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Mike had screening passes for Star Wars Episode III, which was neat because I got to see it two full weeks before it comes out. I went into this not expecting much, after seeing the first two. I will state this now, George Lucas is dead to me, he was slowly dieing until I bought the original trilogy on DVD and it had the computer animation in it, then he died. This movie was entertainment, little more. It did not try to be a 'The Matrix' and re-explain life for suckers to suck up. George Lucas in some ways did not learn his lesson from the last two though. He did not learn that we do not go to Star Wars for politics, and we don't go to Star Wars for love stories? And it was this ignorance of his that made for some really long and drawn out parts of the film. CGI does not impress me, and as you probably are all aware that's all this movie was. Massive amounts of CGI. I much prefer a beautifully constructed model some artisan spent months on over something made in a computer. The mixing of the audio was quite good on the other hand. Things would come from all directions around you, which shows that perhaps Hollywood is learning that not everyone is def in one ear. Remember the commercials for the increadable hulk where you never saw the hulk on the ground, he was always flying through the air. It was a very similar experience with the computer generated Wookies in this movie. When will Hollywood learn that some people do have a natural sense of physics, and are not fooled by this. Anakin going over to the dark side was far too freaking easy, Senator said come to the dark side, he said no, he said come to the dark side, Anakin said all right, then Anakin goes and kills a herd of children.(I'm not making this up) Then the senator wants to overthrow the council, he goes and says, "I should be supreme ruler, this Republic should be an Empire" and the council was like "Alright, we never really liked democracy any way." Oh, and the worst part of all, Obi-Wan Kenobi spends a third of the movie riding a giant salamander on an ant planet... Overall, I give it a 6/10... I mean had they used models and elaborate sets instead of cheesy CGI (especially the lava part) it almost could have earned an 8, I meen the plot wasn't too bad (unlike the last two, can anyone even tell me what the last two were about?) and it was entertaining. To summarize, the sound was great, the CGI overused, and boring parts long and drawn out.

Restricting food to anyone is murder, its one of the most basic requirements of life. If Terri Schiavo required something extra-ordinary like some drug, or was on an iron lung and they took her off it that would be a completely different story. ?She wouldn?t want to live like this,? This reminds me much of the part from Se7en where the murderer jacks up the ladies face so she kills her self. Its pure vanity and it sickens me. Suicide is a crime, and it should be such even if not committed by you. How anyone can view this as right is beyond me.

Also, in my opinion, her husband has no business speaking for her on two points. Firstly, he has had anther family for over a decade, of course he wants her dead. Secondly, if the rest of her family is pleading otherwise and here he comes trotting out saying ?Lets throw the bag in a bag? how accurate can his opinion be?

The new Anarchist Times page has much more to offer then when it left. For instance, anyone can comment on posts, not just administrators as previously. Even then, thanks to php, there is more to come: Searches, Sorts (similar to that implemented on the movie review page) Who knows what else? Only time will tell!

The new anarchist times beta is up and running, also for admins the new posting system is up for Anachist Times though note that it is still in beta as well. You can expect a nicely done unified system (with spell checker) by the time I'm done. I have 2 weeks for spring break and I expect to get some work done on this.

I am sure 90% of the people reading this have seen Amélie, and the other 10% are wondering how in the heck they ended up on this site. This movie has been on my list of to-see for quite some time but I had never gotten around to it. In fact, the only reason I caught this gem is that I was trapped in Watertown and saw it on Voom World Cinema. Quite honestly, it blew away all my expectations. The movie was entertainment, and yet? it was so much more then that. The movie, to me at least, represented life. It had everything in life, be it death, sadness, happiness, sex, everything, and yet did it in such a way that leaves you feeling much better off for watching. For anyone who has not seen it, it is a movie about a very oddball, quiet, almost living though the lives of others, girl who works in a café and has consciously decided to improve the lives of those around her. She finds love in the processes and enriches many people's lives. The only part I did not care for out of the entire film were some computer-animated sequences, though tasteful felt out of place. It is not a huge complaint though, and did not detract from the film unlike some movies I could name. (Cough: lost in space ... rubber space monkey) I would have to say overall Amélie is one of the best movies I have ever seen, though it really becomes hard to judge best. It is definitely the most uplifting film I have ever seen though. It gives me faith in humanity.

This is truly a psychological (thriller?) film if there ever was one. It's categorized as horror, though I'm still not sure if anything in the film was supposed to have been real or all just in the girls mind. Also, this movie has the best use of 5.1 I have ever heard; I mean it was amazing; they had direction on nearly every sound. If you do watch the movie, make sure you get a 5.1 version out of a 5.1 compatible system. None of this pro-logic crap.

This is a very entertaining South Korean movie (they're rare). It starts out with a girl and her sister coming back from what you assume is a mental institution to rejoin their family. Their step mom though seems to be pure evil. Soon after returning, the older daughter, Soo-mi, has a strange dream where she is in a forest of bamboo and her sister is dead, she then wakes up to something crawling on the floor. It stands up and is a dead girl, similar to that of the ring, except it has a broken neck. Soo-mi sits there in sheer terror as it climbs onto the bed. Blood starts dripping down its leg, and all of a sudden from between its legs (its wearing a skirt) an arm shoots out and grabs her leg. She then wakes up and assumes it was all a dream.

It seems as though the step mom and the daughters just can't get along, until eventually it builds up to the step mom locking Soo-yeon (the younger sister) in a wardrobe. Soo-mi comes in and lets her out, and when the father comes up to investigate, Soo-mi tells him how the step mom locked her in the wardrobe. Now here's where it gets interesting, the father replies something to the extent of 'Quit these games, Soo-yeon is dead' This is very confusing because you have seen Soo-yeon interact with a number of people(?) Especially the step mom who had locked her in the closet.

After this point, it looses all sense. I still have not quite figured out what was what, because it gets very complicated. Here's the gist of it though as I understand it (skip this if you ever plan on watching it) The step mom kills Soo-yeon (who's supposable already dead) Soo-mi goes looking for Soo-yeon and finds her dead in a sack (we don't see it but we assume its her) Then Soo-mi assumes that she actually is insane, and asks the step mom for help, at which point the step mom agrees to help her and smashes her with a statue, killing her. Then the father comes in, finds Soo-mi and the Step mom, but, now here's where everything goes to hell, the step mom comes in the door, and for a second there are two step moms in the room. It is then that the first step mom, the one who's gone on the murderous rampage realizes that in fact she is Soo-yeon (the one who the father said was dead) It then cuts to her in a mental institution again.

After this there is a flashback (I assume) of their original mom hanging her self in a wardrobe, and then the wardrobe falling on Soo-yeon and crushing her to death?

I really suggest watching this film with someone else because it is so confusing you will want to discuss it. I do believe I have done a horrible job hacking together the plot for you, so watch it and prove me wrong.

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Kevin Spacey plays Bobby Darin, for those of you who don't know, was a singer from the 50-70's who had such hits as 'Splish Splash' and the aforementioned 'Beyond the Sea.'

The movie starts out with Bobby Darin filming a movie, about his life none the less. A reporter comes up to him and asks him "Aren't you too old to be playing this role?" He responds something like "Who better to play the role?" He never actually filmed a movie of his life, and it puzzled me why they would include this the first couple days after I saw it.

After this there is a flash back to when he was a young boy, the doctor was there, and told Bobbies (Not his real name) mother that he would not live past 13. It then goes through him learning music while growing up, and eventually leaving to go into the music business. He changes his name to "Bobby Darin" based on a sign he saw on a Chinese restaurant.

It occurred to me that, the movie he was filming in the beginning was not actually a movie, but a representation of him, playing Bobby Darin. The reporter asking aren't you too old for this role asked that because he was supposed to have died at the age of 13, but he went on to be 37 years of age. This actually seemed really cleaver to me when I first figured it out, which is funny because before I understood it I thought it was just really stupid.

The movie goes through his life, his marriage, the troubles with his marriage, and how he spent very little time with his son, and his eventual death, which many points where he will randomly break out into song and dance, such as when he is romancing his woman. We had planed on seeing something else, but we arrived late and it was the latest showing, and felt very out of place because most of the people seeing the movie were in there 50's or so. At the points where he broke out into song, I often found my self laughing uncontrollably at the sheer akwardness of the abrupt change of style.

Overall it was a decent movie, though I feel bad about paying 8 dollars to see it.

After much hard work, and due with help of friends (critique and a little code help) the non-blogger, highly customizable and awesome movies page is up and running. This new version is completely hand coded by yours truly, everything from the submission system to? well freaking everything. Check it out here!