Unfortunately practically everyone left before the second movie.
Anyhoo, here's the rundown for those of you playing the home game:
1. Operation Kitten Calendar -
I started off this week by showing all five episodes of this daring reality show. You can view them here.
2. Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 -
Up next was this delightful short animation by Paul Robertson, done in the style of an old school, side-scrawling, action arcade game (think Metal Slug). You can download the high quality version here. Or just watch it below:
3. V For Vendetta (2005) -
I think this is an excellent action film. We showed this by request for the two people left in the world who hadn't seen it yet. Hugo Weaving's performance as V is really impressive considering he wears a mask through the entire movie. And he manages to get through all the lines without invoking his Agent Smith "Mister Anderson" drawl (which he unfortunately does not avoid in the LOTR trilogy). Also, Natalie Portman is effing gorgeous, even with a shaved head. But most of all, I think I just love the fact that a movie came out post-9/11 that glorifies terrorism, and it was actually successful.
4. Junebug (2005) -
This was one of my favorite indie films in 2005. The performances are all excellent but Scott Wilson and Amy Adams are my favorites in this one. If you never saw the movie you probably did see all of the Oscar hype surrounding Adams for her peformance. She lost to Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener, so I can't really get too upset.
This movie does a great job of revealing the characters' inner worlds without a lot of talking. You find out a lot about them in the quiet points between dialog.
2 comments:
three. i haven't seen V for Vendetta either.
are you surprised?
Ah, but I was referring to people. You're not a person. You're a robot that hates to watch good movies.
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