What I Have Been Watching

action horror flick starring George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Quentin Tarantino. directed by Robert Rodriguez.

brothers Seth and Richie Gecko (Clooney, Tarantino) are criminals on the run. they encounter Jacob Fuller (Keitel) and his family at a motel and end up taking the former priest and his family hostage. the Geckos decide to take the Fullers with them to meet up with their contact at the strip club The Titty Twister, on the boarder of the US and Mexico. but what lies within the club is more than just sex and booze and soon the criminals and the hostages find themselves working alongside one another to survive.

this film is why I love Rodriguez. he isn't afraid to go to the line of cheese and tiptoe along it. he always manages to find that balance between over-the-top silliness and just enough silly to make for a fun and good time.

gore. comedy. action. boobies. good stuff! ♥

thriller starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott and Kerr Smith. directed by James Wong.

after having a vision of where the plane that he and his fellow classmates are on crashes, Alex Browning (Sawa) freaks and gets thrown off of the plane, along with a group of his classmates. they're shocked, feel guilty for living and of course, think Alex had something to do with it. their suspicions only continue to grow as the survivors begin to die in freak accidents. is it Alex? or is it death come to collect?

I still love this film as much as I did when I first saw it ten years ago... if not even more! one of my absolute favorite "scary" flicks. by far the best in the Final Destination series. they really should have just stopped while they were ahead. they will never achieve the awesomeness that they found with this original cast and script.

two words: Devon Sawa. RAWR.

love it! ♥

dark comedy starring Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon and Shea Whigham. based on the short story Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret. directed by Goran Dukic.

after committing suicide and finding himself in an afterlife set aside just for those who have committed suicide, a young man (Fugit) learns that the girl he loved also killed herself. he then sets out to try and find her.

boy kills himself. boy finds himself in strange afterlife where no one smiles and the scenery looks much like where I come from. boy searches for love. boy finds love. boy loses love. boy finds love again. the end.

interesting idea with decent writing and an okay cast.

thriller starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks and Billy Burke. directed by Gregory Hoblit.

when a killer uses an internet site to allow it's viewers to decide the fate of his victims, it is up to FBI Agent Jennifer Marsh (Lane) of the FBI's Cyber Crime Division to stop him.

kinda formulaic and a little graphic at times, but still a great thriller. I really enjoyed this one. ♥

comedy written by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!

the legend of King Arthur (Chapman) and his quest to find the Holy Grail.

very funny take on the Arthurian legend, that has given me even more quotes... that I am sure I say far too often... starring the men of Monty Python. Cleese, Palin and Idle will forever be three of my favorite actors. comedy geniuses!

hilarious over-the-top silly classic. ♥

horror flick starring Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Sid Haig and William Forsythe. written and directed by Rob Zombie.

the sequel to 2003's House of 1000 Corpses, about a family of psychopathic killers in the late 1970s.

watched the first 45 minutes in hopes of finding something redeemable in this film, but after seeing a woman have a gun jabbed into her panties and then forced to perform oral sex on someone, I just couldn't subject myself to it any further. sadistic, brutal and just down right disgusting.

love your music Mr. Zombie, but sorry... I don't dig this kinda "entertainment".

1982 live concert featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes.

Monty Python performs various material, including several classic skits from their hit series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

to have been able to see these guys live! Eric, John, Michael and the boys are in top form. hilarious and just plain silly.

classic Python. ♥

horror-extremely dark comedy-thriller starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Cloe Sevigny and Jared Leto. based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name. directed by Mary Harron.

a wealthy and extremely narcissistic New Yorker leads a double life, as both an investment exec and a homicidal maniac.

I have heard so many great things about this film and it's performances, so I decided to give this one a try... for the second time.

I don't know if it's the fact that I don't care for films where women are brutalized or that I am not a Christian Bale fan *waits for gasps of shock from all of the Bale fans* but I just can't seem to get excited for this movie.

funny dialogue that made me chuckle a time or two and a pretty damn good 80s soundtrack, but other than that, I just wasn't feeling this one.

maybe third time's the charm? nah. two times was enough for me.

suspense flick starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Ian Holm. directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.

based on the graphic novel of the same name, the film follows Inspector Fred Abberline (Depp) as he investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper.

interesting story and a good cast, but it didn't really live up to all that I had heard about it. then again, I was slightly distracted while attempting to watch, so maybe a rewatch someday.

an okay flick.

musical comedy starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon and Idina Menzel. directed by Kevin Lima.

Giselle (Adams) lives in the beautiful fairytale land of Andalasia, where animals talk and everyone sings. but before Giselle is able to receive her Happily Ever After with the handsome Prince Edward (Marsden), she is pushed into a magic portal by an old hag, who is actually Prince Edward's mother, Queen Narissa, in disguise (Sarandon). after Giselle arrives on the other side and she finds herself in the not-so-fairytale setting of New York City, she meets divorce lawyer, Robert Philip (Dempsey), whose job has made him somewhat cynical about life and love. soon, both Giselle and Robert start to change the other one's perspective on Happily Ever After.

Amy Adams delivers one of my favorite performances of hers to date, making Giselle one of my favorite characters on film. she is funny, sweet, charming and just all-around lovable. the rest of the cast also deliver great performances, including the uber handsome and oh-so dreamy Patrick Dempsey.

to say that I love this movie is an understatement. comedy, singing, cheesy romance... so good! ♥

teen comedy starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates and Ray Walston. written by Cameron Crowe. directed by Amy Heckerling.

People on 'ludes should not drive!

1980s teen comedy about a group of individuals whose lives cross paths. based on Cameron Crowe's book, which he wrote after going undercover as a student at a California high school for Rolling Stone Magazine.

this is the film that all other high school films look up to. the one with the original dude, Jeff Spicoli. who knew he would grow up to be the Academy Award winning actor that he is today? a great cast of some of today's and yesterday's biggest stars bring to life the amazing script by Crowe, that has some of the best dialogue and some of the most quotable lines of all time.

great film! ♥

dramatic love story starring Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett and Alec Baldwin. directed by Michael Bay.

Rafe McCawley (Affleck) and Danny Walker (Hartnett) are childhood best friends and they both sign up as pilots for the United States Army Air Corps as pilots. enter the beautiful Nurse Evelyn Johnson (Beckinsale), whom both men fall in love with, and it threatens to ruin their friendship. however, Rafe and Danny soon find themselves in a much bigger battle than the one for Evelyn's heart.

call me a sucker for hawt guys in uniforms! tell me that I have no taste in film! hell, call me a big ol' girl! I don't care. I absolutely love this film. great cast, great special effects and an oh-so cheesy love story, that still makes me cry whenever I watch it, make this film one of my all-time favorites. love it! ♥