No more

So I have officially gotten tired of this blog. I am three movies behind (Children of Men, El Mariachi director's commentary, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) and feeling like this is more of a chore than fun.

Before Sunrise

I think Celine from this movie is my ultimate fantasy girl, smart, cute, funny, pretty, witty, independent, perfect.

I've seen this movie a whole bunch of times because I love it. I watched it last night because I had just finished the first draft of a short screenplay of which I found Before Sunrise to be a big influence. The screenplay was inspired by Antoine et Colette, a French new wave short film by Francois Truffaut, but I found that as I was writing, I kept thinking of this movie.

The Lost Weekend

Billy Wilder is amazing. Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Lost Weekend, the list goes on and on. He probably has the most impressive resume of any American film director, not counting Kubrick and Hitchcock, of course

In Cold Blood

I wanted to see this every since I saw Capote a couple years ago. And now I've seen it. And it was damn good.

A line in Ebert's review describes it best (paraphrased): "If this movie were a work of fiction, its themes would be obvious. But it is not a work of fiction."

Its interesting because the movie creates a lot of sympathy for one of the two killers, and by the end I felt sympathy for him. But he still deserved to die. Interesting how you can have two conflicting feelings about one person, maybe like the killer felt about his victims: "I thought Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman...I thought so right up to the time I cut his throat."

El Mariachi

What a great movie! Not amazing, but amazing for what it is. A no budget, make a movie guerilla style with my friends movie. Robert Rodriguez is a very impressive filmmaker, when he's not doing Spy Kids, that is. Actually, I shouldn't judge, because I haven't seen Spy Kids. And I have no desire to

The Ox-Bow Incident

Very short, very somber, very good. Reminded me a lot of Paths of Glory, and its always good to be associated with Kubrick. But its 12:30 am and I'm tired so I'm not going to write any more.

BTW, my soccer team won 6-0 and I played well, so I wasn't too tired after The Dark Knight.

The Dark Knight

I've recently been watching amped up movies before I play soccer. Just kind of a for fun thing to get me into game mode. It worked pretty well with The Godfather and very well with Taxi Driver and There Will Be Blood.

Well, I just watched The Dark Knight and have a soccer game in 90 minutes. Hopefully, I'll play well, but I don't know, because right now I am absolutely exhausted. The Dark Knight was amazing. You know how the climax of movies is always filled with tons of energy and action and drama? Well, thats how this entire movie was. I was constantly barely able to sit down and breathing heavy and awe-struck by what I saw.

I still am having a difficult time digesting the movie. Parts of the plot were very hard to follow and it seemed like there were some minor plot holes, but I want to rewatch the movie before I make any judgements in that regard. Hell, I need to rewatch the movie just to figure how good it is, because I can't figure it out after one viewing.

Heath Ledger is absolutely amazing, far and away the most gripping, impactful part of this whole movie. Jeez, I can't get over how good he was.