Haha, it appears as though I will keep the status quo! :P Thanks to everyone for chipping in with an opinion. I really do appreciate it. :)
Also, movie post a day late because I am addicted to Pokemon Silver. :X
Slither (2006): Watched on the recommendation of Sommael Guy, Esq., and I like it very much. Just a good, snarky horror flick with Nathan Fillion going "WTF?!" half the movie, Dr. Briggs from Scrubs playing a Southern teacher and an angry Southern mayor that cracks me up and makes me want to hate him at the same time. My favorite line is alluded to in the title. ("There's no fucking Dr. Pepper in here! That's the only kind of Coke I like to drink!") I smirked. One detail that also amuses me greatly is Slither's take on the whole "Have a character read a book that relates to the movie's themes" device: During one scene, the movie sneakily shows a little kid reading a Goosebumps book. I lol'd at the movie intentionally going for the most lowbrow literature.
It's a Gift (1934): W.C. Fields made some weird ass movies. It's a Gift follows the barest of plot threads (it's about a man who inherits some money and decides to give up the grocery business to buy an orange farm in California) and is more about the individual routines than any sort of story. They are funny routines for the most part, though. They involve Fields' character trying to shave; an attempt to secure 10 pounds of kumquats while a blind man ravages the grocery store; Fields desperately trying to sleep outside while his neighbors make as much noise as possible (and blame him for all the ruckus); and more. The movie is basically everything funny about the Fields character -- he's a drunk, he hates kids (and people in general) and he reluctantly bows to the will of his domineering family. No, seriously, it's funny.
Splendor in the Grass (1961): Better than I thought it would be. Going into the movie, I was afraid this type of story -- which deals with sexual repression -- combined with when it was told would result in a dated, melodramatic, corny story, but it doesn't go as far as I imagined it would, which is a good thing. It does threaten to dip into that territory quite often, though, which is just about unavoidable; it's difficult to do any high school story related to sex without looking like some sort of bizarre after school special. The movie is well made and well acted, for the most part (with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in his first major role), but although the movie reaches a reasonable conclusion, the path to that ending is pretty Hollywood, haha.
On the queue for this week: North by Northwest (1959), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Princess Mononoke (1997), Monkey Business (1952) and Waitress (2007)
Total movies: Total Movies: 50 (Gaslight, The Last King of Scotland, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Diary of the Dead, Bullets Over Broadway, Interiors, Husbands and Wives, The Professional: Golgo 13, Lars and the Real Girl, Lolita, Quills, Hamlet, Iris, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The Savages, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Stranger, Love and Death, Harold and Maude, Spartacus, Scarlet Street, Sabrina, Zelig, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Stardust Memories, Barry Lyndon, Be Kind Rewind, Radio Days, Deconstructing Harry, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Creating Rem Lazar, Undefeatable, Ninja Terminator, Ninja Dragon, Rumble Fish, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, In Bruges, The Bank Dick, Marathon Man, Clannad, Air, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, MirrorMask, Slither, It's a Gift, Splendor in the Grass)
