2009

My mind must have been misfiring when I put this on the Netflix queue. I was a few minutes into it when I realized I could care less who killed Jesse James, I'm just glad they did. He (and his gang) were a crucial part of when the bad guys rode in to my town and burned it down, killing plenty i n the deed. So yay to the coward. I skimmed the whole thing on fast forward. The whole story is pretty messed up.

Netflix claims that this movie is about a group of "bad" students who write and perform a sequel to Hamlet. That might have been great. But no, their lame pathetic teacher writes the play and the whole movie pretty much sucks.

Lame and boring, just like W himself. Big waste of time, even when I fast forwarded through most of it.

Beautiful, lovely, inspiring. I super loved the look of this film.

Not as funny as Whiter Shade of Pale. Maybe the love is just wearing off for me.

Kick ass movie. Great story (it helps that you already know/love the characters before the movie even starts), good acting, dazzling special effects.

Not as good as I hoped. Didn't love some of the changes from the book. Mostly, there's not near enough Rome. The books all about it so I expected more of it on the big screen.

H and I went to see this one hot boring day. It got a little long and laggy in the middle. Why on earth must there be a romance? esp. a pretend one? esp. in a movie for little kids. Annoying. I wanted more Brundon instead. That was the best part about the movie.

Funny, but short.

I was bored. Maybe if I had seen some of the previous installments I would have dug it more.

I am in love with Doug Benson.

Unbelievably awesome movie. I was never bored. I was inspired. I was excited. I thought a lot about parallels from then and now. I was pleased to see Victor Garber, who has type 1 diabetes which means I love him (plus he was the dad on Alias).

Oh my goodness!! How did I not know this movie existed? (I didn't even rent it, Danny did) It is so right up my alley -- and it's really really good. Great acting (esp. Robert Denero). Beautiful scenery. Amazing story. Happy ending. It's almost as good as the Princess Bride. (Inconceivable!)

Man, I don't know. I hated watching most of this movie because it was so very heartbreaking and horrifying. But then the ending was so good and happy and even made me cry.

Just when I was sure I was going to hate it, it turned a corner and got better. Ciaran Hands, who won me over playing Julius Caesar in HBO's Rome, certainly helped things. Kind of cute, but still highly fast-forwardable.