lol, I'm only six movies shy of my total from last year, and there's still about a month-and-a-half remaining in 2010. brb patting myself on the back
Also, remember: Army of Darkness tonight and Star Wars trilogy on Friday! All the movies are uploaded, so just grab 'em at your convenience.
The Hustler (1961): Paul Newman might be my favorite actor, but George C. Scott is up there too. There aren't many actors who command your attention like he does. (Which is why he's the lead role in Patton.) He's a total rotten bastard in this movie, but you can't take your eyes off him because he commands your total respect, even as he's tearing you apart. What really makes him an effective villain is that he isn't mugging or melodramatic either -- he's just blunt and cruel.
Zombie (1979): One of those horror movies that totally indulges in over-the-top silliness and gore. I mean, there's a zombie fighting a shark! It looks totally ridiculous (and unfortunately the shark does not become a zombie shark), but in its own way it's kind of awesome. That is this movie in a nutshell. It's one step above a SyFy feature movie, but it doesn't pretend that isn't its place in the movie hierarchy.
Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Songstress (2009): Pretty neat reworking of Macross Frontier. There are similar plot elements, but there are also many radical changes, similar to Macross: Do You Remember Love? Don't know if they all work, but they're at least interesting and fresh. And the movie is of course gorgeous (delicious deculture). The TV series looks solid, but the movie blows it away; it's not just the extra detail and increased fluidity of the animation, but the way the scenes are shot are more imaginative as well. Definitely can't wait for the next flick.
Young Frankenstein (1974): My siblings randomly spotted this on TV yesterday, and, well, I can never resist Mel Brooks. Everything still cracks me up, even though I've seen the movie like five or six times by now, haha.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988): Sometimes I happen upon movies that have really low scores on IMDb, and I can't for the life of me understand why. (I consider anything below a 6.5 to be in the realm of "this movie isn't very good".) The Serpent and the Rainbow isn't a perfect movie by any means -- it glosses over a bunch of voodoo stuff and gets confusing at times, the romance made me lol and the ending is a typical horror movie conclusion. But it's a solid horror/adventure mix; nothing in this movie is any goofier than what people love in, say, the Indiana Jones movies, although this admittedly is not up to that level. Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I liked this.
On the queue for this week: Army of Darkness (1993), the Star Wars trilogy, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again (2008), How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (maybe)
Total Movies: 162 (The Taking of Pelham 123, The Station Agent, The Final Destination, Silent Movie, The African Queen, Departures, Moon, Bound, Solaris, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rifftrax), Wristcutters: A Love Story, In the Loop, Public Enemies, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Rifftrax), Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-Hen, District 9, The Magnificent Seven, Night Moves, My Name is Bruce, Big Fan, Almost Famous, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Drag Me to Hell, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Kara no Kyoukai 1-7, 9, Zombieland, Ninja Scroll, Primer, Re-Animator, Summer Wars, The Changeling, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ponyo, Eden of the East: The King of Eden, Porco Rosso, Something Something Something Dark Side, Castle in the Sky, Robot Carnival, Halloweentown, Whisper of the Heart, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiki's Delivery Service, Genius Party, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Sky Crawlers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, My Neighbors the Yamadas, THX 1138, The Stepfather, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, Tremors, Horror of Dracula, The Brood, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Rabid, Inglourious Basterds, Them!, The Yakuza, Alphaville, Ghost in the Shell, Priceless, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, Whip It, A Boy and His Dog, Fletch, The Blind Side, Speed, June 17, 1994, Nobel Son, Invictus, Toy Story 3, The Two Escobars, Soylent Green, Up in the Air, Tyson, This Is Spinal Tap, The Proposition, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Informant!, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Coco Before Chanel, The Vanishing, Inception, Mind Game, Pale Rider, The Hurt Locker, Roujin Z, Broken Blade, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Black Christmas, Crazy Heart, The Man with Two Brains, Ninja Assassin, Panic Room, Mobile Suit Gundam I-III, Casablanca, Stray Dog, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, Memories, The Gold Rush, Paprika, Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness, An Education, Eden of the East: Paradise Lost, Dr. Strangelove, Doomsday, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Natural, Bungaku Shoujo, The Book of Eli, To Kill a Mockingbird, Aim for the Ace!, Animal House, The Princess and the Frog, Char's Counterattack, Date Night, Cool Hand Luke, Kiss Me Deadly, An American Werewolf in London, Teen Wolf, Logan's Run, The Naked City, Dirty Harry, Swingers, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rifftrax), Harper, Chinatown, Hoosiers, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Inherit the Wind, Airplane!, Emperor of the North, The Happening, Santa's Slay, Candyman, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mega Piranha, Phantasm, Goldfinger, The Thing, Black Sunday, The Devil's Backbone, Blood and Black Lace, The Hustler, Zombie, Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Songstress, Young Frankenstein, The Serpent and the Rainbow)
