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!

http://209.73.191.45/st1702r15/015/yahoomovies/12/37611326.mov?StreamID=37611326&ht=30&pl_auth=30e4cd2713ed2b80776065495bf8d884&b=d1o6pd137uf6h4693e3af

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.