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{September 17, 2013} Movie Count

I was watching Star Trek, the remake, no wait, the new…wait, no, the 2009 version with Chris Pine for what felt like the zillionth time (yes, I know that’s not a word, well, it is now, it’s in black and white and it’s on the Internet and you know what they say, everything you find on the Internet is true, so…)

As I’m watching it, I realized that there are so many movies that I have watched multiple times and I would love to know how many, so going forward I am going to keep track, how many times I see it in the theater, for example, I know I saw this Star Trek in the theater three times! Harry Potter:1, 2, 3, 4 I saw in the theater at least 2 times each, Stardust, at least twice in the theater and once on a flight to Paris, just to name a few examples. I couldn’t tell you how many times at home at this point!

So, my plan is to think about movies that I’ve seen and how many times in the theater and start to keep track of movies as I watch them on TV or my collection.

Be on the lookout!

{June 3, 2013} Demolition Man

I just watched Demolition Man, probably for the umpteenth time and it never gets old!

It’s funny to watch to see who’s in a movie from “back then” even thought it only came out in 1993, the year I graduated college! Actually, it came out the fall after I graduated! I took my dad to see it! That’s one of the things I love about my dad, we have a lot of the same taste in movies. Since we don’t live near each other, we don’t get to go to the movies together very often, but when we’re in the same city, sometimes we get to go, or we watch them at home together.

Even though we don’t get to go together, we talk about the movies we’ve seen, give each other recommendations. We know what the other will like most of the time and its also nice when we can ward each other off certain movies as well, definitely helps! And most of the time, we are right on the money. I wish we loved closer to see each other more often, but I’m lucky, we talk every day, sometimes for a minute, sometimes for an hour, so even though we’re not next door, we’re only a phone call away.

Ok, I could go on and on about my dad and I will in future posts, but you came here for a movie review!

Looking at the cast, a very young and cherubic, bright eyed Sandra Bullock, a fresh faced Benjamin Bratt, pre Law and Order, I often forget that he and Sandra Bullock were in Miss Congeniality together, both more seasoned professionals. Rob Schneider, looking like a babe, fresh from Saturday Night Live and did you remember that he and Sylvester Stallone were in Judge Dredd? There’s not much to say about Dennis Leary, he was, well, Dennis Leary, I think he’s one actor that has been type cast and he doesn’t seem to mind and he’s good at it, good for you Dennis!

As Wesley Snypes has gotten older, his roles become more serious, great at the action, he had great lines in Demolition Man and I always loved the one blue eye, one brown. But as I mentioned, more serious, the Blade series,which I loved, well, the last one not as much, the bad vampires faces, wicked creepy. Do you remember him in Wildcats? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092214/?ref_=sr_1

Sylvester Stallone, the consummate action hero. In amazing shape, which is something he has always maintained, prime fighting shape. It’s funny, people always tease, because of the Rocky and Rambo movies, he was not well spoken, not the brightest bulb in the pack, so sometimes it gets confused with the actor. Did you know he wrote Rocky? Some would joke, I didn’t know he could read! He’s written quite a few movies, check out imdb.com to check it out!

There were some great one liners, things that make you go…huh? The captain from Lethal Weapon was in the earliest scene, then there was a Lethal Weapon poster in Sandra Bullock’s office. The Schwarzenegger Library? He became governor a full 10 years after Demolition Man came out! Taco Bell is the only restaurant left? Oldies are actually commercials from the 20th century?

It was a fun movie, full of action, laughter, one liners, violence and an all around good time.

Could someone please tell me what the three sea shells are for!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/?ref_=sr_1

{January 14, 2011} Day 114/12 – How I watch movies.

I love movies. I think you may have figured that out by now, but if you haven’t, let me put it out there, I don’t just like, I love movies.

Everyone looks at movies differently and each persons reactions are solely their own. We may enjoy the same movie, or not, we might have some of the same responses for why we think its great or not, but no matter what, movies affect us each individually. I know that for me, when I watch a movie, I really get into a movie, get a feel for the movie. If the movie is top notch, I won’t notice any flaws or at least very few flaws in the movie, if it’s not so great, my eagle eye comes out and I won’t be able to get past certain things.

I think when you watch a movie for the second, third or even fiftieth time, it’s amazing how that movie makes you feel and why you would watch it two, three, fifty times. I know, for myself, if I love a movie and I am going to watch it multiple times, it must have had a profound effect on me. I am one of those people who, if I’ve seen a movie a few times, can put it on in the background and not even watch it, it’s just on and I know, just by some of the dialog or music what point of the movie it is, what scene. I can even play the scene in my head without even thinking, I might be able to recite the dialog for you [I have really, really tried to stop doing that, I know some people find it amazingly annoying! but if you encourage me, it’s your own fault!]

I was watching the Star Wars Trilogy the other day and it was on in the background while I was getting some work done and there are certain moments when I have to stop what I am doing and watch the movie. It doesn’t matter how many times I have seen it, when I hear that sound of the lever going down because the Death Star is about to fire its primary weapon on the Rebel base and Luke turns his computer off and is going to use the force to fire his final shot and destroy the Death Star, I still sit on the edge of my seat and keep my fingers crossed. When Lea kisses Luke for the first time because Han has pushed her buttons, when Darth Vader asks Luke to take off his helmet so he can see his son with his own eyes, I still look at these scenes with wonder.

When I watch other adventure movies, I have the same reaction, a comedy, I know the parts I want to watch and they still make me laugh until I snort, the love stories that I still cry at the same spot when I think they might miss each other and it might not happen for them or when they finally do find each other, I am balling and need more than one tissue… When I watch Pride and Prejudice, the Kiera Nightly version, when Mr. Darcy proposes for the second time, when they meet at dawn, I always hold my breath and wonder when that will happen for me, when someone will say something that profound to me and I will just know, when I watch the movie Invincible and it’s towards the end of the movie, the Eagles season opener against the New York Giants, I am rooting for the Eagles in this one, you have to, they are the underdog and I still sit on the edge of my seat as he makes his famous move that started it all, retrieves the ball and heads towards the end zone and I am on the edge of my seat “He’s at the 40, he’s at the 30” that still gives me chills and I just watched it the day before.

We all have our own way of watching movies and I know how much I love them by my reaction, body language and just the way I feel while I am viewing a favorite. I may have just finished a movie and I might start it all over again after its finished.

{January 2, 2011} Day 104/2 – A Song is Born

I’ll just put it out there, I love Danny Kaye. Anyone who knows me knows I love Danny Kaye. I hope to have all his movies on DVD some day, right now I have about 4 and one of my favorites is A Song is Born.

The cast is incredible, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, just to name a few amazing talents [go to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040820/ to see the full cast]. The story is about Professor Hobart Frisbee and 6 other professors of music who work for the Totten Institute of Music. They are working on the complete history of music and they have not left the “house” in nine years, so the world of music has passed them by. One day two window washers “Buck & Bubbles” happen to come in to ask some questions and that leads the group on a new exploration, with Frisbee heading out, “don’t wait up gentlemen, I may be late, I may be home after nine pm”. Professor Frisbee is played by Danny Kaye, so quite young, the other six professors are what Honey Swanson, played by Virginia Mayo, call the long hairs, if you get my meaning.

On the outside, Professor Hobart goes to the bars and music joints to invite amazing musicians like Mel Powell, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Barnett, just to name a few, back to the institute to work on the history of music. Honey Swanson joins the group, pretending to be interested in helping, while hiding out from the law, her boyfriend, Tony Crow, the gangster is a wanted man… She is entrenched in their lives and they all grow very fond of her, and she of them, all the while, waiting for her chance to get out and as she tells her “daddy” one of the kiddies has broken out in a rash, a case of “spring fever” if you get my drift. Remember, this movie is based on the 1940’s music and lingo.

There is music, hi jinx, laughter, adventure and love as we learn about jump, jive, swing and yum-yum. Well, I think yum-yum is my favorite, seeing as I’ve always had a wee bit of a crush on Danny Kaye. Not to worry folks, there is a happy ending and boy finds girl, boy falls for girl, girl is engaged to another [gangster], boy knocks out gangster and happily ever after ensues.

This is classic Dannye Kaye, showing his acting ability, mastery of physical comedy, and talent as a leading man. Am I biased? you bet your bippy crab-apple annie! Enjoy!

{July 26, 2010} The Replacements

I love this movie. I say I’ve watched it over a hundred times, it may not be that many, but it’s probably close, feels like it anyway. I watched it again today and remembered why I love it so much.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about football, don’t understand a lot about it, but that’s alright, that’s what makes the world goes round. I have been to a few football games, professional, high school and college, people have tried to teach me and it doesn’t seem to sink in, I’ll live. But… I can tell when a team is about to score and occasionally when a play is good and I’m good with that.

I do enjoy football movies, not all and mostly the comedies or at least the ones about the underdog team or player. This is one of them. The bulk of the movie is a comedy, but it’s all about the underdog[s], the replacement players they bring on. The lead is Shane Falco, “Footsteps Falco”, played by Keneau Reeves, who had ‘that disastrous showing at the Sugar Bowl’ and has plenty of heart, as Coach Jimmy Miginty says the team needs to win. I was watching the behind the scenes or making of the movie, as dvds have now and one of the football coaches who worked on the movie said, it’s important to make the football moves real, let the comedy come out in the actors and their characters, and he was right, the plays are real and look it and the funny stuff could come out while they’re on the field, but it’s in the huddle or the side lines, not in the plays.

This was just a great feel good movie, you get sucked into their stories, which luckily revolve mostly around their time on the team, but there are some moments in movies that I think they miss, cut out story lines, there are scenes when they focus on a player and you don’t know why, this had one or two, but it didn’t detract from the overall feel of the movie.

I find that it doesn’t matter who you root for in life, when you’re watching a movie, you can’t help but root for the team the movie is about, you might be torn, but in the end, the movie is about them…

So, as I am apt to do, I give this movie four thumbs up, my highest praise, and I will watch it with anyone anytime. Enjoy.

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