My mother and I were going to watch The Help last night, but after Modern Family was over she was too tired, so I ended up watching 12 Angry Men. I'd seen it (and bought it) while in college, and I loved it. Sure, the actually legal bits of it were entirely wrong, which is unfortunate in a way... Why can't jurors raise questions about what they've ( Read more... )

My mom and I watched Casablanca last night. My best friend in high school got me a copy two Christmases in a row (: Anyway, I never got around to watching it until college, and I remembered liking it, though I couldn't honestly tell you what happened in it. Neither could my mother, if that helps ( Read more... )

I lied - A Clockwork Orange really wasn't my cup of tea last night, so I watched The Graduate instead. I remember liking it the first time I saw it, and I liked it even more last night. Maybe because I finally am a graduate I can better understand what Benjamin was going through and feeling - believe me, I have done a perfectly insane slew of ( Read more... )

So! Watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid tonight. I have mixed feelings. Robert Redford and Paul Newman are incredibly good-looking have a great comedic chemistry. Somehow, they make Butch and the Kid work. They manage to have a fight about swimming as they contemplate jumping off a cliff. They crack dry jokes about their "profession" and ( Read more... )

Finished Sophie's Choice last night, and I have to say: I didn't care for it. Meryl Streep, I will say, was amazing, and Kevin Kline was pretty good too. However, the style of storytelling just wasn't my cup of tea. I had no idea what the movie was about - I had to let my brain go into "academic" mode to try to pick out what was so powerful about ( Read more... )

So October 18, the date that my 101 in 1001 expired, came and went without me hardly noticing. Incidentally, it was the same day my Fulbright application was due :P So I was a little panicky ( Read more... )

I need to vacuum more often with all this damn pollen ( Read more... )

Having just finished Pulp Fiction for the second time in my life, I can honestly say that I will probably not remember what happens in it - or really, anything about it beyond the cast - once again. It's not that it isn't a great movie - it is, everything about it is great and intriguing and different enough to be art instead of randomness - but I ( Read more... )

As a quick preface to my short paragraph on Toy Story: I also watched Watchmen, which I thought was passably good. I was entertained for a while, though it did take me a long time to watch the whole thing. There were still random things that I'm not sure were totally necessary to the plot or the understanding of the characters, and I'm not ( Read more... )

I realize this is my third time posting today, and I'm sorry but it's because I love you. Also because I'm afraid that if I stop moving my fingers, they will actually just freeze.

As part of my 101 in 1001 I'm trying to watch all of AFI's Top 100 American Movies (the 2007 version). For whatever reason, I decided to start with Clint Eastwood's ( Read more... )