*E*, you didn't like The Grudge? I didn't think it was so bad. Not great of course, but it really wasn't so bad as horror movies go.
I was scared stupid while I was in the theatre, and to be honest I got some chills for a few nights afterwards, but it's so much like THE RING (minus an actual story and nowhere near as good or well-made) that in the end, you wonder why they even bothered. When you compare it to it's Japanese counter-part, it's as bad an idea as the PSYCHO remake of 1998. I mean, at least THE RING took elements from RINGU and added a lot more in there, but THE GRUDGE is exactly the same as JU-ON (minus one of it's scariest scenes), so I wish they had just released the original over here with subtitles. Not that the original is without flaw - it, too, suffers from a lack of plot, and bad acting.
I'd love to get a hold of DARK WATER, and I don't know what it's american remake it going to be like at all, but other than that I could do without a bunch of RING rip-offs, regardless of what country they're being produced in.
...Hehe *E*s a dork
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I'm renting a hotel room out of town so that I can watch movies at the cinema that'll be on video by summer... What does that tell you.
I saw Phantom of the Opera today so I'm not sure it enters the 2004 category but it's excellent I loved it :mrgreen:
It's a 2004 release (as was THE AVIATOR), so yeah it counts.
I didn't add the movies released in 2003 that I saw in 2004, and I will end up adding to or making new lists as I see more of 2004's releases. After about September or October, my theatre stopped playing anything of interest, and only the most bottom-feeding films available, so basically all the well-received movies out there now. I am not able to see. The thing is that I rarely rent, and of those times, it is
very rare for me to pick up a new release........ which is why I'm so desperate to see these things on the bigscreen. I mean, not only will I not get them on DVD, but by the time they're on video, the hype is gone and I have lost interest. I mean, I can tell you for a fact that right now I am not watching the movies that were released last summer.
I only mentioned the movies I saw in the theatre last year because those are the most memorable experiences. There are a good number of other films that I saw at home, as I found out looking through a list of what came out last year. Forgot some of these even came out in 2004. A work-in-progress, of course, but not too shabby:
The Butterfly Effect
Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!
50 First Dates
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
The Dreamers
Eurotrip
Miracle
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jersey Girl
Ned Kelly
13 Going on 30
Godsend
The Punisher
The Whole Ten Yards
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Fahrenheit 9/11
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Napoleon Dynamite
Garden State
Ju-On
Shaun of the Dead
Teherin and Alandriel - don't worry, kids.
I'm just a movie nut and there were a lot of films I was excited about this summer. Some years are really slow, though, and some folks just don't take an interest in going to the cinema. In my town, it's not an expensive venture, and since I go fairly often I've learned how to avoid some of the things that drive people away from going to the theatre, like big crowds, expensive tickets, and rude patrons. My own parents rarely go to the theatre at all, but I think they watch about twice as many movies at home as I do. I didn't get any stinking DVDs for Christmas and they got about two dozen between them, and watched about six a day. But also, their kids are all teenagers and grown up, and I know the two of you have small children to look after. Arranging for babysitters is just as hard as bringing the kids to the cinema, so yeah, I would probably use the ol' VCR or whatever as well.
Bad actors, stupid setting, Pict cavemen operating complicated ballistas, a frigid love-scene and everything just a pretext for more scenes of hacking, slashing, burning, trampling, bwah.
I agree that the love scene is pretty lame (it's even worse in the extended DVD because it's interrupted - like love scenes aren't embarrassing enough, but to be cut short...). I don't know my history, so realism didn't bother me as I had no background to go by. Now that you mention it, it does appear funny that these tree-swinging hippies would be able to own and operate weapons of war like those trebuchet things. It's a little advanced for them. I liked the battle scenes, but wow, the extended DVD has shitloads more of them, and it is sooooooooooooooooooooo much bloodier. I've seen a lot, but I was still wincing at a number of points.
I'm actually kind of embarrassed to post here again. I don't know what the heck I was doing in 2004, but it sure as hell wasn't going to the movies much.
I'm
pretty sure you were studying at your desk while being hit with the business end of a whip by your professors. S'understandable.
*E*