Toy Story 3 (2010)

So i have seen the other two movies in this franchise, granted when they were in the theater so it had been a while. and i heard that this one was the best one. I don't think it was that much better. It wasn't worse though either and that's saying something. The movie is cute and makes you kinda sad about growing up. especially if you grew up playing with toys. my favorite part was when the girl had a totoro toy that came to life, however he didn't talk i was bummed out about that. over all if you've seen the other ones and you have a couple hours to kill why not check it out. other wise it's not that great, and you should feel free to skip it. The evil bad guy care bear was kinda funny though, big baby was creepy, and so was "not gay, i just like clothes" Ken.

Green Hornet (2010)

Well i was as surprised as anyone that I actually saw this movie. Then i was secondly surprised that it was actually good. The trailers really made it look shitty, and i figured if i ever got around to watching it that it would be thru Netflix or cable or something. But i wound up going to it and IMAX 3-d as well. Well 17.50$ later i was sitting down in my chair grumbling to my girl about how we didn't go see TRON2 in IMAX but we were seeing Green Hornet? Well anyways this movie was fun, fast paced and actually funny. Kato did a great job and as with the old tv show pretty much stole the show. I don't think this surprised anyone. Seth Rogan was good, and Christopher waltz and Bloodnofski was pretty freaking hilarious as was a cameo by James Frano. Green Hornet has some great action, cool cars, (anyone notice that when Rogan and the random chick were making out in all the cars they skipped the Buggati ?) cool motorcycles, cool scary guns ;). Here's my gripe though. i am starting to really understand the 3d backlash. i enjoyed it but i would have enjoyed it just as much w/o 3d and an extra 5 bucks back in my pocket. i didn't think it really added anything to the movie at all. Overall i would give it 3 hot sauce packets. i think i might try doing this again. In reading past one's i have missed it. Next up is winters bone, kings speech, maybe something else.

Dexter (2008)

I am almost thru the second season. This is a good show. i have been enjoying it quite a bit. The writing is good. it's not as good as the wire but it's enjoyable and quite frankly i keep finding myself rooting for Dexter. which is wierd. i would say it's in the top 5% of tv shows going on.

Titan A.E. (2000)

This is one of Don Bluth's last movies and what a shame. I really like alot of Don Bluth's films. Secret of NIHM has a special place in my heart since it was one of the first movies i ever saw. I also had a love affair and facination with Dragons Lair. Seeing it in the arcade back in the day was a revelation. but after that my interest in his subject matter wains. maybe it's the terrible sequels to his movies that studios keep making. mayben not. i dunno. all i know is that i never really watched anything after rock-a-doodle. which was not very good (it's been 15 years since i've seen it last) Titan AE is not a great movie. it is a good movie. it could have been great i feel. Joss Whedon is one of the co-writers that's a good thing. the script just seems sorta half baked. it could have used some more polish. and then this would have been a great movie. i enjoy the action, and the space ships, just the back story kinda sucks and the aliens are all kinda goofy which is too bad. oh and the music. ohh the music is 3 shades of fucking horrible. over all i would give this three stars if you are under 16. and male. or if you enjoy cheesy scifi space opera. me i love it, so i think it's a pretty good movie.

Shadows (1959)

Shadows is John Cassavetes first movie. He made it for very little money. It is a movie about 2 brothers and a sister. they are all black some darker than others. it revolves around their lives. it is a really interesting peak into what it was like living 40 years ago. the movie is totally unscripted, cassavetes came up with what he wanted the movie to be about and what he wanted it to be like then had the actors use their own words to make it happen. much like the current tv show curb your enthusiasm. The jazz score that lilts thru this movie is a great counterpoint to the hard black and white late 50's new york on the screen. over while this movie must have been ground breaking back in the day. it is little more than a drama now. the things that make it worth while are the acting, the background and the way everyone talks. i would give it 4 out of 5 stars.

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.