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Vacation Movie Watching

by Ron Bieber on Monday, December 31, 2007

Lest everyone think I did nothing but work on vacation, I thought I’d throw out the movies that I watched during the break, that we haven’t had time to get to over the past few months:

  • Rob Zombies Halloween – Unrated Director’s Cut with commentary – Saw Halloween in the theaters, but we have the DVD and watched the commentary. Enjoyed it a lot
  • The Number 23 with Jim Carrey. Hated it. Ridiculous and totally predictable.
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – Stupid. Hated it. I’m not a big Adam Sandler fan, especially with cornball movies like this
  • Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves. Didn’t like it at all.
  • Hostel – Part II – a little more predictable than the first, but kind of liked it.
  • Amadeus – I’ve seen this a bajillion times and love it. Jonna had never seen it so I watched it again with her. Still love it after all these years …
  • Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. I’ve been told multiple times that I had to see this, so we put it on the netflix queue. Awesome. Loved it.
  • I Am Legend – Will Smiths latest movie, which we went to see on Saturday. I really liked it. I didn’t like the ending too much, and the zombies were a little ‘too CGI’, but otherwise I thought it was a great movie.
  • Village of the Damned – starring Christopher Reeve and Kirsty Alley. We found this at Menards for $1.98 and bought it because we had nothing to watch that night. We thought it would be pretty cheesy, but we actually enjoyed it. It was a good movie for the price
  • The Lord Of The RingsThe Two Towers and The Return of the King – We’ve had Two Towers for some time, tried to watch it and thought there was something wrong with the DVD. Later we found that the center channel on our surround sound was out, so we just couldn’t hear anything. We decided to watch it this week. Loved it, and went out Sunday to buy the other two. Watched Return of the King yesterday and loved it. The Fellowship of the Ring is on the schedule for New Years Eve, as we stay home anyway. One thing I will say is that these movies are LOOOOONG but definitely worth it. As I was watching it, I was thinking that it would be great if someday someone could make a movie like this on the The Silver Sun and its trilogy, which were some of my favorite books I had read as a kid (still haven’t gotten our kids to read them though). I think these books would make great movies as well

We’ve done a lot of catch up in the last couple of weeks. We saw one new movie and the rest were things that were on our list that we just “haven’t gotten around to”. While there were quite a few disappointments, the ones that we liked made up for the time we spent on the ones we didn’t. At least we can say that we’ve seen all of them now.

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Now I’ve Heard It All: Management Lessons from RoadHouse!

February 25, 2007

One of my favorite “bad” movies that I just cannot switch past when its on is the movie “Road House“. As a matter of fact, we went out and bought the DVD so that when it is on TV, I can pop in the DVD and watch the “unedited” TV version of the [...]

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Movies: Rocky Balboa

December 30, 2006

Yesterday the family went to the movies. Normally the way this works is that Jonna and I will go see one movie, and the three kids will go to another. Its rare these days that we all want to see the same movie.
Yesterday was different. The family wanted [...]

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New NetFlix User

November 26, 2006

We finally broke down a few weeks ago and got a Netflix account, after finally getting fed up with local video stores. I know – we’re a little behind the times in certain areas.
I have to say, I’m enjoying the experience.
On the average we rent about 2-3 movies every other week. That [...]

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Movies: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

October 9, 2006

Kelsi, Jonna and I went to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning today. Kelsi had never seen the original, so this was a brand new experience for her. Her choices were to either see this with Jonna and I, or to attend a fine viewing of Employee of the Month [...]

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Movies: V for Vendetta

August 12, 2006

When the boys suggested that we rent the new DVD release of V for Vendetta, I have to say I was not really excited. The movie just didn’t look like something that I would enjoy from the previews. But, being the ultimately cool parents that we are, we gave in and [...]

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Movies: Superman Returns

July 3, 2006

We took what seems like a very long 2 1/2 hours of our day yesterday to go see the new movie, Superman Returns. I’m pretty wishy washy about this one. I don’t hate it, but its not the best either.
One of the things I’m trying to keep in mind is [...]

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Christopher Penn, “Nice Guy Eddie”, dead at 40.

January 25, 2006

Chris Penn, best known for his role as “Nice Guy Eddie” in Reservoir Dogs and Willard in Footloose, was found dead late Tuesday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 40 years old.

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Movies: Hostel

January 8, 2006

Yesterday we went to see Hostel, a new “Quentin Tarantino Presents” film written and directed by Eli Roth.
I had not read anything on the film, so had no real expectations going in except for Tarantino’s name on the film. I’m a big fan, so I’ll basically go see anything his name is [...]

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Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks

November 8, 2005

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has announced the completion of the movie Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, a documentary chronicling the development of a software product called Aardvark. DVD preorders are being taken now for a ship date of December 1. The trailer is available on the [...]

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Movies: Saw II

October 30, 2005

Yesterday, Jonna and I went to see Saw II. I’ve been looking forward to this one for quite a while, as I loved the first movie. The things that I liked most about it was the really original story line and that it was made on a low budget, [...]

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Emily Rose and Millenium Followup

October 10, 2005

[ This posting was written about a month ago (around 9/12) ... I just ran out of things to write about, so I'm publishing this ]
I came across this article this morning. It seems that The Exorcism of Emily Rose has struck a chord with people (at least as far as getting them [...]

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

September 11, 2005

Yesterday we went to see The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a movie based on the true story of a woman named Anneliese Michel, who died during a rite of exorcism. Her parents and the priests that performed the exorcism were charged with negligence and failure to provide first aid.
The movie tells the [...]

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Mr T. to reprise Clubber Lang role in Rocky 6?

August 29, 2005

The Movie Blog reports that Mr. T. has confirmed he will be starring as Clubber Lang in the new Rocky 6 movie. Apparently, he will be a commentator. I agree with the author, that Rocky 6 is a “one too many trips to the well” movie. I think I’ll [...]

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A Trip To The Drive In Movie

August 21, 2005

We took a trip last night to the outdoor theater. Playing at the theater – Red Eye, the new film from Wes Craven and Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.
For the first time I can remember, I actually liked both films playing at the outdoor.
Red Eye is not what you [...]

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Movies: The Skeleton Key

August 20, 2005

Yesterday Jonna and I went to see The Skeleton Key, starring Kate Hudson. This was after doing some research on what the critics were saying, and our habitual check of Rotten Tomatoes to make sure that our expectations were set before looking forward to actually enjoying the movie.
Yahoo told us that the [...]

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Movies: Throw Mama From The Train

July 30, 2005

Over the last few weeks, Kelsi has been talking about her friend, Owen. Being the doink that I am, every time she mentions the name I do my best “Throw Momma from the Train” Momma voice, yelling at the top of my lungs “Owen!!!”. There’s something about that that [...]

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Movies: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

July 23, 2005

Last week the family went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the remake of the Gene Wilder film of the 70’s with Johnny Depp in the title role. Overall, I liked the movie much better than the original.
This film is much darker than the original, which is actually the main thing [...]

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Movies: War of the Worlds

July 3, 2005

We went to see War of the Worlds yesterday. Before going, I read a few reviews. This review hits it right on the head.
Overall, I found the movie really entertaining. Kelsi didn’t find it entertaining at all, and she even cited many of the issues the reviewer [...]

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Movies: Land of the Dead

June 28, 2005

On Sunday I had said that I would post something up about Land of the Dead, the latest George Romero zombie movie. To be honest, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what to write about it and I’m kind of at a loss.
This is the first movie I’ve seen where I [...]

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