Yeah, one of these days I’ll post about something other than movies. But I am way behind.
One more movie seen in the theater:
A Scanner Darkly
I admit that I am not all that familiar with Philip K. Dick, despite living in a place where his entire body of work is sitting on a shelf, just waiting for me to read. I’ve not read a single one. I saw Minority Report, which I understand was not all that great an adaptation. I’ve also seen Paycheck, Total Recall, parts of Blade Runner, and (lord help me) Screamers.
Anyway. I liked this. I didn’t even mind Keanu. I had never heard of rotoscoping (the weird animation) before seeing the trailer to this film…thank goodness I had my Randipedia next to me. 😉 I thought the effect was very very good…giving the movie a sort of strange unreality.
Rand and I decided that Robert Downey Jr. based his character on a cross between Jeff Goldblum and Dr. Cox (aka John C. McGinley).
and on DVD…
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I love, love, love William Goldman. I mean, this is the man who brought us The Princess Bride, not to mention the first really good AND true to the spirit of the novel Stephen King adaptation (Misery, in case you’re confused…). But I never felt much of a desire to see this. Outlaws? The Old West? Feh. But Rand convinced me otherwise, and it was definitely worth it.
continuing in the western theme…sort of…
Blazing Saddles
I must be making my daddy awfully proud…first, all this Trek, AND Blazing Saddles? (it’s one of dad’s favorite movies…I actually bought it for him for his birthday) This is hilarious…Looney Tunes style antics serving up biting social satire (for the time).
I think I might be missing one, but I’ll end it here…
Looks like your standard thriller, but has a bit of a twist. I enjoyed this, although I didn’t like the way it ended.
Now, I just have to write about the trailers for upcoming things I’m interested in seeing. 🙂
I would like to see Scanner Darkly, but I’m afraid if I see one more Keanu movie I might lose what’s left of my IQ.
What happened to the images you put in for the movies?
Scanner Darkly was produced by Section 8, Steve Soderbergh and George Clooney’s company; so I’ve been hearing a *lot* about it for the past…nine months or so.
So…it’s like “Much Ado About Nothing” or, “A Walk in the Clouds”, then? Even Keanu being in didn’t make it suck!
I’ve never been much of a Western fan (too many old Westerns when I was a kid; I always cried for the horses), but I adore Paul Newman. I’d watch paint dry if he were sitting next to it…
Blazing Saddles is *brilliant*. Your dad should get together with Matt!
I have Identity in my Netflix queue, but then again, I have over 460 discs there. I’m sure I’ll get to it someday!
To fill in some gaps in your American movie lore, you should watch something with Steve McQueen (I suggest Bullitt, The Great Escape, and the first Thomas Crown Affair) and Lee Marvin (Paint Your Wagon, The Big Red One, Emperor of the North Pole, and Cat Ballou). Of course, I only say this because you drew a blank on both of them when we were talking movies recently. After I get over my Combat! TV show DVD streak, I get the 2nd and 3rd parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a little something to get me back to mainstream Hollywood.