Personal Diary of a crazy french

Sun, 18 May 2008 04:16:40 GMT

Tonight we watched:

Conspiracy. An average movie with Val Kilmer. Maybe that's why it was direct to video. Some decent close combat.

Then, No country for old men. This is one f-up story, a novel put into picture by the Coen brothers.

Twitt

Sat, 17 May 2008 02:38:48 GMT

I'm now a twitt.

I am Iron man...

Thu, 08 May 2008 03:21:51 GMT

We went to see Iron Man on the big screen. Not bad at all. Robert Dawney Jr is good, and I didn't recognize Jeff Bridges at all.

If you go see it, stay until the end of the credits. You have been warned.

where no man as gone before

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:06:13 GMT

Saturday I finally re-watched Star Trek: the motion picture. I forgot how old that was. How cheesy it was at times. I guess it tried to catch up on Star Wars.

Party on Garth

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:31:41 GMT

Re-watched Wayne's World today. Do I need to present this "classic"?

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:37:14 GMT

Saturday we did an Austin Powers marathon. These movies were in the category "still haven't seen them". They just change category :-)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is the first installment. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second part, and Austin Powers in Goldmember concludes it.

My opinion: lot of cameo appearances, but not from any of the James Bond stars (even though Sean Connery was apparently considered to play Nigel Powers, according to IMDB). Definitely, these movie show a lot of references to a lot of espionage genre movies, and others. I find it much more subtle than the various spoof movies so far. Mike Myers show again a good versatility in comedy.

Fortunately they stopped with the third movie, and that's probably good as it really started showing its limits.

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:40:21 GMT

R.I.P. Gary Gygax.

Part 2

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:03:21 GMT

The we watched The Queen, and historical movie about Her Majesty the Queen of England the days following the death of Princess Diana. Helen Mirren resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II is quite stunning.

saturday night movie.

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:36:15 GMT

We watched The Italian Job. Good action, good car chase, clever heist. Entertaining.

Rediscovery

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:13:01 GMT

I forgot how hilarious Dork Tower was (by muskrat_john). I remember reading it in a RPG magazine in France, a very long time ago (they didn't have a website yet, and now their former website is a porn/spam squat).

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:40:31 GMT

Saturday we watched:

Rush Hour 3: funny and entertaining. This time they are in Paris. But the franchise is getting tired now.

Hills have eyes II: not a good sequel.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:25:59 GMT

Sunday, we watched Stardust, a movie that didn't get the success it could/should have gotten. Good fantasy movie.

Next, we watched Next (pun intended). Yet another adaptation of a Philip K Dick story. Pretty good.

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:23:37 GMT

Just watched Capote. Interesting movie about the life of writer Truman Capote writing a book about a quadruple homicide on Kansas.

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:03:48 GMT

Tuesday we watched the first movie our first movie of the year: The Last King of Scotland. It is about the dictatorship in Uganda, based on history.

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:06:21 GMT

Went to see Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the latest Tim Burton movie. It is a crazy musical with graphic violence. Very good.

movie-mas

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:12:43 GMT

On the 25, watched The Bourne Ultimatum cut in half in the width (ya know, full-screen b.s. - I was just a guest) I have to get all 3 straight, but this will require to juggle with videostores in my area as they don't seem to be consistent: no way I'll rent the full-screen. In the top 250.

Yesterday, we watched 3 movies:

Laberinto del fauno, El (Pan's Labyrinth). A nice fairy tale in Franco's Spain. In both the top 250 and my Oscars 2007 list.

Superbad. Hilarious movie, if you don't fear the high-school jokes, R-rated. I think it goes toward a new generation of teen comedy, more crude than the "brat-packers" comedies from John Hughes.

Balls of fury. Kung-fu with balls, aka Ping-Pong. I'd classify this film into the spoof category of espionnage - thriller - action - kung-fu. Christoper Walken raise the level of the movie a bit.

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:23:55 GMT

With the WGA strike and the lack of no new episodes to watch, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third installment of the franchise. I think I'm getting tired of it.

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:46:11 GMT

Saturday we watched Knocked up, a comedy in the same vain of The 40 year old virgin. Entertaining and funny.

Then we watched The Hills Have Eyes, the remake of the 1977 Wes Craven version.

Sunday, we watched Bowling for Columbine. I hadn't seen this Michael Moore movie about guns in America.

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:15:33 GMT

Sunday, waiting for more snow, we watched The Ice Harvest. Stories of crooks and mobsters with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. Why spend christmas with your family when you can be a crook?

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:55:01 GMT

Watched Transformers. Not a bad action flick with cool CGI, etc. I haven't really big memories of the cartoon but the live movies rendering is really good. I wish I had a bigger screen.

Then we followed with Vacancy. An Hitchcock-esque kind-a movie, but the beginning is quite bad. Short movie: less than 85 minutes. The set is well done, gives a good ambiance.

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:39:19 GMT

Saturday we watched Big Fish, a Tim Burton movie.

The we followed up by 1408, a Stephen King story, with John Cusack. Good stuff.

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:54:16 GMT

Friday evening we watched Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0. Not as good as the previous one, but still. Lot of CGIs as well. The general plot ask a few questions about our dependence on computer systems.

Saturday we watched The Godfather Part III. Not as good as the first two. Clearly. But still good.

Edit: I forgot to note that last Sunday we watched Sicko, Michael Moore's documentary about health care in the US.

I'll make you an offer...

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:08:15 GMT

Just finished watching The Godfather Part II. Another "must see" movie off my list. I guess I'll have to watch the third one, known to not be as good. I'll see.

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:33:09 GMT

Hostel: Part II. I think it is at the same level as the previous one, but with less suspense as it is more predictible.

I'll make you an offer you can't refuse

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:09:50 GMT

I finally went through and watched The Godfather. It is #1 on IMDB top 250.

I guess I'll have to watch the two others.