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by **Destroysall** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:04 pm

Jurassic Park

Love this movie so much! It truly is a piece of work and has to be one of Spielberg's best!

Jurassic Park III

I don't know why, but I am starting to not like this movie as much as I like the second film. It's an "ok" film and I see that now. I mean, it wasn't totally bad, but it didn't have the same atmosphere as the first two films did. Here it was just totally different. For one, I grew annoyed to see how they changed the pupils of the Raptors to resemble closely to mammals where in the first two films they had reptilian eyes. Then the CGI becomes really prevalent in some sequences which kinda takes away from everything. The one thing I did enjoy was the character, Dr. Alan Grant. I miss the way he was in the first film, but in here you can see how life had a huge change for him and how things didn't go great as you would've thought it did based upon the first film. Do I wish it was better for him? Yes. However, I'd doubt we'd have the film we have today.

All in all, it's an "okay" film. Not a classic like the original obviously, but not exactly on par with the second either.

by **jellydonut25** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:03 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:09 pm

by **canofhumdingers** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:03 pm

So I recently moved from Saint Paul, MN 1200 miles south to the Houston, TX area for a new job. One of the things I was most sad to leave behind was the unbelievably amazing Heights Theatre. It's a single screen movie house from 1926 that had been restored to its past glory with awesome architecture, wonderful chandeliers, and even a Wurlitzer organ that was played before many shows. And the best thing about it was the owners were huge classic movie fans who book & show an astounding number of classic films. And they pride themselves on almost EVERY classic film being a 35mm print! So as a growing film nut it was with great pain that I left such an institution behind.

But I've at least been able to take solace in the fact that there is a chain here in Texas called the Alamo Drafthouse. They show a lot of old movies including a lot of fun 70's & 80's movies. Sadly the nearest one to me has gone all digital with only one 35mm projector left for occasional special cases. I personally still enjoy seeing things like gateweave and scratched increase near the reel changes. I don't want it to be excessive, but a little bit makes the film feel alive with a warmth that digital just can't reproduce.

Anyway, all that being said, I went to my first show there recently. It was a digital presentation of Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood and it was FREE ADMISSION! While personally would've preferred actual film, it was a very nice digital presentation that really did look great. And seeing Errol Flynn swashbuckle on the big screen was just fantastic.

I'm even more excited for what's up next weekend... A double feature showcasing a 35mm print (yay!) of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze including all you can eat peperoni pizza!

Sadly the Alamo Theater is no Heights when it comes to architecture, but at least they show good stuff. They also do "Quote-alongs" with movies like The Princess Bride and Office Space and sing alongs with popular musicals. They're even showing Battle Royale in march...

by **Destroysall** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:51 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:33 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:32 pm

Being Elmo

How the heck did this not get nominated for an Oscar!!?!?!?!?!? Perhaps the sweetest documentary I've ever seen. Uplifting without ever being preachy, a very powerful work. I can honestly say this is my favorite documentary of all time. Had no idea it would affect me this strongly. Wow. Simply AMAZING!!

by **MouthForWar** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:14 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:16 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:31 am

by **The Real McCoy** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:38 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:33 am

by **Tom R VanSlambrouck** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:30 pm

Your Higness- This wasn't that bad of a film. I thought it was going to be your typical "high" comedy but it wasn't had some pretty funny stuff.

Paul- This movie was great. I loved all the homages to other sci-fi films the best being the Alien one.

by **The Real McCoy** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:51 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:31 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:06 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:16 am

by **Destroysall** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:47 am

by **RaymondBurr** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:05 pm

by **Dr Kain** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:15 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:15 am

Watched The Lorax. Eh. Pretty forgettable, but not terrible. I did find the Lorax flashback scenes to be incredibly depressing. Gets pretty dark there for a while and that was the best part of the film. The bad thing is that when the kid is on screen, you're really just waiting for him to get back to the once-ler.

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:56 am

In Time

I was pleasently surprised by this film. Maybe I'm just dumb, I see parts that could have been improved but I don't care, I enjoyed the film for what it was.

by **jellydonut25** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:24 am

Crank - i love this series, so i enjoyed myself

then i tried to watch crank 2 but i'm having playback issues on my BD player...it's this whole thing...

by **MekaGojira3k** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:16 am

Watched Gonzo, a documentary on Hunter S. Thompson.

Boy was he crazy.

by **MouthForWar** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:23 am

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