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Watched Porco Rosso with the French audio track for the first time (Jean Reno is Porco).

You know, I have a tan trenchcoat - I'm a hat, a pig snout, and a mustache away from having a Porco costume!

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Gamera, Guardian of the Universe (1995). 3/5 So much fun. Well made monster movie that is worthy of most, if not all the praise it gets. Also showed it to the lady friend who didn't see what the fuss was about. She prefers Showa Gamera to this.

The Haunting (1963). 4/5 Just happened to come across this while channel surfing the other day. ZOMG. I love this movie. Everything is just so good. I can't believe I didn't know this existed until know. CRAZY GOOD!

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Departures

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Ikiru

Both excellent, bitter sweet films that deal with death, loss, and mortality...I didn't mean to watch two similar themed films back to back but it worked out well...

Oh, and I also watched Bride of Re-Animator which was garbage

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-Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith- As I posted earlier, I've been trying to give the prequels another chance with a fresh mind after all these years... and it hasn't been going too great. The good news is this one is certainly a big improvement over the last two. This one actually went by at a breezy pace whereas the first two moved like two slugs f*cking. But the bad news is that this movie still sucks. Its only better than the previous entries because they were almost unbearable to watch. This one is at least paced decently. But, as I said before its still not good. The dialogue is as bad as ever, as is the acting. The "Jedi Slaughter" sequence is supposed to be dramatic and sad, but its impossible to feel anything since we never got to know a SINGLE ONE of those characters over the course of THREE FILMS (wtf, Lucas?). And the insistence of cramming as many original characters into the prequels continues, as we have Chewbacca fighting alongside Yoda on the Wookiee planet for no real reason (never mind the fact that Chewie laughed in Luke's face for practicing the Force in Episode 4... apparently he's best friends with Yoda, the oldest Jedi there is... Face it, Chewie is simply here just to say Chewbacca was in it)- I was reading that sequence originally had a LITTLE KID HAN SOLO IN IT! Christ, Lucas, what's your problem?! Nobody cares about this stuff. The last lightsaber battle is pretty good even with its CGI overkill, but the dialogue before and after is awful... Lines like "Don't... make me... kill you" are acted and delivered like they came out of WWE Raw (and who could forget "NOOOOOOOOO"!). And is it just me or is Obi-Wan crippling Anakin and LEAVING HIM FOR DEAD totally out of character, not only for himself but for a Jedi in general? If they really were best friends as Obi-Wan so eloquently states in A New Hope, he wouldn't have turned on him so fast and would have taken him to get help and tried to reform him. The more I think about it, the more I think Obi-Wan is just a d*ck. He leaves his best friend to die an awful death, lies to Luke about tons of stuff (Vader being his dad, Leia being his sister, and even stuff that doesn't matter like owning R2-D2). If Obi-Wan Kenobi was actually a competent Jedi, I think about 95% of all the problems in the Star Wars universe could have been avoided. After watching these three turds, I think the only way to cleanse the pallet is to watch the original trilogy. Oh, and General Grievous has to be one of the worst/most pointless villains of all time.

Lucas could have easily made ONE prequel- think first 10 minutes with Anakin as a child, the middle portion with him as a teenager and showing his romance with Padme and his leanings toward the dark side, and the last two quarters of the film with him as Vader and his rise to power. Also, follow the rest of the Jedi Council and care for their characters so their deaths mean something. And aside from Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the Emperor, NO characters from the originals... Make that in one or two films and BANG, what we wanted to see. Instead he crammed them with pointless subplots, characters from the original trilogy that are there for no reason. He had to bog them down with pointless connections to the originals, and superfluous subplots, pretty much for no other reason than to sell as many toys as he can. Epic fail, Lucas. I tried to go in with a fresh head and accept these films, as I've often gone back and revisited films and found they aren't that bad... but these are. F*ck you, George. If he put the merchandising opportunities on the backburner and focused on a simple story (as he did with the OT), then he could have made a masterpiece.

-My Bloody Valentine (original)- I'm not a big fan of slasher films. I love all the grand daddys like Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, Peeping Tom, Deep Red, etc. but once it got to the "slasher formula" popularized by Friday the 13th, they really do just get boring and are pretty much all the same movie. Even so, I've always had a soft spot for MBV and I just picked up the Blu-Ray, and I gotta say, I still dig it, mostly for the fact that it doesn't follow the same formula as the rest of the 80s slashers (sex = death, final girl, and all that other crap). The biggest sin of the slasher genre is that things are usually PAINFULLY boring when someone isn't getting killed, but this film manages to keep you interested with pretty good characters, many of which play against type. I love that the "fat guy" is never used as the butt of a joke and even has a fine girl of his own! Not a perfect film, but the story and characters are way above the typical slasher fare and the effects are pretty darn good.

-My Bloody Valentine 3-D- I remembered really enjoying this remake in theaters, but I didn't much care for it this time around. I think a lot of it has to do with this being the first time I watched it in 2D. Without the 3D, its just dull and all the bad writing and acting are even more noticeable. As far as remakes go, its one of the not-awful ones, but its still not great. At least Tom Atkins was in it though.

-Heartbreak Ridge- I love Clint Eastwood. This war-comedy is one of his lesser films, but I thought it was really funny at times. Coulda been about 20 minutes shorter though.

-Unforgiven- Simply one of the best (if not THE best) Western ever made. Probably Eastwood's best directorial effort as well. He deconstructs the Western genre by bringing it out of the "Western-verse" and into the real world by showing the realistic consequences of the Western tropes we've all gotten used to. Basically, "what would a Western be like in real life?" Simply brilliant.

-Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things- I love Bob Clark's horror films Death Dream and Black Christmas, but this movie (his first film) is one of the most boring movies I've seen in a long time. The acting is awful, its ugly looking, and the humor isn't funny. For some reason, this is a cult classic that people just love, but I just don't see it.

-Modern Romance- A simply brutal portrayal of on again/off again romance by the brilliant Albert Brooks. Its hilarious, even though some parts are just so truthful its almost hard to laugh. This film is simply everything Woody Allen wishes he was.

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Personal Lol moments (as opposed to the ones we all openly agree on):

Mace Windu being blown away cartoon-style into the distance, a la Wile E Coyote....or Kumonga in GFW.

The dream Anakin has of Padme screaming, and the whole image shrinks into the distance. Just cringe-worthy ridiculous.

Count Dooku's little jump from the upper level landing. Reminded me of all those terrible CGI babies we see dancing and walking around.

The checklist of events to tie it all in to the OT.

I've successfully forgotten the rest.

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Star Trek the motion picture-
A good movie,nut it's. so. slooooooow.

Mouth,as far as not caring when the Jedi die,you do get to know and like them in the Clone Wars TV show. Yes,ideally those scenes should have been IN THE ACTUAL MOVIE instead of a cartoon five years later,but at least they're there.