Kevin's Watch

I thought some scenes in Amélie were cute, but overall the movie fell flat with me. I'm not really very good at watching movies with subtitles, because I miss so much else while reading.

The second season of Hawaii Five-0 is out. I got that, and in the time since I was at the store, the second season of the Muppet Show should have arrived, too.

Loremaster wrote:I just finished watching the French movie, Amélie. Very good, but it depressed me at the same time.

Wow. I felt uplifted from viewing Amélie. The whole garden gnome thing still inspires me.
Today went and got:
Videodrome
Léon
Star Wars III
Ster Trek Nemesis
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Animatrix
Road Warrior/Mad Max BT
CMJ got:
The Omen Box Set
Millennium -Season 1
The Covenant

Finally got around to watching Passion O' le Christ. Yep, true to Mel's heavyhanded directing style, he certainly had it in this one. It's worked in Braveheart and even Hamlet, but this was pretty poopy, in my opinion. Why was the Devil necessary? Did he really need to make a cameo? Irritating. And other than that, just slow, and horrendously bloody and unpleasant. I just don't get what the excitement was over this movie. I much prefer Jesus Christ Superstar. But I guess if you are aching to see Jesus tortured and think it would be uplifting and inspirational...hey...have at it.

The German movie, the Lives of Others, just arrived in the mail.

Haven't got it yet, but today I saw Volume One of The Adventures of Batman--28 episodes--for 21$ at Sam's Club. Cha-ching!

The Lives of Others - five stars. Definitely one of my top five favourite films.

Today I got:

Batman - The Animated Series, Volume One
Children of Dune (superlative Sci-Fi Channel miniseries)

I agree, Foul. Far and away better than the mini-series before it.

Picked up the new Collectors Edition of Serenity today.

For my birthday the family bought me the 10th season of the Simpsons and the first 3 seasons of SLIDERS. I've been watching SLIDERS non stop since friday and still have most of season 3 to go. I should call in sick on tuesday.

I miss sliders. I should pick that up.

Just got the Dark Crystal, Hot Fuzz, Season One: Heroes and Resevoir Dogs.

Seen 'em all, and gonna watch 'em again!

aTOMiC wrote:For my birthday the family bought me the 10th season of the Simpsons and the first 3 seasons of SLIDERS. I've been watching SLIDERS non stop since friday and still have most of season 3 to go. I should call in sick on tuesday.

Nice to see I'm not the only Sliders geek here. I haven't seen an episode in 6 or 7 years. How do they hold up?

Cail wrote:

aTOMiC wrote:For my birthday the family bought me the 10th season of the Simpsons and the first 3 seasons of SLIDERS. I've been watching SLIDERS non stop since friday and still have most of season 3 to go. I should call in sick on tuesday.

Nice to see I'm not the only Sliders geek here. I haven't seen an episode in 6 or 7 years. How do they hold up?

So far so good. There is a mid 90s vibe but nothing that pulls you out of the show. After watching all of seasons 1 and 2 I found only 2 maybe 3 episodes that were weaker than the rest. I'd forgotten so much that it was really fresh. I know things are going to go south on me when Arturo is killed off. That really killed it for me 10 years ago and it's going to be hard to watch it all again.

When my ex and I were separated the first time, I was an absolute Sliders junkie when Sci-Fi was rerunning it everyday. was good with the show until Quinn's brother showed up; the last season was pretty underwhelming if I remember.

But man, I'd like to do dirty things to Kari Wuhr.

I was tempted to make a new topic and scream from the rooftops that there will be a mass DVD burning in danlo's backyard!!! Here's your only warning: never, never, never purchase, rent or go near a viewing of Wild Hogs!!! It is a major insult to New Mexico, Gays, Bikers and comedy. This movie seriously sucks SO bad that it is an insult to me and KW that I am actually talking about it.

Believe me, danlo, I will heed your advice fervently.

I notice that the film has Martin Lawrence in it. That's a warning sign right there!

Yesterday, Lucimay got The Bourne Identity. I never rented it because I'm not impressed by Matt Damon but I enjoyed it, thought it was well made and now I'll watch the rest of the Bourne series.

CMJ got better off dead with John Cusack. I only saw it once while it was still in theatres so that brought back memories. I remember everybody in school for a couple of weeks after it was released sayin, "I want my two dollars!"

Picked up the new re release of the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. After watching it I realized that I've never managed to make it through the whole film before. I still remain a fan of the first version but this wasn't too bad either.
I also picked up for the first time The Thing on dvd, a three pack of Darkman I,II,III and the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I'm still targeting Greatest American Hero as soon as possible.

Got the second volume of Batman: The Animated Series. Going to be awhile before I watch it, as I borrowed a copy of Justice League Unlimited from a friend.

Am currently working my way (for the first time) through all 9 seasons of The X-Files. I'm into Season 8, and still loving the show. I'm watching an episode a night, turning the lights out in the house and having the sound up loud, and trying to scare myself silly, and mostly succeeding!

Although the show was lauded for its mythology arc, I'm finding that the best episodes are stand alones.

It does go from "brilliant" with David Duchovny - surely he and Anderson are one of the best on screen pairings ever - back to merely "very good" without him in Season 8, although I do like Robert Patrick as Agent Doggett, and I'll be very sad when I get to the end of Season 9.