Hello!!! Happy summer to everyone. So, not too much is going on, but I did hear some tv scoopage today that made my heart flutter. My favorite british baddie (non-vampire of course) Sark-a-liscious is going to be on Heroes next year! Yay! I hope they give him an accent because he wasn’t as excited on Grey’s Anatomy when he was accent-less.
So yes, that made me happy and I had to share. Also, there is some interesting movement on the Veronica Mars front. Creator Rob Thomas has not been shy about saying that he has more Veronica stories to tell and his first instinct was to go to movies. Now it looks like VM might be headed the way of Buffy, to a comic book store near you. Obviously, I would be pleased with any re-incarnation of the VM crew, but I feel like a comic book would not satisfy me. With buffy it is different, the show had 7 seasons, and we all knew it was coming to a close; plus we had closure with the finale. With VM, I think the comics might just make me more sad that this is not on tv. But again, anything is better than nothing. Oh, and I want to reiterate my banishment of the CW. I’ve heard from some of you that you may actually watch the network again next year because there are some shows that look good. Um, why? So I get sucked in only for them to be canceled? I say bah to you CW! I shan’t watch channel no matter what you do!!!!
While we are on the subject of TV, I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that Isaiah Washington’s contract with Grey’s has not been renewed. I have some mixed feelings about this. Obviously there was still some tension on the set and I’m sure for the vibe of the cast it is a good move, but, is it what’s best for the show? Despite how I feel for the man playing the role, I really enjoyed the character of Dr. Burke. I’m a newbie to this show. I’ve watched all three seasons this year & I have to say that most of the characters that I’ve really connected with in the past have gotten on my nerves. You know how I feel about the George-Izzy thing. Meredith is pathetic and they have got to stop making her life so depressing. When did Bailey get all soft? Wait, didn’t I have this rant already? Well, you get the point, I liked Burke and I’m sad to see him leave. Especially since it seems that Washington won’t be around to tie up any loose ends. We’re just supposed to believe that Preston Burke leaves all of his friends, family & patients behind so easily? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Since summer is here & I only have 2 summer tv shows (The 4400 & Rescue Me); Jay & I have been netflix-ing it up (in between Jay’s new nightly ritual of screaming obscenities at his beloved TV because the Mets are in one hell of a slump). Anyhoo, here are some little reviews brought to you by netflix:
Roll Bouce-This movie is awesome. I’ve been wanting to see it for a long time and I finally got around to it. I could say a lot about this movie, but let’s just leave it at “Rollerskating” and “disco”. Hello!
The Family Stone- Generally I enjoy those “wacky family comedies” and at first I was enjoying this one, but blech! The ending completely ruined it for me. I mean, really? Are we serious? I know you have to suspend reality to watch certain movies but this was a little too much for me.
DreamGirls-Enjoyable. I didn’t love it, but I thought it was good. Jennifer Hudson did do an outstanding job. I would like to see the performances of the other supporting actress nominees to see how I feel about her win.
An Inconvenient Truth-I was one of those students who knew what I wanted to be involved in when I grew up. From about 7th grade on, I wanted to be involved with the environment. Then, when I got to college, two things pulled from that path. 1) Bio is frikkin hard at Rutgers (and at 8am on Friday) and 2) The environmental policy is frustrating. You could have all the evidence in the world that something is happening and the world is just going to ignore you until it slaps them in the face. That’s pretty much the theme of this movie. It is pretty ridiculous how much evidence there is of global warming, how much we contribute to it, and how devastating the consequences will be. Yet we continue to drive around in our fuel deficient vehicles completely oblivious to what is going on around us.
Kidnapped-I hate you NBC! This show was on the air last year and pulled after 4 or 5 eps. The good news is, NBC kept telling them they’d have enough episodes to finish the season, which they did-although the network never aired the eps, but—at least there will be a resolution. I’m enjoying it immensely on DVD and will update you after we have finished the series.
Next up from Netflix:
Kidnapped Disc 2
Breach
Transamerica
Summer Movie Mania
Poor Jay. He is in over his head. He has been forced to be more summer movie buddy. I think he said that usually he sees 2 or 3 summer movies a year. We’ve seen 2 already & I’m dragging him to Fantastic Four next week. Here’s what I thought of the 2 we’ve seen already:
Knocked Up: Hilarious. Loved the cast, loved seeing all the familiar faces from F&G. I can’t believe the shoebomber was Bill Haverchuck!
Oceans 13. I thought it had the same vibe as the first one, but was a little more confusing. Overall I enjoyed it.
Ok kiddies, that’s all for now. I’ll be back in a few weeks with some more netflix updates.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Saturday, June 02, 2007
KT Update-Essential Movies
I’m sure it happens in every relationship, the moment you look at your spouse and think, I married you? Don’t get me wrong, I love Jay, but something happened the other day that made me wonder what I had gotten myself into. What could happen, 7 months in, that would make me think this way? Well, it was when my beloved told me he had never seen Star Wars !!!! Now, I know you think I’m overreacting, but Star Wars is my favorite movie of all time. I’m obsessed with it! How can you be a 28 year old American male and never seen Star Wars? That is a completely foreign concept to me. I mean, I know Jay is serious lacking in the movie watching department, but never seen Star Wars?
So that got me thinking. Of course, there are some movies that I haven’t seen that people gasp at (most often Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, The Godfather & Pulp Fiction) but for the most part, I’ve seen the movies that defined a time, have changed the landscape of moviemaking or live in on forever in pop culture.
I asked a few friends about the movies that thought everyone should see and I received a few interesting answers. Everything ranging from Top Gun to The Shawshank Redemption. I myself am amazed that there are people who haven’t seen movies that I have revered, like Say Anything, The Goonies and Real Genius. So here, I present to you, my list of the 6 (sorry, I couldn’t get it to 5) movies that everyone should see. Now, I’m not suggesting that my 80 year old grandfather would enjoy these flicks, but as far as I’m concerned, if you are between the ages of 21-45 there is no excuse for not seeing these movies. For the record, I’m not suggesting that these are the greatest of American movies classics (Lord knows I love The Sound of Music & West Side Story, but these are not movies that everyone can watch) but these are the films that when someone says to me (Yes, you Marianne) that she hasn’t seen them, my jaw drops and I run home immediately to get said movies so this person can be a part of the Americana they have been ignorant of for so long!!! (Yes, I know I’m a loser because I think about these things entirely too long). Therefore I present to you:
KT’s Six Essential Movies:
Star Wars-No matter how anyone tries no trilogy will ever grip the masses as Star Wars. I admit, I did have high hopes for the Matrix, and LOTR was stellar, but they are just in a different league from the saga of the Skywalkers. Darth Vader is one of the scariest and most badass villains (still) ever to grace a movie screen and you don’t see any facial expressions until the last 5 minutes of the 3rd movies. Han Solo was my very first bad boy crush, and I believe that Return of the Jedi is one of my very first movie theater memories (plus I think it was the only movie my father ever took me to). I can still remember the excitement of seeing that film on the big screen for the very first time. And more than 10 years later, I felt that emotion again when Lucas re-released the films in the theater and I got to see all 3 on the big screen. That’s what makes this a classic, a movie that everyone should see, because the story is soo good, it pulls you right inside. I’ve seen Empire like 100 times and I’m still heartbroken when they put Han in the carbonite! If you need anymore proof, go to your local post office and check out the new Star Wars stamps.
The Wizard of Oz-It is astonishing to me that Michael just saw this movie a few years back. The Wizard of Oz was a family event every year on CBS. I’ve seen this film countless times and I’m still terrified of the Wicked Witch of the West. If you weren’t completely taken with OZ then you at least had to check out the movie to find the suicidal munchkin. This, more than the others, is the movie that everyone should see in their lifetime, it was a childhood right of passage.
Grease-Ahhh Grease. How I love thee. Another movie that is more than 30 years old and continues to spur extreme devotion by its fans. I know every single word in this movie and every time it is on the television, I stop and watch it. Come on! Olivia Newton John & John Travolta, singing and dancing their way through Rydell High? I love it, I love every single syllable spoken, I love every note sung. Grease is a musical even a guy can love!
The Breakfast Club- A brain, an athlete, a princess, a basket case and a criminal. This is the quintessential 80’s movie. John Hughes made a number of outstanding 80’s movies (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—all of which, in truth should be seen) but the Breakfast Club has an element of complete truth to it that the other Hughes films lack. It is almost as if his other movies were teen fairy tales, while this fundamentally captured the feelings of being a teenager (of course with some amazing dialogue thrown in). “Does Barry Manilow know you raided his closet?”
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory-Gene Wilder is a genius and you can see it in every scene he is in. Besides Wilder’s stellar acting you’ve also got obnoxious children who get what’s coming to them, you’ve got life lesson singing Oompa-Loompas, you’ve got Veruca Salt, you’ve got schnozzberries & you’ve got chocolate. This was a movie I loved as a child, but in college it was a late night staple as well. Sometimes when you get older, you find that a movie once cherished as a child doesn’t hold up anymore. This will never be the case with Wonka.
E.T.-I don’t know if E.T. holds up on the small screen. I think it is an entirely different experience in the theater, still it is an emotional journey that everyone should take. E.T. is not a movie that you can watch over & over (at least I can’t) but when I watch it, I feel like I’m six years old again (which was Speilberg’s intention). Actually, since it was 1982, I’m betting that either this or Annie was the first movie I ever saw in the theater, which may explain my love for both films. Funny story. My cousin took me to see this in the theater and in a particular scene (which I won’t ruin for those of you that haven’t seen it) Eliott starts screaming and I became so upset that I started screaming too. I was so distraught that they had to actually take me out of the theater (sobbing) until I could control myself. See, even then, I became emotionally attached to characters & stories.
So there it is. My top six essential movies. Now of course I could go on and on. As I mentioned, how could you skip an 80’s John Hughes film? Or Dirty Dancing? Or Top Gun? I do believe that Raiders of the Lost Ark should be on that list too (making it 7) but since I haven’t seen it, I can’t really throw stones. But! I will put that movie on the top of my netflix queue right now and report back after I see it!
So, kiddies, what movies do you deem classics? What movie pulls at your heartstrings, made you sob, scream or get up and dance?
So that got me thinking. Of course, there are some movies that I haven’t seen that people gasp at (most often Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, The Godfather & Pulp Fiction) but for the most part, I’ve seen the movies that defined a time, have changed the landscape of moviemaking or live in on forever in pop culture.
I asked a few friends about the movies that thought everyone should see and I received a few interesting answers. Everything ranging from Top Gun to The Shawshank Redemption. I myself am amazed that there are people who haven’t seen movies that I have revered, like Say Anything, The Goonies and Real Genius. So here, I present to you, my list of the 6 (sorry, I couldn’t get it to 5) movies that everyone should see. Now, I’m not suggesting that my 80 year old grandfather would enjoy these flicks, but as far as I’m concerned, if you are between the ages of 21-45 there is no excuse for not seeing these movies. For the record, I’m not suggesting that these are the greatest of American movies classics (Lord knows I love The Sound of Music & West Side Story, but these are not movies that everyone can watch) but these are the films that when someone says to me (Yes, you Marianne) that she hasn’t seen them, my jaw drops and I run home immediately to get said movies so this person can be a part of the Americana they have been ignorant of for so long!!! (Yes, I know I’m a loser because I think about these things entirely too long). Therefore I present to you:
KT’s Six Essential Movies:
Star Wars-No matter how anyone tries no trilogy will ever grip the masses as Star Wars. I admit, I did have high hopes for the Matrix, and LOTR was stellar, but they are just in a different league from the saga of the Skywalkers. Darth Vader is one of the scariest and most badass villains (still) ever to grace a movie screen and you don’t see any facial expressions until the last 5 minutes of the 3rd movies. Han Solo was my very first bad boy crush, and I believe that Return of the Jedi is one of my very first movie theater memories (plus I think it was the only movie my father ever took me to). I can still remember the excitement of seeing that film on the big screen for the very first time. And more than 10 years later, I felt that emotion again when Lucas re-released the films in the theater and I got to see all 3 on the big screen. That’s what makes this a classic, a movie that everyone should see, because the story is soo good, it pulls you right inside. I’ve seen Empire like 100 times and I’m still heartbroken when they put Han in the carbonite! If you need anymore proof, go to your local post office and check out the new Star Wars stamps.
The Wizard of Oz-It is astonishing to me that Michael just saw this movie a few years back. The Wizard of Oz was a family event every year on CBS. I’ve seen this film countless times and I’m still terrified of the Wicked Witch of the West. If you weren’t completely taken with OZ then you at least had to check out the movie to find the suicidal munchkin. This, more than the others, is the movie that everyone should see in their lifetime, it was a childhood right of passage.
Grease-Ahhh Grease. How I love thee. Another movie that is more than 30 years old and continues to spur extreme devotion by its fans. I know every single word in this movie and every time it is on the television, I stop and watch it. Come on! Olivia Newton John & John Travolta, singing and dancing their way through Rydell High? I love it, I love every single syllable spoken, I love every note sung. Grease is a musical even a guy can love!
The Breakfast Club- A brain, an athlete, a princess, a basket case and a criminal. This is the quintessential 80’s movie. John Hughes made a number of outstanding 80’s movies (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—all of which, in truth should be seen) but the Breakfast Club has an element of complete truth to it that the other Hughes films lack. It is almost as if his other movies were teen fairy tales, while this fundamentally captured the feelings of being a teenager (of course with some amazing dialogue thrown in). “Does Barry Manilow know you raided his closet?”
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory-Gene Wilder is a genius and you can see it in every scene he is in. Besides Wilder’s stellar acting you’ve also got obnoxious children who get what’s coming to them, you’ve got life lesson singing Oompa-Loompas, you’ve got Veruca Salt, you’ve got schnozzberries & you’ve got chocolate. This was a movie I loved as a child, but in college it was a late night staple as well. Sometimes when you get older, you find that a movie once cherished as a child doesn’t hold up anymore. This will never be the case with Wonka.
E.T.-I don’t know if E.T. holds up on the small screen. I think it is an entirely different experience in the theater, still it is an emotional journey that everyone should take. E.T. is not a movie that you can watch over & over (at least I can’t) but when I watch it, I feel like I’m six years old again (which was Speilberg’s intention). Actually, since it was 1982, I’m betting that either this or Annie was the first movie I ever saw in the theater, which may explain my love for both films. Funny story. My cousin took me to see this in the theater and in a particular scene (which I won’t ruin for those of you that haven’t seen it) Eliott starts screaming and I became so upset that I started screaming too. I was so distraught that they had to actually take me out of the theater (sobbing) until I could control myself. See, even then, I became emotionally attached to characters & stories.
So there it is. My top six essential movies. Now of course I could go on and on. As I mentioned, how could you skip an 80’s John Hughes film? Or Dirty Dancing? Or Top Gun? I do believe that Raiders of the Lost Ark should be on that list too (making it 7) but since I haven’t seen it, I can’t really throw stones. But! I will put that movie on the top of my netflix queue right now and report back after I see it!
So, kiddies, what movies do you deem classics? What movie pulls at your heartstrings, made you sob, scream or get up and dance?
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