September (1987)

This movie is really sad.  It is really good, but it is also really sad.  The actors are all really good, Mia Farrow, Denholm Elliot (who i've never seen before but i liked him alot he reminded me of young jack lemmon, sort of), really all six of the actors in this movie were really good and i thought this movie was really brave for WA  i am always impressed when i see a movie and you know that there was no chance of this will be comercially popular.  The audience hears woody allen and thinks oh i sure like that Annie Hall movie, and they get sometning like this, sheesh. Brave.  i wonder if Mia Farrow was going thru some tough times and that's where woody got the ideas or if he and her were talking and she wanted to play a role like that?

over all i would say that you have to be in the right mood to really enjoy this movie if you want something fun  don't see this.

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Holy Mountain (1973)

i had heard about this movie while doing some research about Dune. Alejandro Jorodwarsky had the rights for a while to direct the movie, and he had retained HR giger to do the art design, and the crazy dude to that wrote alien to write it. With Salvador Dali to play the emperor. (holy shit that would have been rad) Anyway they were talking about the movies that he'd made as being totally wierd and man is this movie ever that. It starts out and with this guy who wakes up and starts to get a crucifix made in his image, after he destroys them all he eats the face of the original and then ties a bunch of red and blue balloons to it and sends it up to the heavens, then things start to get wierd, he follows a giant fish hook to the top of a building to find an Alchamist (played by AJ) who starts to turn the thief's poop into gold. Then things take a turn to the strange. Wow this movie is wierd and man is it ever good. He does things in this movie that you just can't do these days, it is wierd fucked up and awesome, david lynch wishes he could make movies this awesome.

i suggest that if you rent this watch it with the director commentatory it is amazing and he actually explains what's going on, making it really enjoyable. imagine watching inland empire and having lynch expain what the fuck is going on. oh that's right he can't he just makes things wierd for wierds sake.

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

I liked this movie alot. WA's part in it really spoke to me. His and Mia Farrows relationship struck alittle to close to home, making this a movie i could relate to. The martin Landou part seems to be the inspiration for matchpoint 16 years later, with the relationship and it ending poorly. I really like the relationship he had with his niece, that was nice, and i think that overall even though it was a sad ending it was a really good ending. Alan Alda was really freakin funny, Sam Waterson was really great. The whole thing of the "good" brother having bad things happen to him and the "bad" brother doing bad things and thier being no consequences was an interesting point that i don't really agree with but i liked none the less.

overall i would say that i liked it quite well and is in my top 5 fav. Woody Allen movies.

Soldier (1998)

So justin at work was talking about this band called the replicants and said i should check them out, so i did and i was reading aobut them on wikipedia, which lead of course to blade runner and unexpectedly to this movie, a one of actioner from when i was in highschool. i remember renting this movie with my dad when he had a cabin on mt. hood on ppv. The writer of soldier was also the writer of bladerunner (screen play not source material) and he had set this movie to take place in that same universe. Todd is a replicant, a nova series one, so looking at it like that i thought this movei was totally cool, showing how they train them and all that stuff. but with out that knowledge i thought it was kinda cheesy but mostly ok action movie, kurt russell really does fucking rule,

i would give it 3.5 hot sauce packets. with the possibility of rewatching once a year maybe, every two.

Elvis the movie

oh sweet jesus i finally saw it. John Carpenter directs Kurt Russell as Elvis in Elvis the movie. and man i have wanted to see it for a long time. it's the only carpenter movie i don't own and had never seen. it's not out on dvd and its hard to find on vhs. i thought that kurt did a good job playing elvis. not an enviable job. It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than it had any right to be. The co stars were your basic tv movie actors not horrible not great. i mean what do you expect it's a made for tv movie about elvis.

over all i give it 3 out 5 hot sauce packets

would i watch it often if i owned it? nope, but is it cool to watch it? yep.

i never claimed to be perfect

this movie looks rad!

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Everyone Says i Love You (1996)

This movie is really funny. Imagine, really woody allen making a musical. The story would have made a good story anyway but the characters busting out in song is really funny. Edward Norton is funny. Tim Roth is really funny. Woody allen painting himself into the corner with julia roberts. the thought was terrible and really funny.

36th chamber of Shaolin

I had heard amny things about this movie before i was finally able to see it. i saw it the the 2004 Grindhouse festival at the hollywood theater. Gordon liu i knoew to be rad, but i had no idea this movie was so great. I saw this along with the five fingers of death, invicible pole fighter and master of the flying guilitne all in one sitting. This was the real jem though. It has some of the best fighting and the best training sequences ever. the story is above average for a kung fu movie, but seriously that's not hard. Gordon Liu is freaking awesome in this movie and i can't believe it took this long to come out on dvd. Finally i can watch this amazing movie whenever i want. aaaah. Now if only 8 diagram pole fighter would come and on dvd and shoalin vs. wutang.

this a tie with Duel to the Death as my all time favorite kungfu movie.

a rare 5 out 5 hotsauce packets

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Holy crap this movie is funny. It's based on a book very loosely, basicly WA took the chapter titles and made his own stories. There are seven shorts. One is where WA is a jester in midevil times, one where WA is italian, The sodomy one with Gene Wilder was freaking hillarious. this is a really good movie.

Zelig

This is one of the more famous Woody Allen movies, and i can see why. i hadn't seen this movie before and i wish that i had, because it was really good. however if i had seen it before i don't know if i would have gotten it. if this movie was released today it owuldn't be that big of a deal because the stuff that WA did that took him and gordon years i could do on my laptop. the making of the old movies is amazing the technique is phenominal. ok i want to take back my earlier statement. you could do something like that but WA made this movie in with the same materials that they did in the 20's so it looks and sounds very authentic. and they used real experts like susan sontag. cool.

the thing that i think gets overlooked and WA says the same thing is that the story gets overshadowed by the techinque of this movie. so that fact that this is a parrable about being yourself and standingup for what you believe often gets overlooked. for fucks sake this should be shown and explained these days. WA and mia farrow are really good in this movie and it's a shame that the technique often takes a back seat when talking about this ingenious plot and movie.

four hotsauce packets.

Die Hard 4

Now before you listen to my review check this out...




freakin awesome right?

okay so live free or die hard is an awesome action movie. it starts out rad and never slows down. it starts out a little like 16 blocks, you other willis fans may or may have not seen his remake of clint eastwoods "the gauntlet" last year, i thought it was cool. anyway mclane starts out saving the "mac kid" and then it just gets wackier and rader until the final minutes of yippie kie ya mutherfucker of an ending. Seriously though if you didn't like the first three this won't change your mind. if you think that a semi truck might have a hard time brining down a brand new f-35, you might not want to see this movie, but if you think that mclane can do anything and that he's a total badass you should see this.

4 out 5 tacosauce packets.

Bananas (1971)

i had heard alot about this movie and it didn't disapoint. It was really funny and had alot of funny gags. i want to watch it again to really sink my teeth into it. Basicly it's the story of a guy who falls in love with a girl who is moving away to a foriegn country. he says he's going also to impress her and ends up running the country, via a series of events.

One of the things that i like so much about woody allen's movies is that there is so much going on. i don't feel empty after watching it like i'd never like to see it again i feel like there are alot of things going on that i might have missed and i want to rewatch and enjoy the things that were there and discover the new ones.

i will however admit that the film isn't for everyone. it's kinda slow. it's dated. and it stars woody allen who you either love or dispise. i love him. and can't wait to see the rest of his catalog.

Woody Allen

So i have decided to give into my obsession and start collecting woody allen movies. As some of you know i am an avid movie collector and for a couple years now i have not had something i was looking for. just spinning my wheels. So it's a double edged sword, i have something to look for again however now i have a money pit to fill up. i jumped in head first though and got the three boxsets that Warner has out. The first one is the one that really got me lusting.

The Prestige

I first saw this movie in the theater and it was the first movie in a long time to actually capture my imagination. What an amazing premise. Totally cool. i didn't know too much about it going into and that is, as always a plus. Hugh Jackman finally made me think he's a good actor and Christian Bale seems to have hit his amazing stride after Equilibrium, making good movie after good movie. Scarlett Johnanson is of course fucking gorgious, and not only that but she's a good actress. Christopher Nolan really hit it out of the park as did the DP. wow. This movie is just really good.

4.5 Packets of hot sauce

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