Big Trouble in Little Updates

Time for a new update. My semester is over and these past few weeks of my History of Film class have been all new movies from list, which is perfect for the blog. Add in a few others and we have a lot of updates for the list. :)

Let's get to the quick reviews:

2001: A Space Odyssey - Really slow and quiet for a majority of the movie with an interesting middle act (everything in space), but the last section of the movie is just way too strange and kind of ruins the good vibe I had leading up to it. 7/10

American Beauty - Has a really good story with humorous elements that gets a little awkward at times, but pulls it back enough to be a great movie the whole way through. 9/10

Big Trouble in Little China - I was about as confused about what was going on as Kurt Russel's character was all through out the movie, but it was funny enough to be forgivable for a first viewing. Definitely seems like the type of movie that gets better after each viewing, but for now it gets an 8/10.

The Godfather - An enjoyable movie that moves a little too slowly at times and the time skips, though not specified, provide for a strange pacing to the movie. It's good, but I wasn't drawn in enough to be anticipating watching the sequels. 7/10

Yojimbo - Provides a great mix of humor and action that pulls it together really well. The story's a little cliche'd and predictable at this point in time, but it doesn't hurt it at all. Great music, too. 9/10

I was thinking about adding some more current movie talk so that this blog isn't just relegated to occasional posting and I can talk more about what movies I'm looking forward to, what I've seen, and let you in more on what my taste in movies is like. Let me know if that's something you'd like to see.
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Look up in the sky, it's a new update!

I did have a new post here with a few reviews, but something was wrong with the submission and the text was lost. I'll just post a shorter update that's short and to the point. This blog is in need of an update and my new History of Film class has allowed me to see a few of the movies of the list. I hope to keep this updated a little more often as I see new movies. In the meantime, here's the newest additions to the list along with the scores I had given them before the error erased my mini-reviews:

Alien (1979) - Score: 8/10
American Wedding (2003) - Score: 7/10
Animal Crackers (1930) - Score: 9/10
Citizen Kane (1941) - Score: 8/10
Rambo: First Blood (1982) - Score: 8/10
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The new and improved list. Or just a new list.

Alright, here's the updated list. I just noticed a few suggestions in the comments now, so I checked them out and added them to the list. Keep suggesting movies if you've got them. I'd like to find a way to keep the list at the top all the time instead of having to repost it every time. I guess I could include it along with every post, but that would get rediculously long quickly. For now, here's the list as it stands:

Red = Seen
Green = Queued (ready to be seen)

3-Iron (2004)
8½ (1963)
12 Angry Men (1957)
21 Grams (2003)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
25th Hour (2002)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Adaptation. (2002)
Akira (1988)
Ali (2001)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All the President's Men (1976)
Almost Famous (2000)
Amadeus (1984)
Amarcord (1973)
American Beauty (1999)
American History X (1998)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Psycho (2000)
American Splendor (2003)
American Wedding (2003)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bandits (2001)
Battle Royale (2000)
Beautiful Boxer (2003)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Being There (1979)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Best in Show (2000)
Better Off Dead... (1985)
Big Fish (2003)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow (2001)
Boot Hill (1969)
Braveheart (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Casino (1995)
Castle in the Sky (2000)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Collateral (2004)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cop Land (1997)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Courage Under Fire (1996)
Dark City (1998)
Dead End (2003)
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Desperado (1995)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
Ed Wood (1994)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Equilibrium (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
EuroTrip (2004)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Fargo (1996)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Fist of Legend (1994)
Four Rooms (1995)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gandhi (1982)
Garden State (2004)
Gattaca (1997)
Get Shorty (1995)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Ghost World (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Glory (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Hackers (1995)
Half Baked (1998)
Harvey (1950)
Heat (1995)
Hero (2002)
High Fidelity (2000)
Human Nature (2001)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Ikiru (1952)
Il Bidone (1955)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)
Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jin-Rô (1998)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kingpin (1996)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Dolce vita (1960)
La Strada (1954)
La Vita è bella (1997)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Legend of the Drunken Master (1994)
Life of Brian (1979)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mulan (1998)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Narc (2002)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Natural City (2003)
Network (1976)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
Office Space (1999)
Oldboy (2003)
One Eight Seven (1997)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
PCU (1994)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Platoon (1986)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raise The Red Lantern (1991)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Rambo III (1988)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Return to Me (2000)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Rushmore (1998)
Say Anything... (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List (1993)
Serenity (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Sideways (2004)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Snatch (2000)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Stand by Me (1986)
Swingers (1996)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Conversation (1974)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Game (1997)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
The Hustler (1961)
The Jerk (1979)
The King of Comedy (1983)
The Last Samurai (2003)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Professional/Leon (1994)
The Right Stuff (1983)
The Rock (1996)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
The Terminal (2004)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Toy (1982)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
They Call Me Trinity (1971)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Three to Tango (1999)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Time Bandits (1981)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Top Gun (1986)
Trainspotting (1996)
Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
True Lies (1994)
True Romance (1993)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Vertigo (1958)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Weird Science (1985)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
White Oleander (2002)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Yojimbo (1961)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

Updated (4/25) with the latest post.

And for the stats and current status, it'll always be at the bottom of my posts.
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Long, Overdue Update

Sorry for the long delay between posts, I've been quite the busy bee lately from moving to a new apartment and trying to keep up with schoolwork.

Let me update this with a list of games I've seen from the list since the last update:
American History X
Blazing Saddles
Braveheart
Fargo
Scarface
Young Frankenstein

I shall repost the updated list. If you have any suggestions to add, feel free to offer up some more movies to watch if you have an idea.

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Shaolin Soccer

Welcome back, it's time for another minimal update.

I got up one morning this past weekend and managed to catch a movie that I've heard enough about to actually add it to the list myself. It is Shaolin Soccer, from the same minds that went on to make Kung Fu Hustle. Just like KFH, it was an outrageously funny movie that seems to combine two things you never thought could go well together, soccer and martial arts. It almost seemed like an execution and premise that could be succesful in an anime or manga, which I'm certain that it would probably be a popular property. The CG is good for the time, though it's a little obvious that it's a few years old as the ball had a little bit of an odd look about it, but it was overall a good showing. If I was rating it, it would get a solid 9, almost a 10.

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Se7en

I managed to knock off another movie off of my queue. This time it's none other than Brad Pitt/Morgan Freeman thriller Se7en. I'll just say this right now: Se7en is one fucked up movie. There may be many more even more fucked up movies out there, but this probably the line I'd draw it at for suggestions. I knew it was a gruesome movie, but that first killing and subsequent examination at the morgue had me looking the other way for a few minutes. The rest of the killings were in a similar, but generally not as gruesome manner. It was a good movie, but it's probably not a movie I'd reach for when I need something to watch. It was nice to see what lead up to the ending that I've seen a few times. Maybe I should start rating these movies when I watch them from now on. If I had to rate Se7en, I'd give it a solid 8.

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Crash Goes to Washington

I'm very thankful for movie channels like AMC and TCM with a project like this. I noticed that Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on Sunday and made sure to watch it. It's always great to watch these movies that are referenced quite a bit in today's entertainment, as it fills in gaps in knowledge that you lacked when those references come up. I really enjoyed the movie as it's a really enthralling movie as you root for Jefferson Smith's filibuster to suceed before the corrupt machine crushes him.

I know this is a small update, but it's better than knocking only six movies in three months' time.

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Now with more list!

Alright, here's the updated list, though the original will always be updated, as well. I'd like to find a way to keep the list at the top all the time instead of having to repost it every time. I guess I could include it along with every post, but that would get rediculously long quickly. For now, here's the list as it stands:

Red = Seen
Green = Queued (ready to be seen)

3-Iron (2004)
8½ (1963)
12 Angry Men (1957)
21 Grams (2003)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
25th Hour (2002)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Adaptation. (2002)
Akira (1988)
Ali (2001)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All the President's Men (1976)
Almost Famous (2000)
Amadeus (1984)
Amarcord (1973)
American Beauty (1999)
American History X (1998)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Psycho (2000)
American Splendor (2003)
American Wedding (2003)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bandits (2001)
Battle Royale (2000)
Beautiful Boxer (2003)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Being There (1979)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Best in Show (2000)
Better Off Dead... (1985)
Big Fish (2003)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow (2001)
Boot Hill (1969)
Braveheart (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Casino (1995)
Castle in the Sky (2000)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Collateral (2004)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cop Land (1997)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Courage Under Fire (1996)
Dark City (1998)
Dead End (2003)
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Desperado (1995)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
Ed Wood (1994)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Equilibrium (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
EuroTrip (2004)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Fargo (1996)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Fist of Legend (1994)
Four Rooms (1995)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gandhi (1982)
Garden State (2004)
Gattaca (1997)
Get Shorty (1995)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Ghost World (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Glory (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Hackers (1995)
Half Baked (1998)
Harvey (1950)
Heat (1995)
Hero (2002)
High Fidelity (2000)
Human Nature (2001)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Ikiru (1952)
Il Bidone (1955)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)
Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jin-Rô (1998)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kingpin (1996)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Dolce vita (1960)
La Strada (1954)
La Vita è bella (1997)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Legend of the Drunken Master (1994)
Life of Brian (1979)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mulan (1998)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Narc (2002)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Network (1976)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
Office Space (1999)
Oldboy (2003)
One Eight Seven (1997)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
PCU (1994)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Platoon (1986)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raise The Red Lantern (1991)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Rambo III (1988)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Return to Me (2000)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Rushmore (1998)
Say Anything... (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List (1993)
Serenity (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Sideways (2004)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Snatch (2000)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Stand by Me (1986)
Swingers (1996)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Conversation (1974)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Game (1997)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
The Hustler (1961)
The Jerk (1979)
The King of Comedy (1983)
The Last Samurai (2003)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Professional/Leon (1994)
The Right Stuff (1983)
The Rock (1996)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
The Terminal (2004)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Toy (1982)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
They Call Me Trinity (1971)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Three to Tango (1999)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Time Bandits (1981)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Top Gun (1986)
Trainspotting (1996)
Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
True Lies (1994)
True Romance (1993)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Vertigo (1958)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Weird Science (1985)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
White Oleander (2002)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Yojimbo (1961)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

And for the stats and current status, it'll always be at the bottom of my posts.
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Long Time No See

Wow, I haven't updated this in a long time. Let's see if I can remember what little I've seen in the past few months.

Latest Seen:
Bandits (2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
EuroTrip (2004)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
The Breakfast Club (1985)

Yeah, I put a large dent into that list. Bandits was very good, with good humor between Willis and Thornton. EuroTrip was not bad, though it's a good rental when you've nothing else to do. PT&A was pretty good, the combo of Steve Martin and John Candy is priceless. The Breakfast Club is older than I am and I was finally able to sit down and watch the whole thing. Very good teen movie that covers people from several cliques, that anyone who went to high school saw every day would recognize, interact and come to an eventual understanding of one another. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was a great movie, now a favorite of mine. Million Dollar Baby was also a great movie that I can see why it won several awards including Best Movie of the Year.

I don't think I have any more movies to add to the list or the queue, though I'll check and see if anything needs added. I'll be adjusting the full list and reposting it in the next post.
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