I read a review over the weekend that led me to put this on my go see list.
Now, Zombyboy has posted a review that moves Sky Captain right up to “Let’s go see this on Saturday!” status:
Sky Captain has the one thing that makes up for all of its other drawbacks: fun.Read the rest.
What can I say? 90 minutes was way too short.
When was the last time you went to a movie and no one, no one left the theater until the credits were definitely all done.
Sure, it was a self selected crowd but any serious fan of late ’60s early ’70s music must see this. Oh, and any serious fan of rock, blues, folk, etc., will not want to miss this film. Oh yea, if you are a fan of Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead or The Band then you should go see Festival Express now.
I have money waiting for the extended version DVD.
And I have money waiting for the rest of the video material. This is some of the best concert video I have seen (and I have seen a bunch). It is raw, powerful, and it was like being face to face and mind to mind with the performers.
The Grateful Dead perform a beautiful New Speedway Boogie and the great shots of Pigpen blowin’ his harp will make any Deadhead want more.
The oddest scenes in the film came from the GD material. At Toronto, the first stop, during Don’t Ease Me In there are camera sweeps of the crowd showing nearly everyone sitting on their butts as if they were at the symphony. Those of you that have been to GD/Dead shows over the years know that this does not happen. Well, maybe sometimes during drumz/space. It was quite a jarring scene.
The Band’s performances of The Weight and I Shall be Released are very powerful. You could tell that they meant and felt every note and every word.
No words for Janis are worthy. Cry Baby and Tell Mama well simply knock you on your ass. Go ahead, try to get back up. She’ll just knock you down again. Worth triple the price of admission all by themselves.
Oh yea, the rest of the movie was great fun as well. I’d love to have a DVD just of jamming scenes from the train. The unscheduled stop in Saskatoon to replenish party fluids is a kick. And the side story about all the Canadian kids wanting to get in free is worth expanding a bit.
Update (9/2): The DVD with 50 additional minutes will be released November 2.
For you nightowls.
Newly up at the Internet Archive is the classic horror film Nosferatu:
Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Munarau’s chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker’s Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.Go grab it now.
David must have been smoking some pretty heavy stuff to make this leap:
Took my kids to the multiplex on the weekend. The multiplex being in DC, close to half the theaters were showing Michael Moore’s pseudo-documentary. But that’s OK! Because the other half were showing the great pro-Bush movie of the summer: Spiderman 2.And in front of his kids too.
Pro-Bush? Well consider this. Spiderman 2 is the story of a hero who is regularly belittled and ridiculed by almost everyone who knows him. Fashionable society despises him; the press lampoons and attacks him. Fashionable society despises him; the press lampoons and attacks him. ….The good news is that the movie ends with a barrage of hints that Spidey will soon return for another term …..
I join Juan Non-Volokh in calling this a great summer movie and note that I still can’t come up with one thing from the movie that seems pro-bush.
However, Frum’s point that almost everyone who knows bush regularly belittles and ridicules him does have a ring of truth to it and perhaps Frum will expand on this jiucy bit of gossip in future articles.
Ahh, here is a straight forward way to hack a post after being away for so long.
Both Jaquandor (where I first saw this) and PZ Myers have noted in bold which of these movies they have seen and PZ even picked his top nine and bottom 10.
Here are the first 10 on the list. The rest are under the fold.
1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
4. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
5. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) $377,019,252
7. Passion of the Christ, The (2004) $370,025,697
8. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
9. Shrek 2 (2004) $356,211,000
10. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) $340,478,898