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Some faves:
When Harry Met Sally
Reality Bites
Sliding Doors
The Mirror Has Two Faces
White Christmas
The Philadelphia Story
A Life Less Ordinary
Annie Hall
Beautiful Girls
An Ideal Husband
On the Waterfront
To Catch a Thief
Legends of the Fall
The Way We Were
Splendor in the Grass
Notorious
Sabrina (Bogart version)
The Long Hot Summer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gone With the Wind
An Affair to Remember
Moulin Rouge
Far and Away
Sense and Sensibility
The Boxer
Dirty Dancing
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
Circle of Friends
Mansfield Park
Inventing the Abbots
Dangerous Liaisons
Pump up the Volume
The Last of the Mohicans
One on One
Mermaids
The Graduate
Liberty Heights
Rear Window
LOTR-all
Donnie Darko
The Joy Luck Club
Marnie
A Time to Kill
Hackers
Outbreak
Jurassic Park
El Crimen Del Padre Amaro
The Princess and the Warrior
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Sweet Home Alabama
You've Got Mail
The Other Sister
Dazed and Confused
Mallrats
Miami Rhapsody
Dogma
Election
200 Cigarettes
Empire Records
Bye Bye Love
Fave shows:
One Tree Hill
The West Wing
Alias
Sex and the City
Freaks and Geeks
The Wonder Years
Fave actor: Cary Grant
Paul Newman
Joaquin Phoenix
Fave actresses: Winona Ryder
Reese Witherspoon
Scarlett Johansson
Liv Tyler
Emily Watson
Fave director: Alfred Hitchcock
Elia Kazan
Kevin Smith
Reviews
For Love of the Game (1999)
Wonderful, even for non-baseball fans
There's plenty of baseball in this movie, but even those who hate the game can really enjoy this movie. We see the effects of baseball on Chapel's (Costner) personal life and his personal life on how he plays the game. I love how they mix the love story w/ baseball. The love story is one of the best of the last several years. I've never been much of a Costner fan, but despite his character's ability to be unlikeable, I really like him here. Great film and a great soundtrack!
Out There (2003)
good enough to make you wanna watch again
The acting isn't too great, but the plot is interesting. The stories aren't always, but it has potential. I saw the pilot one nite when I was up late and since then I've been watching when I catch it on.
I'm trying to figure out what the poster vze58 means saying that shows like "Out There", "Even Stevens" and "Boy Meets World" are the reasons for teen pregnancies, single-parent children and divorce. The divorce just makes no sense to me. I think these shows are much too innocent and unrealistic in dealing w/ sex and I can't imagine they encourage teen sex. Would you rather young children watch Dawson's Creek and other teen shows where sex is seen as no big deal. THAT is what causes teen pregnancies and single parents. I just don't understand that poster's reasoning. Anyhow, from the episodes of "Out There" I've seen the characters have only dealt w/ crushes, not sex, so I don't see how it's bad for kids to watch.
The lead actor of the show (Riley) does sometimes refer to girls as chicks and always has this little smile on his face during those interviews for like no reason. Other than that he doesn't bother me.
The O'Keefes (2003)
very funny!!
I just saw this show for the first time and loved it. I like how the kids don't quite realize that their differences make them weird to others and the dad is afraid the outside world is going to turn them into typical teens who follow the crowd. Funny how the poster who hated the show turned it back on as though there are no other channels and she couldn't put in a movie. I agree Reba and 8 Simple Rules and pretty much all those other family comedies on the WB are incredibly lame...can we say acting lessons? Frankly i think the o'keefes is the only good one, perhaps a good sign. Although if the past is any indication, it won't get picked up yet Reba will stay on long enough to make syndication (4 years at least). What an awful 4 years. I mean, Freaks and Geeks got cancelled after one season, but 7th Heaven has been on for like 5 years or more! What's wrong w/ the world?!
Dick (1999)
see All the Presidents Men before you see this
Ok, I've never actually seen whole movie Dick, but I've seen a few scenes from it in my film class. We were required to watch All the Presiden't Men for class, and I can tell you if I hadn't seen that movie I wouldn't have thought the satirizing scenes in Dick were all that funny. We watched some clips w/ Woodward and Bernstein when Woodward is on the phone. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe!! It wouldn't have been worthy of a smile if I hadn't seen "Men". The hair, clothes, office, characters, awesome! I def. plan on seeing this movie when I'm in the mood for a comedy.
Good Advice (2001)
very funny, a good flick especially if nothing else is on
I came upon this movie on HBO while flipping for something to watch. It's totally predictable, but sometimes we need that. There's nothing especially clever about it, but it's actually very funny! Most of the popular romantic comedies we get nowadays don't offer up this much good humor. Good Advice doesn't bank on cliched humor, it uses real jokes. I would never have rented it, but it was on and fairly interesting. If you're in the mood for something sweet and extremely cheesy and funny go for it!
Murder by Numbers (2002)
explanation for those who don't understand the title
********there are some SPOILERS*************
I noticed some people didn't understand the title, which means they probably weren't paying very close attention to the movie. There are parts where the boys are talking about how to get away with the murder, like what they need to do not to leave any DNA behind, to set up another guy for the murder, how to play the cops, i think they even have a book. So, they are following all these rules or ways cops find killers, they find out how cops go about finding killers and make sure they do everything to keep evidence from pointing at them. Thus, they are murdering by the rules (or the "numbers"). Maybe people who don't understand the title have never heard the expression of doing something "by the numbers", following it each step, each rule.
The Ring (2002)
a somewhat scary flick, more confusing than scary
****there are SPOILERS in this review*****
I heard this was gonna be the scariest movie ever, and I guess it might be. I'm not a big scary flick girl, so I don't have much to compare it with. In my opinion, there were really only a few parts that were very scary. If you've never seen it though, it can be scary if you watch in total darkness alone. The beginning was the scariest part in my opinion.
I liked the movie overall, but there was so much left to be answered.
How did that tape come about???? Who made it? Samara I assume, but how? Did she really have access to a video camera? I know Samara said she sees images and they just "are" with the photos. Maybe it doesn't make sense because I don't buy that something can just appear out of thin air, or that a ghost can make a tape. Apparently the movie is kinda based on this notion. Someone suggested Samara made the tape while the kids were in the cabin trying to tape a game, but there was a tape in the mental hospital archives that was missing, so obviously it had been around.
I didn't get the whole deal w/ the father and Samara's relationship and the horses and all that stuff, and everything the dad talked about when Rachel went to see him. Maybe i just need to pay more attention or maybe someone could explain it to me.
And why did Samara start communicating w/ Rachel's son Aidan?? Like why him? She didn't communicate w/ other people's families who'd seen the tape?
And was the girl just evil? Cause they weren't supposed to help her and stuff? Why was she like this?? And what's w/ the fly that comes off the screen and makes Rachel's nose bleed, seemed pointless to me.
Oh please somebody explain this to me!!!!!! This movie just doesn't wrap stuff up. The only part i got was that they had to make copies to show others so Samara could be heard. BUT why did Samara want to be heard??????????? What did she want them to "hear"?????? Man, the more I think about it, the more confusing it is.