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This week I revisited two favorites from my childhood and found one better than I remembered and one indescribably worse.

The Bad:

Tarzan the Apeman with Johnny Weismuller. When I was a kid one of the local TV stations ran old movies on Saturday afternoon. They alternated several syndicated packages through the years but they ran all the JW Tarzan ( Read more... )

Katje gave me this and it's the first time I've seen it since it was in theaters. I really needed something fun. Thanks Katje!

This movie is vulgar, often stupid, and hilarious. Their live action Scooby Doo gang beats the movie cast and is almost worth a rental all on it's own and where else will you get jokes so vulgar that they earned an NC-17 ( Read more... )

I'm a huge fan of Rurouni Kenshin, which is set before and after the time of this movie, so I both really, really wanted to see it and really, really didn't.

On the negative side it stars Tom Cruise, it's 2 1/2 hours long, Tom Cruise produced it, I know just enough about the time period to be picky if they screwed up the history, and Cruise making ( Read more... )

I really wanted to like this movie. See, I remember Truman Capote when he was a fixture on the talk show circuit. He was one of the guests that I'd stay up late for if he was going to be on The Tonight Show. He was brilliant and snarky and could stab someone in the back with a bit of gossip while being absolutely child like and wickedly innocent. ( Read more... )

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Let's take a really good movie with gorgeous animation (remember the avalanche?), likable characters, memorable songs, a fun scary villain, an exciting plot, and some attempt to convey the culture of China and make a sequel that lacks everything from the list but the likable characters. Oh, but to make up for that last bit we'll make one of them ( Read more... )

Reese Witherspoon got the Oscar but the whole cast is excellent. Every single person in this cast was not only perfectly cast but acted their collective asses off. They even did their own singing. My favorite was Waylon Payne as Jerry Lee Lewis. He does a much better job than Dennis Quaid did in Great Balls of Fire.

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If you haven't seen this yet and don't want to be spoiled skip this review. Yes, it's a historical movie and we all know how it ends but a lot of the stuff I'm going to talk about isn't historical so if you want to go in with an unprejudiced mind, don't read this. Elayne, this is exactly the sort of review you don't like so you may want to move on ( Read more... )