Remember, we'll be watching The Manchurian Candidate tomorrow and not tonight, because I am working tonight! Boo!
The Quick and the Dead (1995): I enjoyed it, although it does have some shortcomings. By its very nature, it takes a bit to get the story set up and is a bit repetitive after that. Also, I thought The Lady was kind of hard to buy at times. She's this totally badass gunfighter except when the script requires her not to be. That might work if the movie felt like a subversive western, but it's mostly played straight with a twist of hilarious Sam Raimi violence.
High Sierra (1941): This is a good crime movie derailed by shitty romance. Humphrey Bogart is awesome as usual, but the goody goody girl he falls in love with is a horribly written character who changes personalities at the drop of a hat. And it's really corny romance, too, even for the 1940s. No thanks.
Shutter Island (2010): Now we know what would happen if Martin Scorsese made a M. Night Shyamalan movie. It's technically fantastic with a creepy mood and good pacing, but the ending twist is totally ludicrous. I think the best description I read of the story was that it's a two-hour Twilight Zone episode. Perfect.
A Serious Man (2009): I thought this would be the kind of dark comedy that's more dark than comedic (in the "Ha ha" sense), but this made me laugh quite a bit. That'll teach me to doubt the Coens. My only real complaint is that the ending is quite abrupt, but to be fair, I am leaning toward thinking that it works for the story that is being told.
On the queue for this week: Kite (1998), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Broken Blade 3 (2010), other stuff
Total Movies: 19 (Blazing Saddles, The Descent, Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer, Village of the Damned, Children of the Damned, Trigun: Badlands Rumble, The Night of the Hunter, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st, Dawn of the Dead, Black Swan, Clue, Scarface, Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, True Grit, Perfect Blue, The Quick and the Dead, High Sierra, Shutter Island, A Serious Man)
