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Sunset Boulevard (1950): Haha, Hollywood must have been especially bitter that year -- Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve at the same time? Crazy. This rewatching reminded me of how great Sunset Boulevard really is. Perhaps one day I'll stop being lazy and update my favorites list (maybe if enough people demand it!), and when I do, Sunset Boulevard will definitely have a high spot waiting for it. My favorite part about this viewing: Timber and Kei focusing so much on the awesome set design. So much happy.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999): Can't believe I went so long without seeing this. Basically what you'd expect an 80-minute South Park episode to be -- totally crude, meanders a bit with a bunch of plot lines, and has some great satire beneath it all. The hypocrisy of media consumers isn't exactly a new subject, but South Park just rips it apart. The songs are a lot of fun too. Only weird part is that there's barely any Butters or Randy since I guess the movie was made before they became more prominent characters.
How to Train Your Dragon (2010): Solid movie, I enjoyed it. The action and animation in particular are amazing. I loved the initial flying sequence where Hiccup and Toothless are getting used to each other. I'm a total sucker for great scenes of flight.
Sunshine (2007): Loved this for about an hour-and-a-half. It's a great hard science-fiction movie for that time: Interesting set-up, plausible execution, solid depth and so on. But for reasons I won't spoil, it turns a bit too much into an action movie at the end. Doesn't totally ruin the movie, mind, but it does take what could have been an A+ experience into more A-/B+ territory. (Kind of like how Moon's ending sort of knocks that movie down a peg or two, as well.) But I'd still recommend this to anyone who enjoys smart science-fiction.
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976): My first Pink Panther movie, and it's a lot weirder than I expected lol. Pretty funny, though; I definitely love a good sight gag, and this movie has 'em in spades. (My favorite is when Clouseau dismounts from some balance beams and falls down a flight of stairs.)
On the queue for this week: The Andromeda Strain (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980)
Total Movies: 173 (The Taking of Pelham 123, The Station Agent, The Final Destination, Silent Movie, The African Queen, Departures, Moon, Bound, Solaris, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rifftrax), Wristcutters: A Love Story, In the Loop, Public Enemies, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Rifftrax), Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-Hen, District 9, The Magnificent Seven, Night Moves, My Name is Bruce, Big Fan, Almost Famous, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Drag Me to Hell, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Kara no Kyoukai 1-7, 9, Zombieland, Ninja Scroll, Primer, Re-Animator, Summer Wars, The Changeling, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ponyo, Eden of the East: The King of Eden, Porco Rosso, Something Something Something Dark Side, Castle in the Sky, Robot Carnival, Halloweentown, Whisper of the Heart, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiki's Delivery Service, Genius Party, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Sky Crawlers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, My Neighbors the Yamadas, THX 1138, The Stepfather, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, Tremors, Horror of Dracula, The Brood, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Rabid, Inglourious Basterds, Them!, The Yakuza, Alphaville, Ghost in the Shell, Priceless, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, Whip It, A Boy and His Dog, Fletch, The Blind Side, Speed, June 17, 1994, Nobel Son, Invictus, Toy Story 3, The Two Escobars, Soylent Green, Up in the Air, Tyson, This Is Spinal Tap, The Proposition, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Informant!, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Coco Before Chanel, The Vanishing, Inception, Mind Game, Pale Rider, The Hurt Locker, Roujin Z, Broken Blade, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Black Christmas, Crazy Heart, The Man with Two Brains, Ninja Assassin, Panic Room, Mobile Suit Gundam I-III, Casablanca, Stray Dog, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, Memories, The Gold Rush, Paprika, Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness, An Education, Eden of the East: Paradise Lost, Dr. Strangelove, Doomsday, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Natural, Bungaku Shoujo, The Book of Eli, To Kill a Mockingbird, Aim for the Ace!, Animal House, The Princess and the Frog, Char's Counterattack, Date Night, Cool Hand Luke, Kiss Me Deadly, An American Werewolf in London, Teen Wolf, Logan's Run, The Naked City, Dirty Harry, Swingers, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rifftrax), Harper, Chinatown, Hoosiers, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Inherit the Wind, Airplane!, Emperor of the North, The Happening, Santa's Slay, Candyman, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mega Piranha, Phantasm, Goldfinger, The Thing, Black Sunday, The Devil's Backbone, Blood and Black Lace, The Hustler, Zombie, Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Songstress, Young Frankenstein, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Army of Darkness, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Radioland Murders, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Sunset Boulevard, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, How to Train Your Dragon, Sunshine, The Pink Panther Strikes Again)