lines of something like the constant gardener. the best thing that comes out of this movie is that it shows how easy, how easy it is to do the wrong thing. there is a period in the movie where the argument to do the wrong thing is so strong that you start to believe it and the counter-argument so flimsy that you can't believe that it's under debate at all. for five minutes, you're on the bad guy's side. except the movie doesn't supply a bad guy, only a few people's idea of what is right vs. another's idea of what is right, which happens to be the law's definition of what is right, and is in the end about how you can live with yourself with the decisions you make. the music can get a little melodramatic and morgan freeman is a figurehead of a character, but it's an interesting subject matter and i'm probably jizzing over it so much because it's a subject matter i'm in to. it probably deserves a little lower rating but fuck it, watch it, all right.

rent - 1/10. a crew of shitty, artsy douches complain about their situation while doing nothing to fight it other than to sing jesus christ superstar b-sides with tinny, whiny, lame voices and blame everything on one of their defectors who no longer share their shitty, artsy, douche ideals, and all i can do is pray pray pray the building burns down.

Jesus Christ Bobby.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

- Orwell

I only talk about movies that fail me.

eagle vs. shark - 5.5/10. much of the cast come off as authentic and awkward and only slightly caricatured, and i can't look at the lead actress without wanting to take care of her for the rest of my life, but jemaine from flight of the conchords drags this shit down. he, more than anyone, is putting on an act, and it's unfortunate because, while the emotional weight of the story is on the girl, he carries the plot forward with gimmick after gimmick that only magnify the movie's flaws.

once - 7.5/10. it's precious. the songs are good, the chemistry is there, you want them to be together. it's not a love story in the same way 'my fair lady' isn't a love story. a lot of the songs remind me of the diana ross song from the end credits of 'land before time.'

Man,

I download movies like a motherfuck now that I've arbitrarily decided that it's not wrong.

let you be in heaven for thirty minutes

before the devil knows you're dead - 4/10. i have an intense dislike of this movie. it has got vague echoes of 'in the bedroom,' where one act tears a family apart, but where that movie was, uh, what is it? -- good, this one is shallow and predictable and everyone involved knows they're acting in a movie. further, it's boring.


i think the biggest hindrance to internet piracy is downloading movies with the audio out of sync. yo, that shit is fucked up.

They come at night.

But one must sleep some time.

- Solyaris

MATILDA told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes.

atonement - 7.5/10. the first half when she's a child is pretty enthralling, but the second half hides flimsy melodrama behind long, drawn-out scenes that add little, with an older actress who can't seem to carry her weight, when the whole movie is about her carrying around the weight of a lie. it brings it back at the end.

the ten - 7/10. the guys from the state. ten segments telling stories based off of the ten commandments. that's just a gimmick which holds a bunch of sketches together, but it helps that most of them are pretty hilarious.

solyaris - 8/10. a 3-hour russian science fiction epic about the nature of reality and what we choose to believe? i'm there! at once terrifying and sad.

Little Hershey's Kissies.

Surely, God did not intend for us to know such pleasure.

Though

my longjohns have a flap for the lower part of my butt,
I don't trust it enough to use it.

I left the erron on.

Hairspray (The Musical) - 8.5/10. The humor's a lot more understated than anything I'd expect with John Waters' name on it, it's dirty and innocent, mostly thanks to its star, Nikki Blonski, who has the most genuine smile, John Travolta's accent is hilarious, Michelle Pfeiffer is evil, and it makes use of the dullness in Zac Efron's eyes. Probably my favorite movie of the past year?

I want to pee on you?

Live Free or Die Hard - 5/10. Script by committee.