Category: At the Movies

Oh now what is this?  Could it be…. Another film series binge!?

Title:	Night of the Living Dead
Director:	George Romero
Score:	6/6
Bonus point for:	Birthing the modern zombie genre (yes, yes, I know about White Zombie etc. — I’ve said what I mean!)

LOL.  What a silly cheap movie.  Still, lots of commentary on modern society.  And some gore. 

And remember:

“Chicken is a dish best served cold.”

Title:	Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
Director:	Johannes Grenzfurthner
Score:	4/6
Bonus point for:	Awesomest opening credits.

Not too awful, as window movies go, if you disregard the first half hour were all the aliens were speaking alienese so I couldn’t get any work done.

Title:	John Carter
Director:	Andrew Stanton
Score:	3/7
Best monster:	Flaccid penis dog.

Properly thrilling and mysterious. A non-scifi-scifi just the way I like it.

Title:	The Signal
Director:	William Eubank
Score:	5/6
Fishburne:	He can be really cool when he’s not on CSI.

I don’t think I would’ve guessed it was Cronenberg, but I can tell once I’ve been told. Very pretty film. And I think it brings some… oh, I don’t know, let’s say conceptual background, to his later films.

Title:	Stereo
Director:	David Cronenberg
Score:	3/5
Adjective:	Visual..

Saturday night is family movie night.

Title:	Transformers: Revenge of the fallen
Director:	Michael Bay
Score:	1082 + 8200 + 1 zilliard
Dad thinks:	Action good. Plot meh.

The chronological war movies were a bit of a hurdle, but we now resume our original programming, after a brief hiatus.

Lots of catching up to do!

Title:	Grabbers
Director:	John Wright
Score:	4/6
ObCrush:	Ruth Bradley

Ok, so the war is now over.  That was a tough one.  I have to say that this story-chronological war-movie-watching is not a project I can recommend anyone undertake.  Anyway I feel I should provide my millions of readers with a watch-list:

• U-571: Intense suspense.
• Indigénes: A moving take on a forgotten story.
• The Longest day: Probably the best WW2 flick ever.

 Yeah, okay, that’s it.  Watch those three.

Title:	Die Brücke
Director:	Bernhard Wicki
Score:	4/6
Chronology:	May1945

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title:	The Bridge at Remagen
Director:	John Guillermin
Score:	5/8
Chronology:	March 1945

Ooooh!

Title:	Battle of the Bulge
Director:	Ken Annakin
Score:	1/6
Chronology:	December 1944 (but not really)