Movies 2005, Part 5 of 5

Here's the last of the flick list. Me = indiscriminate spoiler:

Lost, season 1
I watched damn near the whole thing in a weekend. It was worth it. I don’t think watching future episodes in chunks will be acceptable after this.

The Royal Tenenbaums
This is probably the fifth time I’ve watched this movie, and it’s still got charm, but the honeymoon is over. Assuming my future wife is tall and slender though, she is welcome to slink around in those weird polo dresses that Gwyneth Paltrow’s character wears all the time. Not that short, stocky future wives would not also be welcome to wear them, but the horizontal stripes wouldn’t flatter, I imagine.

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Hmmm. Hm.

Freaks & Geeks
I haven’t watched all of these, but I watched several episodes with B&J, and man, this show kicks everything’s butt. It is so good. I want to watch it more some time.

Smallville
I’ve watched a handful of season 4 episodes when Brian had them on. This show sux. But I still like looking at Kristin Kreuk.

Mirrormask
This was Dream Country: The Movie. But it was okay, for what it was.

When Harry Met Sally
Watched it twice, without and then with commentary, and boy, does Rob Reiner not have much to say about this movie. Still, it was good for BGCD research, which was why I watched it. Also, still a funny, charming movie.

Constantine
This movie had a couple of good moments, and Djimon Hounsou. But it also had dumb parts. They weren’t flamingly dumb, but just characters making poorly explained choices and the loss of a minor character for most of the movie with no explanation. “Shia LeBouf, your death scene is ready.” And some other dumb stuff. But the climax was clever.

Battlefield Baseball
A low-budget Japanese spoof/action movie with a couple of funny parts. It was clearly just done by a guy and his friends.

Ong-Bak
Good news!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Because the new movie’s coming out and you have to review the literature.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Good enough.

House of Flying Daggers
I watched this again, sort of, except for the parts where I fell asleep because I was tired.

Versus
Brian informed me after the fact that I was supposed to think this was funny. I’m conflicted whether that’s an oops.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Did I like it? Yes. But I didn’t love it. Tilda Swinton was the best thing about it. (No offense, Jesus.)

Strings
A Danish movie starring marionnettes. You probably already know whether you’re interested in seeing this movie right now. But let me also tell you that it’s slow like a Germantown pedestrian.